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!
Camp Grindhouse: Buy a pass to see all four films and get a limited edition t-shirt!
$40 for FilmScene members • $45 for the general public
Do kids today think of anything but cruising around, making out, and playing pinball? Find out at the SpareMe pinball tournament and then celebrate with a summer classic from the director of My Bloody Valentine.
“The movie hops from one archetypal warm-weather teen sex comedy setting to the next - pinball parlor, burger joints, beach, amusement park, swimming pool, discotheque, biker HQ, parent-free house party, and, tellingly, a drive-in movie theater - exactly where most adolescent audiences likely caught this movie at the time of its pre-home video 1980 release.” - Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, Teen Movie Hell: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from Animal House to Zapped!
"You know this type of movie. In the early to mid '80s, they were all over pay cable networks - teen comedies that featured no actual teenagers and very little that would be recognized as comedy outside a kindergarten or head trauma ward." - Lars Nilsen, Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of The American Genre Film Archive
"If you're a 13-year-old 8th grader, you're already thinking this is the greatest film of all time." - Nick Cato, Suburban Grindhouse: From Staten Island to Times Square and All the Sleaze Between
School's out and everything's in! Chief cruisers are Greg and his buddy, Steve. Their targets? Two bouncy, fun-loving sisters, Donna and Suzy. Their hang-outs? O.J.'s Drive-In and Pete's Arcade. A cast of colorful characters includes: Bert and his gang of punk bikers; Whimpy - Pete's inept fix-it man; Sally - an appetizing waitress... how far she goes nobody knows; the town flasher, who risks pneumonia every chance he gets, and two cops who spend all their time keeping up the the local loonies. Pinball Summer... where anything and everything goes!
a.k.a. Pick-Up Summer
Plus a PansyVision short film: Where There's A Will, There's A Slay Directed by Richard Griffin (Splatter Disco) Things at PansyVisionTV are getting a little spooky this week as Dick watches the 1931 murder mystery Where There's A Will, There's A Slay. Then we have a vintage interview with the movie's writer, Noel Coward, who seems to highly regret writing the movie.
Part of Camp Grindhouse at FilmScene
Buy a pass to see all four films and get a limited edition t-shirt!
Wednesday, July 10th: Surf II (1983)
Wednesday, July 24th: Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
Wednesday, August 7th: Pinball Summer (1980)
Wednesday, August 21st: Babe Camp 3D (2023)
