### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Following the death of his father (Josh Brolin), Jay Gardiner (Austin Abrams) goes diving off the central coast of California in search of his remains but is swallowed by a massive sperm whale. While trapped inside its belly with only one hour of oxygen left, Jay comes to realize that the hard-earned lessons his father imparted may be the key to his escape.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Studios

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Brian Duffield Advance Screening Free popcorn and soda courtesy of 20th Century Studios Co-presented by Beyond Fest

WHALEFALL

Aero Theatre

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.

Imitation of Life

Pinky (Jeanne Crain) is a black woman so fair-skinned she was able to pose as white throughout nursing school. Newly graduated, she flees south to visit her grandmother (Ethel Waters) after a doctor, unaware of her true ancestry, proposes to her. Unsure how to react, she looks to her grandmother, who warns her that only trouble will come of an interracial marriage. Pinky agrees and instead stays to help her grandmother care for an elderly, rich, and fatally ill white woman (Ethel Barrymore).

Pinky

Egyptian Theatre

*Special thanks to our community partners: [Los Angeles Silent Film Festival](https://www.losangelessilentfilmfestival.org/), [NitrateVille](https://www.nitrateville.com/)*

*North American premiere of new restoration!*

*Man Trouble* was based on the short story “A Very Practical Joke” by Ben Ames Williams, published in *The Saturday Evening Post* in 1925. A crestfallen woman, Joan (Dorothy Mackaill), decides to take her own life by jumping into a river. Fortunately, she is saved by notorious bootlegger Mac (Milton Sills), who is kind enough to offer a weary woman a job in his nightclub, where he becomes infatuated with her to a fault. Unfortunately for Mac, Joan has fallen for another, gentler man, newspaper columnist George (Kenneth MacKenna). This complex film is part hardboiled gangster film, part melodrama, but it offers so much more.

Director: Berthold Viertel. Screenwriter: Ben Ames Williams, Marion Orth, George Manker Watters. With: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Kenneth MacKenna. 

*Restoration funding provided by Glenn & Eleanor Padnick and the National Endowment for the Arts. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a 35mm nitrate print. Laboratory services by The PHI Stoa Film Lab, Film Technology Company, Inc., Audio Mechanics, Simon Daniel Sound.*

*North American premiere of new restoration!*

*Live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick**
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Based on a 1916 play by Jules Eckert Goodman, *The Man Who Came Back* tells the story of inebriated philanderer Henry Potter (George O’Brien), whose father, Thomas Potter (Ralph Lewis), is weary of his son tarnishing the family name and wants him to be his own man. During his travels, Henry meets Marcelle (Dorothy Mackaill), an equally downtrodden lady and together they redeem each other through love. *The Man Who Came Back* is one of the few Fox Film Corporation silent films to survive. 

Director: Emmett Flynn. Screenwriters: Jules Eckert Goodman, John Fleming Wilson, Edmund Goulding. With: George O’Brien, Dorothy Mackaill, Ralph Lewis.

*Restoration funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Roger Mayer Legacy Program. Digitally restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a 35mm nitrate domestic print and a 35mm nitrate foreign print. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc., FotoKem. Special thanks to Národní filmový archiv.*

We are thrilled to celebrate Silent Movie Day 2026 as part of this screening. 

*Notes written by Theater Manager Lauren Brown.**
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Man Trouble / The Man Who Came Back

Hammer Museum

### **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, Jeffrey Nordling and James Le Gros. 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

Introduction by author Dakota Noot ‘You Can’t Stream That on Television’

BUMPKIN SOUP

Los Feliz Theatre

Who Killed Teddy Bear? / In the Cut

New Beverly Cinema

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

Vidiots is *dying* to welcome screen icon **Virginia Madsen** for a buzzworthy screening of Bernard Rose&#8217;s horror masterpiece *Candyman*!

*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

Vidiots

Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell/Genocide

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother 35mm

Vista Theatre

### **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

KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Still Walking

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Splendor in the Grass

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. 10/15) 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

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

Cole Sear, an 8-year-old boy, is haunted by his ability to “see dead people.” A helpless and reluctant channel, Cole is terrified by threatening visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. Confused by his paranormal powers, Cole is too young to understand his purpose, and too terrified to tell anyone, except child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe, about his torment. As Dr. Crowe tries to uncover the ominous truth about Cole’s supernatural abilities, they both receive a jolt that awakens them to something harrowing and unexplainable. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

THE SIXTH SENSE

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

LA Filmforum: The Festival of (In)appropriation #14

2220 Arts + Archives

Hotel Transylvania

Blade in 4K

Horror of Dracula in 4K

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

Films coming soon.

21st Annual Horrorthon Hosted by Corn Gorn, the Living God!

21st Annual Horrorthon

Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.

