Looking for an amazing night out idea to share with your significant others or friends? We have the perfect Tuesday and Wednesday Movie Night Event for you. The Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn has a plethora of film riches for your entertainment. “Terror Tuesday” and “Weird Wednesday” will have lineups boasting a decadent amount of too-muchness.
TERROR TUESDAY
TENACLES – Tuesday, May 15th, 9:30PM
A must for any animal-attacks movie enthusiast, Ovidio Assonitis’s TENTACLES is a flagrant JAWS knock-off with undeniable flare. Some of that flare comes in the outsize casting of Shelley Winters, John Huston, and Henry Fonda, and in the synthesized soundtrack by Stelvio Cipriani, recycled from his score for THE GREAT KIDNAPPING (and later given a cameo in Quentin Tarantino’s DEATH PROOF). There is some stylish photography, including inexplicable freeze-frames and a dexterous use of Cousteau-like underwater shots to capture ominous glimpses that never reveal too much of the oceanic beast. TENTACLES is a highly entertaining hodgepodge movie that stuffs its casing with a zesty mix of left over parts – it may never be critically acclaimed, but there are those who will thrill to its peculiar flavor. Hosted by Rebecca Cleman (Director of Distribution, Electronic Arts Intermix).
Dir. Ovidio G. Assonitis
Starring: Henry Fonda, John Huston, Shelley Winters
1977 | 102 MIN | PG | 35MM
THE FLY (1986) Tuesday, May 22nd, 9:30PM
There will never be a better love story than the one between David Cronenberg and this movie. A natural progression from Cronenberg’s early body-barf classics like SHIVERS and RABID, THE FLY is a head-on collision between technology, sex, and the mutations that result in the aftermath. Ultra-nerd Jeff Goldblum has discovered the secret to teleportation. With the love of partner Geena Davis, Goldblum’s science takes him where no human has gone before — and he pays the price. Transforming the stuffy constraints of the original 1950s movie into a 1980s body-melt masterpiece, THE FLY is a showcase for unbelievable monster effects and an unleashed Geena Davis, who fights for pro-choice and lots of other things that women should never have to fight for. There’s also a scene where Jeff Goldblum hugs a baboon. Hosted by Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn’s Mike Sampson.
Dir. David Cronenberg
Starring: Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, John Getz
1986 | 96 MIN | R | 35MM
HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY Tuesday, May 29th @9:30PM
In New York, Dr. Norman Boyle assumes the research about Dr. Freudstein of his colleague Dr. Petersen, who committed suicide after killing his mistress. Norman heads to Boston with his wife Lucy Boyle and their son Bob to live in an isolated house in the woods that belonged to Dr. Petersen. Bob befriends the girl Mae that only he can see and she warns him to leave the house. Soon his parents hire the mysterious babysitter Ann and creepy things happen in the house, When Bobby goes to the basement, his parents discover the secret of the house. Hosted by writer/programmer David Savage.
Dir. Lucio Fulci
Starring: Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco
1981 | 86 MIN | R | 35MM
WEIRD WEDNESDAY
SPELLCASTER Wednesday, May 9th, 9:30PM
Don’t let the 1992 release date fool you – SPELLCASTER is pure 80s cheese with an Adam Ant cherry on top. RockTV’s hosting a rockin’ million-dollar treasure hunt, and seven lucky teens from around the globe are headed to mysterious Castle Diaboli to compete for the prize. Aging VJ Rex has his hands full wrangling the hard partying pop star along for the ride (Bunty Bailey, finally freed from the comic strip in A-Ha’s Take On Me video), and the contestants run the full range of venality.
Written by frequent Stuart Gordon collaborators Ed Naha (CHUD II, HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS) and Dennis Paoli (DAGON, RE-ANIMATOR), SPELLCASTER combines the former’s goofiness and the latter’s love of latex-laden creatures into a tale of punished peccability. Ant’s unsubtly-named Señor Diablo manipulates the contestants like an absentee Willy Wonka, using the check as bouncing ball of death – where it lands trouble follows, usually in the form of a rubber-suited monster attack. Everyone’s willing to strike a devil’s deal to win the prize, but they might be bargaining more than they realize in SPELLCASTER. Hosted by programmer Danielle Burgos.
Dir. Rafal Zielinski
Starring: Adam Ant, Bunty Bailey
1992 | 83 MIN | R | 35MM
DREDD 3D Wednesday, May 16th, 9:30PM
The current era of genre film has offered us few gems as lean and mean as 2012’s DREDD 3D. Featuring a gimmick that would make William Castle smile, when a drug called “Slo-Mo” is taken by characters on screen the action shifts into psychedelic 3D slow motion. Lena Headey OWNS this movie as a villainous drug lord! Hosted by writer Michael Gingold.
Dir. Pete Travis
Starring: Karl Urban, Lena Headey, Olivia Thirlby
2012 | 96 MIN | R
JACK AND JILL Wednesday, May 23rd, 9:30PM
“What’s Skype? It sounds anti-semitic!” Are we ready to embrace the lunacy of Adam Sandler’s JACK AND JILL? With the Dunkaccino commercial in heavy circulation, whether or not you’ve seen the full movie, we think it is time to share it together. There are plenty of comedies in which family members barely endure each other, but few are as crass and utterly bizarre as this. The studio sheen and relentless product placement make it even more surreal, but somehow it adds up to be one of the funniest of Sandler’s movies, often recalling the most outrageous Jerry Lewis comedies. There is a cockatoo named Poopsie, a secret twin language that is a call-back to Jean-Piere Gorin’s POTO AND CABENGO, and, best of all, Al Pacino as himself, who plays the absurdity so straight, making it even more hilarious. He sings, he dances, he goes incognito in a beard at a Lakers game. Is it possible to watch this movie and not have a blast? Hosted by Alamo Programmer Cristina Cacioppo.
Dir. Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes
2011 | 90 MIN | PG | 35MM
FREAKED Wednesday, May 30th @9:30PM
Selling out for millions, pompous sitcom star Ricky Coogan (Alex Winter, of BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE fame) accepts a shady gig to promote a controversial fertilizer in South America. Along with his goofy buddy and an environmental activist, the trio takes an unfortunate detour to the amusement park Freek Land, where wicked proprietor Elijah C. Skuggs (Randy Quaid) transforms them into carny-show monsters using the same toxic chemical Ricky’s shilling for. Co-starring Mr. T as a bearded lady, Oscar nominee John Hawkes as a half-cow humanoid, an unrecognizably furry Keanu Reeves as “Ortiz the Dog Boy,” and screen icon Brooke Shields as the most shocking of them all, this manically demented 1993 comic fantasy begs the question: how the hell did this get made in Hollywood? Hosted by Aaron Hillis.
Dirs. Alex Winter, Tom Stern
Starring: Alex Winter, Brooke Shields, Randy Quaid
1993 | 86 MIN | PG-13 | 35MM
