Cabaret

The Thing in 4K

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

10:00am | **THE ‘BURBS** + Introduction by Joe Dante

12:05pm | **SILENT RUNNING**

1:45pm | **THE DRIVER**

3:35pm | **DERNSIE: THE AMAZING LIFE OF BRUCE DERN** Premiere

5:26pm | Q&A with filmmaker Mike Mendez and actor Bruce Dern

*Start times are approximate. There will be brief (approximately 5-10 minute) intermissions between films. Ticket includes entry to all films in the marathon.*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**THE ‘BURBS, 1989, Dir. Joe Dante, 101 Mins, Universal, USA**
This mix of comedy and horror was putty in the hands of director Joe Dante. Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) decides to spend his weeklong vacation just hanging around the house, but that turns out to be less relaxing than expected thanks to new neighbors the Klopeks. Strange noises and bulky garbage bags coming from their house arouse Ray’s suspicions, and when another neighbor vanishes mysteriously, he and his friends on the block team up to discover what secrets lie in the Klopeks’ basement. With Bruce Dern and Carrie Fisher.

FORMAT: 35mm

**SILENT RUNNING, 1972, Dir. Douglas Trumbull, 90 Mins, Universal, USA**
Botanist Freeman Lowell has spent eight years aboard the space freighter Valley Forge preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, Lowell rebels and hijacks the freighter, while plunging the craft into the gaseous rings of Saturn. From that moment on, he has only the trees, the gardens and two “Drone” robots, Huey and Dewey, to keep him company on his greatest adventure of all.

FORMAT: 35mm

**THE DRIVER, 1978, Dir. Walter Hill, 91 Mins, Disney, USA**

An enigmatic man of fast cars and few words, the Driver (Ryan O’Neal) excels at maneuvering getaway vehicles through the tightest of spots, making him quite in demand in criminal circles. His skill and notoriety, however, infuriate the Detective (Bruce Dern), who becomes obsessed with taking the Driver down. Luckily for the speed-loving anti-hero, the Player (Isabelle Adjani), a gorgeous and resourceful woman, is around to help him elude the Detective.

FORMAT: DCP

**DERNSIE: THE AMAZING LIFE OF BRUCE DERN, 2026, Dir. Mike Mendez, 111 Mins, USA**

A close look at Bruce Dern-tireless, uncompromising Hollywood legend-whose perseverance has defined both his tumultuous life and lasting career. A constant runner on and off screen, he’s outlived the industry itself.

FORMAT: DCP

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmaker Mike Mendez and actor Bruce Dern. Introduction by filmmaker Joe Dante. U.S. Premiere of DERNSIE: THE AMAZING LIFE OF BRUCE DERN

DERNSIE: The Marathon

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbors, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Black Bear Pictures

COUNTRY: UK/USA/Australia

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmakers Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson West Coast Premiere Guests can expect a few special treats and a little mischief upon arrival.

WICKER

Aero Theatre

Dashing legionnaire Rick O&#8217;Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.

The Mummy

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.

Cannibal Ferox

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren&#8217;t prepared for the madness that lurks within.

The Shining

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Based on Philip Barry’s successful Broadway play, Cary Grant co-stars as the casual and fun-loving Johnny Case (Grant), a fast-rising young lawyer. He is engaged to marry Julia Seton (Doris Nolan), an heiress and member of the Social Register. Because Johnny has no social standing, there is some concern that the elder Seton might withhold his permission for the marriage, even though the rest of the family – Julia’s unconventional sister Linda (Katharine Hepburn) and brother Ned (Lew Ayres) — like him immensely. Johnny’s idea of a future has them on an extended holiday that will allow them to roam the world, but Julia and her father reveal that they’ve already made plans for his future — in the Seton family business. Meanwhile, Linda juggles the fact that she’s fallen in love with Johnny while helping to patch things up between him and her sister. With excellent supporting roles by Edward Everett Horton and Jean Dixon.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Repertory

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Isabel Sandoval ‘Beyond Fest 2026’ and ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Isabel Sandoval Presents HOLIDAY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Jim Baitte, a sound designer working on a horror flick by the tyrannical director P.W. Griffin, finds himself sent on a mission to capture a sound powerful enough to land the film’s finale. What follows is a journey of the bizarre, the extraordinary and the unexpected as he lands on the remote island where the weird location is almost as strange as the locals who live in the place.
Noah Stratton-Twine and Jake Kuhn’s phantasmagorical journey into the weird and wonderful is a handwritten letter to filmmaking of yesteryear. Imbued with a sly humor and more hands-on film tricks than anyone could name, it is an exceptional debut designed to remind us why we fell in love with the movies in the first place. All aboard for a first-class ride.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: UK

THE PERIL AT PINCER POINT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Filipino with English subtitles*

Dahlia is a police officer in 1970s Manila tasked with investigating a series of high-profile robberies. The only problem? She’s also the one conducting the robberies. And to complicate matters further, her ex-lover is also assigned the case as an outside consultant. The temperature’s about to get hotter on those sultry summer nights.

Isabel Sandoval returns with a sultry noir that only could have been created with someone with a keen understand of mood and aesthetic – a beautiful melange of multiple genres and moods, MOONGLOW is a stunning ode to longing, desire and the price we all have to pay for love. A stunning soundtrack and incredible performances complete an already enduring package that is going to seduce, charm and delight everyone who gets to experience it.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Philippines/Taiwan/Japan

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmaker and actor Isabel Sandoval and composer Keegan DeWitt U.S. Premiere

MOONGLOW

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Reaching a breaking point in his life, frustrated by his dead-end job and his endless loneliness, Dylan embarks on a week of self-destructive experiences, each one designed to push his boundaries, break his barriers and make him finally feel alive. But each daring encounter brings with it danger and the risk that he may have to face his inner demons. 

