Demonwarp / Analog Sunday
This month, Magnetic Magic presents a zany video store classic of epic proportions. From the cryptozoic to the extraterrestrial with all the girls n' goop inbetween, we give you: Demonwarp!
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This month, Magnetic Magic presents a zany video store classic of epic proportions. From the cryptozoic to the extraterrestrial with all the girls n' goop inbetween, we give you: Demonwarp!
Orrin Grey and Magnetic Magic present a Friday the 13th Jinx Show featuring SUPERSTITION (presented on VHS!) A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants. From legendary producer Mario Kassar (FIRST BLOOD, TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY, TOTAL RECALL) SUPERSTITON is a Killer 80’s slasher with a supernatural twist.
Blurb goes hereGodzilla faces off against the benevolent insect monster-god Mothra in this clash of the titans, a crossover battle between two of Toho Studios’ most popular monsters—the last in which Godzilla would figure as a malevolent villain rather than a fearsome hero. Mothra vs. Godzilla marks a creative high point in the Godzilla series, with pointed social commentary from director Ishiro Honda, a masterful score by Akira Ifukube, and astonishing special-effects work by Eiji Tsuburaya.
Hope you're hungry, because we’re serving up a feast like no other with Peter Greenaway’s 1989 classic of food, class, violence and revenge. A wealthy gangster and his goons take over a fine dining restaurant to the displeasure of the staff and patrons, but things get complicated when the gangster’s wife falls for a fellow diner. Come for an all-timer turn by Michael Gambon, stay for a powerful Helen Mirren and a final course to remember.
The definitive hard-boiled noir, “The Big Sleep” pairs Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in a maze of blackmail, murder, and double-crosses. The plot famously defies logic, but that’s beside the point. What matters is the mood, the dialogue, and the sexually charged rapport between its real-life couple stars. Smart, cynical, and endlessly rewatchable, this is noir in its purist form.
THIS MONTH: In the spirit of thankfulness, we're opening up Video Void for a pot luck...a video pot luck! Instead of a night of video strangeness from your truly, we're slinging videos submitted by the video void faithful.
Gremlins kicked off a whole subgenre of movies about mean-spirited, gloppy little monsters, but such weird little guys have been with us throughout the ages, and they're what we're celebrating in the latest installment of our Year of Monsters film series. What movie are we showing? That's a surprise, but we'll give you a few hints: It's a sequel; it takes place in a carnival; and it's directed by someone with family ties to gribbly little monsters.
What is it? The only way to know for sure is to come join us for a FREE screening , then stick around after the show as Orrin and Tyler discuss their favorite diminutive monsters and hand out some oversized giveaways!
dir. Terence Fisher
1958 / 82 min / Digital Projection
Painstakingly restored in 4K from the best original archival materials sourced from around the world, this definitive restoration includes footage believed missing for over six decades — deemed too shocking for UK and US audiences at the time, and previously seen only during the film's original 1958 Japanese theatrical release.
Hammer Films' lavishly Gothic Technicolor take on Bram Stoker's novel (the first to give Dracula FANGS!) introduced audiences to a more gruesome and sexual vision than any before it, setting the stage for nearly every vampire film to follow. Featuring horror titans Peter Cushing as Dr. Van Helsing, and Christopher Lee in the title role that would propel him to international stardom as one of the most popular horror icons of all time.
Every Friday in October, a Stray Cat programmer chose a Fang Favorites to immortalize this holiday season. Prepare to feast on blood, seduction, and a whole lot of angst!
With the blessing of The Unarius Academy of Science, American Genre Film Archive and Andrew's Video Void are proud to present the first theatrical release of the truly spectacular DIY sci-fi lodestone, THE ARRIVAL to Kansas City! In the latter half of the 20th century, the Unariuns were on a radical mission to spread their “interdimensional science of life” and principles of past-life therapy via some of the most wildly inventive public access TV programming ever seen. The culmination of their philosophy is THE ARRIVAL, filmed on a shoestring budget with a time-bending plot, dazzling optical SFX, and a rousing synth score. THE ARRIVAL stands in luminous contrast to the overall darker, conspiratorial air of Eighties culture—and Unariuns claim the film serves as a catalyst to send viewers into transcended states of ecstasy.
