Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu
The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot–ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
Starring: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Hugo Diego Garcia
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Starring: Maisy Stella, Aubrey Plaza, Percy Hynes White, Maddie Ziegler, Kerrice Brooks, Maria Dizzia
In this fresh coming-of-age story, an 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott (Maisy Stella) face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). But when Elliott’s “old ass” starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn’t do, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about family, love, and what’s becoming a transformative summer.
Starring: Brandy Norwood, Kathryn Hunter, Andrew Burnap, Neal Huff
Everything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda (Brandy Norwood) after her mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere.
Starring: Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani, Zooey Deschanel, Jemaine Clement, Alfred Molina
Inside of his book, adventurous Harold (Zachary Levi) can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book’s pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life–and that his trusty purple crayon may set off more hilarious hijinks than he thought possible. When the power of unlimited imagination falls into the wrong hands, it will take all of Harold and his friends’ creativity to save both the real world and his own. Harold and the Purple Crayon is the first film adaptation of the beloved children’s classic that has captivated young readers for decades.
Comedian Kevin Maher returns to Nitehawk Williamsburg and he’s not alone. He’s joined by his evil twin, Chris Cummins (host of SCI-FI EXPLOSION) for a video variety show about doubles and doppelgangers. Featuring rare clips, pop culture commentary, interactive games, deluxe prizes, and lots of laughs – all surrounding the motif of twins in everything from obscure comic books and speculative fiction to clone-science and exploitation cinema.
See why SyFy called Kevin “an insane genius” in the series DailyGrindhouse.com described as “TED Talks for Midnight Movies.”
Join us for this 90-minute extravaganza, with special guests:
PLUS: Arrive 30 minutes before showtime for the custom “double-vision” pre-show, edited by Camila Jones.
Starring: Phillip Glasser, James Stewart, John Cleese, Amy Irving, Jon Lovitz, Dom DeLuise
Fievel and family continue their pursuit of the American dream by heading West. Fievel wants to be a lawman and his sister wants to make it as a dance hall singer. They are trying to get away from cats, but they find their move doesn’t work out as easy as they would like.
Starring: Abdallah Alnur, Ganja Chakado, Ekram Marcus, Kamal Ramadan
aKasha is a universal offbeat love story set in a time of civil war – but the war is in Sudan and it is happening right now. We follow Adnan, an AK47-loving rebel, his long-suffering love interest, Lina, and the army dodging Absi, over a fateful 24 hours in a rebel-held area of Sudan.
Starring: Karen Lorre, Lynn Danielson, Karen Black, Bud Cort, Cameron Dye, Tracey Walter, Paul Bartel, Tab Hunter, Divine
Has the Fall-ing temperature got you feeling frisky? Fidgety? Well then… get your dairy-air off of the couch and get OUT OF THE DARK with The Deuce! A steamy, screamy, freak-fest of creepy fun that’ll get your (love) muscles moving… with murder!! “Frighteningly Erotic”!??!
Karen Black’s “1-900” number phone-sex biz – “Suite Nothings” – is in jeopardy of bombing when some bozo in a Bozo mask begins bumping off her breathy beauties! Is Bobo the bozo? The “hunky” philandering photog?? One of the too-many-to-count mouth-breathing lonelyheart losers timorously transmitting their fantasies and fetishes through the telephone lines??? Suspect sicko suspects galore in a rogues-gallery of cult-fave guest appearances that will keep you guessing as to who the murderous ghoul may be… for at least fifteen minutes!! Leaving you free to wallow in all the whacked-out weirdness of this neon-lit soft-focus “MTV” esthetic-era rarity of hilarity and scare-ity!!
Usually lumped in the late-in-the-game slasher camp – and retrospectively rebranded as “erotic thriller” – OUT OF THE DARK is either, both, neither, nor, less, and/or more… genre-wandering wildly at its own unpredictable whim!! Black-comedy horror-spoofing… T & A Skinematic soft-core canoodling… giallo-like luridness… art-house hipsterism… good-cop/bad-cop police proceduralling… or rather, not-very-good good cop (Repo Man’s “The more you drive the less intelligent you are” Tracey Walter!!)/possibly better bad cop (Divine out of drag!!)… So much of a maddening melange of horror-movie hoodoo that the jean-jizzers of Times Square’s Cine-42 were left flummoxed and fumbling for a foot-hold as to what might be coming next… good thing The Deuce knows how to keep you cumming… back for more!!
