The WTF Mystery Movie Speakeasy series has been going for about 9 years now, every week after hours at a popular local watchin' hole. The earliest listing on my calendars is Aug. 31, 2015, and we've rarely missed a week since then. It goes further back than that though, with plenty of one-offs over the years.
The only common denominator in the programming is that the material is usually fairly obscure and will stick in your brain for a quite a while, for better or worse. It's definitely your best local bet for sitting in a darkened movie theater with fellow film nerds to watch some wierdo, mondo, arty, edgy, grimy, DIY, psychotronic, exploitation, B (or Z)-movie hybrid genre flick you've never seen before, and definitely can't unsee.
Sometimes we even watch good movies!
THIS LIST IS VERY MUCH A WORK IN PROGRESS
1,2,3, Whiteout. The End of the Light Age (dir. James June Schneider, 2007, France/U.S. “tone poem for darkness” starring Karine Adrover and Lou Castel), preceded by Songs for Earth & Folk (dir. Cauleen Smith, 2013 archival footage mix from Chicago Film Archives and sound by The Eternals)
1990: The Bronx Warriors (dir. Enzo G. Castellari, 1982 Italian scifi/actioner w/ dubbed English)
1-Ichi (dir. Masato Tanno, 2003 direct-to-video prequel to Ichi the Killer)
30 Century Man (doc. about musician Scott Walker, RIP 3/22/19)
Abigail's Party (dir. Mike Leigh, 1977)
A Boy & his Dog (dir. L.Q. Jones, 1975, Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Ron Feinberg, and Jason Robards, full movie here)
The Alchemist Cookbook (dir. Joel Potrykus, 2016, Ty Hickson, Amari Cheatom, Fiji)
Alex in Wonderland (dir. Paul Mazursky, 1970 tribute to Fellini’s 8 & 1/2 starring Donald Sutherland - RIP 6/20/24 - and Ellen Burstyn, cameos by Federico Fellini himself and Jeanne Moreau)
Alice in Earnestland (S. Korea, 2015)
Aloys (dir. Tobias Nölle, Swiss, 2016)
Alucarda (dir. Juan Lopez Moctezuma, Mexico, 1975, Mondo Macabro rel.)
Amer (dirs. Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, 2009 Belgian/French giallo homage starring Marie Bos)
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (Scorsese, 1978) preceded by A Day With The Boys short (dir. Clu Gulager, 1965)
The Amusement Park (dir. George Romero, 1973/2021 4K restoration of short film/PSA commissioned by The Lutheran Society) followed The X Files: "Bad Blood" (seas. 5, ep. 12)
Andy Warhol’s "Bad" (dir. Jed Johnson, 1977 starring Carroll Baker, Perry King, Susan Tyrell)
The Apple (1980, Cannon Films international catastrophe)
Arcadia (dir. Paul Wright, 2017 British hauntological video essay using archival footage, soundtrack by Portishead's Adrian Utley and Goldfrapp's Will Gregory)
The Astrologer (a.k.a. Suicide Cult, dir. James Glickenhaus, 1975 big concept/low budget conspiracy/scifi/horror mess based on a John Cameron novel and starring Bob Byrd, Monica Tidwell and Mark Buntzman)
Atami Investigators, Ep.1 ("The Japanese Twin Peaks", by dir. Satoshi Miki, for David Lynch tribute night), preceded by Lynch shorts Quinoa, Out Yonder-Neighbor Boy & Boat
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (dir. José Mojica Marins aka Coffin Joe, Brazil, 1964)
The Baby (dir. Ted Post, 1973 starring Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill, Suzanne Zenor, and David Manzy)
Bad Black (2019 Ugandan "Wakaliwood" action comedy)
Bad Biology (dir. Frank Henenlotter + R.A. the Rugged Man, 2008)
Bad News Bears (1976, starring Walter Matthau) for a 4th of July screening
Bad Ronald (1974 made-for-TV movie)
Bad Taste (dir. Peter Jackson's 1st film, New Zealand, 1987)
Bad Timing (dir. Nicholas Roeg, 1980, Theresa Russell, Art Garfunkel, Harvey Keitel)
Barbicania (doc. about the Barbican Estates in London, 2015)
Barjo (Confessions d'un Barjo, dir. Jérôme Boivin's 1992 French adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s early non-SF novel Confessions of a Crap Artist, starring Hippolyte Girardot, Anne Brochet & Richard Bohringer)
Beach Bum (dir. Harmony Korine, 2019 stoner comedy starring Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Jimmy Buffett in his final feature film, Zac Efron and Martin Lawrence. )
Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound (dir. Karen Collins, 2016)
Bellflower (dir. Evan Glodell, 2011, Evan Glodell, Tyler Dawson, Jessie Wiseman)
Bio-Zombie (Japan, 1998)
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party (dir. Ian White, 2023, documentary about the seminal Australian postpunk/noise rock band)
Black Moon (dir. Louis Malle, 1975, Cathryn Harrison, Joe Dallesandro, Alexandra Stewart, Theresa Giehse)