A program of four newly commissioned videos that move through the afterlives of colonialism and the ongoing HIV epidemic.
What could have possessed us to continue our Year of the Monsters film series by showing a movie about demons in October? What movie, you ask? That's a surprise, but we'll give you a few hints: It's one of Orrin's favorites; it actually takes place in October (but not on Halloween); and it comes from a short story by M. R. James.
Animation Club presents a curated collection of spooky shorts just in time for Halloween! Classic to contemporary, goofy to grotesque.
Animation Club returns from the grave with a curated collection of spooky animated shorts just in time for Halloween! Classic to contemporary, goofy to grotesque: a little treat for everyone at this FREE screening!
Plus much, much more from the Void and a preshow featuring a hot-off the press digitization!
THIS MONTH @ THE VOID: While we celebrate all thing vampire, it’s only fitting that &drew explores the outskirts of bloodsucking delight with THE BARGAIN BIN VAMPIRE MIXTAPE, a mind melting collection of vampire clips from across media! It’s magical night of Shot-on-Video nightmares, commercial delights, and other assorted oddities.
Plus much, much more from the Void and a preshow featuring a hot-off the press digitization!
Dir. Ariane Louis-Seize / 2024 / 92 min / French w/ English subtitles
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks.
Every Friday in October, a Stray Cat programmer chose a Fang Favorite to immortalize this holiday season. Prepare to feast on blood, seduction, and a whole lot of angst!
On the margins of Tokyo, a family of outcasts is held together by love, loyalty, and petty theft.
Join us for the Kansas City premiere of The Vampires of New Orleans, a groundbreaking new docudrama combining Southern Gothic terror with investigations into the city's real-life folklore. Produced entirely locally by the dedicated filmmaking troupe behind the popular YouTube channel Atun-Shei Films, whose first feature The Sudbury Devil was lauded by Dread Central as the best independent horror film of 2023, this film rips away the tourist kitsch and tired literary tropes of the New Orleans vampire to reveal the seething historical injustices lurking just beneath the surface. The Vampires of New Orleans is a genuine epic of tortured Americana, featuring the rigorous research, cinematic flair, and punk rock sensibility that could only come from Atun-Shei Films. Includes a Q&A and meet-and-greet after the show with producer Veronika Payton
The first Iranian Vampire Western, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave. Amped by a mix of Iranian rock, techno and Morricone-inspired riffs, its airy, anamorphic, black-and-white aesthetic and artfully drawn-out scenes combine the simmering tension of Sergio Leone with the surrealism of David Lynch.
Watch your step! Magnetic Magic leads you back into the Video Graveyard to witness the annual resurrection of the Analog Sunday Halloween Double-Creature. This year, we're headin' back to the haunts with two trashy terrors from 2003: DARKWALKER & HALLOW'S END!
Follows five friends post-graduation as their bonds fray amid dashed hopes and inequality, set against Incheon's industrial landscape.Blurb goes here
As the “Disneyfication” of New York City takes root, a morbid grad student (Taylor) is bitten by a vampire seductress (Annabella Sciorra) and must navigate the shadows while tempering her growing addiction to blood. In the midst of his most prolific, hard-hitting burst of filmmaking (basically that whole decade), notorious provacateur Abel Ferrara (MS. 45, KING OF NEW YORK) crafted this loving portrait of New York and a hellish portrait of heroin filtered through the darkest poetic lens. Filmed beautifully in black and white, THE ADDICTION sees Ferrara on his own terms and at his very best: raw, shocking, intelligent, and masterful.
Sandusky, Ohio is hell on earth for goth misfits and Stevie Nicks superfans Gypsy Vale (Sara Rue) and her younger, queer protégée Clive Webb (Birkett Turton). When they discover a New York City club is hosting a “Night of 1000 Stevies”, the pair hit the road with high hopes that Gypsy will be able to perform. Along the way, they encounter other misfits who pave the way to their salvation, all while discovering profound truths about themselves. Costarring John Doe of the legendary punk band X and the great Karen Black as a has-been lounge singer, Todd Stephens's cult favorite puts a queer, outsider spin on both the road movie and the coming-of-age journey, with plenty of black eyeliner to spare.
