THE IRON GIANT

LADY SNOWBLOOD

LIVE GUESTS
Joe Bob Briggs Presents:
CLASS OF 1984 (1982, 35mm)
Introduced by midnight movie icon Joe Bob Briggs!
The year is 1984. A rabid pack of rampaging punk teens run
our schools, our drugs and our prostitutes. Brutality and
decadence are everywhere. Enter first-year teacher Andrew
Norris (Perry King), whos forced to violently turn the tables on
the bloodthirsty gang before their trashwave swallows the town
alive. Relentlessly seedy, overflowing with assault, suicide, racism, drug use and crime crime crime, all of which is perpetrated
by minors, CLASS OF 1984 is a perfect exploitation film! The
tension of victimization and vengeance create some of the most
stirring scenes of violent retribution on record. But beyond all
this, theres a bitterly absorbing air of human helplessness and
leather-clad heartlessness that makes this movie the flat-out best
in its genre.

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Video Vortex:
BAD MAGIC

Girlie Night:
SIXTEEN CANDLES

Prints of Darkness:
PRINCE OF DARKNESS

Best of NY Childrens Film

Festival: KID FLIX 1

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Fantastic Fest:
LADY SNOWBLOOD

Girlie Night:
BRIDESMAIDS
Champagne Party

Joe Bob Briggs Presents:

CLASS OF 1984

SELMA

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Victory Screening: THE WIZ

Temple of Schlock:
FLYING MASTERS OF
KUNG FU

IP MAN 3

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Monday Night Thread Up:

HOWARD THE DUCK

THE IRON GIANT

THE IRON GIANT

EVIL DEAD
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Schedule is subject to change, and more events may be added. Always check our website for the most up to date information.

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DRAFTHOUSE REGULARS

Video Vortex: BAD MAGIC (1997)

There are regular movies. And then there is BAD MAGIC.
Produced by underground superheroes Mark and John Polonia
as part of a distribution deal with Blockbuster Video (!), this
invigorating D.I.Y. dream-blast breaks new ground in sidestepping reality. Amos is shot in cold blood by a gang called The
Red Claws, who look like team members of the paint department at Home Depot.
Naturally, Amoss brother, Renny, summons a demon named
Blahkeeblahkay to enact his gore-soaked revenge. Death by voodoo doll! Death by the undead! And in a cinematic first, death
by toilet paper!! With its unexpected tone shifts, collage-like
structure, and effects that were probably rendered on an Apple
IIe computer, BAD MAGIC is a special kind of cinematic
discovery that only occurs once or twice every five-thousand
years. Its also the only movie in history with a credit that reads,
Voodoo Consultant by Dr. Ishmeial Atuki.
Temple of Schlock:
FLYING MASTERS OF KUNG FU (1979, 35mm)
Rare 35mm screening presented by the American Genre Film
Archive! Introduced by Temple of Schlocks Chris Poggiali.
Expect to see a whole lotta kung fu, but not much flying, as
QUEEN BOXER star Judy Lee -- wearing a bone through her
hair like Pebbles Flintstone -- sets out to find her fathers killers,
and quickly realizes theyve framed her for the crime. Along the
way she encounters Taiwanese knock-offs of the One-Armed
Swordsman and Golden Swallow, as well as a guy called Lord
Ku who shoots silver skulls from his shoulders. Dont miss the
chance to see a rare widescreen 35mm presentation of this old
school kung fu flick, which Pebbles would probably describe as
a Yabba Dabba Doozy!
Monday Night Thread-up:
HOWARD THE DUCK (1986, 35mm)
Back in 1986, Lucasfilm and Universal thought that it would be
a good idea to bring an anthropomorphic duck named Howard
to screen in live-action glory. Hes a private eye! He talks! He
carries condoms made for ducks! Somehow, the powers at be,
thought there was a recipe for success here. And they were right.
HOWARD THE DUCK is typically regarded as a flop and as a
completely misguided attempt at giving children a talking duck
movie. But its bigger than that.
HOWARD THE DUCK straddles the line between careful
adaptation and a re-imagining of a property as something
decidedly different (and perhaps much more adult) than its
source material would suggest. Its not every day that you get a
studio produced comic book movie from the director of
MESSIAH OF EVIL, the creator of STAR WARS and features
a cigar chomping duck who thinks hes Sam Spade and has a
lust for human women. Cherish it. Itll never happen again.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