Black Moon Rising (dir. Harley Cokliss/ writer John Carpenter, 1986, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Lee Ving, Linda Hamilton, Robt. Vaughn)
Black Narcissus (1947 Powell & Pressburger technicolor convent drama set in the Himalayas, starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar and Flora Robson, and feat. Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons and Kathleen Byron)
Black Sun (dir. Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1964, Japan, starring Chico Roland)
Blancanieves (dir. Pablo Berger, 2011, Spain, b/w silent drama based on Bros. Grimm fairytales)
Blast of Silence (dir. Allen Baron, 1961) for Xmas/NYE week of 2018, preceded by Caterwaul's Cold Mix
Blindspotting (dir. Carlos López Estrada , 2018, produced by/starring Rafael Casale & Daveed Diggs of Clipping), preceded by Copsucker Blues (short film about 6/13/71 riots in ABQ)
Bliss (dir. Ray Lawrence, AUS, 1985, starring Barry Otto, Helen Jones)
Blood Tea & Red String (2005 stopmotion animation)
Blue Sunshine (dir. Jeff Lieberman, 1976, starring Zalman King)
Born in Flames (dir. Lizzie Borden, 1983)
The Box (dir. Richard Kelly, 2009, Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella)
The Boxer's Omen (Shaw Bros., 1983, Hong Kong horror film about Thai Black Magic, full film here)
Brain Dead (Paxton/Pullman, 1990)
Brewster Mcloud (dir. Robt. Altman, 1970, Bud Cort, Shelley Duvall)
Brotherhood of Satan (dir. Bernard McEveety, 1970, with Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Charles Bateman, filmed in ABQ, Hillsboro & Radium Springs, NM)
Bug (dir. Wm. Friedkin, screenplay Tracy Letts, 2006, starring Ashley Judd, Harry Connick Jr. & Michael Shannon)
Bunny & the Bull (dir. Paul King, 2009, with Simon Farnaby, Edward Hogg & Veronica Echegui)
Burnt Offerings (dir. Dan Curtis, 1976, starring Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith)
Buster’s Mal Heart (dir. Sarah Adina Smith, 2016, starring Rami Malek, Kate Lyn Sheil, DJ Qualls)
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (aka "Night Warning", 1981, Susan Tyrell, Jimmy McNichol)
The Butcher Boy (dir. Neil Jordan, 1997, Ireland)
Bullet on a Wire (dir. Jim Sikora, 1996, Chicago, starring Jeff Strong, Lara Phillips, Paula Killen, David Yow, Richard Kern)
Cade: The Tortured Crossing (dir. Neil Breen, 2023 starring double Neil Breen and others)
Carnival in the Night (Yami No Carnival, dir. Masashi Yamamoto, 1982, B/W & Color, starring Kumiko Ota, review)
Catch My Soul (aka Santa Fe Satan, directed by Patrick McGoohan, 1974, Richie Havens, Susan Tyrell)
Cats (2019, dir. Tom Hooper, based on the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical, which in turn was based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, with an ensemble cast including Judi Dench, Idris Elba, Ian McKellen, Taylor Swift and Rebel Wilson amongst many other unfortunates)
Caterwaul's Trailer Park vol. 1 (mixtape/mashup of film trailers & other cinematic/video ephemera by Caterwaul, 2021)
Center Jenny (dirs. Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch, 2013 futuristic fever dream created for the 55th Venice Biennale feat. Aubrey Plaza, Jena Malone, Alia Shawkat & many others)
Chameleon Street (Wendell Harris, Jr., 1990)
Chappaqua (writer/star/dir. Conrad Rooks, 1966, with Wm. Burroughs, Paula Pritchett, Jean Louis Barrault, cameos by Ravi Shankar, Allen Ginsberg, Swami Satchidananda, Ornette Coleman, The Fugs, Moondog and numerous other counterculture personalities, uncredited cameo by Herve Villechaize)
Charnoski-curated: an evening of short films from the laptop of Rick Charnoski of Six Stair, in town for a screening of his feature film Warm Blood. In order of screening: vida de jessy (16mm first film by Jessy), Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo (Charnoski), Roller Slob (restored 1987 lost film by Stephen Quintin), Good Ball I Roll - Kingston, Jamaica (Charnoski), Fort Thunder (1994 document of Lightning Bolt's origins, Charnoski) and Peter Beard - Living Sculpture (Charnoski)
Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie (dir. Tommy Chong, 1980, starring Cheech & Rikki Marin, Tommy & Shelby Chong, Evelyn Guerrero and ft. the debut of Pee Wee Herman)
The Children's Hour (dir. Wm. Wyler, play written by Lillian Hellman, 1961, starring Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner)
CHiPs (dir. Dax Shepard, 2017, starring Michael Peña, Rosa Salazar, Adam Brody, Vincent D'Onofrio)
Christmas All-nighter triple feature: Repo Man edited for TV, Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), & Black Christmas (1974)