Paul Wright’s ode to the act of living is filled with electric energy from a daring performance by George MacKay who bares his very soul on the screen as the unique and troubled Dylan – Scotland becomes the backdrop for a dangerous and challenging journey that shakes the audience to its very core – here is a brave, moving piece of cinema that will leave a scar for anyone who watches it. Powerful, urgent and unique, filmmaking at its singular best.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: UK

MISSION

Los Feliz Theatre

The Haunting

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy / The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters

New Beverly Cinema

1984 • Introduced by "Horror Nerd" comedian Samantha Hale • Wes Craven took a simple hook and made it a classic: the idea that sleep is the danger. This is the film that introduces Freddy Krueger on screen, and it has Johnny Depp’s film debut! Joins us for a good scream. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

1960 • Introduced by Film Historian Antonia Carlotta • This thriller from Alfred Hitchcock changed the rules, with a shocking twist and a performance by Anthony Perkins that’s truly chilling. The shower scene is the headline, but the real fun is how the movie keeps tightening the tension. Bernard Herrmann’s score is the result of one of the great partnerships between a director and a composer. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Psycho

Old Town Music Hall

**Producers**: Claire Edelman,  Brydie O&#8217;Connor,  Elijah Stevens

Join us in the microcinema to rediscover the immense legacy of groundbreaking lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer through Brydie O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s phenomenal and award-winning portrait, *Barbara Forever!*

*Barbara Forever* explores the films, archive, and ongoing cultural impact of experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, revealing her ingenious lifelong artistic effort to create and record lesbian histories, personal and societal. Through her own images and words, the film centers Hammer as a prism of the cultural ecosystems around her – through the feminist and queer movements in 1970s San Francisco, the male-dominated New York art world of the 1980s, the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s, and expanded LGBTQIA+ representation in art and culture in the 2000s. 

Driven by her canon of over eighty films, a vast collection of unreleased archival materials – hundreds of hours of footage, personal photographs and ephemera, and extensive audio interviews – *Barbara Forever* tells Barbara Hammer’s story through her own voice and visual perspective, making her the expert on her life, vision, and motivations. 

Barbara Hammer’s films break taboos around female sexuality, aging, illness, and queer love, often using her own body as a site of exploration and political power. Through the course of the film, she shows us that the personal is not only political, the personal is historical. Looking to Barbara Hammer as one of the first filmmakers to put a full lesbian life on screen that wasn’t there before, her work becomes a blueprint for a new generation of queer and radical artists to write their own histories into existence. This exploration of both Barbara Hammer’s life, work, archive, and her ongoing legacy provides an urgent, necessary story of queer life, feminist history, and American cinema.

Barbara Forever

**Screenwriter: **Peter S. Beagle

**Producers:** Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.

One of the great fever dreams of a 1980s kids movie &#8211; this Rankin-Bass classic of sorcery and cryptozoology is an epic and beautiful tale of resilience and magic. From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly&#8217;s words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard. With stunning animation, endless imagination, and a killer voice cast that includes Mia Farrow and Jeff Bridges, you&#8217;ll want to bring your herd for this ultimate mystical fantasy.

**Picks from the Video Store******

Bring home more spooky cuties for the kiddos!

*The Worst Witch, Something Wicked this way Comes, Casper***

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

The Last Unicorn

**Screenwriter**: Walter Thompson-Hernández

**Producers**: Josh Peters,  Saba Zerehi,  Ben Stillman

Join us in the microcinema for Walter Thompson-Hernández&#8217;s breathtaking father-son story about imagination, family, and the grace we extend to the people we love. In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Lil Ant sees the world and his father the way all children should &#8212; full of myth, wonder, and unwavering belief.

If I Go Will They Miss Me

**Screenwriters**: Dodie Smith, Frank Partos, Dorothy Macardle

**Producer**: Charles Brackett

If your spooky season plans call for a haunted house and a ghostly love story, do yourself a favor and join us for one of the best horror films of the 1940s and one of the great ghost stories of all time. While vacationing on the English coast, composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) find an an abandoned 18th-century house and decide to buy it. The Fitzgeralds move in and soon find themselves battling it out with two very prickly ghosts. One of the first films to treat the supernatural seriously, this spirited classic is a breathtaking and spine tingling beauty from the afterlife!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love a haunted gothic mansion? Our video store has the keys to all these creepy castles and more!

*The Old Dark House, Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, Crimson Peak*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

The Uninvited

**Screenwriter**: Lawrence Kasdan

**Producer:** Kevin Costner, Lawrence Kasdan, Jim Wilson

Iconic diva Whitney Houston delivers an electric performance in this glamorous and show-stopping romance. Kevin Costner plays former Secret Service agent who grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who has been threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance. Don&#8217;t miss all the music (including Whitney&#8217;s cover of Dolly Parton&#8217;s &#8220;I Will Always Love You&#8221;), the swoon-worthy romance, and the showmanship of the Princess of Pop Whitney Houston!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more Whitney on physical media tonight!

*Waiting to Exhale, The Preacher&#8217;s Wife, Whitney Houston: Greatest Hits*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

The Bodyguard

Vidiots

Hold That Ghost

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother 35mm

Vista Theatre

There’s No Business Like Show Business

Resurrection in 4K with Ellen Burstyn

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Clockwork

COUNTRY: UK

Beyond Fest 2026 West Coast Premiere of 4K Restoration of Director’s Cut Beyond Fest 2026 Closing Night

KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS

An enduring, singular masterpiece of cinema starring Academy Award®-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell.

Assembled from the original camera negative, this new 4K restoration presents Ken Russell’s definitive vision of THE DEVILS by referencing the edit he privately constructed in 2004. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K.

