Double Features of Cult Movie Goodness
Cult movies rule at Row House Cinema! Join us for double features of some of the wildest, weirdest, and best cult films and B movies that you don’t often find the big screen one Friday night each month. There will be trivia, the big bag o’ crap, and whatever other fun surprises our host Cara dreams up!
December 13 – Holiday Special
This year, we’re building a roulette wheel full of rare and bizarre holiday specials. YOU could even be called on stage to give it a spin and choose what we show! As usual, there will of course be some surprises, and maybe even some presents…it IS the holidays, after all.
January 10 – Slumber Party Massacre Slumber Party!
Let’s make this abundantly clear: you’re not actually gonna sleep here, but you can definitely wear pajamas and enjoy slumber party snacks as we take in the classic 80s odes to sleepover slasher survival.
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) – You ever wish you had a better excuse to cancel plans? Well, new girl Valerie didn’t have a good excuse to avoid Trish’s chaperone-free sleepover, even though she didn’t feel up to it. Now she’s fighting off a power drill-wielding psycho killer with the other girls. Talk about a bad break.
Slumber Party Massacre II (1987) – Valerie’s little sister Courtney is all grown up and headed to a condo in the mountains for a birthday weekend with her best friends and her crush. It’s a dream scenario, until all that dreaming is interrupted by – you guessed it – a power drill-wielding psycho killer. Even worse: this time, he’s a rockabilly greaser!
Slumber Party Massacre Tickets
February 14 – Love Bites
If you expected romance, no dice! The only love we’re celebrating this time around is the big ol’ cartoon heart eyes that sharksploitation movies give us. We’re giving you one title; as a cuddly gift, you can either guess the second film or be surprised!
Deep Blue Sea (1999) – Sharks may have the stupidest, dumbest faces possible, but what if their brains could be altered to harvest the cure for Alzheimer’s? And what if that DNA alteration turned them into ravenous human-eating machines? You and Samuel L. Jackson can find out together here!
SECRET SHARK MOVIE HINT – This deep cut, goofy-ass sharksploitation movie borrows score, footage, and dialogue from all different kinds of other films…not just the ones about sharks.
March 7 – Cult-O-Romero
Romero’s resume doesn’t just include zombie PR. Pittsburgh horror enthusiasts (who honed our obsessions under the spirit of his craft) know that he created other terrifying worlds that didn’t even involve the living dead. Let’s perpetuate our hero worship together and chant “All Hail Romero” as we take in two different-flavored suburban nightmares (both released in 1973!) that deserve just as much attention.
Season of the Witch (1973) – The bored, suburban housewife is one of horror’s most prolific muses; here, Romero imagines that one named Joan might get so frustrated with her god-awful husband and ho-hum life that she decides to turn to witchcraft. After finding out that a new neighbor is a not-so-secret witch, Joan’s curiosity about the occult eventually fuses with her frustration and shakes up her routine in increasingly bizarre ways.
The Crazies (1973) – Don’t drink the water, there’s homicidal rage in it! The military accidentally leaked a biological weapon into the Evans City water supply (oops), and the townspeople are now coming down with a bad case of the murder flu, followed by an acute bout of death. Romero would later further explore his distrust for the military in Day of the Dead, but this precursor is especially dark. Don’t miss it!