Friday / February 3rd, Midnight Rocktober Blood (aka Rockill) Directed by Beverly Sebastian 93min, USA, 1984
BANNED IN AUSTRALIA! Written and directed by the husband and wife team of Ferd and Beverly Sebastian, ROCKTOBER BLOOD is a whirlwind of buzzsaw riffs, cat screams, speaker destruction, and, naturally, buckets of blood! Consider this the hidden track at the end of our month of musical mayhem. The pressures of stardom can be too much for some. For Billy, the weight is crushing. The result? A murderous rampage that leaves 25 dead and his girlfriend, Lynn, wounded. Once she recovers, she becomes instrumental in sending Billy to the electric chair. For Lynn, life goes on. She works out, bathes, works out some more and, of course, takes over as lead singer of Headmistress. Not content to rot in the pits of Hell, Billy returns to bring vengeance to his former love and bandmates in an insane blood-soaked finale!Join Spectacle in sending out our music midnight month in a blaze of metal and gore! And get a taste of the film's outrageous tunes with a copy of the soundtrack that you can download here.
Saturday / Feb. 4th, Midnight
Midnight Spectacle Midnights presents:
SHE (dir. Avi Nesher, 1982, Italy, 106 min.)
In the world after The Cancellation, Tom must resuce his sister from the clutches the Norks and their leader Hector (Gordon Mitchell). Aided by the goddess SHE (Sandahl Bergman - HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN, RED SONJA, CONAN THE BARBARIAN), Tom must face a gauntlet of fantastic challenges and go up against creatures great and small to rescue his sister and stay alive in the process. Werewolves sporting togas? Mutants with chainsaws? Psychic communists? Sandahl Bergman? Now this is the kind of post-apocalyptic world we can get behind. Join Spectacle Midnights and learn to love again. Bring your sister!Sandahl Bergman swordfighting:
Friday / Feb. 10th, Midnight
Franny's Filthy Fridays presents: Auto-stoppeuses en chaleur (a/k/a HITCHHIKER GIRLS IN HEAT!) (dir: Claude Bernard-Aubert,1979. 77min.) (Dubbed in Eloquent American English, sorry Francophonophiles.)
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Charmingly simplistic, this little gem from L'age D'or du X follows the auto-erotic exploits of a vacationing Francois and the plethora of voluptuous vagabonds he picks up along the road.
A few crummy motels and pit-stops later, this exhausting journey gets revved up in a steamy climax with Brigitte Lahaie.
Saturday / Feb. 11th, Midnight
Lunchmeat VHS Fanzine presents:
GIRLFRIEND FROM HELL (dir. Daniel M. Peterson, 1989, 107 mins.)
Dana Ashbrook (TWIN PEAKS) is Chaser, an angel with a dirty face sent to Earth to track down none other than Satan (Lezlie Deane - FREDDY'S DEAD, 976-EVIL) herself. In order to hide out, Satan jumps into the body and mind of the nerdy Maggie (Liane Curtis - ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL FOREVER, BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET, SIXTEEN CANDLES) and, brother, things get real weird real fast. Maggie gets sexed up and crazy and (literally) tears through every boy in town. Can Chaser catch up in time and prevent more carnage and hilarity?Lunchmeat presents this ofter overlooked romantic cult comedy to have and to hold. More information available at lunchmeatvhs.com. Issue #6 available now at Spectacle Theater!Trailer:
Influenced by the horror classic Carrie and the 1980 slasher favorite Prom Night, Beauty Queen Butcher rips a bloody page from the book of 'high school horror.' Camp Motion Pictures presents this shocking SOV! Phyllis Loden is a shy, overweight teenager relentlessly picked on by the popular girls of her high school. To make matters worse, Phyllis has been entered into the local beauty queen pageant for the sole purpose of humiliating her in front of the entire school. The prank works to perfection, with the poor girl devastated by the cruel treatment of her classmates. But it becomes the final straw that pushes Phyllis over the edge and into a dark, bloody, vengeful place in her abused and shattered psyche. Armed with implements of slaughter, Phyllis hunts down the unsuspecting competitors one by one to make each of them pay in the most horrifying way. She'll have their pretty little heads…and wear the beauty queen crown.Trailer: (alternativecinema.com)
Saturday / Feb. 18th, Midnight
Horror Boobs presents:
WHITE FIRE (a/k/a Vivre pour survivre) (dir. Jean-Marie Pallardy, 1984, Turkey, 98 mins.)
The only living witnesses to their parents brutal murder when they were children, Bo and Ingrid have stuck together like glue their whole lives. Now gainfully employed at a diamond mine, and still filled with a childlike sense of mischief, the siblings stumble on the rarest diamond in the world - WHITE FIRE. Unfortunatley, some bad dudes were also happened to be looking for this particular diamond and the hunt is on. Horror Boobs continues their tradition of excellence with another sparkling presentation in our midnight series. Horror Boobs brings you the best in breasts from genre cinema! (horrorboobs.com)Trailer:
A classic tale of boy meets girl meets fire department. April Flowers (Michelle Meyrink - REVENGE OF THE NERDS, REAL GENIUS) has spent her entire life believing that sex is explosive - literally. Ever since she was young, her mother (Barbara Harris - PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED) has warner her against "going all the way" but an old flame has come back around and April has some hard decisions to make. How can April learn to love with the flames of passion engulfing everything around her? Junk Food Dinner presents this off-filter comedy about the lengths we go to protect the ones we love. Featuring an excellent cast including Wallace Shawn as a lovelorn arsonist named Ellen. Episode #77 (featuring NGDE): http://www.junkfooddinner.com/2011/09/jfd77.html Trailer: Cool song:
Saturday / Feb. 25th, Midnight
Kissing Contest Podcast presents:
TAMMY & THE T. REX (dir. Stewart Raffill, 1994, USA, 82 min.)
Michael and Tammy (Denise Richards - WILD THINGS, STARSHIP TROOPERS) should be making beautiful music together - except for one problem. Tammy's bully boyfriend Billy. One night, Billy and his goons chase Michael into the local wildlife sanctuary where he is promptly mauled by lions. After being taken to the hospital in a coma, Michael is declared dead by the mad doctor Wachenstein and his assistant so they can put his brain in a T. Rex they made. In a stunning turn of events, the thunder lizard escapes and wreaks havoc on the surrounding area while searching for his lost love. Mixing bits of FRANKENSTEIN, JURASSIC PARK, and lots of other stuff, TAMMY AND THE T. REX marks the 3rd presentation from Brooklyn's own Kissing Contest. Often misinformed and occasionally inaccurate, but always entertaining. Mike and Sawyer (along with Producer/Friend Doan) are your charming and handsome hosts; while their tastes in film vastly differ, they manage to meet somewhere in the middle after several hundred arguments per episode to bring you one of the greatest podcasts in the history of the universe. Find it at http://www.kissingcontestpodcast.com or search 'Kissing Contest' on itunes.
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