Monster House

“We are the freaks.” Black lipstick, Wicca, and Catholic school angst — THE CRAFT is CARRIE by way of CLUELESS. When troubled teen Sarah (Robin Tunney, EMPIRE RECORDS) transfers to a new high school in LA, she is quickly befriended by a trio rumored to be witches — Bonnie (Neve Campbell, SCREAM), Rochelle (Rachel True, NOWHERE), and Nancy (Fairuza Balk, AMERICAN HISTORY X). It is not long before the spells and curses cast by the budding coven take on a life of their own. Less content to rest on hijinks and popularity contests than its contemporaries, the script by FLATLINERS scribe, Peter Filardi, crafts a broody atmosphere as thick as its protagonist’s eyeliner and continues to resonate with girl gangs and misfits who’ve long outgrown the braces and rosary combo. Co-starring Skeet Ulrich (SCREAM) and Breckin Meyer (ROADTRIP).  **Screening in 35mm! **

The Craft

Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn are bitter rivals in an all out bitch-fest war. The elixir of youth won&#8217;t stand in either of their ways to beat each other, and Bruce Willis gets dragged along as a poor schmuck witness to it all, to boot.

Death Becomes Her

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

Rosemary’s Baby

Brain Dead Studios

60 years after its first screening in Algiers, *The Battle of Algiers* has lost none of its political punch. Premiering internationally at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion, the film was celebrated for the audacity with which it confronted the still-raw history of French colonialism and the Algerian struggle for independence. In France, however, it remained effectively banned for years. Its extraordinary political afterlife has been equally paradoxical: a film embraced by anticolonial and revolutionary movements around the world has also been studied by military and counterinsurgency strategists, including at the Pentagon during the Iraq War.

Starring almost exclusively nonprofessional actors and shot entirely on location in Algiers in a strikingly realist, quasi-documentary style, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film reconstructs the pivotal 1957 Battle of Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). Beginning with French paratroopers closing in on FLN militant Ali La Pointe, the film moves backward to trace his politicization and the escalating confrontation between the National Liberation Front and the French colonial state. Yet *The Battle of Algiers* is less the story of an individual revolutionary than of a people becoming a political subject.

Made shortly before the manifestos that would theorize “Third Cinema,” the film became one of its enduring touchstones: cinema conceived not simply as representation but as intervention. Its unsettling treatment of colonialism, revolutionary violence, torture and collective resistance continues to raise urgent questions about political violence, national liberation and the unfinished work of decolonization.

*Note written by UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Professor Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli and UCLA Comparative Literature Professor Nouri Gana.*

DCP. Director: Gillo Pontecorvo. Screenwriters: Gillo Pontecorvo, Franco Solinas. With: Brahim Hadjadj, Mohamed Ben Kassen, Yacef Saâdi.

The Battle of Algiers — 60th Anniversary

An animation screening hosted by Loose Frames featuring animations summited by the community

Loose Frames Rattled Fabrications: Animated Shorts Screening (10/24)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy sing and dance to the music of Cole Porter in this musical spectacular about the problems that arise when the wrong partner of a ballroom dance team lands a starring role on the Great White Way in BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940.

In a case of mistaken identity, King Shaw (Murphy) is cast to star on Broadway—resulting an inflated ego for Shaw and a big headache for the theatrical company. Rather than stand in his way, King’s much-more talented partner, Johnny Brett (Astaire), coaches Shaw for his starring role. But when King arrives late and drunk on opening night, the true star goes on stage–and triumphs.

Featuring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell in a six-minute tap dance finale to Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine.”

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

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

BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Fantasy, magic and fun are all brewed together in this legendary adventure. Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron’s power will be invincible. The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran, who dreams of doing heroic deeds. With a motley team including the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam and Hen Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black Cauldron’s evil once and for all. Will he have the courage to succeed?

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

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

THE BLACK CAULDRON

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Venus on the Half-Shell,” 1975, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 5 Mins, Tamasa Distribution, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*
Featuring Bona Tibertelli De Pisis’s excellent erotic graphic works – wife of writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues while working in her atelier, together with fragments of her graphic works inspired by one of Remy de Gourmont’s writings.

Restored in 4K in 2026 by Friends of Walerian Borowczyk at Fixafilm laboratory, from a 35mm internegative and the original 35mm negative. Funding provided by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE BEAST, 1975, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 108 Mins, AGFA, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Walerian Borowczyk’s most notorious film wildly re-works BEAUTY AND THE BEAST into an adult fairy tale that parodies pornographic tropes and assaults all notions of “good taste.” Bestial dreams interrupt the plans of a French aristocrat to marry off Mathurin, his deformed son, to Lucy, a horny American heiress. Yet Mathurin seems more interested in his horses than in his bride-to-be. When Lucy discovers the story of an 18th-century ancestor copulating with the titular beast, it sparks to life one of the most outrageous dream sequences in cinema history. A huge hit in France that was extensively censored and banned all over the world, THE BEAST (aka LA BÊTE) broke new ground in sexual explicitness and remains a truly startling experience today.

FORMAT: DCP

‘The Immoral Tales of Walerian Borowczyk’ Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York

"Venus on the Half-Shell" / THE BEAST

The Cat and the Canary

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Maniac Cop 2

1920 - Silent • Live Accompaniment by Randy Woltz on the Mighty Wurlitzer • Introduction by Film Historian Randy Haberkamp • This is one of the cornerstones of horror and one of the most striking example of German Expressionism. If you’re interested in film history, this film is essential. It's eerie fun. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1982 • Introduced by "Horror Nerd" comedian Samantha Hale • A comfortable suburban home, a close-knit family, and then absolute supernatural mayhem: Poltergeist knows exactly how to hook an audience. Once the little girl says “They’re here,” the film keeps building in scale and intensity without losing its human center. Nominated for three Academy Awards. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Poltergeist

Old Town Music Hall

Director Linus O’Brien in person, presenting the electrifying doc on his father’s delicious, definitive cult classic creation—ROCKY HORROR!

STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR! + Q&A w/ Dir. Linus O'Brien!

**Screenwriters**: Peter Baynham, Robert Smigel

**Producer**: Michelle Murdocca

Pack a bag, grab the family, and head to Vidiots for the vacation of your deathtime! Welcome to *Hotel Transylvania*, Dracula&#8217;s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula has invited all his best friends to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis&#8217;s 118th birthday. For Dracula catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but the party really starts when one ordinary guy stumbles into the hotel and changes everything! Bring your little monster-lovers for this super fun monster mash!

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

**Screenwriters**: Michael McDowell, Caroline Thompson

**Producers**: Tim Burton, Denise Di Novi, Kathleen Gavin

Get in the spooky spirit with a trip to the delightful nightmare world of Halloween Town with Jack Skellington and his gruesome band of ghoulfriends. Tired of the monotony of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, has a plan to kidnap Santa Claus and turn Christmas creepy. But as the winter holiday approaches, Jack&#8217;s rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans and bring back Christmas merriment. A stop-motion delight for everyone with extraordinary animation, iconic songs, and a whole world of creepy creatures to fall in love with!

**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 Nightmare Before Christmas

**Producers**: Alison Byrne Fields,  Josh Penn

With director **Sam Green** in conversation with **Dominic Willsdon**, Executive Director of IDA after the October 22nd screening!

Join us in the microcinema for an-all-too-human triumph of documentary filmmaking, Sam Greene&#8217;s profound and entertaining affirmation of life, The* Oldest Person in the World.  *Green creates a decade-long odyssey chronicling the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. As the title inevitably passes from one supercentenarian to the next, acclaimed filmmaker Sam Green traverses the globe to meet each new record holder, his personal fascination with what the title means becoming entangled with events and milestones in his own life. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a poignant meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate and the joy and profound human experience of being alive.

The Oldest Person in the World

**Screenwriters**: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson

**Producers**: Stanley Kubrick, Robert Fryer

This Stephen King adaptation crawls with atmospheric dread from the opening scene to the closing credits, inhabiting a special place in the psyche of all those who have witnessed its bloody, psychotic mastery.  Jack Nicholson stars as Jack Torrance, a down-on-his-luck writer who accepts a caretaker job at the historic Overlook Hotel. After packing up the wife and child, this family fraught with their own demons embarks on a journey of isolation, madness, and mystical mind games culminating in a terrifying fever dream. A quintessential horror from one of America&#8217;s greatest directors and one of our most popular novelists.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more Stephen King classics? These are some of our favorites!

*The Mist, Dolores Claiborne, Carrie*

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

The Shining on 35mm

**Screenwriters**: Yeon Sang-ho,  Choe Gyu-seok

**Producers**: Hailey Yoomin Yang,  Sung Joon-ho

Our microcinema is going to the undead with horror master Yeon Sang-ho&#8217;s (*Train to Busan*) new Korean zombie thriller starring Gianna Jun and Koo Kyo-hwan. Professor Se-jeong (Jun) is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations. With new and fascinating ideas that bring the zombie genre into brilliant new territory of collective consciousness and mold networks, and the kind of action and pathos Yeon Sang-ho is best at, this is a no brainer for any horrorphile!

Colony

**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

Rodan

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (70mm)

V/H/S/Mixtape

Creepshow

## A Punk Rock Blade Runner for Artists!!!

***Numbskull Revolution*** took nine long years to complete and witnessed the end of the 29-year marriage and creative partnership of Moritsugu and Davis. This grand finale is their most epic and fully-realized motion picture. Ostensibly a riff on the absurdity of art, warfare of people, material control/secular terror, addictions of every genre, and self-actualization thru internal Jungian conflict, it is - at its most base level - a full-on and mega-entertaining cinematic odyssey tinged with ludicrous sci-fi, raw poignancy, and utter brutalism.

***Numbskull Revolution*** premiered at The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) in February 2026 and has since screened - traveling roadshow style - at kick-ass theaters, cool high art repositories, and punk rock clubhouses in 25 cities in the USA, Australia, and Canada. It will be premiering soon in Europe and South America. **NO FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS! NO LEGIT DISTRIBUTION!**

"Amy Davis and James Duval play a pair of rival conceptual artists battling for fame and funding in the near-future dystopia of Shitville, Earth. As one ascends the heights of neoliberal capitalist success, the other seeks inspiration and solace in the euphoric waves of a new cyber drug called Skullfuck. Ingenious production design and savvy location shooting evoke the urban sprawl and rural industrial collapse against which the filmmakers frame this scathing satire of art world pretension."

- Paul Malcolm: Senior Public Programmer, UCLA Film & Television Archive/Hammer Museum

**dir. Jon Moritsugu, 2026**
*United States, digital projection*
95 min

**SATURDAY, 10/24 · 7:30P DOORS · 8:00P SCREENING**

Followed by a Zoom Q&A with director Jon Moritsugu!

