"PRE-CGI
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 terrifying
wicked
witch named
Mumby
who has a
collection
of heads that
she can try
on for size
anytime she
wants. This
disturbing
and wildly
inventive
sequel was
one of
the
first films
(along
with
INDIANA JONES
AND THE TEMPLE
OF DOOM) to
force the MPAA
into creating
a
PG-13 rating.
Come watch
the first screening
in San Francisco
since it was
unrightfully
dismissed,
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
and schizophrenic
dirty-old-man
performance
along with
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,
contract HIV,
in fact...
you
name
they
do it!
Yet nothing
will prepare
you for the
climatic amount
of 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.
Don't say I
didn't warn
you!
COME
ON
PEOPLE...$10
for
ALL
three
FILMS!
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