Christmas Evil (1980)
Chupacabra vs. The Alamo (Syfy presents, starring Erik Estrada, 2013)
Consider Her Ways (1964 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Hour) preceded by several shorts for Caterwaul's Women Mix: David Lynch's The Darkened Room, Miranda July's The Amateurist, Micaela O'herlihy's Thunder Perfect Mind, and Pipilotti Rist's I Want to See How You See Me
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (dir. Peter Greenaway, 1989, Helen Mirren)
The Cost of Living (DV8 Physical Theater, 2004, 35m) preceded by Caterwaul's VDay 2019 Mix
Coven (dir./star Mark Borchardt, 1997)
Crash (dir. David Cronenberg, 1996, based on J.G. Ballard's novel, NC-17 version starring James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Rosanna Arquette)
The Crazies (dir. George Romero. 1973, starring Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones, Lynn Lowry)
Crimes of the Future (dir. David Cronenberg, 1970, 63min) followed by Culloden (dir. Peter Watkins, 1964, 69min)
Crimewave (dir. Sam Raimi, written by Raimi/Coen Bros., 1985, starring Paul Smith, Brion James, Louise Lasser, Bruce Campbell)
Crime Wave (dir. John Paizs, 1985 starring Eva Kovacs & John Paizs; opening scene, review)
Cul de Sac (dir. Roman Polanski, 1966, Donald Pleasence & Françoise Dorléac)
Daisies (dir. Věra Chytilová, 1966 banned Czech surrealist comedic art film starring Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová)
Damon Packard film fest over the course of 3 monthly screenings: Space Disco One, Reflections of Evil & Foxfur, plus short films Great Packard Lincoln Breakdown, Toast'ems, The Early 70's Horror Trailer, Chemtrails, and Dawn of an Evil Millenium
The Dark Backward (dir. Adam Rifkin, 1991, Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Wayne Newton, Rob Lowe. TMI here)
Dark Star (John Carpenter, Dan O'Bannon, 1974)
Dashcam (dir. Rob Savage, 2021, Annie Hardy, Amar Chadha-Patel, Angela Enahoro)
Deadhead Miles (dir. Vernon Zimmerman, writer Terrence Malick, 1971, starring Alan Arkin, Bruce Bennett and Paul Benedict, cameos by George Raft and Ida Lupino, full movie here)
Dead of Night (aka Deathdream, dir. Bob Clark, 1974, starring John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus)
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven St. (dir. Sam Fuller, 1973, starring Glenn Corbett, Christa Lang)
Death in Brunswick (dir. John Ruane, 1990, Australian romantic black comedy starring Sam Neill, John Clarke)
Death Race 2000 (dir. Paul Bartel, 1975, starring David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Mary Woronov, Simone Griffeth)
Decoder (1984, Germany, starring FM Einheit & Bill Rice, cameos by Genesis P-Orrige, Wm. Burroughs, industrial soundtrack by Einsturzende Neubauten & others)
Deep End (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970 German/British drama starring Jane Asher & John Moulder-Brown, cameo by Diana Dors, soundtrack by Cat Stevens & Can)
Deep Murder (dir. Nick Corirossi, 2018 slasher comedy set in a softcore porn. Quinn Beswick, Katie Aselton, Christopher McDonald, Jerry O’Connell, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Chris Redd, Stephanie Drake & Josh Margolin)
Delightful Water Universe (dir. Trent Harris, 2008, Bill Allred, Stephene Russell, weblink)
Dementia (aka Daughter of Horror, dir. John Parker, 1955, with Adrienne Barrett and Bruno Ve Sota)
Der Bunker (The Bunker, 2015 Germany)
Desperate Living (dir. John Waters, 1977, starring Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Jean Hill, Edith Massey, Susan Lowe and Mary Vivian Pearce, full movie here)
Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (dir. David Markey, 1984)
The Devils (dir. Ken Russell, 1971, starring Vanessa Redgrave & Oliver Reed)
The Devil's Rain (dir. Robt. Fuest, 1975, Ernest Borgnine, Wm. Shatner, Anton Lavey)
Die Reise ins Gluck (Journey into Bliss, Wenzel
Storch, 2004, German)
"Dis-Ease in Black & White" - Disorder (Mandarin: The Future is the Present of the Past, dir. Huang Weikai, 2009, Chinese verite' doc. of societal breakdown, B/W, 60min), preceded by Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel (dir. Steven Matheson, 2000, B/W, 26.5min)
Dr. Caligari (dir. Stephen Sayadian, 1989)
Dogs in Space (dir. Richard Lowenstein, 1986, AUS, starring Michael Hutchence, Saskia Post)
Dolemite (dir. D'Urville Martin/writers Rudy Ray Moore & Jerry Jones and starring all 3, 1975 blaxploitation original on EP-dubbed VHS)
Don't Deliver Us from Evil (dir. Joël Séria, 1971, France, Mondo Macabro rel.)