## $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)*.

********Jon Moritsugu** (*Mod Fuck Explosion, Fame Whore,* *Terminal USA, Scumrock)*, “The Godfather of Punk Cinema,” has returned from the near-dead with ******Numbskull Revolution******, his eighth feature! This collaboration with his now ex-wife, Amy Davis, marks the **OFFICIAL COMEBACK** for this Grammy-nominated Oscar Contender, who is arguably the world’s most uncompromising and extreme movie director. Numbskull Revolution, shot in 2017 in Santa Fe and Marfa, stars James Duval (“Frank the Bunny” from ***Donnie Darko***) and Amy Davis (as twin sisters).

## IG: @jon.moritsugu

## www.jonmoritsugu.com

*****Whammy!*** *is located at* **1***2***00 N Alvarado St***, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please* ***do not park*** ***in the library parking lot****, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines*, the** 2, the ***4****, and the* ***93.***

NUMBSKULL REVOLUTION (2026) + Zoom Q&A w/ dir. Jon Moritsugu!

WHAMMY!

Men in Black in 35mm

Christine

Filmmaker/author/musician Josh Malerman has done it all. He’s a New York Times best-selling author. His books have been adapted into major films, including *Bird Box*, the most-watched movie on Netflix starring Sandra Bullock. He wrote the theme song to the Emmy Award winning eleven season series *Shameless*. He spent six years on tour traveling the world, and to this day lives a carnival-esque life filled with artistic endeavors in Michigan. And yet with every new novel and creative venture, Josh must face the terror of the blank page and accept the rollercoaster ride of living the life of an artist. Now the audience can ride alongside Josh as he traverses the ups and downs of writing his next book. *From producers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (A Quiet Place, Haunt, Heretic). *

***Filmmaker, Author, and Musician Josh Malerman will be in attendance.***

From producers Beck/Woods (A Quiet Place, Haunt, Heretic), Strange Loop, and Spin a Black Yarn.

A part of *****TWISTED SIGNALS, ***a film festival from Antenna Releasing and its partners.

To All the Books

For fans of films like *American Movie *and *Dancin’ Outlaw*, a “canceled” theater director summons a troupe of conservative actors to an abandoned cabin in rural Georgia to plot revenge on the Atlanta theater community with a musical retelling of the 1692 Salem witch trials. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival. 

***Filmmakers Dylan Frederick and Nick Clark will be in attendance.***

**Screening with the short film ***SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT*
A part of *****TWISTED SIGNALS, ***a film festival from Antenna Releasing and its partners.

American Theater

The female metal band ‘JUMP SCARE’ retreat to a remote cabin to write their next album only to be terrorized by the family of cannibals next door. This phantasmagoric blend of genres, tones, and colors is equal parts cannibal movie, slasher, rock opera, and with a touch of renegade humor thrown in for extra sauce. It’s your new cult favorite! *Featuring everyone’s favorite working actor, Eric Roberts, his 8,000th film from 2026*.

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***Filmmaker Donnie Hobbie will be in attendance.***

A part of *****TWISTED SIGNALS, ***a film festival from Antenna Releasing and its partners.

Jump Scare

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative*

Born out of a workshop with acting students from the Tokyo film school ENBU, *Intimacies *itself follows a group of students rehearsing and then staging a play. At four hours, it’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s earliest exploration of duration as a cinematic device with the first half focused on the group’s preparations and the second, aside from a brief, poignant coda, a presentation of the complete play. Personal problems and current events threaten to derail the project with director Reiko (Rei Hirano) adjusting and revising to keep the play and her relationship with the playwright, Ryo (Ryo Sato), on track.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm* 

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. With: Rei Hirano, Ryo Sato, Mikio Tayama.

Intimacies

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky’s the limit – major movie stardom awaits. THE ARTIST tells the story of their interlinked destinies.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: France/Belgium

Introduction by performer Avital Ash ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Avital Ash Presents THE ARTIST

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When she first sets eyes on her new boss, the wealthy Cyrus Waltham Jr. (Antonio Moreno), department store clerk Betty Lou Spence (Clara Bow) is convinced he’s got “it,” an indefinable quality that makes one irresistible to the opposite sex. Betty Lou charms her employer on a date, but Cyrus suddenly cools when he hears a false story that Betty Lou has mothered an illegitimate child. Crushed by Cyrus’ assumption, the shopgirl ramps up the sex appeal to win her man back and teach him a lesson.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

‘The Original It Girl: Four Starring Clara Bow’

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A young New York couple (Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes) moves into a new apartment building, where they’re quickly befriended by lovable Ruth Gordon and husband Sidney Blackmer. All is not as it seems, though, and Farrow soon comes to suspect that her neighbors have truly sinister plans in store for her and her unborn baby. This eerie supernatural thriller builds shivery atmosphere through each successive scene, right up until the shattering climax.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by author Sloan de Forest Book signing with Sloan de Forest for her book, The Essential Directors: The Art and Impact of Cinema’s Most Influential Filmmakers, prior to the screening at 6:30pm at Los Feliz 3, in partnership with Larry Edmunds Bookshop.

