The Finding Aid presents The Gay 80s, a compilation of archival programming that explores early 80s gay culture in Los Angeles and San Francisco, visits a famous PTL interview with Tammy Faye, and travels to New York with a young RuPaul. December 10th at 7pm, hosted by Drea (@dicarlotomboy) and free!

Vicky (Shelley Kästner) is a German expat working as a waitress in the East Village while also dreaming of making it as an actor. She’ll have to give the performance of a lifetime when her stodgy father (Alfred Edel) hastily makes plans to visit her. As Vicky rushes to hide the aspects of her lifestyle that she doesn’t think he’ll approve of—namely, her gay roommate Ben (David Bronstein) and lesbian lover Lisa (Mary Lou Grailau)—only to become involved with a handsome stranger with a mysterious past (Michael Massee) in the process, Pops winds up tangled up with “post-porn modernist” Annie Sprinkle.

As the season of merriment draws near, Magnetic Magic unwraps an unhinged Christmas-set classic for the chaotic as Analog Sunday presents: Real Killers!

A bureaucratic mix-up collides two men with the same name into each other’s lives, creating a strange, gentle, and quietly funny triangle.

Monika Treut presents four short documentaries about individuals who live and act outside of society’s expectations of womanhood. In Dr. Paglia (1992), Sexual Personae writer and academic Camille Paglia holds court with author Bruce Henderson. Then, in Annie (1989), “post-porn modernist” Annie Sprinkle gives a PCA (Public Cervix Announcement). Bondage (1983) is a look at lesbian sadomasochism with Carol from New York’s Lesbian Sex Mafia. Finally, in the groundbreaking Max (1992), trans poet Max Wolf Valerio discusses his life and transition. What emerges from these four very different portraits is a compelling snapshot of those at the forefront of blurring and expanding the definition of sex and gender at the close of the 20th century.

Eva Norvind was born Eva Johanne Chegodaieva Sakonskaja in 1944, the daughter of a Russian prince and a Finnish sculptor in Trondheim, Norway. Monika Treut’s Didn’t Do It for Love traces the many stages of her unbelievable life story: from her early success as a showgirl in Paris to her transformation into Mexico’s Marilyn Monroe in the 1960s, her subsequent career as a journalist in the 1970s, and culminating in her establishing herself as New York’s most famous and business savvy dominatrix in the 1980s. Didn’t Do It for Love is an odyssey through the wilderness of sexuality, capturing Eva’s search for the wellspring of her obsessive drive to dominate.

Stray Cat Film Center is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2025 by presenting Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.

A masked killer is murdering high school students, and a group of friends must use their horror movie knowledge to unmask the killer! A genre defining masterpiece, Wes Caven’s SCREAM remains one of the funniest, flirtiest slashers ever made! Screening from an incredibly rare, LPP 16mm film print!

All this year, the Horror Pod Class will be exploring a century of fright films with their Yearbook series, covering one movie from each decade from 1925 through 2015. What does 2005 mean to you? For the Horror Pod Class, it's all about found footage and the J-horror boom as they host Koji Shiraishi's legendary masterpiece Noroi.

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.

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.

We’re having a DOUBLE FEATURE of Suki Hawley’s and Michael Galinsky's cult music films HALF-COCKED and RADIATION! Following both films, the filmmakers will Zoom in for a Q&A!

A young filmmaker’s search for a vanished Italian horror director spirals into obsession and violence in City Wide Fever.

One of the most enduring entries in the noir canon, Preminger’s film is a stirring portrait of erotic fascination and an expertly choreographed whodunnit, replete with narrative twists, reversals, and red herrings.

Gumshoe Mark McPherson is investigating the recent murder of the eponymous Laura, and everyone’s a suspect, from her aunt to her fiancé to her fey, acid-tongued admirer (Clifton Webb, in a particularly memorable performance).

This month, Magnetic Magic offers up a chunk of Japanese weirdness that could only be conjured by the mind of Gô Nagai. From ninjas, mutants and zombies to face-ripping and horrible dubbing, prepare yourselves for: The Ninja Dragon!

Well, America was nice while it lasted. But while everything is depressing now, fun fact: it's been depressing for some time. DOC TURTLENECK and ANDREW'S VIDEO VOID are teaming up for a double feature of archival documentary WTO/99 and political mixtape HELLO DANKNESS two great tastes of contemporary America: an over-militarized police force and our current political discourse.

A filmmaker’s search for a vanished art forger unravels into a hypnotic study of authorship, obsession, and the blurred lines between truth and imitation.