LIVE GUESTS AND OTHER SURPRISES

Fantastic Fest Presents:

LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973)
Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya
Fujitas stunning LADY SNOWBLOOD. A major inspiration
for Quentin Tarantinos Kill Bill saga, this endlessly inventive
film, set in late nineteenth-century Japan, charts the singleminded path of vengeance taken by a young woman (Meiko
Kaji) whose parents were the unfortunate victims of a gang of
brutal criminals. Fujita creates a wildly entertaining action film
of remarkable craft, an effortless balancing act between beauty
and violence.

Girlie Night:
BRIDESMAIDS Champagne Party (2011)
In the movie that set the standard for women-driven comedy
(not to mention bridal showers), Kristin Wiig shines as Annie,
a woman tasked with the most daunting challenge known to
womenkind: serving as the maid of honor. Shes a hot mess, but
shes a lovable hot mess, and its impossible not to root for her,
even as she falls prey to an over-achieving nemesis (Rose Byrne),
a noncommittal douchebag (Jon Hamm) and a motley crew of
bridesmaids, including Melissa McCarthy in her most hilarious
role to date.

Prints of Darkness:
PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987, 35mm)
To begin the new year of Prints of Darkness, what better to
show than itsnamesake movie? Donald Pleasence fromdirector John Carpenters HALLOWEEN and BIG TROUBLEs
Victor Wong star as, respectively,a priest and a universityprofessor who team with a group of the latters students to try to
unlockthe secrets of a large canisterunearthed in a church basement that may contain the liquid essence of thedevil himself.
The result ispossession, bizarre dreams, bloody confrontations,
a cameo by Alice Cooper(who also sings the end-credits song)
as a malevolent street person and more, set to one ofCarpenters
most chilling scores.Shot in moody widescreen, PRINCE OF
DARKNESS is a creepy highlight ofCarpenters filmography;
comeexperience its terrors in 35mm on the big screen!

We wont have puppy party favors (sorry), but your ticket

includes champagne (if youre 21 or over, otherwise you get
Helens pink lemonade instead) in a flute that you can use to
toast over and over again, then take home! So slip on your most
heinous bridesmaid dress and join us for an evening of hilarious
awkwardness (quoting along is encouraged), bodily disfunction
and a little Wilson Phillips karaoke.

Girlie Night: SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984)

Beneath the comic exaggerations and sweet romanticism, the
ordinary geeks in his films all gave me the same life-changing
advice: Prepare for the worst, but dont stop hoping for the
best. And no character exemplifies this wisdom better than
Samantha Baker in SIXTEEN CANDLES.
Whenever I had a particularly rough day in school, or an
extremely awkward encounter with my unrequited crush, I
always reminded myself that Samantha had it worse. Like, did a
freshman guy ever try to dance with me while spastically yelling,
Very hot! Very hot! Um, no. Did my entire family ever forget
my birthday? No way! Did my grandmother ever feel me up?
HECK NO. Samantha, on the other hand, endured all of that
crap (and more!) and she STILL got to kiss the hottest senior
over a tasty birthday cake in his fancy house. In celebration of
those tiny (yet monumental) teenage triumphs over adversity
and awkwardness, join us for this 80s-tastic Girlie Night screening, where well pass sex test notes, stare obsessively at Jake Ryan
and toast to the wonderful legacy of John Hughes.
Victory Screening: THE WIZ (1978)
A free screening for Victory members only!
Sign up by 1/17 to receive an invitation to attend.
This beloved musical brings together legends Michael Jackson
and Diana Ross for a retelling of the WIZARD OF OZ story.
This time Oz looks a lot like a bizarro New York City, and The
Wiz is played by Richard Pryor!