Ken Russell's The Devils

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Written and directed by Isabel Sandoval, LINGUA FRANCA follows an undocumented Filipina trans woman Olivia (Isabel Sandoval) after she has secured a job as a live-in caregiver for Olga (Lynn Cohen), an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood. Olivia’s main priority is to secure a green card to stay in America. But when she unexpectedly becomes romantically involved with Olga’s adult grandson Alex (Eamon Farren), issues around identity, civil rights and immigration threaten her very existence.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: ARRAY

COUNTRY: USA/Phillippines

Q&A with filmmaker and actor Isabel Sandoval

LINGUA FRANCA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The idyllic, beach-side life of a retired Triad boss, his daughter Lap (Joey Wong) and her boyfriend Rick (Kenny Bee), shatters when a mob favor turns into a bloody shootout. Trading her freedom for her father’s, Lap becomes mistress to Godfather Shen, while Rick goes into exile. Years later, as Shen unknowingly hires Rick as a hitman, Lap sees her chance at escape, while doe-eyed Triad gofer (Tony Leung) completes the doomed quadrangle.

Directed by the foremost stylist of the Hong Kong New Wave (and a mentor to Wong Kar-Wai), MY HEART IS THAT ETERNAL ROSE is the apotheosis of Patrick Tam’s time within the strictures of the Hong Kong mainstream. Fulfilling commercial requirements while elevating formula with a lush sense of style, it sings with the painterly cinematography of Christopher Doyle and David Chung as Tam’s dream-like direction bridges the distance between the bullet ballets of a John Woo and the festering darkness of a David Lynch. It is the blue jewel in the crown of the Hong Kong heroic bloodshed sub-genre, shining bright to this day.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kani Releasing

COUNTRY: Hong Kong

Introduction by filmmaker and actor Isobel Sandoval ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents MY HEART IS THAT ETERNAL ROSE

Grizzly / The Manitou

**Screenwriter**: Rafael Manuel

**Producers**: Jeremy Chua,  Alex Polunin,  Bianca Balbuena,  Bradley Liew,  Nadia Turincev, Omar El Kadi,  Rafael Manuel

Join us in the microcinema for one of the best films of the year and a masterwork of international cinema &#8211; Rafael Manuel&#8217;s phenomenally composed deadpan social satire *Filipiñana*. With jaw-dropping shot composition, immaculate color coding, a biting and satiric wit, and a slow deliberateness that builds to a shocking ending, this is a dazzler on another level with class consciousness to boot. If Ruben Ostlund and Wes Anderson had a Filipino baby, it still wouldn&#8217;t be as good as *Filipiñana*! Don&#8217;t miss your chance to see this stunner on a big screen!

Amid stifling heat and pervasive drought, Isabel (Jorrybell Agoto), a 17-year-old Ilokana from the rural north, works at a posh country club outside Manila, lining up golf balls for powerful men to drive into the verdant horizon. New to the job, she wanders the immaculate grounds sampling its luxuries as members, including an industrialist and his expatriate niece, the club president and his pampered wife, and a slew of Chinese tourists, engage in a complex dance with the club’s doting and subservient staff. But something is rotting beneath the pristine fairways of the elite resort, as Isabel discovers when she tries to return a mislaid golf club to its patriarchal director, Dr. Palanca (Teroy Guzman). The deeper she journeys into its most exclusive corners, the closer she gets to the violent truths of the club, her native Philippines, and her own past.

Filipiñana

**Screenwriter**: John Clifford

**Producer**: Herk Harvey

Lose yourself in the surreal nightmare world of Herk Harvey&#8217;s indie horror masterpiece *Carnival of Souls*.  The only feature film of the educational film director that brought us such classic Social Hygiene films like *&#8220;None for the Road,&#8221; &#8220;The Snob,&#8221;* and the best VD film ever made &#8211; *&#8220;The Innocent Party,&#8221; Carnival of Souls* is an atmospheric treasure of dread, suspense, and crafty-artistry that continues to influence horror over six decades later with it&#8217;s shocking twist ending. Mary Henry (the iconic Candace Hilligoss) ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past. With an abundance of eerie black and white imagery, hallucinatory scenes, and psychological trickery, you&#8217;ll want to get your tickets to this *Carnival* before it&#8217;s too late!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more vintage horror tonight!

*The Eye of the Devil, The Bad Seed, The Innocents*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Carnival of Souls

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Inspired by Roscher’s own biracial experience, BIRD IN HAND follows the newly engaged Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright) as she returns to her rural hometown to plan the wedding with her narcissistic hippie mother Carlotta (Christine Lahti). Bird also has a hidden agenda, one that leads her to her mother’s new neighbors, a misguided couple on a mission to ‘rebrand’ a plantation. Truth, lies and fantasy collide against that backdrop, leading to a surprising climax as tender as it is funny.

Roscher’s bitingly comic feature film debut weaves themes of race, belonging and family into Bird’s mercurial journey back to herself. James LeGros, Jeffrey Nordling and Annabelle Dexter-Jones co-star.

A Future of Film is Female release.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Future of Film is Female

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker and screenwriter Melody C. Roscher and actors Alisha Wainright, Christine Lahti and Jeffrey Nordling. Moderated by Miriam Bale. ‘Women Wednesday’

BIRD IN HAND

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

A country girl named Akiko (Yoriko Doguchi, known for her collaborations with the late Kishin Shinoyama) visits a college in Tokyo in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus – blasé intellectuals, sex-crazed co-eds, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame (played by award-winning director Juzo Itami) and of course her sweetheart Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody. An early pink film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the award-winning director of CURE and TOKYO SONATA.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Film Movement

COUNTRY: Japan

‘You Can’t Stream That on Television’

BUMPKIN SOUP

Who Killed Teddy Bear? / In the Cut

El Cine presents Chilean filmmakers Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña's nightmarish, surrealist fairy tale evoking the nation's traumatic past

THE WOLF HOUSE (La Casa Lobo) presented by El Cine

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Bernard Rose from a story by Clive Barker

**Producers**: Steve Golin, Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Alan Poul

*Sweets for the sweet*&#8230;Undisputedly one of the best horror films of the 1990s (and arguably of all time), this creepy classic will still chill you to the bone. Let the hypnotic Philip Glass score draw you into a haunting and menacing nightmare about gentrification and systemic racism, perfectly helmed by Tony Todd&#8217;s iconic performance. Helen (Virginia Madsen) is a grad student on the hunt for the definitive scoop of a local urban legend for her thesis project. What she finds is a monster that preys on the projects and seduces her into his antebellum mythology. A pitch-perfect masterpiece of horror, say his name five times and join us for terror in Cabrini Green!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We miss Tony Todd! Take home more menacing delights from his killer career!

