Wednesdays get weird when Late Shift at the Grindhouse hosts Ross Meyer, Joe Derderian, and Aaron Holmgren dig up low-budget b-movies, horror and gore-fests, and camp classics for your viewing pleasure. Buy your ticket and take a ride in our Time Machine! Punch in and earn a bonus! $4 Pabst Blue Ribbon & Hamm’s tallboys, $4 small popcorn, small soda and candy! $1 off beer/wine/soda/popcorn/candy for FilmScene members. PLUS -- special custom trash trailer reel curated by Ross with cheap swag and prize giveaways!
Let's celebrate going back to school with a sorority slasher classic from a feminist perspective.
"Topless scenes, and lots of flashbacks and hallucinations to keep things interesting." - Michael J. Weldon, The Psychotronic Video Guide
"If you like 80s fashion, then by all means, seek out this film." - Sam Panico, B&S About Movies
"It scratched my 80s itch, and for that I'm thankful." - Stacie Ponder, Final Girl
After working as a production assistant on Slumber Party Massacre, filmmaker Carol Frank was given carte blanche by legendary producer Roger Corman to make her own slasher movie. And that’s how we ended up with Sorority House Massacre, the most unique -- and criminally overlooked -- slasher of 1986. Like Slumber Party Massacre before it, this movie inverts the typical gender expectations of slashers while doubling as a skid row version of Halloween. But thanks to the dreamy photography, a focus on women’s perspectives, and the greatest cameo by a Smurfs piñata in motion picture history, Sorority House Massacre ends up feeling like Halloween meets Beaches on the set of Saved by the Bell. This is also known as paradise.
Restoration courtesy of Shout! Factory and The American Genre Film Archive
Part of Reel Representation at FilmScene.
Plus a PansyVision short film: A Hot Tin Menagerie of Desire
Directed by Richard Griffin (The Sins of Dracula)
This week Dick is getting the vapors when he travels back to 1961 to watch the until now adaptation of Tennessee Williams' moist melodrama A Hot Tin Menagerie of Desire, and the results will put him flat out on the fainting couch! Then we have an exclusive vintage interview with the sassy Southern gentleman himself Tennessee Williams!
