Starring: Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney, Sam Levene, Richard Lynch, Andy Kaufman
Armed with nothing but a cheap mail order rifle, an everyday Joe turns expert sniper, randomly taking out over a dozen New Yorkers. Devout detective Peter Nicholas (Lo Bianco) is on the case and gets shaken to the core when he finds out the killer’s motive: God told him to do it. As the investigation continues, more and more New Yorkers go on divinely inspired rampages and it’s up to Detective Nicholas to find out if these people are acting on God’s word, or if this sudden spat of violence has a more terrestrial cause.
Starring: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe
For 19-year-old Jay, Autumn should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horrors that seem to be only a few steps behind.
David Cronenberg’s latest, MAPS TO THE STARS, takes a twisted tour through the dark side of tinseltown.
Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss (Olivia Williams) has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, who’s fresh out of rehab at age 13. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town – mysteriously scarred and tormented Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), just released from a psych ward and ready to start again. She soon becomes personal assistant to unraveling actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore), who is beset by the ghost of her legendary mother. But Agatha is on a quest for redemption – and even in this realm of the artificial, and the unearthly, she’s determined to find it, no matter what it takes.
THE DEUCE teams up once again with 42nd Street expert and exploitation extraordinaire ‘Uncle Bill’ Lustig for a screening of his fave freak-out FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, Bronx Brewery Pale Ale at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
“Why, you poor white trash! If it wasn’t for that gun, you’d be a yellow-streaked bum!”
William Sanderson (of Newhart fame) takes his film-debut turn as a hate-filled redneck prison escapee who, along with Mexican and Asian sidekicks, home-invade prominent African-American minister Robert Judd and family… Racist epithets abound before the tables are finally, brutally turned…
Denied a British theatrical release in 1981, FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE was released the following year on video, allowing the UK public brief access to the flick before it wound up on the ‘video nasties’ list and was outlawed – notably, for being the only title to appear on the list due to offensive language… Considered by critics as an “outrageous sleazefest” and “amazingly racist,” FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE will be presented by filmmaker Bill Lustig, who returns to THE DEUCE for year number two as our special guest curator!
Complimentary drinks at the after-party courtesy of Bronx Brewery.
Part of Nitehawk Cinema’s THE DEUCE signature series.
THE DEUCE goes 007 when we take it back to 1985 for an evening at the Selwyn Theater with Christopher, Grace and Roger Moore in A VIEW TO A KILL!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, Bronx Brewery Pale Ale at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
Bond bounces from Siberia to San Fran on hot pursuit of psychopathic industrialist Max Zorin, who’s bent on destroying Silicon Valley, claiming a monopoly on microchips all for himself.
Panned by critics upon its initial release, the fourteenth Bond film – and the last to star Roger Moore – features the Golden Globe nominated title song by Duran Duran, Christopher Walken as the ex-KGB-gone-rogue Zorin and Grace Jones as ‘May Day,’ his sassy super-strength henchwoman!
Complimentary drinks at the after-party courtesy of Bronx Brewery.
Part of Nitehawk Cinema’s THE DEUCE signature series.
Starring: Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, Tom Atkins, Wally Taylor, Bruce Solomon
An immensely fun creature feature from director Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad), Night of the Creeps takes on the charmed premise of taking Animal House and turning all the frat boys into zombies controlled by alien brain slugs. With the biggest party night of the year in chaos and all of the jocks in town turned into the living dead, only a buttoned up indoor kid (Jason Lively of Rusty Griswold fame) and a drunk, wiseass detective (Tom Atkins of being awesome in everything he’s in fame) can stop the slugs, kill the jocks and save the girls on Sorority Row.
Get your guns ready, cause it’s Miller time.
Look what happens when you don’t follow the rules…they’re back in GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH!
Billy and Kate may have their first big jobs in New York but that doesn’t mean cute little Gizmo won’t stop causing them problems! After being rounded up to be a part of their company’s animal experiments (headed by Sir Christopher Lee) our little Mogwai gets exposed to some water and, you can guess what happens next, he unleashes the Gremlins! Funny and referential, director Joe Dante shows us what happens when Gremlins go corporate and nearly take over Manhattan.
Part of Nitehawk’s March LIL’ TERRORS series.
Starring: Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt
Spend St. Patrick’s Day with Nitehawk and one evil LEPRECHAUN!
In the first of the infamous film franchise, Willow’s Warwick Davis play a super evil Leprechaun who’s come all the way from Ireland to South Dakota to get his gold back from thieving Dan O’Grady but winds up locked in a basement. Cut to ten years later and the new tenants (one of whom is Jennifer Aniston in her film debut) unknowingly let the sucker out. The killing spree and terrorizing that ensues can only be stopped by a four leaf clover. Whether these friends have the luck of the Irish or their luck runs out one this is for sure, never, ever steal a Leprechaun’s pot of gold.
Beware of the GHOULIES, they’ll get you in the end. Presented in 35mm!
Why is it every time a group of teenagers have a party in a secluded mansion, one of them has to go and perform some sort of spooky demonic ritual? Does that ever end well? It certainly doesn’t in VHS horror shelf staple Ghoulies, where a group of teenaged party-goers (including a baby faced Mariska Hargitay) unwittingly invite a group of tiny, razor toothed ghouls into their merry band. The pint-sized beasties prove to be poor party guests, chomping at the bit to ruin the kids’ good time (and also kill them). Worst yet, the lil’ terrors aren’t the kids’ only problem: there’s also an undead wizard who can shoot lightning out of his eyes.
Part of Nitehawk’s March LIL’ TERRORS series.
A journalist seeking a Pulitzer Prize commits himself into a mental institution in Samuel Fuller’s SHOCK CORRIDOR. Presented in 35mm (courtesy of the UCLA Film and Television Archive)!
In Samuel Fuller’s Shock Corridor, journalist Johnny Barret concocts an elaborate scheme to fake his way inside a mental institution (he’s fighting an attraction to his sister who is really his stripper girlfriend) in order to uncover the truth behind an unsolved murder and win a Pulitzer Prize. Provocative for its release in the 1960s, not only does the film include innovative camera angles and sequences (taking place nearly exclusively within the institutional walls) but it also dives into issues such as racism, incest, and mental illness. Shock Corridor also masterfully explores the very fine line between madness and insanity as the journey of our main character leads to very unexpected, and electric, places.
Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Film Foundation.
Part of Nitehawk’s March COMMITTED brunch series.