*Final Destination(s), The Rock, The Crow*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Candyman

Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell/Genocide

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K. 

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Clockwork

COUNTRY: UK

Preview Screening New 4K Restoration of Director’s Cut

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

Notorious

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

Days of Heaven

Gardena Cinema is the oldest and only vintage single-screen stand-alone movie cinema in Southwest Los Angeles.

Monthly short film festival. Watch and vote. Audience award to the best short film each month. Annual championship in DECEMBER.

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 9/17) 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Jessica goes to the Connecticut countryside for some rest following her release from an institution where she has just recovered from a nervous breakdown. She arrives with her husband and friend, but the three find little relaxation. Instead, they become entangled in a creepy tale of the supernatural which involves murder, an attempted drowning, a séance, disappearing bodies, vampires and constant torment for Jessica. Her marriage is strained, she hears voices and she can’t escape the mental turbulence which haunts her – for there really is something after Jessica.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

Program begins with a live recording of the Greg Proops Film Club podcast. Feature starts at 7:30pm ‘The Greg Proops Film Club’

The Greg Proops Film Club Presents LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH

Supernatural / Terror Aboard

Mia Farrow descends into a dreamlike maze of grief and ghostly dread in this quietly haunting, long-overlooked ’70s horror gem.

FULL CIRCLE (aka THE HAUNTING OF JULIA, 1977)

**Screenwriter**: Joe Lo Truglio

**Producers**: Kara Baker,  Joe Lo Truglio,  Joe Mortimer

With writer/director **Joe Lo Truglio** in person for the October 15th screening!

Join us in the microcinema for Joe Lo Truglio&#8217;s nail-biting nightmare of the darkness that lurks in the woods and inside us. In his directorial debut feature, veteran comedian and actor Joe Lo Truglio displays his darker side with this satisfying slow burn of isolation, PTSD, and pyschosis. After a violent attack, a woman searches for strength in the solitude of a lookout job, but is overwhelmed by something darker. With a phenomenal cast and a slow and steadily unhinged descent into madness and feminine rage, culminating in a gory and hallucinatory climax, you won&#8217;t want to skip this trip to the nature&#8230;of revenge!

October 16th will be screening only without guests.

Outpost

**Screenwriter**: Michael Cristofer

**Producers**: Neil Canton, Peter Guber, Jon Peters

Have a hell of a good time with Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, and of course Cher in this devilishly sexy comedy based on the John Updike novel. Three single women in a picturesque Rhode Island village have their wishes granted — at a cost — when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives and promises to grant them supernatural powers even as he charms each of them with his own. Now that they have their own powers, it&#8217;s time to turn the tables on their sinister seducer. With an iconic cast, fiercely funny dialogue, and tons of witchy fun, you&#8217;ll want to gather up your coven and get ready for all the sexy and savage sorcery!

**Picks from the Video Store**

It&#8217;s time to Cher the love with these treasures on physical media!

*Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Good Times, Moonstruck*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

The Witches of Eastwick

Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man/House of Dracula

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

In 1945, after the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government consults spiritual psychics to aid them in winning the war. Unfortunately, the souls&#8217; resentment and agony of the victims culminate together to revive the evil Onmyoji, Yasunori Kato. Only a young, psychically imbued priests&#8217; apprentice will dare fight the evil magician.

Tokyo: The Last War

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

Akira

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism as World War II continues to rage on.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: New Zealand/USA/Czech Republic

‘Programmed by Mel Brooks: 100 Years at the Movies”

JOJO RABBIT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

BEGOTTEN has no characters in the ordinary sense. Its final credits name three principal figures: 
God Killing Himself.
Mother Earth.
Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone
The entire film is what those names do to each other and to the earth.
God Killing Himself tears open his body and dies. Mother Earth rises from what remains and takes his seed into herself. She gives birth to Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone. He is cast into a barren world, seized by the Nomads, tortured, killed and briefly returned to life by his mother. The Nomads destroy her too. The Robed Figures gather what remains of mother and son, grind their bodies down and return them to the soil. The ground flowers.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino

COUNTRY: USA

Limited Engagement New 4K Restoration Official Beyond Fest 2026 Selection Restoration personally supervised by filmmaker E. Elias Merhige. Restored from the original 16mm negative and optical soundtrack. It was scanned and restored in 4K, and final grading was done at filmscan & more in Munich, Germany.

BEGOTTEN

Critters

From Dusk Till Dawn

Brian Butler returns to reveal the hidden mythic currents behind Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.

Kenneth Anger’s INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME w/ Brian Butler

**Screenwriter/ Producer**: James Bond III

One of the best films to be released on Troma&#8217;s label, James Bond III&#8217;s *Def by Temptation* is a smart, slick, and stylish tale of faith, temptation, and demons! Joel grew up in the church but has recently started questioning his beliefs. After sensing a supernatural presence from his deceased father, Joel becomes compelled to visit his cousin in New York. But shortly after arriving, they become embroiled in a series of mysterious homicides of local men, all of whom were last seen in the company of a mysterious and beautiful woman. Beautifully photographed by Ernest Dickerson and starring Kadeem Hardison and Samuel L. Jackson, this sole directorial effort from child actor James Bond III is a macabre, neon-tinged portrait of late 1980s Brooklyn. The movie blends supernatural horror and religious mysticism, punctuated by an electrifying hip hop and R&B soundtrack. Newly restored from the original 35mm camera negative!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more bangers from Troma? Check out their section in Cult for more weird bloody fun!

