"FREAKY
FANTASY
FILMS" from
the 1980s!
FRIday,
AUGUST
8,
2008
at The Castro Movie theatre in San Francisco,
CA.
7:30pm
-
RETURN TO OZ (1985)
Directed
by Walter Murch,
Containing: Fairuza Balk, Piper Laurie
For anyone who didn't get to be absolutely traumatized by this so-called "kids" film on the big screen, here's your chance! Director Walter Murch (the
editor of APOCALYPSE NOW) pits Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) against electro-shock therapy, a horryifying gang called the "Wheelers" and a wicked witch (Piper Lauire) that has a collection of heads that she can try on for size anytime she wants. This disturbing and wildly invetntive sequel was the first film (along with INDAINA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM) to receive a PG-13 and has been unrightfully dismaissed for over 20 years! Beautiful 35mm print. Preceded by other kreepy-kids-flix trailers.
Playing with...
9:45pm
- BEETLEJUICE (1988)
Directed
by Tim Burton
Containing:
Winona Ryder,
Alec Baldwin,
Geena Davis,
Michael Keaton
Tim Burton's
updating of
the 1937 Cary
Grant vehicle
TOPPER, balances
gruesome humor,
bittersweet
love and wacky
antics to boot!
Alec Baldwin
and Geena Davis
flawlessly
play the newly-deads,
while Michael
Keaton's raunchy
breakout performance
and Winona
Ryder's spot-on
estranged goth-teen
gives this
laugh-fest
a lasting intelligence
that is just
begging to
be seen with
a packed, jovial
crowd! Beautiful
35mm print.
Preceded by
a handful of
80s trailers.
Playing with...
11:59pm
- MEET THE FEEBLES (1989)
Directed by Peter Jackson, Containing: The Cast of Spluppets = (Splatter Puppets)
Long ago, in
a time before
THE LORD OF
THE RINGS trilogy,
New Zealand
director Peter
Jackson created
this truly
freaky Muppet-esque
fantasy film
that left audiences
shocked and
offended. Low-budget
and mean-spirted
in all the
best ways,
these puppets
use heroin,
make porn in
the basement
and contract
HIV by having
unsafe sex.
Yet nothing
will prepare
you for the
amount blood
and guts that
a machine gun
toting, pissed
off female
hippo can achieve.
This homemade
horror flick
proves why
Jackson is
one of the
most inventive
filmmakers
of our time.
Do not miss
this RARE 35mm
print. Preceded
by other fucked-up
fantasy trailers.
COME
ON
PEOPLE...$10
for
ALL
FIVE
FILMS!
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