Show Times
Saturday 18, October
Sunday 19, October
Wednesday 22, October
Hocus Pocus
PGfor some scary sequences, and for language.
After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to their reign of terror once and for all.
Media Meltdown: Graveyard Disturbance
GRAVEYARD DISTURBANCE (1987) Horror auteur Lamberto Bava (Demons, Macabre) brought a rarely-seen vision of terror to Italian television sets in the year 1987. It is known to us in the States as… GRAVEYARD DISTURBANCE! As they flee from their latest heist, five thieving youths stumble upon an odd establishment that presents a challenge they cannot refuse... Riches beyond comprehension, but only if they can stay the night in an underground labyrinth. What seems like a harmless diversion while they plan their next steps turns into an inescapable phantasmagorical nightmare trip through hell! Sink into the Halloween season with this made-for-tv masterpiece rife with menacing monsters that will leave you questioning your mortality only at Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse! MEDIA MELTDOWN MOVIE MADHOUSE Gender jesters Piranha Psychotronica and Kafka X bring you a new experience in cinematic depravity… Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse! Prepare yourself to enter into a world of face-flaying forgotten and forsaken films… Made-for-TV, Direct-to-Video, VCR games, underground cinema, and more wiley weirdness than your minds can handle! In a world dominated by AI, CGI, mega streaming platforms, and cinematic universes, Media Meltdown celebrates the amateur, the low-budget, the handmade, the experimental, and the weird! Commit yourself every 3rd Sunday to … MEDIA MELTDOWN MOVIE MADHOUSE!
My Condition (with LIVE MUSIC by Taste & Tam Lin)
MY CONDITION A Film by Karina Gill with LIVE MUSIC from Taste (Tape Release!) & Tam Lin My Condition is a new short film by Karina Gill. Originally conceived by Karina and Katiana Mashikian as a vampire movie of our time and place, it evolved in Karina's hands into a tragicomedy of gestures and images. Starring her friends and with music by Oli Lipton, it is a DIY experiment in the vampire genre. Showing one time only at The 4 Star Theater, October 18th. DOORS at 7:00PM | MUSIC at 8:00 PM | FILM at 8:30 PM | MUSIC CONTINUES at 9:00PM
Ponyo (Dubbed)
G
In a small town by the sea lives five year old Sosuke, high on a cliff overlooking the Inland Sea. One morning while playing on the rocky beach below his house, he discovers a goldfish he names Ponyo, her head stuck in a jam jar. Sosuke rescues Ponyo and keeps her in a green plastic bucket. Both Ponyo and Sosuke are fascinated by each other and promise to stay firm friends until Ponyo’s father, a sorcerer who lives deep under the sea, forces her to return with him to the ocean depths. What follows is an amazing underwater adventure for all ages... PONYO is a substantially lighter and smaller in scope feature when compared to Miyazaki’s previous two works. The film was completed entirely using traditional hand-drawn animation, primarily in order to showcase the quality of the artwork by art director Noboru Yoshida as well as celebrating the innocence and cheerfulness of a child’s universe.
Ponyo (Subtitled)
G
In a small town by the sea lives five year old Sosuke, high on a cliff overlooking the Inland Sea. One morning while playing on the rocky beach below his house, he discovers a goldfish he names Ponyo, her head stuck in a jam jar. Sosuke rescues Ponyo and keeps her in a green plastic bucket. Both Ponyo and Sosuke are fascinated by each other and promise to stay firm friends until Ponyo’s father, a sorcerer who lives deep under the sea, forces her to return with him to the ocean depths. What follows is an amazing underwater adventure for all ages... PONYO is a substantially lighter and smaller in scope feature when compared to Miyazaki’s previous two works. The film was completed entirely using traditional hand-drawn animation, primarily in order to showcase the quality of the artwork by art director Noboru Yoshida as well as celebrating the innocence and cheerfulness of a child’s universe.
The Shining
R
The Shining, 1980 Directed by Stanley Kubrick HE CAME AS THE CARETAKER, BUT THIS HOTEL HAD ITS OWN GUARDIANS - WHO’D BEEN THERE A LONG TIME Though it deviates from Stephen King's novel, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a chilling, often baroque journey into madness -- exemplified by an unforgettable turn from Jack Nicholson. Signing a contract, Jack Torrance, a normal writer and former teacher agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that puts everyone in the hotel in a nervous situation. While Jack slowly gets more violent and angry of his life, his son, Danny, tries to use a special talent, the "Shining", to inform the people outside about whatever that is going on in the hotel.
Watcher in the Woods + Something Wicked This Way
MOViES FOR MANiACS presents the “GET OFF THE INTERNET” Double Bill Hosted by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks THE WATCHER iN THE WOODS (1980) - 7:00 PM The phrase "They don't make 'em like they used to" perfectly applies to John Hough’s astoundingly creepy 1980 live-action Disney film that was pulled from theaters after only one week after being deemed too scary for young adults. Adapted from a 1976 young adult novel, the story follows “a teenage girl and her little sister who spirals into a supernatural mystery regarding a missing girl in the woods surrounding their new home in the English countryside.” Showcasing performances by Hollywood royalty: Carroll Baker (BABY DOLL) and Bette Davis (WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE) who is especially hypnotic as an old hermit who lost her child many years before, along with professional figure-skater Lynn-Holly Johnson, hot off her Golden Globe nominated performance in ICE CASTLES (1979). Filmed in the house from Robert Wise’s THE HAUNTiNG (1963), this lost cinematic treasure was pitched to Disney by producer Tom Leetch, stating that "This could be our EXORCiST (1973)." Very few audiences were able to see this genuinely eerie film in the theatre upon its original release... and frustratingly enough, the film is still unavailable on any official streaming site so don't miss this rare chance! New 2K Restoration, 84min, 1980/1981. Rated PG (with mild violence and frightening & intense sequences.) 9:15pm SOMETHiNG WiCKED THiS WAY COMES (1983) Ray Bradbury adapted his own short story for this remarkably thoughtful and downright creepy Walt Disney flick. Following a couple of 13-year-old boys growing up next door to one another in Green Town, Illinois, a carnival comes to town which seems to mystically bewitch many of the small town locals. Showcasing an all star cast of Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd and Pam Grier, It is also one of the very first films to showcase the newly invented "computer-generated-imagery", winning the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film and Best Writing in 1984. Upon its release, Roger Ebert called it "a horror film with elegance" and "one of the few literary adaptations I've seen in which the film not only captures the mood and tone of the novel, but also the novel's style." The director Jack Clayton, who helmed the brilliantly gothic THE INNOCENTS (1961), ran into many conflicts during the production and deserves much more credit than history has written about. Similar to RETURN TO OZ, this eerie Disney entry has built quite a cult following over the decades, even though it has suspiciously been absent from ever streaming on Disney+ as well as basically been erased in the UK, which does not list it ever being screened in the UK film database. Very Rare Screening is a 2K Restoration courtesy of Walt Disney. Running Time: 95 Minutes. Rated PG (for frightening and intense sequences.)