Starring: Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Claire Du Brey, Rhoda Williams, Lucille Bliss

With a wicked stepmother (Eleanor Audley) and two jealous stepsisters (Rhoda Williams, Lucille Bliss) who keep her enslaved and in rags, Cinderella (Ilene Woods) stands no chance of attending the royal ball. When her fairy godmother (Verna Felton) appears and magically transforms her reality into a dream come true, Cinderella enchants the handsome Prince Charming at the ball, but must face the wrath of her enraged stepmother and sisters when the spell wears off at midnight.

Starring: James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen, Marc Wootton, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Michael Palin

Everyone knows that, each Christmas, Santa Claus delivers presents to every last child on Earth. What everyone doesn’t know is that Santa accomplishes the feat with a very high-tech operation beneath the North Pole. But when the unthinkable happens, and Santa misses one child out of hundreds of millions, someone has to save the day. It’s up to Arthur (James McAvoy), Santa’s youngest son, to deliver a present to the forgotten tyke before Christmas morning dawns.

Starring: Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero

What could possibly be more frightening than having the ultimate child-friendly figure, Santa Claus, turn out to be a maniacal killer? Tales from the Crypt did it back in the early 1970s and the vivid image of a deranged Saint Nic has never left our collective conscience. Silent Night, Deadly Night brings Christmas horror home and down the chimney when an adult-age Billy puts on a Santa costume at his new job and starts hacking people to bits. He’s unable to escape his performing his cruel actions but, then again, witnessing your parents’ murder and then suffering abuse at the hands of a frustrated nun doesn’t bode well for normal adult behavior. Silent Night, Deadly Night is a certain kind of holiday classic – it slays.

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 Holiday Special Episode screening of the 1984 cult classic, Silent Night, Deadly Night. Expect yule-tide drag performances, cheer-inducing live commentary, non eggnog drinking games, prizes you’ve asked for all year, and holiday party audience antics that’ll make this a screening to die for!

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Reina NoBuena — (@reinanobuena)
Emi Grate — (@emigrate_drag)
Martyr  — (@dragthemartyr)

Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Reginald VelJohnson, Franco Nero, William Sadler, John Amos, Dennis Franz

A year after his heroics in L.A, detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) is mixed up in another terrorist plot, this time at Washington Dulles International Airport, where he is waiting for his wife (Bonnie Bedelia). That same night, South American politico and drug profiteer Ramon Esperanza (Franco Nero) is arriving in U.S. custody. McClane takes action when a treasonous ex-colonel (William Sadler) seizes control of the airport, threatening to crash every inbound flight unless Esperanza is freed.

Starring: Merrie Holiday, Jamie Gillis, Kim Pope, Marc Stevens, Zebedy Colt, Sonny Landham

Carol Scrooge (Merrie Holiday), the curmudgeonly editor of Biva Magazine, insists that her employees work on Christmas, much to their dismay. However, the night before Christmas, she is visited by three ghosts, each of whom shows her lurid visions of Christmases past, present and future. Will Scrooge see the error of her ways and embrace the true meaning of Christmas?

From acclaimed filmmaker Shaun Costello (Water Power) comes the wildest, funniest adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol ever made. Featuring gorgeous production design and a cast of New York adult film regulars including Kim Pope, Jamie Gillis, Marc Stevens, Zebedy Colt and Sonny Landham, The Passions of Carol features everything a good Christmas film should have: heart, humor, warm spirits and, well, a healthy dose of stocking stuffing. Newly restored in 4K by Distribpix from its original 16mm camera negative.

This XXX film is an important part of film history, and should be celebrated and viewed as such. Any inappropriate behavior during this screening will not be tolerated and will result in permanent banishment from Nitehawk Cinema. Forever. Thank you!

Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, Callum Turner, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, John Early

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.

Starring: Paul Reubens, Laurence Fishburne, Lynne Marie Stewart, Phil Hartman, Grace Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Little Richard

Pee-Wee’s Christmas, Merry Merry Christmas! This season The FOFIF presents JOY to the cinema with the most creative, fun, hard to get, and celeb-stacked holiday specials to ever exist – the 1988 PEE-WEE’S PLAYHOUSE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL! Plus, screening beforehand will be a classic holiday short film (directed by woman) counting down the 12 days of Christmas. All good for the family, so come one and all! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Pee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1 1/2 miles long, teaches Little Richard how to ice skate, goes for a sleigh ride with Magic Johnson, commands Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello to make Christmas cards, receives a long phone call from Dinah Shore, witnesses a dance from Grace Jones, even has more musical fun with k.d. lang, the Del Rubio Triplettes and Charo! Finally, Big Red arrives and announces that Pee-wee’s Christmas list was so big, he didn’t have enough presents for all the children of the world. Will Pee-wee follow his own advice and help others?

It’s a FOFIF screening, so we’re highlighting the women who helped make this special…special:

Prudence Fenton (animation producer) / Diane Dimeo (casting director) / Deborah Madalena-Lloyd (set decorator) / Mary Pat Gavel, Lisa Groening, Gaylen Bray
(animation department) / Kathy Siegel (post production supervisor)

Starring: Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, Chloe Levine, Georgia Acken

The FOFIF gets into the seasonal spirit with a special screening of the new holiday horror classic, THE SACRIFICE GAME! Includes an extended introduction with director Jenn Wexler plus some extra gifts. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Jenn Wexler gets into the home invasion holiday horror spirit with her sophomore feature film set in the 1970s, The Sacrifice Game. It’s Christamastime at the Blackvale School for Girls and everyone has gone home except for students Samantha and Clara and their teacher Miss Tanner. All are prepared for an uneventful Christmas with their teacher, Rose, at their deserted school when supernatural evil knocks on the door. Like her first feature, The Ranger, Wexler gives revelations in the power of teen girls but in The Sacrifice Game there’s more at play than just the evils of humans. Expect a good old bloody Christmas story… with a demon.

Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

The stages of life are told through multiple sketches and songs by the British comedy troupe. The seven parts of life cover birth, growing up, war, middle age, organ transplants, old age and death. Not all stages are singular: “Part I: The Miracle of Birth” is from the perspective of an ignored woman in labor, and of a Roman Catholic couple with too many children, and “Part VII: Death” encompasses a funeral and heaven. Added are three unrelated skits placed in the beginning, middle and end.

Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

Brian Cohen (Graham Chapman) is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he’s not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother (Terry Jones), the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate (Michael Palin) and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python’s signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian’s life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.