Squirm
1976 / USA / 93 min / 35mm
Director: Jeff Lieberman Cast: Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, Jean Sullivan, R.A. Dow

If Jaws is the pinnacle of the “nature run amok” subgenre of horror, then somewhere on the other end of the spectrum is Squirm, the killer worm movie. The feature debut of grievously overlooked cult director Jeff Lieberman (Just Before Dawn, Blue Sunshine, Satan’s Little Helper), the film is a dirty gem. Creepy, genuinely witty, packed with early gross-out effects from eventual seven-time Oscar winner Rick Baker, and notable for being probably the only horror movie where the leads are two pale, pale redheads, Squirm is guaranteed to make you wriggle and writhe in your seat!

The Hidden
1987 / USA / 96 min / 35mm
Director: Jack Sholder Writer: Jim Kouf Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian, Clu Gulager, Chris

Los Angeles is besieged by a shape-shifting alien with a taste for sports cars, hair metal, and mass murder- the ultimate 80s consumer. It’s up to Pacific Northwestern FBI Special Agent Dale Coop… er, Lloyd Gallagher (an otherworldly Kyle McLaughlin, three years before Twin Peaks) to track him down before he kills again! And again! And again! Seriously, the body count in this thing is astonishing. Director Jack Sholder (of All Freakin’ Night favorite A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge fame) keeps the pace breathless, the characters full of swagger, and the ideas clever and quick. According to Washington Times critic Hal Hinson, writing in 1987, “if there’s such a thing as punk soulfulness, then this movie has it.”

The Monster Squad
1987 / USA / 82 min / 35mm
Director: Fred Dekker Writers: Shane Black, Fred Dekker Cast: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Tom Noonan

These days, they just don’t make kid’s movies with this much death and destruction, not to mention swearing, leering, and other such unwholesome activities. The story of a gang of tween badass monster movie buffs battling Dracula, Wolfman, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, et al, this movie definitively answers countless important questions: What is the second most effective way to kill a werewolf? How many cop’s necks can Dracula snap in thirty seconds? Is Frankenstein’s monster really just a big lovable lug? And perhaps most importantly, does Wolfman have nards? This scrappy, ramshackle throwback horror flick is directed by Night of the Creeps’ Fred Dekker, and boasts a snappy script by Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Last Boy Scout) and makeup effect by legendary monster maker Stan Winston. Come see the movie that Film Threat magazine calls “one of the best cult classics of all time” and feed the sadistic, destructive little kid that lurks inside all of us.

The MaFu Cage
1978 / USA / 102 min / 35mm
Director:  Karen Arthur

Here is your new Mafu! A singularly bizarre classic without a cult, The Mafu Cage stars Carol Kane (still best known as Latka’s girlfriend on Taxi) as Cissy, a sweet yet deranged anthropologist with unbelievable fashion sense and a taste for sketching monkeys and then beating them to death. When her loving sister refuses to enable her with a steady flow of monkeys, Cissy begins to look for other apes to fill her cage… in particular one species that has yet to be documented: “pissed off homo sapien!” Also known as Deviation, Don’t Ring the Doorbell, and My Sister, My Love, this overlooked grand guignol masterwork is visually spectacular, filled with costumes and set design the likes of which have rarely been seen before or since. We are proud to present an extremely rare 35mm screening, absolutely worth staying up late or waking up early for!