ROSEMARY'S BABY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Everyone is afraid of something… for Dr. Ross Jennings (Jeff Daniels), his phobia is downright embarrassing. But when he moves his family to a small town, the one thing that bugs him most is now harming the townspeople at an alarming rate. For this unlikely hero, overcoming a childhood fear of spiders might just save the community, but it may already be too late! Directed by Frank Marshall and also starring John Goodman, this critically acclaimed, breathtaking hit entertains with its terrific mix of thrills, chills and laughter!

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

ARACHNOPHOBIA

1935 • Introduction by Author Julian David Stone • This is one of the rare sequels people argue is even better than the original. It’s funny in an odd, dark way, it moves fast, and it has real emotion under the horror. Elsa Lanchester’s screen time is short but legendary, and the film’s look and spirit influenced decades of monster movies. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Bride of Frankenstein

1968 • Introduction by Author Julian David Stone • This is the film that basically rewired zombie culture. One of the most famous bits of movie-business trivia is that it ended up in the public domain because of a release-time copyright notice mistake, which is part of why it spread everywhere. Duane Jones as the lead was also a big deal for the time, and he’s terrific. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Night of the Living Dead

Vidiots invites you to join us for our third annual **Día de los Muertos Celebration &#8211; **a special community event in remembrance of our loved ones. Join us in the MUBI microcinema for face-painting and arts and crafts for all ages. Plus Día de los Muertos inspired treats, a community ofrenda in our lobby all week long, and more Vidiots surprises, it&#8217;s a day for community, for family, and for reverence to the dearly departed in our hearts.

We want to encourage our beloved community members to bring 4&#215;6 photos of your dearly departed for our **Community Ofrenda,** starting on **October 25th** in the Vidiots lobby. Please don&#8217;t bring anything irreplaceable!

Vidiots te invita a nuestra segunda celebración anual del **Día de los Muertos**, un evento para recordar a nuestros seres queridos. Acompáñanos en el MUBI Microcinema, donde habrá pintacaritas y artes para todas las edades durante el día.

También tendremos antojitos inspirados por el Día de los Muertos, una Ofrenda Comunitaria en nuestro lobby durante toda la semana, y muchas sorpresas más de Vidiots! Será un día para compartir en comunidad y familia, y para recordar y honrar a nuestros seres queridos difuntos.

Invitamos a toda nuestra querida comunidad a traer fotos tamaño 4×6 de sus seres queridos para colocar en nuestra **Ofrenda Comunitaria** a partir del **25 de octubre** en el lobby de Vidiots. ¡Solo recuerden no traer nada irremplazable!

**Saturday October 25**&#8211; 11:00 am &#8211; 3:00pm

**Face painting**: In the Microcinema, 11:00am &#8211; 2:00pm

**Día de los Muertos crafts** &#8211; In the Microcinema

[**Coco**](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/coco/) en Español &#8211; 1:00pm &#8211; The Eagle Theatre &#8211; $5.00 discounted tickets

**Sunday, November 1st**

[**Macario**](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/macario/) &#8211; 4:00pm &#8211; The Eagle Theatre &#8211; $5.00 discounted tickets

Please grab your **free tickets above** to help us prep our lotería cards and sugar skulls, but no one will be turned away! Tickets for the screenings are sold separately at a special discounted rate!

Día de los Muertos Celebration

**Screenwriters**: Adrian Molina, Matthew Aldrich

**Producer**: Darla K. Anderson

Join Vidiots as we celebrate **Día de Los Muertos** with the stunning and beloved Pixar film *Coco*. Miguel is a boy who dreams of musical stardom despite his family&#8217;s ban on music. Finding himself in the Land of the Dead, he sets off on a journey to learn the true secrets of his family and a path to the music he loves. A true triumph of animation with dynamic visuals, compelling storytelling and a story of family, tradition, and loss that anyone can enjoy.

Vidiots is celebrating **Día de los Muertos** with spirited programming, activities, and surprises. Join us for crafts, contribute to our community ofrenda, plus more fun from 11:00am &#8211; 3:00pm. For more information click [here](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/dia-de-los-muertos-celebration/).

**Picks from the Video Store:**

Need more (not-so) spooky options for the kiddos? Rent these gems from the video store:

*The Worst Witch, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Watcher in the Woods*

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

Coco en Español

**Screenwriter**: Melissa Mathison

**Producers**: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy

Everyone&#8217;s favorite wig-wearing, Reese&#8217;s Pieces-eating alien is back on our big screen! An all-time classic, Steven Spielberg&#8217;s moving and magical tale soars with the wonders and fears of childhood and the enduring power of intergalactic friendship. When Elliot brings home a marooned alien, he and his siblings do whatever it takes—hiding in closets, wrecking their Speak & Spell, flying their bikes across the moon—to help their interstellar friend find his way home. Bring your family and your favorite alien to experience this heartwarmer on the big screen, the way it was meant to be seen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more alien friends for your little one tonight!

*Batteries Not Included, Aliens in the Attic, Mac and Me*

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

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on 35mm

**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

Once again it's WINGS NIGHT at Whammy! Join us for a secret spooky screening featuring our number one special boy Wings Hauser, presented by High Tower Video. We can't tell you what it is, but if you're like us and love the incomparable presence Wings brings to the screen, you won't be disappointed.

**dir. ????????, 19??**
*United States, digital projection*
?? min

**SUNDAY, 10/2 · 3:30P DOORS · 4:00P SCREENING**

Rated "R", not appropriate for children.

