This discussion series is meant to bring working people together to discuss what we have the power to change in our day-to-day lives, and how those changes should be made.
The Anti-Banality Union is an anonymous collective who re-cut Hollywood blockbusters into new feature-length films. In their fourth feature, Earth II (2021), the ABU sets their sights on climate collapse, scouring the past four decades of disaster movies and combining them into an action-packed analysis of Hollywood’s pathological climate grief.
Carlos Enrique Toboada's EVEN THE WIND IS AFRAID is a cult milestone in Mexican horror that, in the midst of the nation's student uprisings, gave gothic horror a modern, fresh and youthful facelift. A spooky girls-only ghost tale with mini-skirts, pop music, and striking colors!
Jefferson Thomas is a writer, actor, director, producer, FX artist, and illustrator in Portland, OR who creates work under What's in the Water Productions.
As the world is overrun by zombies, a small group of scientists and military personnel dwelling in an underground bunker in Florida must determine whether they should educate, eliminate or escape the undead horde.
Join us for a community costume swap and theater decorating party to kick-off Horror October!
A group of horny teens sneak into a mall. But they soon find themselves confronted with a team of blood-thirsty, high-tech Robo-killers.
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary Häxan uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-twentieth-century psychiatric patients.
A collage of assorted clips from the early days of Snowboarding arranged and edited by Tyler Orton with a Q and A after and second short film.
When Ofelia's estranged aunt dies, she is mysteriously willed a vast estate. She invites her three roommates to come live with her. But these things usually come with a catch: the old woman's dying wish was that that her beloved cat, Bequer, be treated with compassion and respect.
It's been eight years since the Miskatonic massacre. Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West (Jeffrey Combs) continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life—starting with the heart of his young protégé’s dearly deceased.
A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending. Directed by inventor of the horror splatter genre himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis!
What's in the basket? You'll love finding out. The debut gutter-trash symphony from Frank Henenlotter stealthily filmed in the toilet bowls of Times Square and chock-full of demented fury.
Frank Henenlotter's ultimate Grimm’s Fairy Tale for perverted adults. This is a slimy, grimy, gore-soaked slice-of-NYC-life that follows a poor schmo who is addicted to a drug called Aylmer. But unlike heroin or cocaine, Aylmer is a mutant penis monster who needs to eat human brains in order survive. Hooray!
A medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of Manhattan street prostitutes. Gory, hilarious, and the definition of everything bad taste, Frank Henenlotter out does himself in this truly outrageous film.
Join us at the Clinton Street Theater for an October evening of classic horror and science fiction movie trailers PROJECTED FROM 16mm Film!
A man in search for the creation of utopia in the present. First, as a member of a commune on an Estonian island, then alone in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland and later as the singer of a neo-pagan, black metal band in Norway.
Curated by Chris Bacon
Offleashed II, Sloppy Seconds by Board of Missoula and Destroyer (Remastered) by Kingpin Productions
Graciela, a young and troubled young girl, becomes obsessed with witchcraft. She befriends Fabiola, a wealthy schoolmate, and impresses her with her knowledge of the black arts. But what begins first as childish playfulness increasingly becomes more destructive and sinister, until utter mayhem erupts.
When a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her.
Affable hillbillies Tucker (Alan Tudyk) and Dale (Tyler Labine) are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are mistaken for murderers by a group of preppy college students.
Unleash your inner bard in this game show adventure combining elements of karaoke and tabletop roleplaying games.
Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, then picks up men and seduces them. However, her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she at last meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved drives her to the brink of insanity and murder.
Curated by Tyler Orton
Love / Hate by Kids Know Productions and 9191 from Volcom Ent.
This month, it's open themed, so anything goes, but you know we're gonna get spooky.... We can't help it!!! Get ready for some fun, with an all new cast of Melanated Magic!!
Join us for the big screen event of the season- a TRIPLE FEATURE of the cult classic film trilogy: QUEERS FROM SPACE! Brought to you by one-half NelSon and Jocelyn Knobs at the historic Clinton Street Theater.
After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.
Portland’s original 72-Hour film contest rises from the ground like a hungry zombie to see who will join it in making Portland scared! Movie makers ranging from beginner to expert, challenge themselves and their craft to write, direct, film, and edit their 6:66 minute movie in under 72 hours.
Portland’s original 72-Hour film contest rises from the ground like a hungry zombie to see who will join it in making Portland scared! Movie makers ranging from beginner to expert, challenge themselves and their craft to write, direct, film, and edit their 6:66 minute movie in under 72 hours.
A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.
A creepy, meta-tribute to the Italian Giallo horror movies of the 1970s, character actor Toby Jones was widely praised in the lead role.
SPIRIT OF EVIL, legend holds, was the first horror film ever made in the Soviet Union, and for a long time the only one. Based on Nikolai Gogol's Ukrainian folk tale, VIY recounts the story of a debauched novice priest who, one dark and spooky night, encounters an old witch whom he mortally wounds.
A dream of dark and troubling things . . .
David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.
After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.
AGFA's Head Archivist brings his Bat City Cinema show to the Clinton Street Theater for an explosion of evil on 16mm like no other!
The world of Gandahar is a peaceful matriarchal society where everyone lives in harmony with nature, until a mysterious invasion of metal men begin petrifying and capturing its people.
Operation Nightwatch Portland will proudly host a free screening of Paul Freedman’s documentary, The Dirty Divide. Panel discussion with the filmmaker and local organizations immediately following.
Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein (writers, producers, and showrunners for The Simpsons, Futurama, Disenchantment) present a new, never-before-seen restoration of their TV show Mission Hill with original music! Select episodes screened followed by a Q&A with the creators.
Join director Thom Hilton and members of the cast and crew of You Look Pretty Up Here for this special screening event, which will include a live performance of four songs written for the film by composer Jake Mackie. Filmed entirely on location in Rhododendron, Oregon!
Coming to Portland after winning BEST LGBTQ FEATURE FILM in Seattle, this campy screwball sex comedy is getting rave reviews. Environmentalist Larry takes an experimental virility drug to…
Chris, Leon, and Eric (them Broke Gravy boys) are ready to send off the summer in style, with a little help from a few of our friends of course.
