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Fri Aug 8

MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS


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Castro Theatre
429 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA 94114 map
cross street: Market
district: Castro/Upper Market

Fri Aug 8 (7:30pm: Return to Oz, 9:45pm: Beetlejuice, 11:59pm: Meet the Feebles)

Description
7:30p: Return to Oz
Director: Walter Murch Containing: Fairuza Balk, Piper Laurie
For anyone who didn’t get the opportunity to be absolutely traumatized by this so-called “kids” film upon it's release, here’s your chance! Director Walter Murch (the editor of APOCALYPSE NOW) pits Dorothy (Balk) against electro-shock therapy, a horrifying gang called the Wheelers and a wicked witch (Jean Marsh) that has a collection of heads that she can try on for size anytime she wants. This disturbing and wildly inventive sequel was the first film, rightfully so, to be given a PG-13 (along with INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE DOOM) and has been unrightfully dismissed for over 20 years. BEAUTIFUL 35MM PRINT. Preceded by other kreepy-kids-films trailers. (1985, 113 min)

9:45p: Beetlejuice
Director: Tim Burton Containing: Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones
Tim Burton’s updating of the 1937 Cary Grant vehicle TOPPER, balances gruesome humor, bittersweet love and wacky antics to boot! Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis flawlessly play the newly-deads, while Michael Keaton’s raunchy breakout performance and Winona Ryder’s spot-on estranged goth-teen gives this laugh-fest a lasting intelligence that is just begging to be seen with a packed, jovial crowd! BEAUTIFUL 35MM PRINT. Preceded by a handful of 80s trailers. (1988, 92 min)

11:59p: Meet the Feebles
Director: Peter Jackson Containing: The Cast of Spluppets (Splatter Muppets)
Long ago, in a time before THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, New Zealand director Peter Jackson created this truly freaky Muppet-esque fantasy film that left audiences shocked and offended. Low-budget and mean-spirted in all the best ways, these puppets use heroin, make porn in the basement and contract HIV by having unsafe sex. Yet nothing will prepare you for the amount blood and guts that a machine gun toting, pissed off female hippo can achieve. This homemade horror flick proves why Jackson is one of the most inventive filmmakers of our time. DO NOT MISS THIS RARE 35MM PRINT. Preceded by other fucked-up fantasy trailers. (1989, 94 min)