EVIL DEAD Double Feature (1983)

NECA will have their Evil Dead 2 product line on display in the
lobby along with the public debut of the brand new Ash vs Evil
Dead toy line based on the current hit Starz series, plus giveaways
for a few lucky audience members!
Watch Sam Raimis horror classic THE EVIL DEAD and his
sequel/remake horror-comedy EVIL DEAD II back-to-back!
Whether youre a rabid gore nut or the wimpy old Pope, youre
well aware that the most monumental horror series of the 20th
Century is THE EVIL DEAD trilogy. Big-time filmmaker Sam
Raimi and big-chin actor Bruce Campbell knocked out their
baby teeth on these movies, heading deep into the woods to
scare up massively effective shocks on a miniscule budget. And
when the first EVIL DEAD hit theaters, horror cinema was
altered forever.
Now THE EVIL DEAD has risen again to tear apart the big,
big screen! Join not-quite-fearless warrior Ash in a fluid-soaked
chainsaw-wielding battle with undead demonoids who possess,
violate and kill using methods that would make Satan himself
blush! Its the fright film that reinvented nightmares for an
entire generation, and its bigger, bloodier and backer than ever
to tear your skull out through your eye sockets!
IP MAN 3 (2015)
Donnie Yen (upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2) ignites the screen in a
return to the role that made him an icon - as Ip Man, the reallife Wing Chun grandmaster who mentored Bruce Lee. In this
explosive third installment of the blockbuster martial arts series,
when a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer (Mike Tyson) make a play to take over the city, Master
Ip is forced to take a stand. Fists will fly as some of the most
incredible fight scenes ever filmed play out on the big screen in
this soon-to-be genre classic.

SPECIAL EVENTS

LIVE GUESTS AND OTHER SURPRISES

THE IRON GIANT (1999)

In October of 1957, America had plenty to be worried about.
Rock n roll. Television. The bomb. In the small town of Rockwell, Maine, Annie Hughes is just worried about putting supper
on the table for herself and her nine-year-old son, Hogarth.
A single mother holding down a job at the local diner, Annie
has her hands full with Hogarth, headstrong and imaginative,
always on the lookout for the latest attempted takeover by
mutant aliens or subversive invaders. So when a local fisherman
comes into the diner with a tall tale about a huge metal man
falling into the sea, the only one to pay him much attention is
Hogarth, who sets out exploring to find the enormous robot.
What he does find is a 50-foot giant with an insatiable appetite
for metal and a childlike curiosity about its new world.
Best of NY Childrens Film Festival: KID FLIX 1
Featuring audience favorite and award-winning short films
hand-picked from the annual NY International Childrens Film
Festival, the Best of the Fest Tour offers new alternative and
independent content for families. Join the movement to create
a more dynamic film culture for children and teens! BEST OF
THE FEST: KID FLIX 1 is a 60 minute collection of animated
short films great for ages 3 to 8.
MLK Day: Free screening of SELMA (2014)
Join us for a screening of SELMA to honor Dr. Kings legacy on
Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
In 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr fresh from winning the
Nobel Peace Prize -- and the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference embarked on a campaign of civil disobedience to
call attention to these tactics. Operating out of the Alabama
town of Selma, King rallied his activists for a march to the state
capital of Montgomery, where they would confront Wallace.
Along the way, Kings resolve would be tested when FBI
director J. Edgar Hoover released secretly recorded tapes that
threatened to tarnish his image and shatter his marriage to
Coretta Scott King.
Action Pack: MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY
GRAIL Quote-along (1975)
Thats right, one of the greatest and most quotable movies of all
time is getting the quote-along treatment and you can be there
for all its sword fighting, coconut clomping glory at the Alamo
Drafthouse!
As always well have the best lines subtitled karaoke style for
your quoting pleasure as well as some of the silliest songs you
can hope to sing. Well also have swords for everyone, coconut
halves for you to bring your imaginary horses to life and a test
of will, dexterity and might prior to the show to recruit some
brave knights to our cause (dont go second guessing your
favorite colors now).