Have an old friend for dinner at Nitehawk and Pat Lafrieda’s FILM FEAST presentation of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.

Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI’s training academy, is sent to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter to provide insight on another serial killer who they’re trying to capture. In a now iconic role, Anthony Hopkin’s Lecter is a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Tense, beautiful, and arresting, Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs shows the journey of a young woman sent to be both the intelligent and bait to solve the case.

As always, our Film Feasts serve each dish at the moment its inspirational scene comes on the screen!

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VIRGINIA IS FOR LOVERS
Virginia ham, quail egg, black pepper, bull’s blood
Drink pairing – Bowman Brothers Small Batch Virginia Bourbon, tart cherry, tea syrup, peach bitters

MEETING IN THE FLESH
foie gras terrine, fava bean puree, chianti braised cherries, toasted brioche
Drink pairing – Castello di Monsanto Chianti Monrosso 2012

Originally broadcast on HBO on August 5, 1990, M’s last performance – in Nice, France – became the highest-viewed special event in the cable channel’s history, with 4.5 million viewers tuning in. Hastily released the following year on laserdisc, the concert has since fallen out of print, and remains the Holy Grail for Madonna’s legions of fans.

Nitehawk’s fourth annual Halloween screening A NITE TO DISMEMBER spends all-night in a HOUSE OF HORRORS!

Nitehawk cordially invites you into our terrifying home as we host the ultimate classic old-school Halloween party this year, A NITE TO DISMEMBER: HOUSE OF HORRORS.Starting at midnight and continuing until after dawn, we’ll screen some of the scariest haunted house films past and present: The Exorcist, The Black Cat, The Legend of Hell House, and Night of the Demons (all presented on 35mm!) along with the best ghost story of 2016, Babak Anvari’s Under the Shadow!

As we do each year at A NITE TO DISMEMBER, there will be a costume contest and trivia (with prizes courtesy of Shudder) along with a some short horror films. Those who survive the nite with receive a complimentary Nitehawk breakfast (eggs and tots!), themed gift bags, and a discounted fare from Lyft. But wait, there’s more…there’s a photo-booth with The Bosco and we’ve got you covered on the drink front with complimentary coffee from Fazenda Coffee and sweets from our neighbor SweetHaus! Your official hosts for the evening, Shudder’s Sam Zimmerman and Nitehawk’s Kris King and Caryn Coleman, will protect you from the ghosts, demons, and devils that await your arrival.

Nitehawk will also host a haunted house pre-party in Lo-Res Bar before A Nite to Dismember (11pm – 12am) featuring Jameson Irish Whiskey. Attendees can present their ticket for a complimentary beverage treat.

Forget trick-or-treating, spend the nite with us!

FILMS (in order of screening)…

THE EXORCIST (William Friedkin, 1973)
35mm
The power of Christ compels you…
One of the scariest movies you’ll ever see, The Exorcist continues to terrify audiences and influence films more than forty years after its release. A shocker of visuals and theme since its release, the tale a young girl inhabited by an evil entity and her actress/single-mother’s frantic search to fix her along with two priests, one full of faith and the other questioning, hits us where it hurts most…the home.

THE BLACK CAT (Edgar Ulmer, 1934)
35mm
Supernatural, perhaps. Baloney, perhaps not. There are many things under the sun.
Out of a prison camp and joined by two American newlyweds, Dr. Vitus Werdegast returns to the home of Hjalmar Poelzig to seek his revenge. It’s a shocker based on an Edgar Allen Poe story complete with incest, Satanism, necrophilia, and murder starring two horror icons, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, battling against each other in an imposing architectural moment on top of the dead.

UNDER THE SHADOW (Babak Anvari, 2016)
DCP
They’ll always know how to find you.
Set in Tehran at the tail end of the Iran-Iraq war, Banak Anvair’s brilliant debut feature film Under the Shadow is a terrifying mix of the real threat religious/political agenda with the supernatural threat of djinn (ghosts). A woman and her daughter remain in a crumbling apartment complex when her husband leaves for the front line. We see that her decision to leave the sanctuary of home post-revolution Iran is personally, and politically, a difficult endeavor.

THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (John Hough, 1974)
35mm
This house… It knows we’re here.
A perfect 1970s ghost story about a serial killer so angered by his shortcomings that he and his victims continue to haunt the infamous Belasco House. So, when scientist Lionel Barrett leads a special team of a spiritualist, a psychic medium, and his wife to uncover the truth about the home’s haunting, they’re in for some truly strange experiences. The Legend of Hell House is a naughty haunted romp that’s perfectly overacted (and even includes a ghost trap!).