## $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)*.

*****Whammy!*** *is located at* **1***2***00 N Alvarado St***, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please* ***do not park*** ***in the library parking lot****, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines*, the** 2, the ***4****, and the* ***93.***

A Secret WINGS HAUSER Horror Movie, pres. by High Tower Video

A.S. Hamrah and Hollywood Entertainment proudly present Stuart Gordon's final masterwork: *Stuck* featuring an exclusive pre-recorded virtual Q&A with star Mena Suvari and an in-person introduction by Gordon's daughter, Suzanna Gordon.

"Stuart Gordon’s *Stuck* is perhaps the most disturbing film of its era, which is that period in the George W. Bush years just before the economy collapsed. More than disturbing, in fact it is an alarming portrait of American citizens at the end of their collective rope, behaving in ways that are callous, uncivilized, and completely lacking in concern for other people. A chilling portrait of its time from a master filmmaker, once seen it is not to be forgotten." - A.S. Hamrah

Written by EZTV and *Dark Romances* alum John Strysik, **Stuck** tells the story of Brandi (Suvari), a compassionate hospice nurse who hits Tom (Stephen Rea), an unhoused man, with her car, lodging him in the windshield. Rather than seek help, she drives home, parks in her garage, and goes about her life and work as usual in the following days... What follows is a darkly comic, insightful, and unsettling descent into the darkness of human denial. Stuck is an inspired-by-a-true-story nightmarish descent into waking hell that demonstrates the incredible talents of Stuart Gordon - best known for supernatural horror and sci-fi classics like *Re-Animator* and *From Beyond* - when turned to the twisted sociopolitical milieu of the real world.

**dir. Stuart Gordon, 2007**
*United States, digital projection*
85 min

**SUNDAY, 10/25 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

## $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)*.

*****Whammy!*** *is located at* **1***2***00 N Alvarado St***, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please* ***do not park*** ***in the library parking lot****, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines*, the** 2, the ***4****, and the* ***93.***

STUCK (2007), pres. by Hollywood Entertainment & A.S. Hamrah

They Live by Night in 35mm with Nathan Gelgud and A. S. Hamrah

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven—watched over by a hypnotic crow—returns from the grave to exact revenge.

The Crow (1994)

Fresh out of prison, Hong Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu) finds an unlikely soulmate in Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run accident for which he went to jail. Wheelchair-bound and suffering from severe cerebral palsy, Gong-ju is kept cloistered in a cheap apartment by her brother, whose only concern is the government assistance she receives. Over a series of clandestine meetings, the two begin an improbable relationship that defies the judgment and cruelty of the world around them.

Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director and Best Young Actress at the Venice Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong's OASIS is a “brave film” that “shows two people who find any relationship almost impossible, and yet find a way to make theirs work” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Oasis

Released from his mandatory military service, Makdong (Han Suk-gyu) returns to a hometown he no longer recognizes. After rescuing a beautiful young woman from harassment on a train, his life takes an unexpected turn when she unwittingly lures him into the criminal underworld. Finding himself in a dangerous love triangle with the local crime boss, Makdong must face the dire consequences of his choices.



Winner of the Best Film and Best New Director awards from the Korean Film Critics Association, Lee Chang-dong's GREEN FISH is a “wrenching, tonally nuanced first film” (Senses of Cinema) that combines “strong narrative drive, powerful visuals and a mind-blowing central performance” (Eastern Kicks). Presented in a 4K restoration.

Green Fish

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Clint Howard goes all in as a nebbish military school cadet who uses an Apple II with 4K of RAM, a skull-smashing broadsword and a horde of bloodthirsty devil pigs to exact revenge! Horror movies about teens with supernatural powers are nothing new, but EVILSPEAK adds the juicy novelty of WARGAMES-era home computing into the mix. Add in some of the Eighties’ tastiest gore scenes and the battiest treatment of a cute puppy in cinema history, and you’ve got the kind of tasteless, utterly watchable celluloid gold they just don’t make anymore.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: USA

Print courtesy of University of North Carolina School of the Arts ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents EVILSPEAK

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Truly one-of-a-kind alien-invasion sci-fi featuring blood-drinking intergalactic clowns harvesting a small city of its plasma.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE

Funeral Home / Blue Monkey

**Screenwriters**: Mario O&#8217;Hara,  Lamberto E. Antonio

**Vidiots, [The Cinegogue](https://thecinegogue.com), **and**[ A Bunch of Savages](https://www.abunchofsavages.com/about)** are thrilled to present an ultra-rare screening of Lino Brocka&#8217;s masterful melodrama ***Insiang***.

Jealousy and violence take center stage in this claustrophobic melo­drama, a tautly constructed character study set in the slums of Manila from Filipino master Lino Brocka. Brocka crafts an eviscerating portrait of an innocent daughter and her bitter mother as women scorned. Insiang leads a quiet life dominated by household duties, but after she is assaulted by her mother’s lover and abandoned by the young man who claims to care for her, she exacts vicious revenge. A savage commentary on the degradations of urban poverty, especially for women, *Insiang *was the first Filipino film ever to play at Cannes.

**A Bunch of Savages** is a creative collective in Los Angeles, California. We are unapologetically Filipino-American with a knack for premium multifaceted storytelling in the arts. Toss your KPIs out the window because we have one bonafide intention &#8211; To do cool sh*t that matters.