Downtown 81 (dir. Edo Bertoglio, shot 1981/released 2000, starring Jean-Michel Basquiat, voiced by Saul Williams, with appearances by Giorgio Gomelsky, James Chance, Walter Stedding, Tav Falco, Amos Poe, John Lurie, Debbie Harry and featuring a killer soundtrack)
Driver's Seat (aka Identikit, dir. Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1974, Italian, starring Elizabeth Taylor, cameos by Andy Warhol)
Dudes (dir. Penelope Spheeris, 1987, Jon Cryer, Catherine Mary Stewart, Daniel Roebuck & Lee Ving) preceded by a Lee Ving Mix by Caterwaul
The Dunwich Horror (dir. Daniel Haller, 1970, based on H.P. Lovecraft novella, starring Dean Stockwell, Sandra Dee & Ed Begley, relentless theme by Les Baxter) in tribute to Stockwell, R.I.P. 11/7/21
Dying of Laughter (dir. Alex de la Iglesia, 1999, Spain)
The Earl (dir. Jim Sikora, 2007, starring Danny Goldring, John Moran, Steve Schine, Noah Simon)
Early Works short films: Rubber Band Pistol (dir. Juzo Itami, 1962, 33m) preceded by He Was Once (dir. Mary Hestand, 1989, 14m) and Dottie Gets Spanked (dir. Todd Haynes, 1993, 29m)
Eat the Rich (dir. Peter Richardson, 1987, starring cast members of The Young Ones and The Comic Strip presents..., Lemmy & Motorhead, and many other actor/musician cameos: Robbie Coltrane, Paul McCartney, Shane MacGowan, Bill Wyman, Hugh Cornwell, Jools Holland, Koo Stark, Angela Bowie...)
Electric Boogaloo (2014 doc about Cannon Films)
Electroma (Daft Punk's 2006 art film )
The End (1978, starring Burt Reynolds)
The Endless (dir./prod./written by and starring Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead, 2017, costarring Callie Hernandez, Tate Ellington, Lew Temple)
End of the Road (dir. Aram Avakian, 1969 adaptation of 1958 John Barth novel, starring Stacy Keach, James Earl Jones, Harris Yulin, Dorothy Tristan)
Escape from Tomorrow (dir. Randy Moore debut, 2013, Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Katelynn Rodriguez, Jack Dalton)
Escapes (dir. Michael Almereyda, 2017, montage/doc about actor/screenwriter Hampton Fancher)
Eternal (dir. Almereyda, 1998, starring Christopher Walken)
Everybody Rides the Carousel (1975 animated watercolor feature by John & Faith Hubley based on Erik Erikson’s psychosocial development theories, voice acting by Meryl Streep, Hubley children & others)
Evilspeak (1981)
The Evil Within (dir. Andrew Getty, 2016)
Excision (dir. Richard Bates Jr., 2012, starring AnnaLynne McCord & Traci Lords, also Malcolm McDowell, John Waters, Ray Wise and Marlee Matlin, based on 2008 short film)
eXistenZ (dir. David Cronenberg, 1999, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Iolm & Sarah Polley, for D.C. 3/15 B'day screening)
Exte (Hair Extensions, dir. Sion Sono, 2007, Japanese body horror, stars Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, and Megumi Satō)
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (dir. Karel Zeman, Czech, 1961), preceded by Jabberwocky (1971 Jan Svankmajer short)
Fair Use Mix by Caterwaul: Greenboy: Prescription for Death (Dragnet parody), Uso Justo by Coleman Miller, The Was by Soda Jerk vs. The Avalanches, Fast Film by Virgil Widrich, No Business by Negativland, and others.
Fallen Angel (dir. Otto Preminger, 1945 film noir starring Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford)
Family Game (dir. Yoshimitsu Morita, Japan, 1983)
Fantastic Man: The Derek Documentary (dir. Dante' Wisch, 2020)
Faust (Russian/German production by dir. Alexander Sokurov. 2011, starring Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Georg Friedrich, Hanna Schygulla)
Fear No Evil (dir. LaLoggia, 1981)
Feherlofia (dir. Marcell Jankovics, 1981 Hungarian animation)
Final Flesh (2009 absurdist porno written by Vernon Chatman of Wonder Showzen)
Finisterrae (dir. Sergio Caballero, Galicia, 2010)
The Firm (dir. Alan Clarke, made for BBC, 1989, starring Gary Oldman)
Fishing with Gandhi (dir. Gabe Weisert, 1998, written by/starring James & John Reichmuth, Gabe Weisert)
Fish Story (dir. Yoshihiro Nakamura, 2009, Japan)
Fly By Night (dir. Steve Gomer, 1992 hiphop drama starring Jeffrey D. Sams, Ron Brice, Maura Tierney, MC Lyte contributes music)
Foodies & Shredheads Mix (mostly youtube) via Keif, Caterwaul & Jansen: Danzig Mother, Jake E. Lee Shreds, Shakira vs. Danzig, Oh, So Oily! by Bryan Konefsky, Cooking w/Paris, Let's Paint, Exercise & Blend w/musical guests Rahdunes, Quinoa by David Lynch, and Dry Wood by Les Blank
The Fool Killer (1965, MX/USA, starring Anthony Perkins)
The Foot Fist Way (dir. Jody Hill, 2006, starring Danny McBride)
The Forbidden Zone (dir. Richard Elfman, colorized vers. of 1980 original ft. The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo, Herve Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, cameos by Viva, The Kipper Kids)
The Fountain (dir. Aronofsky, 2006)
Frankenhooker (dir. Frank Henenlotter, 1990, starring James Lorinz, Joanne Ritchie, Patty Mullen)
Frauds (1993, Australia, starring Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving, Josephine Byrnes) with P.C. Mix beforehand by Chris W.