*Bloodsucking Freaks, Christmas Evil, Touch me in the Morning*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Def by Temptation

The Tingler

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Snow White wins the hearts of the Seven Dwarfs and triumphs over an evil Queen in the film that launched Disney’s animation legacy.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

‘The Fun-Sized, Family-Friendly, Faintly Frightening Films’

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

35mm can be beautiful, but 16mm is *personal*. And when it’s a marathon of IB Technicolor 16mm prints, it’s both! Join Secret Sixteen founder Mike Williamson, Josh Miller (Killer Movies) and Bret Berg (Museum of Home Video) for a 12-hour sensorial feast of shockingly saturated colors and bloody night terrors — all screened from Secret Sixteen’s siqq collection of this wonderous format.

With enough decades, any print says bye-bye to its color except for the literal magic of Technicolor. This ancient occult art used 3x the amount of film to conjure 3x the joy in seeing unreal amounts of hues…the kind of shades that physically can’t be created today, as the company discontinued its dark arts in ’75.

**Titles aren’t revealed until they unspool onscreen.** What we can say is this six-film marathon is soaking in cursed body parts, heavyweight character actors, even heavier cloaks, liminal libraries and haunting hallways, sweaty demonology, boosted bustiers, gorgeous lighting, the walls closing in, wealthy reprobates, moody golems, boundless beliefs, hammy histrionics, masked murderers, meek mod psychopaths, rural isolation, “I killed your friend” vibes, danger, paranoia, bite marks, high fashion and quite a few instances of eye-popping palates matching a 4D printing process to give you an unparalleled moment in time. A pigment of your imagination.

SECRET SIXTEEN: TECHNICOLOR TERRORS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

SPANNING TIME is a cinephilic love letter to the humble photobooth, drawing on one hundred years of cinema from around the world to illustrate the machine’s enduring and universal power both to freeze time and to transcend it. Created by film archivist and photobooth historian Brian Meacham, the film tells the story of these beloved machines, from their public debut in 1926, at the dawn of film’s sound era, to their return to popularity for a new generation a century later. Photobooths and cinema have grown up in parallel, and from silent comedies of the 1920s to American indies of the 1990s, from Hong Kong action to the French New Wave, the film illustrates the quiet power these machines have held for generations of friends, lovers, travelers, spies, convicts, exhibitionists and anyone else who needed a quick portrait in the pre-selfie era. Through this encyclopedic collage made of selections from more than 150 films, both familiar and obscure, the versatile photobooth provides a space for privacy in public, creates lasting memories and becomes an unlikely hideout, time machine, even death chamber. Draw the curtain, raise the stool, insert a quarter and smile!

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

SPANNING TIME

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson stars as “the devil” opposite three witches played by superstar actresses Susan Sarandon, Academy Award winner Cher and Michelle Pfieffer in this offbeat thriller with a comic twist. In the quaint New England town of Eastwick, Alexandra, Jane and Sukie yearn to meet the man of their dreams. One rainy night, the women each express an overpowering need for just one dynamic male capable of challenging their liberated spirits, a man who could become their inspiration, their joy, their… everything. But take care with what you dream, for your dream may come true… as it does for the Witches of Eastwick.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

This festive event supports **Silverlake Shorts,** a monthly short-film screening series championing independent filmmakers and animators in Los Angeles. Proceeds from the event will also support the work of **Saturday Morning Cartoons United**™, a Los Angeles 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to celebrating legacy cartoons and strengthening local communities through shared cultural experiences.

### **ABOUT THE SHORTS:**

**“Parrots,” 2023, Dir. Jennifer Nie, 6 Mins, USA**

“Parrots” is a 6 minute slice-of-life short film about two girls growing up in the San Gabriel Valley, language and the mundane moments that don’t feel big when they happen, but end up defining a big part of who we become. As they observe and repeat things they don’t yet understand, they live and grow in a world more connected than they realize.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Arnold Escapes from Church,” 1988, Dir. Craig Bartlett, 2 Mins, USA**

Our favorite football head Arnold goes to church and daydreams about the 23rd Psalm.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**“Pilot Episode,” 1996, Dirs. Craig Barlett and Tuck Tucker, 11 Mins**

Arnold accidentally knocks out a bully named Harold during a baseball game, and Harold gives Arnold 24 hours to live before he beats him to a pulp.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Stoop Kid,” 1996, Dirs. Kelly James, Larry Leichliter and Jamie Mitchell, 11 Mins**

When Arnold finds out that Stoop Kid is afraid to leave his stoop, he feels sorry for him and decides to help him overcome his fear.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Arnold’s Halloween,” 1997, Dir. Jamie Mitchell, 22 Mins**

Arnold and Gerald team up to carry out the ultimate Halloween prank, by deliberately faking a news radio broadcast of an alien invasion, causing widespread panic throughout town not seen since Orson Welles inadvertently did so in 1938!

FORMAT: DCP

**“Haunted Train,” 1996, Dirs. Larry Leichliter, Jamie Mitchell and Juli Murphy, 11 Mins**

On a boring summer night, Grandpa tries to liven things up by telling a story about haunted Train Number 25.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**HEY ARNOLD!, 1996, Nickelodeon, USA**

Created by Craig Bartlett, HEY ARNOLD! premiered on Nickelodeon in 1996 and quickly became one of the defining animated series of its generation. Set in the fictional urban neighborhood of Hillwood, the series followed fourth-grader Arnold Shortman and his friends, family and neighbors as they navigated childhood, friendship, school and growing up. Known for its distinctive visual style, memorable characters, heartfelt storytelling and acclaimed music by composer Jim Lang, HEY ARNOLD! balanced humor with surprisingly thoughtful stories about family, identity, friendship and life in the city. From Arnold and Gerald to Helga, Phoebe, Harold, Rhonda, and the unforgettable residents of the Sunset Arms boarding house, the series created a world that felt both imaginative and deeply relatable.