If anyone asks, we’re a collective of dreamers, filmmakers, writers, and creatives with a commitment to empowering the next generation of artists. Our name comes from a phrase used to describe the Filipinos in 1899 by then Gov. Theodore Roosevelt.

**The** **Cinegogue** is a community-driven organization dedicated to increasing interest in film. We make clothes, throw parties, host screenings, and produce films. Our goal: make movies cool again through concert-like experiences and fanfare. We’re a group of friends who wish to extend our love for cinema beyond the 2 hour runtimes in which these movies exist. Because even though a movie might end, cinema is forever.

Insiang

*Patients aren’t just dying to get in. They’re dying to get out.*

Check in to *Frankenstein General Hospital* with Hollywood Entertainment for a very rare opportunity to see this charming and under-seen comedy!

Dr. Bob Frankenstein (Mark Blankfield) - a 12th grandson of the doctor - is recreating his namesake’s experiments in a Los Angeles hospital, hoping to impress his boss and coworkers. He and his trusty assistant Iggy (Leslie Jordan) steal body parts from the hospital’s autopsy room and Tuchman Terminated Teenagers Mortuary to create their monster (Irwin Keyes).

This extremely 80s take on the Mary Shelley classic carries the spirit of *Young Frankenstein* while emulating the non-stop joke styles of *The Naked Gun* and *Police Academy*. Led by Mark Blankfield (*Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again*) with standout performances by legends Jordan and Keyes, the cast also features recognizable faces like Ben Stein, Lou Cutell (Amazing Larry in *Pee-wee’s Big Adventure*), and 1986 Playmate of the Year Kathy Shower.

38 years before *The Bride!,* there was another woman-directed Frankenstein movie released from the lab... don't miss your chance to get admitted!

**dir. Deborah Sahagun, 1988**
*United States, digital projection*
87 min

**MONDAY, 10/26 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

## $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)*.

*****Whammy!*** *is located at* **1***2***00 N Alvarado St***, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please* ***do not park*** ***in the library parking lot****, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines*, the** 2, the ***4****, and the* ***93.***

FRANKENSTEIN GENERAL HOSPITAL (1988), pres. by Hollywood Entertainment

### THE BERLIN SERIES on 16mm by Julie O.

A collection of four short films by Julie O., all shot in Berlin in 2018: *DAS IST KUNST* (2 min), *Trauer Natur* (3 min), *Pustra* (2 min), and *my masterpiece* (4 min).

**Total Runtime: 11 mins**

### THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920)

A hypnotist, a somnambulist, and a string of mysterious murders collide in Robert Wiene’s landmark of German Expressionism. With its wildly distorted sets, painted shadows, and warped sense of space, *The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari* helped establish a visual language that would influence horror and cinema for decades to come.

**Presented with a live score.**

### MUSICIANS

#### SEAN CIMINO

Sean Cimino is a Los Angeles–based artist, composer, songwriter, and producer working with guitar, granular processing, and modular synthesis. His work explores repetition, texture, and atmosphere, treating sound as both a physical and spatial medium. For 14 years, he performed and recorded with Grammy-nominated Foster the People, contributing guitar, synthesizer, and programming across the band’s records from *Torches* through *Paradise State of Mind*, with credits in songwriting and additional production. He is also a co-founder of the post-punk project Peel, whose music has appeared in Céline campaigns, HBO’s *I Love LA*, and EA Sports FIFA.

#### ADAM TAYLOR

Adam Taylor is the twice Emmy-nominated composer of *The Handmaid’s Tale* (Hulu), *The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina* (Netflix), *Black Cake* (Hulu), *The Right Stuff* (Disney+ produced by Leonardo DiCaprio), and critically acclaimed films including *Before I Fall*, *Riff Raff* starring Bill Murray, and *August Osage County*. He is currently scoring *The Testaments* for Hulu, and will start the upcoming season, and is currently completing the second season of *Presumed Innocent* (Apple).

#### TYLER CHESTER

Tyler Chester is a Grammy Award–winning producer, session musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and studio owner. His production credits include Madison Cunningham, NIKI, Sara Bareilles, Margaret Glaspy, Sara Watkins, Jon Foreman, and others. He has toured with Jackson Browne, Blake Mills, Sara Watkins, Andrew Bird, George Ezra, and Margaret Glaspy, and has appeared on records by artists including Iron & Wine, Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, Andrew Bird, Amy Helm, Julian Lage, and Christina Aguilera.

Two down on their luck jazz musicians find themselves out of a job and on the run after the police raid the speakeasy they perform in and they inadvertently stumble upon a gang war. With no money and nowhere to hide, a gig with Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators at a Florida beach resort seems like the perfect getaway. There’s just one problem: the Syncopators are an all-female band, and Joe and Jerry aren’t women - yet.

Armed with some dodgy wigs and wobbly falsettos, Joe and Jerry manage to join the Syncopators, where they meet Sugar Kane: a hooch-swilling, ukulele-playing knockout with a soft spot for badboy saxophone players. Barely able to believe their good fortune, things start to go off the rails for the pair when they begin to attract unwanted attention from lecherous millionaires and some familiar faces show up at their hotel for a gathering of the country’s most dangerous criminals.

