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!
Four tales of intrigue and horror await anyone brave enough to enter the House of the Dead…
"House of the Dead gives you some bang for your buck, because it has four stories — five if you count the wraparound segment. The tone is definitely that of an old EC comic book, with nasty people doing horrible things and then suffering some kind of karmic justice." - Bill Van Ryn, B&S About Movies
"House of the Dead didn't disappoint. I mean, it did, because it sucked, and yet there I was, enjoying it and all its inexplicables." - Stacie Ponder, Final Girl
"The film makes good use of an amusing cast and its mix of Twilight Zone-esque stories and Amicus inspired horror tropes." - Ian Jane, Rock! Shock! Pop!
Directed by TV veteran Sharron Miller (Cagney & Lacey, L.A. Law), this low-budget Oklahoman horror anthology features ghoulish vignettes ranging from wryly comedic to genuinely grim and unsettling.
When a philandering husband is lost during a rainstorm, he’s taken in by an elderly mortician and is forced to learn the ghastly origins of four freshly arrived corpses: a scornful teacher whose students teach her a fatal lesson, an amateur filmmaker with a deadly muse, two dueling detectives attempting to solve a mysterious murder, and a bitter man whose arrogance costs him everything…
Restoration courtesy of Vinegar Syndrome and American Genre Film Archive.
Part of Reel Representation at FilmScene.
Plus a PansyVision short film: The Kiss
Directed by Richard Griffin (Accidental Incest)
Dick is going back, way back, back in time for an in-depth look at the first movie ever shown to a paying audience -- 1897's The Kiss. Back in those days this was considered to be pretty hot stuff, but then again indoor plumbing was also considered to be high-tech. Then Dick interviews the two stars of the movie and doesn't get a single bit of insight into the making of The Kiss before he has to storm off the set. It happens.