Originally airing for five seasons, HEY ARNOLD! became a lasting part of Nickelodeon’s legacy and continues to inspire a devoted fanbase decades after its debut. In 2026, fans are celebrating 30 years of HEY ARNOLD! and the enduring heart, humor, music and characters that made Hillwood feel like home.

Panel with creator Craig Bartlett, composer Jim Lang, and actors Anndi McAfee, Justin Shenkarow and Olivia Hack. Special appearance by actor Lane Toran. Moderated by Andre Meadows. Special introduction featuring live music by composer Jim Lang 30th Anniversary Celebration Costume Contest! Co-presented by Silverlake Shorts and Saturday Morning Cartoons United

Hey Arnold!: A Spooktacular 30th Anniversary Screening

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A heartless industrialist has an evil plan: to level Arnold’s neighborhood and build a huge shopping mall. With time running out, someone needs to save the day. And that someone is Arnold.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by screenwriter and series creator Craig Bartlett Co-presented by Silverlake Shorts and Saturday Morning Cartoons United

HEY ARNOLD! THE MOVIE

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The Masque of the Red Death / House of Usher

The Butterfly Effect

*Please note: entry to the screening & reading is ticketed for the general public and free for LARB members. LARB Members can enter their Member Code upon checkout. *

*Seating for the screening & reading is extremely limited. Guests who were unable to purchase an online ticket may add their names to the standby list for the screening & reading upon arrival. Online tickets will be honored up until 15 minutes after the scheduled showtime; at that time, any unclaimed seats will be released for in-store purchase on a first-come, first-served basis. All Sales Final. *

*All screening & reading attendees are welcome to attend the launch party at no additional charge. *

LARB: Scene Screening & Reading

Click here for tickets to the attend LARB: Scene Launch Party after the screening.

LARB: Scene Launch Party

Now Instant Image Hall

1922 - Silent • Live Accompaniment by Randy Woltz on the Mighty Wurlitzer • This is silent horror at its purest. And the behind-the-scenes story is amazing: it was made without permission as a Dracula film, and a court later ordered the prints destroyed. It survived against the odds. Actor Max Schreck’s makeup is one of the most enduring and memorable designs in horror. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Nosferatu

**Screenwriters**: Arthur Rankin Jr.,  Len Korobkin,  Harvey Kurtzman

**Producers**: Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass

Get ready for the wildest, cutest, stop-motion spooky soiree ever made when all your favorite monsters (and even a pint-sized Peter Lorre) get together to sing, dance, and get groovy in this Rankin and Bass animated classic! If you&#8217;ve been looking for the kiddo gateway to all the classic horror monsters, look no further than this adorable animated shindig from the people that animated all our favorite holidays! When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein&#8217;s title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands! Bring your little monster lovers, or your stop-motion stan besties for the party of the season!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a Rankin and Bass section for all the cutest animated holidays and more!

*The Daydreamer, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Here Comes Peter Cottontail*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Mad Monster Party?

**Screenwriter**: Steve Tesich

**Producer**: Peter Yates

Get on your bikes and ride down to Vidiots for this coming-of-age classic on two wheels with a special pre-screening conversation with the legendary **Paul Dooley**!

Join us for Peter Yates&#8217; keenly observed character study and underdog teen triumph. Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends&#8217; and parents&#8217; annoyance. With affectionate characterization, a remarkable cast, and an un-clichéd underdog story for everyone, *Breaking Away* remains an effortless classic of 1970s cinema!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more Paul Dooley tonight &#8211; no bicycle needed!

*Strange Brew, Waiting for Guffman, A Perfect Couple*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Breaking Away

**Screenwriter**: John Wilson

**Producers**: John Wilson,  Clark Filio,  Shirel Kozak,  Allie Viti

One part documentary, one part camcorder video essay, and one part the driest yet funniest of comedies, John Wilson extends his unique genre-bending style from the small screen to the big with this magnificently absurd examination of the literal ground below our feet. Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world&#8217;s most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force, and John sets out to make the definitive documentary on the matter. After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, he decides to use the industry-approved Hallmark formula to tell this seemingly drab story and increase his movie’s appeal. But his foundation soon begins to crumble—literally and figuratively—as he struggles to balance artistic freedom with the realities of the modern film industry. So crawl out from under that rock and hit the pavement to catch this singular feature that only John Wilson could have made!

The History of Concrete

**Screenwriter**: David Cronenberg

**Producer**: Claude Héroux

We&#8217;re celebrating **Video Store Day** with horror maestro David Cronenberg&#8217;s VCR-centric classic ***Videodrome***!

*Long Live the New Flesh! * The master of body horror, David Cronenberg brings us one of his most viscerally disturbing treatises on voyeurism, sleaze, and the pursuit of the deepest of underground entertainment. As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon *Videodrome*, a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. After his girlfriend (Blondie&#8217;s Debbie Harry) auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind *Videodrome* and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought. So pop a tape in your abdomen and get ready for Video Store Day at Vidiots!

Vidiots celebrates **International Video Store Day** with a whole day reveling in the glory of physical media and the communal need for public access to video rental stores! We will have specials in the video store, an enormous physical media sale, and a special screening of David Cronenberg&#8217;s ***Videodrome***, all to relive a magical time when there was a video store in every neighborhood!

From 11:00am &#8211; 4:00pm our Microcinema will be packed to the rafters with tons of VHS, DVDs, Blu-Rays and even Laserdiscs for sale at bargain prices!

Videodrome

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

V/H/S/Halloween

October 18 · 6pm–10pm at Brain Dead Studios.

50/50 Horror is a one-night international short film festival dedicated to platforming and connecting the next generation of horror talent.

Past editions have brought together filmmakers and industry guests from CAA, UTA, WME, A24, Blumhouse, Monkeypaw and more.

Each ticket includes entry + food + popcorn & soda.