Freaked! (1993, MTV alums, Randy Quaid, Mr. T., Bobcat Goldthwait, Brooke Shields - full movie here), preceded by Entering Texas, a short by Butthole Surfers.
Freeway (dir. Matthew Bright, 1996, Amanda Plummer, Brooke Shields, Dan Hedaya, Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon, Bokeem Woodbine)
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) (dir. Carlos Atanes, 2004, French dystopian fantasy starring Xavier Tort, Anne-Céline Auche, Manuel Solàs, Raúl Mena, Marta Timón)
Fright Show aka Cinemagic: A Journey into the Bizarre World of Horror and Sci-Fi; 1985 SOV horror/sci-fi anthology presented by Cinemagic (as "Starlog”) magazine. Followed by Really Weird Tales (SCTV-related shorts, 1987, w/ Joe Flaherty, John Candy, Martin Short & others)
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport, 1995)
Fuego! (dir. Armando Bo, 1969, Argentina, starring Isabel Sarli)
Gandahar (dir. Rene Laloux, 1988, French animated scifi)
The Gardener (aka Seeds of Evil, dir. James H. Kay, 1974 starring Joe Dallesandro, Katharine Houghton, Rita Gam, James Congdon)
Get Crazy (dir. Alan Arkush, 1983 starring Malcolm McDowell, Ed Begley, Jr., Lee Ving, cameo by Lou Reed)
Getting the Fear - Paranoia Mix by Caterwaul, featuring the "Free for All" episode of The Prisoner TV series, and also included the Tony Gault short, Not Too Much Remember
Getting the Fear, pt. 2 - Paranoia Mix by Caterwaul for the 18th Anniv. of 9/11, feat. clips from Man on Wire, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, The Net, The President's Analyst, Blue Sunshine, and many short films, concluding w/ The Eternal Frame by Ant Farm
The Ghoul (dir. Gareth Tunley, 2016 London-centric psychological thriller starring Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Rufus Jones)
Ginger in the Morning (dir. Gordon Wiles, 1974 hip/square meet-cute shot in NM, starring Sissy Spacek, Monte Markham, Mark Miller & Susan Oliver. We watched the 59min. butchered version from the cheapo “Movie Classics” 2for1 DVD that left out most of the ending. Full movie here.)
God of Cookery (dirs. Stephen Chow and Lee Lik-chi, 1996 Hong Kong comedy starring Stephen Chow, Karen Mok, Vincent Kok and Richard Ng)
God Told Me To (dir. Larry Cohen, 1976, starring Tony Lobianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney, Richard Lynch and a killer cameo by Andy Kaufman)
Good Time (dirs. Safdie Bros. 2017, starring Robt. Pattison, Jennifer Jason Leigh, music by OneOhTrix Point Never)
Gothic (dir. Ken Russell, 1986, Julian Sands, Gabriel Byrne, Natasha Richardson, Miriam Cyr)
Green Bush (1/2 hr short drama about an Aboriginal radio DJ, at end of a Caterwaul mixtape)
Grown-ups (dir. Mike Leigh, 1980 made-for-TV movie on BBC2 Playhouse)
Gymkata (Cannon Films, 1985)
Hagazussa (dir. Lukas Feigelfeld, 2017 German folk horror by way of Béla Tarr)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (dir Takashi Miike, 2001, Japanese horror-comedy/musical)
Hail (dir. Amiel Courtin-Wilson, 2011, AUS, Daniel P. Jones, Leanne Letch)
Hands of Steel (1986, review)
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (Japan, 1972), preceded by Ninja Bachelor Party (Bill Hicks, 1991)
Hard Labour (dir. Mike Leigh's 1973 made-for-TV slice of British Miserablism in an episode of Play for Today, feat. early Ben Kingsley cameo)
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (dir. Rob Zombie, 2009 animation)
Headhunters (Hodejegerne, dir. Morten Tyldum, 2012 Norwegian art theft action thriller starring Aksel Hennie)
Hear’n’Aid The Sessions (1986 documentary VHS about the making of the star-studded heavy metal benefit album and specifically the "Stars" single), preceded by the Dark Angel segment of Hard’n’Heavy vol. 12 and kicked off by the first 3 mins. of this Nirvana segment from Hard’n’Heavy vol. 16
The Heartbreak Kid (dir. Elaine May, 1972 romantic black comedy written by Neil Simon, starring Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin, Audra Lindley, Eddie Albert, and Doris Roberts)
Heavy Metal (dir Gerald Potterton, U.S./CAN, 1981, with a bitchin' soundtrack)
Heavy Metal Picnic (dir. Jeff Krulik, doc. about 1985 Maryland hesher blowout)
Hello Dankness (2023, Soda Jerk), preceded by Citizen Kane trailer, Errol Morris’ Donald Trump Movie Review, Seven Days in May trailer, and Covid Cinema mix by Caterwaul
Hell’s Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (dir. Bret Wood, 2003 documentary about 1960’s high school car crash scare films)
The Hellstrom Chronicle (dir. Waylon Green, 1971)
The Heroic Trio (dir. Johnnie To, 1993 HongKong lunatic fantasy actioner/Criterion release, starring Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui, Damian Lau)
Home Sweet Home (dir. Mike Leigh, 1982 BBC Play for Today episode, debut by Timothy Spall)
The House of Yes (1997, dir. Mark Waters, 1997 starring Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Geneviève Bujold.)
