RPS Presents MATINEE MADNESS!
Saturday, March 23rd at 3pm
$40 Members | $45 Public
Tickets on
sale Thursday, January 17
Retro Picture Show presents MATINEE MADNESS! A
spectacular 11 hour movie marathon. Prepare yourself for deranged slashers,
evil dream demons, post-apocalyptic gangs, unstoppable killing machines,
grave-robbing undertakers, and perhaps the most infamous haunted house of them
all! All shown from vintage 35mm film prints.
SLAUGHTER
HIGH (1986)
U.S. | 90 mins | Dir. Mark Ezra | 35mm
There's horror in the halls... lynching in the
lunchroom... murder in metal shop. Welcome to SLAUGHTER HIGH - where the
students are dying to get out!
Marty was the nerd everyone made fun of. All the jocks
and pretty girls teased, taunted, and tortured him mercilessly. Things went too
far when one of their jokes backfired, disfiguring Marty for life!
It's five years later and Marty is throwing a reunion
for all his school "friends" - does he have a surprise for them! The
prom queen, the jock, the class clown, the busybody, the rebel and a few
"select" others have all been invited to Marty's gala of gore. Five years
ago Marty got mad... now he's going to get even - in one riot of a reunion!
WES
CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE (1994) [25th Anniversary]
U.S. | 112 mins | Dir. Wes Craven | 35mm
Freddy's back and scarier than ever! Writer-director
Wes Craven returns to the darkest shadows of Elm Street with this frightening
film. Reuniting the stars of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, this
terrifying tale follows the sinister dreamstalker as he slashes his way through
the silver screen and turns reality blood red.
Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon star in
this white-knuckle nightmare, with an appearance by Nick Corri, that will
"scare the daylights out of you"
CYBORG
(1989) [30th Anniversary]
U.S. | 86 mins | Dir. Albert
Pyun | 35mm
"Bloodsport's" martial arts wizard
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME carves out a dazzling new domain as the future’s most
fearsome warrior in this sweeping sword and sci-fi adventure epic.
Convulsed to social anarchy and a virulent, incurable
plague, twenty-first century America has descended into seething, barbaric
nightmare. On a desperate quest for data to cure the epidemic, a beautiful
human-robot Cyborg is captured by cannibalistic Flesh Pirates, who plot to keep
the cure for themselves. Now, only the awesome fighting skills of
sword-for-hire Gibson Rickenbaker (JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME) can rescue her - and
save what remains of civilization. From the director of "The Sword and the
Sorcerer", "Cyborg" delivers an explosive, future shocked bloody
battle against the ultimate evil.
THE
TERMINATOR (1984) [35th Anniversary]
U.S. | 107 mins | Dir. James Cameron | 35mm
In the Year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this
planet devise the ultimate plan. They will reshape the Future by changing the
Past. The plan requires something that feels no pity. No pain. No fear. They
create THE TERMINATOR.
A brilliant flash of light and an earsplitting
explosion mark the arrival of the Terminator, a cyborg (part man, part machine)
sent to present day Earth from the future on a deadly mission. His task: to
kill a young woman whose life will have great significance in the decades to
come.
The mechanical monster from the future leaves behind
him an unspeakable path of destruction. Nothing can stop the horrific
TERMINATOR!
PHANTASM
(1979) [40th Anniversary]
U.S. | 88 mins | Dir. Don Coscarelli | 35mm
When two brothers uncover the startling secret of the
living dead following the murder of their friend, what seems like a horrible
unending nightmare becomes terrifying reality! A mortuary's embalming cellar is
the site for supernatural evil - including a floating sphere with razor-sharp
protruding daggers which seeks out victims and drains their heads. As the
brothers learn more and more about what is really going on at Morningside
Mortuary, they get deeper into trouble... until it may be too late to escape!
THE
AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979) [40th Anniversary]
U.S. | 117 mins | Dir. Stuart Rosenberg | 35mm
"The Amityville Horror" tells the story of
an ordeal almost beyond belief: twenty-eight days and nights in a three-story
house that showed every terrifying sign of being haunted by an unspeakable
evil.
Based on the book by Jay Anson, "The Amityville
Horror" stars James Brolin and Margot Kidder as George Lutz and his wife,
Kathleen. Rod Steiger co-stars as Father Delaney, the Catholic priest whose own
life was brushed by the ghostly phenomena surrounding the Lutz' experience.
Director Stuart Rosenberg accomplishes a rare artistic
feat: constructing a fabric of horror from materials of everyday life. The
Amityville house (an exact facsimile of the original, reproduced especially for
the marketing of this film) is slowly, tensely transformed from a common home
to a dwelling of almost tangible menace.
What really happened in that house in Amityville? What
caused the Lutz family to flee in the night, leaving behind most of their
possessions?
Relive their frightening tale and judge for yourself.