Parking is limited and Uber/Lyft is recommended.

50/50 HORROR

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Unpredictable and quite special, this off-the-chain semi-sequel to WILD AT HEART stars Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem and James Gandolfini in the wildest movie of any of their respective careers. Directed by Spanish provocateur Álex de la Iglesia (DAY OF THE BEAST, ACCION MUTANTE), PERDITA’s nightmare splatter universe lingers in your imagination in an equal but different way than Lynch’s signature style.

Here, Perez reimagines Isabella Rossellini’s melancholic character into a tightly-coiled woman on the edge — one in love with an even crazier Bardem, who’s casually into blood rituals, bank/grave-robbing, extortion and wholesale slaughter. Gandolfini is just awesome as the bumbling FBI agent on their trail. This thing rocks.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: Spain

Q&A with author and screenwriter Barry Gifford ‘Barry Gifford: An American Cinematheque Tribute’ 4K Restoration by Severin Films

PERDITA DURANGO

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Hailed as “William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks and Sun Records rockabilly,” poet, author and screenwriter Barry Gifford has given the world more than forty works, including the Sailor and Lula novels that inspired David Lynch’s WILD AT HEART. Featuring Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon and Lili Taylor, ROY’S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD’S CHICAGO brilliantly brings to life Gifford’s autobiographical collection of stories, capturing a vanished 1950s Chicago through a jazzy, impressionistic combination of beguiling archive footage, animation and spoken word.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker and screenwriter Rob Christopher and screenwriter Barry Gifford ‘Barry Gifford: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

ROY'S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD'S CHICAGO

1974 • Introduction by Film Archivist Stan Taffel • Filmmaker Mel Brooks delivers a loving, laugh-out-loud tribute to classic horror in one of the funniest comedies of all time. Shot in gorgeous black-and-white with vintage-style sets, this is a pitch-perfect parody of Universal’s Frankenstein films.  • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Young Frankenstein

**Screenwriter**: Robert Malcolm Young

**Producer**: Jerome Courtland

Aliens! Kid-psychics! Black Cats! And Puppets! Come see the magically witchy movie that made Kim Richards a star! Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary psychic powers and the cutest black cat. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian&#8217;s megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Can they escape the clutches of the evil capitalists and use their powers for good? Bring your little spellcasters to this fantastical adventure for your whole family or coven!

**Picks from the Video Store******

Bring home more spooky cuties for the kiddos!

*The Worst Witch, Something Wicked this way Comes, Casper*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Escape to Witch Mountain

**Starring**: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer

*D&#8217;oh!* Spooky season just got more animated as **Vidiots** and our friends at **Stonecutters LA** are saluting one of the longest running Halloweenie television legacies ever &#8211; the brilliantly whacked-out *Treehouse of Horror* from *The Simpsons*. Join us as we screen **clips** from some of the best segments of its 30+ year run, host **trivia** for the Simpsons geek in your life (with prizes!), and chat with some special **surprise guests** from the *Simpsons* extended family! Come dressed as your favorite four fingered *Simpsons* character, there will be a **costume contest** as well as a **raffle**. Don&#8217;t miss this one of a kind afternoon of trivia, treats, tricks, and your favorite dysfunctional cartoon family!

All ticket sales and event proceeds directly benefit Vidiots Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

A Tribute to Treehouse of Horror

**Screenwriter**: William Peter Blatty

**Producer**: William Peter Blatty

Grab your crucifix and hold your loved ones close as Vidiots delves into the depths of demonic horror on glorious celluloid!  Linda Blair shot her way into the stuff of cinematic legend as 12-year-old Regan MacNeil in this twisted, horrifying classic &#8211; considered by many to be the scariest film of all time. Young Regan begins to adopt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith. A blood-curdling masterwork from the late great William Friedkin, *The Exorcist* is ready to possess you once again!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want to bring home more creepy kids? Try out these deep cuts from our horror and cult sections!

*The Possession* (2012), *Kiss Daddy Goodbye, The Visitor*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

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The Exorcist on 35mm

## Part of the 2026 Circa: Queer Histories Festival, presented by One Institute.

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Angel's Body Temperature (天使の体温, 2001) opens on Aketo, a 20-year-old Tokyo college student with a lover, Hiroshi, who lives in Kyoto. They ache. They wander. When a young woman named Harumi drifts into Aketo's orbit and into his apartment, the film wallows in nostalgia and alienation. Shot on digital video with a grainy, restless texture - like a relic too quickly-forgotten on VHS.

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Directed by Akihiro Suzuki, Angel's Body Temperature belongs to a body of Japanese queer cinema from the late 1990s and early 2000s that has remained almost entirely invisible to Western audiences - a lost chapter of New Queer Cinema unfolding parallel to the movement's celebrated American and European counterparts. Suzuki's film shares that era's preoccupation with young men adrift in cities. Outside of directing, Suzuki notably programmed New Queer Cinema for Japan and even co-produced Latin Boys Go to Hell.

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The screening will be introduced by Dakota Noot, who contributed a commentary track to the film's recent North American Blu-ray release from Kani Releasing. A Q&A will follow, along with a virtual interview with director Akihiro Suzuki, offering rare direct access to a filmmaker whose work is only now finding the audience it deserves.

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**dir. Akihiro Suzuki, 2001***Japan, digital projection*82 min

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## Sunday, 10/187:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

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## $10 general admission.

***Basic*** *&* ***Microcinephile*** *members, please log-in to your account at checkout for your discounts to apply*.* Don't have a membership? Get one* *[here](https://shop.whammyanalog.com/pages/get-a-membership)*.