Hugo Pool (dir. Robert Downey Sr., 1997, starring Alyssa Milano, Malcolm McDowell, Sean Penn, Robt. Downey, Jr. & more)
The Hypnotist (dir. Anna Biller, 2001, 45min. short film)
Ikarie XB-1 (aka Voyage to the End of the Universe, dir. Jindřich Polák, Czech, 1963, loosely based on Stanisław Lem's novel The Magellanic Cloud, score by Zdeněk Liška)
I Know Who Killed Me (dir. Chris Sivertson, 2007 psychological thriller starring Lindsay Lohan at the beginning of a series of very public personal meltdowns)
I'm from Hollywood (dirs. Lynne Margulies & Joe Orr, 1989 doc. about comedian/actor/professional wrestler Andy Kaufman)
Impulse (dir. William Grefé, 1974, starring William Shatner, Ruth Roman, Kim Nicholas, Jennifer Bishop and Harold Sakata, full movie here)
In the Mouth of Madness (dir. John Carpenter, 1995, starring Sam Neill)
In the Soup (1992, ft. Seymour Cassell, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Beals, Pat Moya)
Incubus (dir. Leslie Stevens, 1966, dialogue in Esperanto with English subtitles, starring William Shatner, Allison Ames, Eloise Hardt, Milos Milos)
Inferno (dir. Dario Argento, 1980)
Jack Cassidy tribute: Mysteries & Scandals Mar. '99 episode, followed by "Publish or Perish" episode of Columbo (Jan. ’74)
Jaco (dirs. Paul Marchand and Stephen Kijak, prod. Robert Trujillo, 2014 documentary about savant rockstar jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius)
Jesus' Son (dir. Alison Maclean, 1999, starring Billy Crudup & Samantha Morton, also Holly Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Denis Leary, Jack Black, and a Miranda July cameo)
Jisoe (2005 doc about Australian graf writer)
Johnny YesNo & Redux (dir. Peter Care, 1982 & 2008, postpunk retro noir, soundtrack by Cabaret Voltaire)
Kamikaze 89 (W. Germany, 1982, starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Killer Inside Me (Errol Morris doc. about Sondra London for First Person TV series, 2000) preceded by Glen Danzig "interview” excerpt
Killer Joe (dir. Wm Friedkin R.I.P. 8/7/23, screenplay Tracy Letts, 2011, starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, and Thomas Haden Church)
Klown Kamp Massacre (2010, Tromafilms rel.)
The Last Blast: Live in Seattle VHS of final concert by Big Black (U.S.) at Georgetown Power Plant in Boeing Field, Sttle. WA, 9/8/87, also ft. Jesse Bernstein, Roland Barker & James Husted, preceded by “Bondi vs. Albini” excerpt from You Weren’t There: The History of Chicago Punk 1977-84 documentary, and an excerpt from an unidentified Shellac concert (@ATP?) performing “Wingwalker”; in tribute to Steve Albini (RIP 5/7/24). Evening kicked off with Time Bomb (2014) by Craig Baldwin, audio by Maggi Payne.
Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (dir. Richard Blackburn, 1973 horror starring Cheryl Lynn "Rainbeaux" Smith, Lesley Gilb)
Let My Puppets Come (dir. Gerard Damiano, 1976 puppet porn) preceded by an episode of Police Squad!
Lifeforce (1985, Cannon Films, review)
Liquid Sky (1980 electroclash)
"Lost" Audition Tape (dir. Preston Curtis Hammer, 2001, World Premiere of a truly awful found VHS tape, 92mins)
Luz (2018, German, dir. Tilman Singer, starring Luana Velis, German/Spanish)
Mad Lab Theater Exp. 2: M/TV mixtape with video work from Basement Films folks: Jenette Isaacson covering Mazzy Starr on uke to 16mm loop, videos for Rudest Priest, Tom Foe (live accomp. by Mark Weaver on tuba), Cthulha, Ren Adams with spoken word/perf. accompanied by manipulated Peter Gabriel video, and more.
