Midnight Movies Mar 29

The Shining

Special midnight screening on opening night of doc Room 237!

All work and no play makes blocked novelist cum hotel caretaker Jack Nicholson a raging, murderous psychopath in Kubrick’s mordantly funny, genuinely terrifying horror classic.

The Apple

Screening hosted by NYC's Apple Super-Fan!

Schlockmeister Menahem Golan’s futuristic rock-musical retelling of the Book of Genesis—the smash hit of our 2010 Cannon Films tribute series—returns for more midnight mayhem!

The Devils

A sexually repressed nun (fiercely played by Vanessa Redgrave) accuses a priest (Oliver Reed) of communing with the devil in Ken Russell’s always controversial cult classic, the smash hit of our 2010 in-person Russell retrospective!

The Entity

A single mother (Barbara Hershey) is repeatedly visited, overpowered and sexually assaulted by an invisible being or force in this notorious, harrowing, deeply disturbing shocker.

The Evil Dead

If you’re a fan of Joss Whedon’s Cabin in the Woods, it’s time to go back to the source and (re)acquaint yourself with Sam Raimi’s ultimate cult splatter movie.

Evil Dead II

Sam Raimi lets his imagination run completely wild in this Evil Dead sequel cum remake in which an incantation from a copy of the Necronomicon “Book of the Dead” causes all hell to quite literally break loose.

The Funhouse

Texas Chain Saw Massacre director and Midnight Movies regular Tobe Hoooper delivers the scares in a carnival setting this time, as four randy teenagers spending the night in a funhouse ride are trapped and stalked by a deformed killer.

The House by the Cemetery

Original uncut version!

The basement of a New England house hides a gruesome secret in the concluding chapter of splatter king Lucio Fulci’s unofficial “Gates of Hell” trilogy.

Lifeforce

London is overrun by rampaging, energy-sucking zombies from space in this spectacular, deliriously over-the-top, sexed-up, and compulsively watchable sci-fi romp.

Logan’s Run

The residents of a domed, 23rd-century paradise look great and live for pleasure... but die a mandatory death at age 30 in this trippy 70s sci-fi classic.

Lost Highway

Patricia Arquette plays a femme fatale and her double, Bill Pullman inexplicably turns into Bathazaar Getty, Robert Blake is a freakish Mystery Man, Robert Loggia an over the top gangster, Trent Reznor does the music, and Marilyn Manson plays a porn star. Are you in?

Night of the Comet

Watch the skies: when the earth passes through the tail of a comet, a handful of non-zombie survivors band together to survive the apocalyptic aftermath in this unabashedly ‘80s doomsday pastiche.

The Night Porter (CANCELLED)

Unfortunately, this screening has been cancelled. 

Reunited by chance, a Holocaust survivor (Charlotte Rampling) and a former SS officer (Dirk Bogarde) resume their sadomasochistic romance 13 years after the end of the war. Break out the chains and broken glass!

Q

Director Larry Cohen in person!

Detective David Carradine is on the case when a winged Aztec serpent nests atop the Chrysler building and begins wreaking havoc on the streets of New York in this one-of-a-kind gem from the one and only Larry Cohen.

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert

Restored 35mm print!

The definitive record of a legendary American comedy phenomenon at the height of his powers. Richard Pryor: Live in Concert © 1979 Gary Biller, print courtesy of Gary Biller.

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

Three years after the seminal Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (a past Midnight Movies selection), and two after setting himself on fire while freebasing, the comic genius returned for another extraordinary filmed concert performance.

Santa Sangre

A disturbed young man raised in a circus “stars” as his armless mother’s missing limbs in a macabre stage show--and off-stage too--in this one-of-a-kind surrealist masterpiece by the legendary Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World

A young Canadian musician (Michael Cera) must battle it out with his new girlfriend’s seven nefarious ex-boyfriends before they can live happily ever after in director Edgar Wright’s wildly original comic-book romance.

Silent Night, Deadly Night

A young boy who witnessed his parents’ murder at the hands of an axe-wielding Santa grows up to become a deranged killer himself in the notorious ‘80s shocker that so outraged family groups, the film’s original distributor pulled it from cinemas after only a week.

Slither

In the most sensationally scary-funny creep-out movie since Gremlins, an army of extraterrestrial slugs hitches a ride on an asteroid, crash-lands in the sleepy, deer-hunting hamlet of Wheelsy, South Carolina, and sets about feasting on the local population.

The Song Remains the Same

Rock out to Led Zeppelin live at Madison Square Garden at the height of their majestic glory (read: self-indulgent bombast); wince at the even more self-indulgent fantasy sequences; gape in awe at Robert Plant’s chest hair and Jimmy Page’s strung-out guitar pyrotechnics. It’s July 1973: Does anybody remember laughter?

Starship Troopers

A wickedly satirical intergalactic-war spectacle in which a cast of plastic Aryan ciphers battle the “bug” inhabitants of planet Klendathu. With its delirious Nazi stylings and berserk scenes of over-the-top carnage, this may be the most insane and decadent action spectacle ever made.

Star Wars Uncut

For this crowdsourced, shot-by-shot fan-film remake of George Lucas’ Episode IV – A New Hope, 473 volunteers reshot or animated their assigned 15-second sections as they saw fit. The result is one of the Internet’s true cinematic wonders.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

In one of the truly defining films of the American independent horror movie renaissance of the 1970s, death by meathook, sledgehammer, and chainsaw await five unwary kids on a road trip at the hands of good old Leatherface.

Vampire’s Kiss

Nicolas Cage gives a wildly original, career-crowning performance in this pitch-perfect, pitch-black comedy about a Manhattan literary agent who believes he’s turning into a vampire.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

David Lynch’s widely misunderstood “prequel” to his 1990-91 cult TV smash Twin Peaks was jeered at Cannes, belatedly hailed as a masterpiece, and is guaranteed to inspire nightmares.

Wolfen

In this visually stunning and underrated eco-shocker, the murder of a millionaire property developer puts New York cop Albert Finney on a trail that leads from the skyscrapers of Wall Street to the slum wastelands of the Bronx—where highly-evolved predators stalk human prey.