Some Like It Hot

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Join the American Cinematheque and WIF for a specially curated night of spooky short films from women directors, as well as a Q&A with the filmmakers.

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Fry Day,” Dir. Laura Moss, 15 min**

**“Kindred Spirit,” Dir. Caroline Lindy, 18 min**

**“Go to Bed, Raymond,” Dir. Nikki Taylor Roberts, 7 min**

**“Following,” Dir. Briana Pozner, 13 min**

**“Whatever You Desire,” Dir. Eon Song, 13 min**

**“Nightmare of La Lechuza,” Dir. Lainnie Contreras Felán, 6 min**

**“Skin of Foam,” Dir. Wendi Tang, 9 min**

Q&A with filmmakers Co-Presented by Women in Film

WIF x AC Spooky Shorts Night

### **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

JIGOKU

The Others / The Orphanage

One of the most singular horror films of the ’70s—a hypnotic, haunting descent into unstable reality, creeping dread, and the supernatural.

LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971) — A Classic of Supernatural Madness!

**Screenwriters**: Dario Argento, Bernardino Zapponi

**Producer**: Salvatore Argento

Get on your boogie shoes and join us for a night of sick tunes and even sicker horror when we crank up the Italo-Disco and slaughter the big screen with Dario Argento&#8217;s gore-giously demented masterpiece *Deep Red*. With **DJ Sindri** bumpin&#8217; Italo-Disco tunes before and after the screening/screaming!

Anticipating the eerie magic of *Suspiria, Deep Red* finds Dario Argento and creative partner Daria Nicolodi presenting a simple, Christmas-set slasher. At least, that’s what it appears to be. But within two minutes, it’s obvious that there’s nothing “simple” about* Deep Red* at all. With this movie, Argento perfected the classy, ultra-violent sub-genre that would come to be known as giallo—and also perfected playing audiences like a fiddle. This includes Goblin’s soundtrack, which is a spook-a-delic prog-rock masterpiece that beautifully complements the movie’s dreamy mood.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Make it an Italo-Horror Halloween with these killer flicks!

*The Church, Bay of Blood, Phenomena*

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

Italo-Disco Horror Night – Argento’s Deep Red

Castle of The Living Dead

Road to Perdition in 35mm

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

Possession

Yongho (Sul Kyung-gu) stares down an oncoming train as twenty years of his life flash before his eyes. Proceeding to move backward in time, Lee’ Chang-dong's acclaimed second directorial feature rewinds the protagonist's loss of humanity - from his fraught, self-hating middle age through his callow teens. The moments in between these events, as seen through the lens of Yongho’s oppressive struggles, mirror South Korea’s traumatic political history during the late 20th century.

An official selection of the Directors' Fortnight selection in Cannes and winner of the Special Prize of the Jury at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, PEPPERMINT CANDY is a powerful work of Korean New Wave cinema that elegizes a generation of marginalized people with “quiet, heartbreaking power” (The New York Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Peppermint Candy

When her husband passes away in an automobile accident, Shin-ae relocates down south to her late husband’s hometown of Miryang. Despite her efforts to settle down, in this unfamiliar and much too normal place, she finds that she can’t quite fit in. Helping her out is Kim Jong-chan, a good-intentioned but bothersome bachelor, who owns a car repair shop. Life plods on. However, fate takes a vicious turn when Shin-ae loses her son in the most horrific way a mother could imagine. She turns to Christianity to relieve the pain in her heart, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

Secret Sunshine

Kind-hearted Mija (Yun Jung-hee) is tasked with raising her troubled teenage grandson, Jong-wook, while her daughter works in far-off Busan. In denial that her abilities as a caregiver are threatened by the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, Mija begins to study poetry writing at the local cultural center. At first she finds inspiration in the beauty of the natural world, but then, when Jong-wook is mired in a shocking scandal, Mija taps into newfound depths of disappointment and pain.

Winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Best Screenplay at Cannes, Lee Chang-dong's POETRY is a “tour de force” that presents an “extraordinary vision of human empathy” (The New York Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Poetry

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A group of scientists on the hunt for fossilized evidence of aquatic creatures in the Amazon get more than they bargained for when a mysterious “Gill-man” starts terrorizing the expedition. While the men chase after this strange new discovery, the beautiful Kay Lawrence (Julia Adams) in thrown into grave peril.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by author Alan Rode and editor Mitch Danton, son of actor Julie Adams In celebration of Julie Adams’ 100th birthday

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 3D

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

You’re in for a devil of a time when three outlandishly wild witches—Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy—return from 17th-century Salem after they’re accidentally conjured up by some unsuspecting pranksters. It’s a night full of zany fun and comic chaos once the tricky 300-year-old trio set out to cast a spell on the town and reclaim their youth…but first they must get their act together and outwit three kids and a talking cat. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

WHALEFALL

7:30 PM

Imitation of Life

Pinky

Man Trouble

The Man Who Came Back

7:30 PM

BIRD IN HAND

7:00 PM

BUMPKIN SOUP

10:00 PM

Who Killed Teddy Bear?

In the Cut

7:30 PM

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

7:30 PM

Candyman

7:30 PM

Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell/Genocide

2:00 PM

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother 35mm