Mad Lab Theater Exp. 3: Hauntology feat. the usual suspects and a bit more, including heavies such as Bill Morrison, Stan Brakhage, Guy Maddin & Somno Profundante
Mad Lab Theater Exp. 4: Happy Holidays. Live A/V performance by Jenette, old films reworked by Basement Films folks into something new, Caterwaul & Konefsky trotted out some classic clip jobs, and The Monkees capped it off perfectly once again.
Mad Lab Theater Exp. 5: Y2K-themed
Mad Love (1935, starring Peter Lorre) w/ 1999 short film, Psy-show
Man Bites Dog (Belgian, 1992)
Massacre at Central High (1976, in 35mm!)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (dir. Altman, 1971, starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie; soundtrack by Leonard Cohen, R.I.P. 11/7/16)
Megaforce (1982)
Messiah of Evil (dirs. Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz, 1973 horror film)
Miami Connection (written by, produced by and starring Y.K. Kim, 1987. Alamo Drafthouse rel.)
Mister Freedom (Wm. Klein, France, 1969, starring Delphine Seyrig, cameos by Don Pleasance & Serge Gainsbourg)
Morgiana (Dir. Juraj Herz, Czech, 1972)
Motorama (dir. Barry Shils, 1991; cameos: Martha Quinn, Flea, Meat Loaf, Drew Barrymore, Susan Tyrell, Mary Woronov, Jack Nance)
The Mouse And his Child (1977 animated film)
My Life as a Dog (Mit Liv som Hund, dir. Lasse Hallstrom, 1985, Sweden, starring Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen)
The Navigator (1988 AUS/NZ)
Next of Kin (dir. Tony Williams, AUS, 1982)
Niagara, Niagara (dir. Bob Gosse, 1997)
The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz (dir. Ben Hopkins, Anglo-German surrealist comedy, 2000)
Out of the Blue (1980, Linda Manz, Sharon Farrell, Dennis Hopper, for D.H.'s May 2010 death tribute) preceded by The Russian Suicide Chair short
Over the Edge (dir. Jonathan Kaplan, 1979, introducing Matt Dillon)
The Peanut Butter Solution (notorious Canadian kids TV movie, 1985)
Penitentiary III (dir. Jamaa Fanaka, 1987 Cannon release starring Leon Isaac Kennedy)
Perdita Durango (aka Dance w/the Devil, dir. Alex de la Iglesia, 1997, starring Javier Bardem & Rosie Perez)
Performance (Roeg/Cammell, 1970, starring Mick Jagger, James Fox, Anita Pallenberg)
Phantom Lady (dir. Robt. Siodmak, 1944 film noir)
Phantom of the Paradise (dir. Brian DePalma, 1974, starring Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper)
Population: 1 (dir. Rene Daalder, 1986, starring Tomata duPlenty, cameos by members of Los Lobos, Beck, Penelope Houston, Carel Struycken and El Duce)
Possession (dir. Andrej Zulawski, 1981, starring Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill)
Prospero's Books (dir. Peter Greenaway, 1991, starring John Gielgud)
Psychomania (1973, British, starring Nicky Henson, Beryl Reid, George Sanders and Robert Hardy)
Quatermass & the Pit (aka 5 Million Miles to Earth, Hammer Films, 1967)
Red Dwarf short night, with “Legion” (S.6, Ep.2) followed by “Quarantine” S.5, Ep.4)
Reform School Girls (1986, starring Wendy O. Williams)
Remember My Name (dir. Alan Rudolph, 1978, starring Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn, Jeff Goldblum, & Berry Berenson)
Ricochet (dir. Russell Mulcahy, 1991, starring Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T)
Roadside Prophets (dir. Abbe Wool, 1992, starring John Doe, Adam Horovitz, cameos by John Cusack, Arloe Guthrie, David Carradine, Timothy Leary)
Rock'n'roll Nightmare (aka The Edge of Hell, dir. John Fasano, 1987, Canadian, starring Jon-Mikl Thor)
The Runner (Davandeh, dir. Amir Naderi, Iran, 1984)
Sex & Broadcasting: a film about WFMU (2014 documentary)
Shattered (aka Something to Hide, dir. Alastair Reid, 1972 British thriller starring Peter Finch, Shelley Winters, U.S. VHS edited release)
The Shout (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978, starring Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Tim Curry)
The Similars (dir. Ezban, 2015 Mexican horror thriller in the style of Twilight Zone)
Simon of the Desert (dir. Luis Bunuel, 1965) preceded by Corey McAbee’s “The Ketchup and Mustard Man” ft. The Billy Nayer Show and the Three's Company “Up in the Air” episode
Slapstick of Another Kind (1982, Madeline Kahn, Jerry Lewis, Marty Feldman, based on a Kurt Vonnegut story)
Sleeping Dogs (dir. Roger Donaldson, 1977, NZ, starring Sam Neill, Nevan Rowe, Ian Mune, Clyde Scott & Warren Oates)
Sleepwalk (Sara Driver, 1986)
Some Call it Loving (aka Sleeping Beauty, dir. James V. Harris, 1973, Zalman King, Carol White and Tisa Farrow, cameo by Richard Pryor)
Some Yo Yo Stuff (dir. Anton Corbijn, 1993, about Capt. Beefheart, RIP 12/2010, plus Letterman appearance and other stuff)
