JAMUARY MIDNIGHTS!

ROCK OUT ON SOME JAMUARY MIDNIGHTS!

Friday 6 - Rock and Roll Nightmare / presented by Synapse Films
Saturday 7 - Hard Rock Zombies / presented by Vintage Home Entertainment
Friday 13 - New Wave Hookers / presented by Franny's Filthy Fridays
Saturday 14 -  Chatterbox! / presented by Horror Boobs
Friday 20 - Spectacle Goes Skinnydipping 
Saturday 21 - America's Deadliest Home Video / presented by Lunchmeat VHS Fanzine
Friday 27 - Surf II: The End of the Trilogy / presented by Junk Food Dinner
Saturday 28 - Choices: The Movie / presented by Kissing Contest Podcast

A band (The Tritons), their girlfriends, and roadies hole up in an old farmhouse to record their greatest album. Little do they know the farm holds a dark secret and as the band begins to play, horrible creatures come out of the woodwork and dispatch of the intruders one by one. 

Written by and starring Jon Michel Thor, ROCK N' ROLL NIGHTMARE is our Canadian, jawdropping jump-off to our midnight music series. Puppets and buckets of fake blood once again share the stage with hair metal and ballads that only the late 80's could barf up. All this combined with, without hyperbole, one of the most brain-melting endings to a film of all time ensure a proper start to a month of musical mayhem at the Spectacle. So, start shaking that aqua-net, take a cheese-grater to those acid-washed jeans and join us for an ear-splitting good time.

Courtesy of Synapse Films (synapsefilms.com)

The town of Grand Guiginol (seriously) hosts a touring rock band who's lead singer falls in love with a local girl, Cassie. A series of disturbing discoveries and even worse encounters with the inhabitants of the town, lead the band to a ghastly end. Can Cassie find a way to bring them back and save her from the town full of werewolves, nazis, killer hicks, bloodthirsty dwarves, and Hitler himself?

Round two in a weekend celebration of horror and heavy metal excess! HARD ROCK ZOMBIES makes for an excellent companion piece to the previous nights ROCK N' ROLL NIGHTMARE. Raise a Black Label and cheer as metal conquers all! Presented courtesy of Vintage Home Entertainment.

Friday /  January 13th, Midnight
New Wave Hookers (presented by Franny's Filthy Fridays)
Directed by Gregory Dark 
(produced by The Dark Brothers)
83min, English

It's 1985. Two burned out slackers fantasize about how wicked it would be to start pimping out young girls using the sound of New Wave music to program them into sex-crazy, headphone-wearing floozies. 

A loving tribute to the era by the infamous Dark Brothers, this film sparked a parade of sequels in the wake of the underage Traci Lords scandal. All evidence of her involvement in this film was omitted, but the memory of her role dressed as a hot horny devil lives on forever.

With a soundtrack dominated by The Plugz hit song, "Electrify Me", as well as an all star female cast, including porn-princess Ginger Lynn, New Wave Hookers shamelessly flaunts all stereotypical attributes of the 80's scene from teased up-dos and trashy pastels to mod glasses and yellow vinyl jump suits… 

Things start getting a bit problematic for Penelope when her vagina begins to voice it's own opinion. When she visits a shrink about her singing pussy, he convinces her to embrace it's talent and become a star.  Will Penelope ever be able to find true love while living in the shadow of her popular private parts? Not if she can't zip her lips!

Horror Boob's throws you another curve ball for this month's musical midnights with 1977's Chatterbox... It speaks for itself. Directed by Tom DeSimone who brought us many mammary filled memories with classics such as REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS and HELL NIGHT, and staring eager to show her beaver Candice Rialson of PETS and HOLLYWOOD BLVD fame.  The Tit Patrol couldn't possibly keep this goofy take on France's 1975 film PUSSY TALK concealed so prepare to bare witness to the genital insanity that is Chatterbox.   

Horror Boobs is a collective devoted to bringing you the best in breasts from genre cinema! horrorboobs.com

On January 20th at midnight Spectacle will go SKINNY DIPPING. All of the films selected will focus on naked people swimming - that carefree, sun-kissed past time that is part of everyone's collective memory - who hasn't at some point dropped trow and plunged in with a group of friends, a lover, your mom and dad? What better time then during the middle of the bone-chilling, balls freezing winter months to warm up at Spectacle watching images of bodies swimming underwater, splashing, laughing and soaking up the sun. Shrug off that heavy winter coat, and everything else while you're at it, and let's tell winter to stick it where the sun don't shine! 

Titles include:
- Summer Snapshot, dir. Ian McCluskey (Super 8mm, 10 min.)
- Drink Deep, dir. Jem Cohen (Super 8mm, 10 min.)
- Afloat, dir. Erin Hudson (16mm, 5 min.)
- Clips from Ecstasy (1933), Tarzan and His Mate (1934) and MORE!

A lovelorn man, Doug (played by Danny Bonaduce pre-steroids!), and his trusty VHS video camera set out on an adventure across country, but when he runs into a gang of miscreant criminals, Doug finds himself wrapped in a slimy web of robbery, murder and sadism. Will Doug survive these misanthropic thugs and their suicidal lifestyle?! Will he get the girl?! Will he run out of batteries?! 

"ADHV doesn't just set itself apart from fictionalized documentary films; it stands as a brilliant anomaly in the SOV arena. . . Jack Perez has created a cinematic gem with ADHV. . . a clever and and exceedingly resourceful flick that shows both filmmakers and film fans alike that with the right story and proper presentation, budget is of little consequence." Josh Schafer - Lunchmeat

Lunchmeat VHS Fanzine is a print magazine tribute to the VHS medium. More information available at: lunchmeatvhs.com Issue #6 now available at Spectacle Theater!

You guys know how much nerds and surfers hate each other, right? Well, Menlo (a nerd) hates surfers. He hates them so much he concocts Buzz Cola! A fiendish soda that turns surfers into horrible, mutant, zombies! Can Jocko and his surfer pals put a stop to this before the collective mellow is officially harshed? Peppered by a soundtrack featuring Oingo Boingo, The Stray Cats, Circle Jerks, Split Enz, and more - SURF II is a wave you'll want to catch again and again! If you're concerned that you haven't seen SURF I, don't worry - it doesn't exist! Join Junk Food Dinner and Spectacle as we hang ten in the dead of winter!

Junk Food Dinner is a weekly podcast devoted to cult cinema in all of it's many forms.junkfooddinner.com

Before Three 6 Mafia were winning Oscars, they were directing, writing and starring in their own movie! Choices: The Movie focuses your run of the mill moral dilemmas and hood problems in Memphis, TN that we've all dealt with at one time or another. It is entirely possible that this film would have won the Palme D'or at Cannes in 2001 if it had been entered, but unfortunately it wasn't. If it's any consolation, I guarentee you it will win the Palme D'or of your hearts.

Following up the sold out (and then some) success of their first midnight event in December, Kissing Contest returns to present another classic of our time. Kissing Contest is a Brooklyn based comedy podcast about movies and television. 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.