Drea DiCarlo presents another iteration of SOVIET ANIMATION!!! Free Screening, RSVP Encouraged

FREE Mystery Screening presented by BLK+BRWN, an indie bookstore, safe space, + ecosystem centering Black and Brown storytelling

Once again, we’re spending some time this spooky season with a series of often missed and rarely screened Asian horror gems. Our focus this year is the 1980s, where in Asian horror gel lights reigned supreme and every filmmaker was in an arms race to see who could make some of the wildest special effects possible. We’re talking witches, goopy neon monsters, haunted dolls, evil cats flying though the air, and other out there treats.

In 19th-century Mexico, Frankelda is a gifted writer whose dark tales are ignored and dismissed. Forced to suppress her voice, she refuses to give up, even as many try to silence her. But when she is thrust into her subconscious, the very monsters she created come to life. Guided by Herneval, a tormented prince trapped between dreams and nightmares, she must restore balance between fiction and reality before both realms collapse. Meanwhile, the sinister writer Procustes and his conspirators plot to seize control. As Frankelda and Herneval grow closer, their bond becomes both a strength and a curse. To rewrite their fate, she must confront a love that defies existence and reclaim her power as a storyteller—before dark forces consume her imagination and reveal horrors beyond her creation

THIS MONTH: From the depths of 90s Duluth, Minnesota. MY THREE SCUMS was a 90s punk public access show followed a dysfunctional family of mutant monsters and weirdos as they tackle many different trials of modern life. For the spooky season, we'll be watching their Halloween special full of Minnesota punks, Halloween shop masks, dads becoming werewolves, and more madness from public access!

Plus: the many days of Marlena's lives and much more!

THIS MONTH: For the past couple of month, Andrew has been going over hours of the finest sci-fi themed erotica, cutting out all the useless stuff, and only keeping the horniest bits: ALL THE SCI-FI BULLSHIT. We’re talking switches, knobs, blinking lights, giant ass VR goggles and even a robot flipping the bird. It’s a beautiful night celebrating the power of imagining better, hornier futures.

A decaying mansion and a stormy night provide the archetypal setting for mystery and chaos when a pack of greedy relatives gather for the reading of a twenty-year-old will. But before the fortune can be handed down, the family must endure a night in the cavernous manor, unnerved by the news that an escaped lunatic is at large.

Tim Harte & Co will bring a live score to go with some creeps (not to mention some laughs) w/ a new 4K restoration!

A journalist investigates “competitive tickling” and uncovers a dark web of secrets and intimidation in this gripping, stranger-than-fiction documentary.

Drea DiCarlo presents another iteration of SOVIET ANIMATION!!! Free Screening, RSVP Encouraged

The story goes that Adam Wingard and Simon Barret conceived The Guest after watching a double-feature of Halloween and The Terminator. Whether that's true or not, that gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect as the Horror Pod Class takes a break from their Yearbook series for a FREE screening of this modern Halloween classic just in time for the spooky season, complete with Halloween giveaways galore and discussion of diverse topics including scream royalty Dan Stevenson and Maika Monroe, reminiscing about Halloween decorations, and how good this soundtrack is

The time has come once again to venture into the Video Graveyard with your ghoulish guide, Magnetic Magic, as we resurrect the annual ritual of the Analog Sunday Halloween Double-Creature! This year we’ll be roaming the halls of two haunt-based low-budget oddities: Asylum of Terror & Dark Carnival!

Just in time for October, Stray Cat is proud to bring back one of our favorite films prints we’ve ever played! What do you get when you mix the two funniest men of the 40s and a cavalcade of horror flick veterans? A film that is somehow one of the best comedies of the Hollywood golden age AND one of the best Universal monster movies!

Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home to find his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani, in a role that earned her Best Actress at Cannes) insistent on a divorce. As Anna's frenzied behavior becomes ever more alarming, Mark discovers a truth far more sinister than his wildest suspicions. With its pulsating score, visceral imagery, and some of the most haunting performances ever captured on screen, Possession is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.

The first of the horror films producer Val Lewton made for RKO Pictures redefined the genre by leaving its most frightening terrors to its audience’s imagination. Simone Simon stars as a Serbian émigré in Manhattan who believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves (Kent Smith) will turn her into a feline predator. Lewton, a consummate producer-auteur who oversaw every aspect of his projects, found an ideal director in Jacques Tourneur, a chiaroscuro stylist adept at keeping viewers off-kilter with startling compositions and psychological innuendo. Together, they eschewed the canned effects of earlier monster movies in favor of shocking with subtle shadows and creative audio cues. One of the studio’s most successful movies of the 1940s, Cat People raised the creature feature to new heights of sophistication and mystery.