Sonny Boy (1989, starring Paul Smith, David Carradine, Brad Dourif, filmed in Deming, NM)
Soul in the Hole (1997 doc. about Brooklyn street basketballers)
Space is the Place (1974, ft. Sun Ra & his Arkestra)
Steppenwolf (dir. Fred Haines, 1974, in tribute to Max von Sydow, RIP 3/8/20, based on Herman Hesse novel)
Streetwise (Martin Bell, Cheryl McCall, 1984 doc. about Portland street kids)
Subway (dir. Luc Besson, 1985, starring Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani)
Sugar Hill (1974 blaxploitation zombie flick)
Taking Tiger Mountain (dirs. Tom Huckabee & Kent Smith, shot in 1975 & rel. 1985, starring a 19-yr. old Bill Paxton and the citizens of Camarthenshire, S. Wales)
Tai Chi Master (aka Twin Warriors, dir. Yuen Woo Ping, 1993 HongKong martial arts flick starring Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh)
Terrorvision (dir. Ted Nicolau, 1986, starring Mary Woronov, Gerrit Graham, John Gries)
The Territory (dir. Raul Ruiz, 1981, Portugese/French philosophical horror)
These Times Cinema: two obliquely topical short films from Another Time: Short Circuit (dir. Manfred Kirchheimer, 1973, b/w, 45m) followed by The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (dir. Wm. H. Whyte, released 1980, color, 60m)
The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963 cat movie, starring Patrick McGoohan)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (dir. Sydney Pollack, 1969, starring Red Buttons, Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young)
Thundercrack (dir./writer McDowell/Kuchar, 1975, "the world’s only underground kinky art adult horror film" w/ Curt McDowell, Marion Eaton, George Kuchar)
Tideland (dir. Terry Gilliam, 2005, w/Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly, Jodelle Ferland)
Tigers Are Not Afraid (dir. Issa López, 2017, MX)
Tiptoes (dir. Matthew Bright, 2003, starring Matthew McConaughey, Kate Beckinsale, Patricia Arquette & Gary Oldman)
Tomorrow Night (dir. Louis C.K., 1998, starring Chuck Sklar, Martha Greenhouse, J.B. Smoove, Rick Shapiro, appearances by Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, and cameos by Amy Poehler, Conan O'Brien & Louis C.K. himself)
The Top of His Head (dir. Peter Mettler, CAN, 1989, starring Stephen Ouimette, Christie MacFadyen, Gary Reineke, David Fox, music by Fred Frith, song by Jane Siberry)
Triplets of Belleville (dir. Sylvain Chomet, 2003, French animation)
Turkish Delight (dir. Paul Verhoeven, Dutch, 1973, starring Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven) in tribute to Hauer's passing, 7/19/19.
Twister (dir. Michael Almereyda, 1989, starring Crispin Glover, Harry Dean Stanton, Dylan McDermott, Suzy Amis, WSBurroughs cameo; bad trailer) preceded by "Tricks" from David Lynch's Hotel Room series, for HDS tribute, RIP 9/15/17)
Ultra Warrior (dir. Roger Corman, 1990)
The Unborn (dir. Rodman Flender, 1991, Brooke Adams, Jeff Hayenga) preceded by Le Regulateur, animated short by Philippe Grammaticopoulos.
Vagabond (dir. Agnes Varda, 1985, French, starring Sandrine Bonnaire, in tribute to Varda, RIP 3/29/19)
Vampir Cuadecuc (dir. Pere Portabella, 1970, Spain), preceded by Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin videos for Histoire de Melody Nelson album
The Venture Bros: Radiant Is The Blood Of The Baboon Heart (dirs. Chris McCullough and Doc Hammer, Adult Swim 2023 release)
Wanda (dir. Barbara Loden, 1970, starring Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins)
Wild in the Streets (1968, AIP rel., Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook, Diane Varsi, Shelley Winters, Richard Pryor)
Wild Thing (dir. Max Reid, 1987, starring Rob Knepper)
Yojimbo (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1961, starring Toshiro Mifune)
Yor, Hunter from the Future (dir. Antonio Margheriti, 1983, starring Reb Brown & Corinne Clery)
You are not I (dir. Sara Driver, 1981)
Zu: Time Warrior (dir. Tsui Hark, 1983 Hong Kong supernatural wuxia fantasy starring Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Brigitte Lin, Adam Cheng, Judy Ong. This video is an alternate edit for the European market of Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain)
Coma (dir. Michael Crichton, 1978 hospital thriller)
Deborah Stratman films: In Order Not To Be Here followed by O'er the Land
Soda Jerk films: Astro Black 4-parter and Terror Nullius
Fraud (dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp, 2016 found footage conceptual documentary)
Mock-up on Mu (dir. Craig Baldwin, 2008, full film here)
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