A centuries-old vampire, capable of bestowing the gift of immortality on her lovers, and her current partner cruise New York City nightclubs to quench their thirst for blood.
A compassionate comedy played just a little off key. Andrew Bujalski brings his bumbling style to the world of a sports bar.
Prolific screenwriter-turned-director Carlos Enrique Taboada kicked off a "series of films that revitalized the genre" with this classic ghost story. "Taboada's films are some of the first to depict modern-day Mexico as the space of gothic horror," writes Kerry Hegarty. Even the Wind is Afraid's story of a haunting in a girls' boarding school not only helped to change the face of horror in Mexico, it also continues to inspire modern day directors, including Guillermo del Toro, who has cited Taboada as an influence. Also, let's be real, it has one of the best titles in horror history.
What are those glowing lights in the sky? They can only mean one thing: The Horror Pod Class is continuing our Year of Monsters by talking about aliens! What movie are we showing? That's a surprise, but we'll give you a few hints: It's British; it has ties to both Star Wars and Dr. Who; and the aliens themselves are created through some low-budget genius.
What is it? The only way to know for sure is to come join us for a FREE screening at the Stray Cat Film Center, then stick around after the show as Orrin and Tyler talk about their own encounters with UFOs, aliens in the moves, and much more, complete with out-of-this-world giveaways!
What is it? The only way to know for sure is to come join us for a FREE screening at the Stray Cat Film Center on February 26, then stick around after the show as Orrin and Tyler host a live podcast discussing all things lycanthropic, complete with hair-raising giveaways!
Join us for a FREE screening of this seldom-seen film, and then stick around afterward as Orrin and Tyler discuss the history of J-horror, what makes a found footage movie work, and ectoplasmic worms!
THE HORROR POD CLASS is a monthly free screening hosted by Orrin Grey and Tyler Unsell where they seek out horror films that could be useful in a school setting. Screenings start at 7pm with a live podcast recording taking place after.
For &drew's b-day month, Video Void is diving into all things sci-fi as the Void dedicates an entire night to a collection of unreleased (plus one returning) fasterpieces of schlocky sci-fi bullshit! We take 6 sci-fi features, take out all the bad parts, leavving only the good nuggets! Featuring your favorite sci-fi tropes: Mark Hamill's genius dog, sexy alien abductions, future girls, and cyborg Kim Cattrall!
Plus much, much more from the Void and a preshow featuring a hot-off the press digitization!
Mexico's most famous phantom, La Llorona has been the subject of dozens of movies over the years, including a recent installment in the Conjuring franchise and Jayro Bustamante's Golden Globe-nominated 2019 film. This, however, is almost certainly the wildest. Produced by and starring the legendary Abel Salazar (THE BRAINIAC, et al), CURSE OF THE CRYING WOMAN is Mexican gothic at its weirdest and most bombastic, throwing every imaginable trope and special effect at the wall to create a delirious concoction of haunted house hysteria complete with witches, dungeons, cobwebs, and a deranged spouse locked up in the attic, to name just a few.
To celebrate it's 25th anniversary. We're screening Mariah Carey’s magnum opus about a young singer navigating the vicious terrains of love and music in 80s NYC. With oscar-worthy performances from Da Brat and Padma Lakshmi, a knock-off Mark Wahlberg love interest, and earth-shattering operatics from Mariah, you will not want to miss this film event of a lifetime.
The feature debut of Mary Harron (American Psycho) and one of the most controversial independent films of the 1990s, I Shot Andy Warhol stars an electric Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas, a militant feminist whose attempted murder of Andy Warhol brought instant fame to her radically anti-male SCUM Manifesto. Dropping out of grad school in the midsixties, the brilliant yet volatile Solanas survived in New York City as a destitute artist, sex worker, and panhandler, soon striking up a friendship with Warhol superstar Candy Darling that brought her briefly into the orbit of the world’s premier pop artist. Anchored by pitch-perfect performances—and featuring a blistering score by John Cale as well as covers of sixties hits by some of the nineties’ most iconic bands (R.E.M., Wilco)!
