Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse, Joanna Lumley, Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Christopher Lee
Victor (Johnny Depp) and Victoria’s (Emily Watson) families have arranged their marriage. Though they like each other, Victor is nervous about the ceremony. While he’s in a forest practicing his lines for the wedding, a tree branch becomes a hand that drags him to the land of the dead. It belongs to Emily, who was murdered after eloping with her love and wants to marry Victor. Victor must get back aboveground before Victoria marries the villainous Barkis Bittern (Richard E. Grant).
Starring: J. Trevor Edmond, Mindy Clarke, Kent McCord, James T. Callahan, Sarah Douglas
A teen (J. Trevor Edmond) uses an Army chemical to revive his dead girlfriend (Mindy Clarke) after a motorcycle accident.
Starring: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders
Defying her conventional in-laws, young widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) leaves London with her young daughter and moves away for a quieter life in a secluded seaside cottage. Lucy discovers the ghost of the deceased former owner, sea captain Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison), is haunting the house, but gathers the courage to stand up to him, and woman and ghost become friends. Faced with dwindling means of support, Lucy agrees to the Captain’s challenge to write his colorful life story.
Starring: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Leah Doz, Lowen Morrow
Includes “Stink-o-Vision” scratch-and-sniff cards!
Dead Lover is a hilarious, delirious, beautiful, horny, and wholly original Frankensteinian tale about the limits one Gravedigger will go to hold onto love.
A lonely Gravedigger reeks so strongly of corpses that she can’t attract a lover. She concocts fragrant perfumes in her workshop, but nothing can save her romantic prospects from her ghastly odor… Until one day, when Gravedigger meets Lover, an aristocratic dandy in town for his sister’s funeral. Lover is different: numb to the pampered palette of the aristocracy, his loins are downright aroused by Gravedigger’s morbid stank. Before long, Gravedigger and Lover begin a rapturous love affair, become engaged, and dream of starting a family. But suddenly, Gravedigger’s dreams are ripped away when Lover tragically drowns in a shipwreck – and all that is recovered is his severed finger, still wrapped in his engagement ring. Delirious with grief and enduring love, Gravedigger resolves to bring Lover back to life using only his ring finger.
Starring: Joe Lara, Nicole Hansen, John Saint Ryan, Yosef Shiloach, Uri Gavriel
Traversing a dangerous, post-apocalyptic South Carolina, America’s only mom must externally carry her fetus to catch a boat to Europe – the human race depends on it!
One of the last films to be released theatrically by the notorious Cannon Films, American Cyborg: Steel Warrior is one of many Terminator–style rip-offs, with leather jackets, glowing red eyes, and a cyborg who absolutely refuses to stop walking toward you. Set in a future where humanity is on the brink and machines have feelings about it, this delivers exactly what it promises: steel fists, dramatic slow-motion action, and dialogue that sounds like it was programmed by a very intense computer.
The existence of a 35mm print of this movie is rather miraculous – don’t miss the chance to see it!
Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire
Hosted by Caroline Golum and Cristina Cacioppo. Followed by an after party in Trees Lounge with a DJ set of pre-code era tunes from Owen Kline plus our signature cocktail special “Blonde in Hell.”
Dancing Lady (1933) is a sparkling pre-Code backstage musical that pairs brash modernity with classic MGM glamour. Joan Crawford stars as Janie Barlow, a fiercely independent chorus girl whose bold ambition and unapologetic sexuality land her in trouble with the law—and unexpectedly into the orbit of Broadway producer Tod Newton (Franchot Tone). When Tod bails Janie out of jail and installs her as the star of his new show, her meteoric rise exposes the ruthless economics of show business, the fragility of male ego, and the double standards faced by women who dare to want both success and autonomy.
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, the film delights in its era’s loosened moral codes, offering frank sexual innuendo, open class tension, and a refreshingly unsentimental look at romance. Clark Gable appears as Patch Gallagher, a tough, working-class lover who challenges the polished producer’s claim on Janie’s heart, setting up a triangle that pits wealth and respectability against passion and loyalty. With Busby Berkeley-style spectacle, antics from The Three Stooges (back when they were Ted Healy and his Stooges), and Crawford at the height of her early stardom, Dancing Lady captures a moment in Hollywood when women’s desire, labor, and ambition could be portrayed with striking candor.
Starring: Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Alexis Arquette, John Ritter, Katherine Heigl, Nick Stabile
Sissy Fist Productions presents Nostalgia’s “Let’s Watch a Movie”—a campy collision of The Muppet Show, Elvira’s Movie Macabre, and Mystery Science Theater 3000! Hostess extraordinaire, Nostalgia, invites you to her Season 3 premiere screening of the 1998 cult classic, BRIDE OF CHUCKY. Expect killer drag performances, scream-inducing live commentary, drinking games, prizes to help you live happily ever after, and audience antics fit for a wedding reception that’ll make this a screening to die for!
After being cut apart by the police, killer doll Chucky is resurrected by Tiffany, an ex-girlfriend of the serial murderer whose soul is inside the toy. Following an argument, Chucky kills Tiffany and transfers her soul into a bride doll. To find the magical amulet that can restore them both to human form, Chucky and Tiffany arrange to be driven to New Jersey by Jesse and Jade, who are unaware that their cargo is alive.
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Starring: Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall
In 1974, acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar describes the routines and rituals that define an artist’s life to his friend, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz, capturing a single day’s activities in touching and funny detail: from interactions with cultural icons of the day, including Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Susan Sontag, to the texture and energy of downtown New York in its heyday. Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the elegant and intimate new piece from filmmaker Ira Sachs (Passages) — a dazzling showcase for the two performers at its centre — that is both a masterful portrait of a time & place and a captivating film about the way art emerges from the intimate details of everyday life.
Starring: Prashanth Kamalakanthan, Niko, Tayarisha Poe, Alexios Shaw, Artemis Shaw, Katerina Shaw, Robert Shaw, Mons Vi
Kallia and Ram are at their wits’ end with their sleepless baby when they realize Kallia’s Greek mother is on a secret mission to exorcise the family from the evil eye. Trapped between the pressures of new age parenting, old world superstitions, and meddling in-laws, they fight to hold onto their dreams. Filmmakers Shaw and Kamalakanthan turn the lens on themselves and their loved ones—including their actual baby and parents—in this fearless, intimate comedy.
A Cinema Conservancy Release
Starring: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, Philip Seymour Hoffman
A stranger (Philip Baker Hall) mentors a young Reno gambler (John C. Reilly) who weds a hooker (Gwyneth Paltrow) and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