NIGHT OF THE DEMONS (Joe Augustyn, 1988) 35mm
I’ve heard stories about this place ever since I was a kid. The Hull Family met a pretty gruesome end, didn’t they?
We end the night with a real Halloween tale. Set in an abandoned funeral parlor, the Hull House, ten teenagers awaken an evil force during a seance. From then on, the released demonic spirits keep them from leaving and, naturally, turn their little soiree into a living hell. We can’t say for sure this won’t happen to all of us at Nitehawk but it’ll surely be a Nite to Dismember!

Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a special screening of MISS SHARON JONES: DREAMS. Featuring a Q&A with Sharon Jones!

Just added: Matinee screening on Sunday, September 25 also featuring Sharon Jones!

Miss Sharon Jones: Dreams never expire but sometimes they are deferred. Miss Sharon Jones follows the talented and gregarious soul singer of the Grammy nominated R&B band “Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.” In the most challenging year of her life, Sharon Jones confronts pancreatic cancer. As she struggles to find her health and voice again, the film intimately uncovers the mind and spirit of a powerful woman determined to regain the explosive singing career that eluded her for 50 years.

TENEBRE is an Italian murder mystery by the giallo master Dario Argento. 

A 35mm screening. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive

Knives, black gloves, and a killer score; that’s giallo cinema to the core. In Argento’s Tenebre, a writer Peter Neal is pulled into a murder mystery as someone familiar with his work begins a series of killings while visiting Rome on a promotional tour for his new novel. While the police look into the crimes, Neal investigates on his own, aided by his beautiful assistant, Anne, and a tenacious young local named Gianni. As the murderer brutally dispatches of other victims, Neal gets closer to discovering the psychopath’s identity.

Part of Nitehawk’s Halloween INTERNATIONAL SLASHER midnite series.

Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Miyuki Matsuda, Renji Ishibashi, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura

This disturbing Japanese thriller follows Aoyama, a widower who, at the insistence of his son, decides to start dating again. Aided by a film-producer friend, Aoyama uses auditions for a fake production to function as a dating service. When Aoyama becomes intrigued by the withdrawn, gorgeous Asami, they begin a relationship. However, he begins to realize that Asami isn’t as reserved as she appears to be, leading to gradually increased tension and a harrowing climax.

Three hitchhikers find trouble in the rural outback in WOLF CREEK.

Very loosely based on real events, 2005’s Wolf Creek marks a time in the 2000s when extreme, near mindless violence dominated many horror films. When two British tourists, Liz and Kirsty, backpack throughout Australia with their Australian friend Ben, it starts off with a drunken night and a suddenly inoperable car. Enter Mick, the helpful repairman who winds up being their worst nightmare. With near escapes and essentially hunting scenarios, Wolf Creek taps into our general fear of the wilderness, the unknown, and the kindness of strangers.

Part of Nitehawk’s Halloween INTERNATIONAL SLASHER midnite series.

Comedian Kevin Maher hosts a video variety show about cinema’s deadliest women.

The evening of clips and commentary explores character types including: homicidal heroines, lady vigilantes, roving girl gangs and female assassins. Plus a celebration of lesbian vampires, mystical crones, bad seed daughters and femme fatale robots. All this and a salute to Pam Grier!

Featuring presentations by:
Jon Abrams (editor-in-chief, DAILY GRINDHOUSE.com)
Travis Alexandra Boatright (award-winning costume designer)
Amber Dextrous (Friend of KGO)
Tenebrous Kate (host of the podcast BAD BOOKS FOR BAD PEOPLE)
Kevin Rice (writer/producer/director of TV’s GHOUL A GO-GO)
Rommel Wood (NPR producer for ASK ME ANOTHER, host of EAR HAMMER on Radio Free Brooklyn)

Starring: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 British silent film THE LODGER with a live score by MORRICONE YOUTH!

A Jack-the-Ripper type murderer called “The Avenger” is terrorizing London by targeting young blond women. How Hitchcockian! At the same time of these attacks, a mysterious man takes a room at the a family-owned boarding house and strikes up a relationship with the proprietor’s pretty blonde daughter. To thicken the plot, she’s engaged to a policeman hot on the trail of “The Avenger” who thinks her Lodger lover is the serial killer! Part of the restored newly restored “Hitchcock Nine” by the British Film Institute, The Lodger is considered the “first true Hitchcock film” and is, obviously, a thrilling way to kick start your Halloween.

Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man in ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN!

Featuring frighteningly fun giveaways courtesy of Universal Monsters Universe and Royal Collectibles!

The classics never go out of style! In the first of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s horror vehicles for Universal Pictures, the inimitable comic duo star as railway baggage handlers in northern Florida. When a pair of crates belonging to a house of horrors museum are mishandled by Wilbur (Lou Costello), the museum’s director, Mr. MacDougal (Frank Ferguson), demands that they deliver them personally so that they can be inspected for insurance purposes, but Lou’s friend Chick (Bud Abbott) has grave suspicions.