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**Dakota Noot** is a Los Angeles-based artist and curator. He uses drawings, paintings, and installations to create animal-human hybrids that explore rural yet fantastical, queer identities. Originally from Bismarck, North Dakota, he continues to show in both North Dakota and Los Angeles, including solo and two-person shows at Highways Performance Space, MuzeuMM, and PØST. Noot has exhibited in group shows at Charlie James Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Torrance Art Museum and “Queer Biennial: What if Utopia?” at LAST Projects. His series of cutout drawing-installations have been shown at Art in Odd Places, LA Freewaves, Cerritos College Art Gallery, and Otis College. Noot has been featured in Hi-Fructose magazine. Outside of art-making, Noot has a dedication to pinku-eiga (pink film). He co-hosts a podcast on pink film, titled Two in the Pinku. Noot is currently writing a book a gay pinku (barazoku). He has contributed booklet essays, video essays, and audio commentaries to Vinegar Syndrome, Klubb Super 8, and 88 Films.

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Angel's Body Temperature (2001) pres. by One Institute

WHAMMY!

The Seven Year Itch

In the Mouth of Madness in 4K

Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

Hereditary

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

DR. BUTCHER, M.D. sparked riots on 42nd Street, spawned a generation of VHS gorehounds and forever set an insane standard for Italian mad doctor/zombie/cannibal carnage worldwide. Ian McCulloch (ZOMBIE) and Alexandra Delli Colli (THE NEW YORK RIPPER) star in this blood orgy of gut-munching, eyeball-gouging and face-chopping originally known as ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST, which a notorious American distributor would then re-edit, re-title and re-release as a certified grindhouse masterpiece. As a bonus, this is one of the rare Italian cannibal movies that features zero onscreen animal violence.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Severin Films

COUNTRY: USA

Cinematic Void Presents DR. BUTCHER, MD

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

### ABOUT THE FILM:

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

‘Programmed by Mel Brooks: 100 Years at the Movies’

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

Art cinema meets eerie horror in this hypnotic ’70s cult classic—a somnambulant fever dream of seaside desolation and gathering dread.

MESSIAH OF EVIL (1973) — A Hypnotic, Vibe-Drenched Cult Classic

**Screenwriters**: Martin Donovan, David Koepp

**Producers**: Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey

Bring your best frenemies and get ready for Vidiots epic annual Halloween Shindig! We&#8217;ll be kicking off the night with extra spooky tunes and vibes before diving into the everlasting classic dark comedy ***Death Becomes Her***, followed by more Halloweenie revelry and plenty of spooky Vidiots fun. So, put on your costumes, bring your besties, and come for one killer party!

The quest for eternal youth is a bitch! National treasures Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn star as best frenemies who will stop at nothing to keep their youthful good looks and the love of Bruce Willis. When Isabella Rossellini offers up a magical immortality potion, the rivalry intensifies to deadly and devilishly funny heights. A marvelously twisted dark comedy that lives on forever!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We would die for Goldie Hawn! Take home more ridiculous classics from one of America&#8217;s funniest ladies!

*Private Benjamin, Housesitter, Overboard*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Death Becomes Her + Vidiots Halloween Party

**Screenwriter**: Joan Tewkesbury

**Producer**: Robert Altman

Part political thriller, part comedy, part musical, part whirling dervish, this kaleidoscopic symphony of celluloid could only be conducted by the maestro himself, Robert Altman. Dozens of characters&#8217; lives intersect in the bars, recording studios, music halls, hospitals, and airports of Music City, leading to a surprising and devastating climax. With overlapping soundtracks of dialogue, political rhetoric, and country music (written and performed by its stars including Karen Black and Ronee Blakley) and a cavalcade of fascinating characters that shoot for stardom, or fall from it, this film is a one-of-a-kind exercise in flawlessly-executed excess. Funny, cynical, and sonically enduring, you won&#8217;t want to miss a beat of *Nashville*.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more physical media from maestro Altman tonight!

*A Wedding, California Split, The Long Goodbye*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Nashville

The Leech Woman

An Evening of Short Films by Women Directors

Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, E.M. Forster's Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one's sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. In a time when homosexuality is punishable by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for one another a complete secret. After a friend is arrested and disgraced for "the unspeakable vice of the Greeks," Clive abandons his forbidden love and marries a young woman. Maurice, however, struggles with his identity and self-confidence, seeking the help of a hypnotist to rid himself of his undeniable urges. But while staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice is seduced by the affectionate and yearning servant Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves), an event that brings about profound changes in Maurice's life and outlook.

Maurice

Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is a deliriously stylized tale of hothouse lust and simmering violence. Set amid an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French sea port, this daring adaptation of a novel by Jean Genet recounts the tragedy of a handsome sailor (Brad Davis) as he is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality. Completed just before Fassbinder’s sudden death at age thirty-seven, QUERELLE finds the director pushing his embrace of artifice and taboo-shattering depiction of queer desire to new extremes.

Querelle

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Shocking, outrageous and poetic, *JIGOKU* (HELL, a.k.a. *THE SINNERS OF HELL*) is the most innovative creation from Nobuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror film. After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelgänger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell—literally. In the gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of torture and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories, JIGOKU, with its truly eye-popping (and -gouging) imagery, created aftershocks that are still reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

Cabaret

2:00 PM

The Thing in 4K

6:30 PM

THE ‘BURBS,

SILENT RUNNING,

THE DRIVER,

DERNSIE: THE AMAZING LIFE OF BRUCE DERN,

10:00 AM

WICKER

8:00 PM

The Mummy

2:30 PM

Cannibal Ferox

5:30 PM

The Shining

8:00 PM

Isabel Sandoval Presents HOLIDAY

1:00 PM

THE PERIL AT PINCER POINT

4:00 PM

MOONGLOW

7:00 PM

MISSION

10:00 PM

The Haunting

2:00 PM

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters

6:30 PM

A Nightmare on Elm Street

2:30 PM

Psycho

7:00 PM

Barbara Forever

12:45 PM

The Last Unicorn

1:00 PM

If I Go Will They Miss Me

3:30 PM

The Uninvited

4:00 PM

The Bodyguard

7:00 PM

Hold That Ghost

10:00 AM

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother 35mm