Starring: Cash Flagg, Atlas King, Brett O’Hara, Sharon Walsh, Erina Enyo, Carolyn Brandt
…or, if you prefer: TISCWSLABMUZ!!? Either way – it’s a monstrous mouthful of manic monster merriment for you to swallow as The Deuce amuses your bouche with “the world’s first monster-musical!“* – this September!!? But beware – this wild roller-coaster ride is branded: “Not for sissies!“!!?
A curiously combative couple: goodie-girl girlfriend, Angela, and her peculiarly petulant beatnik-y boyfriend, Jerry (hilariously acted by writer/director/madman Steckler under his oft-used nom d’acteur “Cash Flagg”!!?) – with their taciturn tag-along third-wheel, Harold (the brazenly monikered “Atlas King” – seeming a template for Paul Morrissey’s mumble-mouthed “hero” hunks whose “English” is barely decipherable!!?) – take a fateful frolic to a sea-side carnival where the day-time, cotton-candied fun of rides and junk-food fueled rollicking give way to the tawdry titillations half-hidden behind the tapestry of the tented midnight-y midway and the miscreants who make it their milieu: “dancing” girls doing “musical” numbers!!? whilst deliriously drunk even!!? A mesmerizing fortune-telling gypsy madam with a major mole!!? Her chain-smoking hunch-backed mustachioed henchman!!? Crazed creatures kept in cages!!? “Weird beauties and shocking monsters“!!? And – yes: murderous mind-controlled mixed-up zombies!!? One of which jazzed-up Jerry will become!!? His terrifying transformation into which was telegraphed by his pulling of his hoodies’s hood over his head and tugging its strings taut!!? And this but just one of the “1001 weirdest scenes EVER!“!!? – all wrapped in a candy-colored swingin’ ’60s song-and-dance go-go party of G-rated “gore” and goofiness!!?
Boasting (in retrospect) the lensing skills of not only a young Lazlo Kovacs (who would go on to shoot the likes of Easy Rider and a whole hunk of Bogdanoviches), but also a young Vilmos Zigmond (who would go on to shoot the likes of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and a whole hunk of DePalmas) – AND a who-knows-how-old Joseph Mascelli who would go on to write THE book: “The Five Cs Of Cinematography” – still considered by many to be THE Bible on the subject, despite his obvious inability to spell… The three of them – together with their director – creating the first and only film featuring “Hallucinogenic Hypnovision!” TISCWSLABMUZ is nothing if not a feast for the eyes!!? It is, however, so much more of a smorgasbord!!?
Fresh(ish) off a job cameramanning for Timothy Carey’s vanity whatsit jaw-dropper, World’s Greatest Sinner (itself another prime example of fringe-filmmaking), Steckler set to corralling family, friends, freaks, actors, and Hollywood hopefuls for as little money as could be mustered – with an occasional pocket-pinch from whatever cast-member was willing… further cutting corners with the casting of himself in the “lead” – shooting late-nights on Rock Hudson’s so-upper-floor-level-that-the-Union-boys-wouldn’t-bother-barging-in soundstage… and “At last – a NEW kind of horror movie!” birthed unto a World not ready for New!!?
A movie-making itself such a mix-up of what would become Stekler’s “standard” (when he wasn’t pseudonymously making run-of-the-mill XXXs to pay the bills) of Saturday morning kiddie fare meets exploitation mania, that most of its 1964-era audience who saw it – including those unsuspecting souls of Times Square’s Loew’s State Theatre who could have seen it under this or any of the half-dozen other titles Steckler touted it under (ie: Diabolical Dr. Voodoo, Teenage Psycho Meets Bloody Mary, The Incredibly Mixed-Up Zombie, et al..) – were left so “wtf!!?” at what they’d witnessed that many would – and sometimes “famously” so – go on to deny that said movie even existed “irl”!!? But, boy does it!!? “Girls! Learn if your Boy Friend can take it!” – when we give it to them at The Deuce!!?
*all quotes courtesy of the original press releases for the “World’s Weirdest Movie!“!!?