From Fernando Mendez, director of what is probably Mexico's most famous gothic, 1957's El Vampiro, comes this Edgar Allan Poe-inflected tale whose Spanish-language title more closely translates to "Mysteries from Beyond the Grave." When two doctors make a pact that the first one who dies will find a way to bring the survivor across to the "other side," it sets into motion an EC Comics style tragedy that reminds us to be careful what we wish for in this atmospheric gem filled with torchlit funeral processions, mist-shrouded courtyards, horribly burned faces, and much more.
With the season of scares right around the corner, this month Magnetic Magic is loading the VCR with a shlocky spookfest from low-budget maestro Joe Castro. Analog Sunday presents a twisted tale of familial afterlife cannibalism: Near Death!
In 1930, working at night, on the same sets that Tod Browning, Bela Lugosi, et al were using during the day, Mexican actors famously made a Spanish-language version of Dracula. Within a few years, Mexico's burgeoning film industry was turning out gothic horror pictures of its own, and Phantom of the Monastery was one of the first, an eerie, poetic concoction full of Expressionist shadows and haunting images, including a room full of real mummies - mummies that can still be visited today at the Museo de El Carmen, if you happen to be planning a trip to Mexico City.Blurb goes here
What's that you say? Our Year of Monsters film series has finally gotten around to Tyler's very favorite subject: zombies! What movie are we showing? That's a surprise, but we'll give you a few hints: It features a radio DJ; it takes place in Canada; and the screenwriter also wrote the novel on which it was based;
What is it? The only way to know for sure is to come join us for a FREE screening at the Stray Cat Film Center on February 26, then stick around after the show as Orrin and Tyler host a live podcast discussing all things lycanthropic, complete with hair-raising giveaways!
Join us for a FREE screening of this seldom-seen film, and then stick around afterward as Orrin and Tyler discuss the history of J-horror, what makes a found footage movie work, and ectoplasmic worms!
THE HORROR POD CLASS is a monthly free screening hosted by Orrin Grey and Tyler Unsell where they seek out horror films that could be useful in a school setting. Screenings start at 7pm with a live podcast recording taking place after.
Fucked Up Fairy Tales round two concludes with a bang in Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister, a memorably nasty take on Cinderella. When her mother marries a wealthy landowner, young Elvira’s hopes of marrying the region’s handsome prince feel closer than ever. Unfortunately, she can’t measure up to the beauty of her effortlessly hot stepsister. How far will she go to catch the prince’s eye? Blichfeldt tackles fairy tale tropes and beauty standards in a movie that dares to ask “What if Coralie Fargeat made The Other Bennet Sister?”
Before David Cronenberg hit the big screen with his body horror, he got his start on Canadian TV, directing several one off episodes. He returned to TV fresh off THE FLY to helm what is considered a highlight of the short lived cult TV show FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE SERIES. Does F13:TS have anyhting to do Jason Vorhees? No, but that doesn’t stop Cronenberg from making the gooey, slimey entry in body horror TV as a disease eating people away from the inside, and how desperate and unhinged it makes them.
Plus much, much more from the Void and a preshow featuring a hot-off the press digitization!
Lucile Hadžihalilović (Earwig, Innocence, Evolution) brings a little David Lynch and a little French New Extremity to this adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. A fairy tale-obsessed girl and a diva actress make a strange connection on the set of a film adapting Andersen’s classic fairy tale. As fantasy and reality blur together, can these women figure out who they are to each other before disaster strikes?
Nothing says goodbye like a bullet.
After MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS but before his directing career took off with TIME BANDITS, Terry Gilliam made Jabberwocky, a goofy, grimy and deeply strange adaptation of the Lewis Carroll Poem that hinted at Gilliam’s boundless artistic vision and singular, uncompromising perspective. Join Michael Palin as hapless doofus Dennis Cooper, an unambitious young man who finds himself conscripted into fighting a dangerous monster, and is promised rewards of riches and princesses he has absolutely no interest in.
Magnetic Magic brings the SOV Summer series to an end with a very special screening of a locally-shot slasher gem! Prepare for satanic backwoods bloodlust as Analog Sunday presents: Feeding Billy with Dwen Doggett and Jeff Sisson!
At a summer camp, children are taught to see themselves as the future of a militant religious movement.
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