Cult Movie Series

Hey all you Insomniacs, Pop Culture Fanatics, Thrill Seekers, and Creatures of the Night! The Cult Movie Series is now back with monthly screenings of your favorite films (voted on by you guys during our recent on-line polling). Each film shows Thursday at 9:30pm and Saturday at 12 midnight at Camera 3 Entertainment (note the new later start times for 2012). All tickets are only $7.50. Series sponsored by Psycho Donuts, Streetlight Records and Time Tunnel Toys, who will be providing prizes. Alcohol served until 11:00pm, with a special guest hosting each screening.

By popular demand, Camera 3 Entertainment is now hosting monthly Saturday night screenings of Tommy Wiseau's The Room, an electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies. This long-time midnight cult sensation screens the second Saturday of each month, starting at 12 midnight. All seats are only $7.50. BUY TICKETS

Do The Time Warp Again as Barely Legal, the Bay Area's premiere Rocky Horror Picture Show performing cast, is hosting monthly Saturday night events at Camera 3 Cinema in downtown San Jose. All tickets for these screenings, sponsored by Psycho Donuts, are $10, and doors open at 11:30pm (with alcohol served until 11:00pm). Showtime is 12 midnight. We highly recommend that you book your seats in advance! Events are the first Saturday of each month, with periodic bonus screenings. BUY TICKETS

2012 Cult Movie Calendar

• February 16, 18--Back to The Future (1985)
  Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Billy Zane. Unlikely best friends Marty McFly and Doc Emmett Brown, a school-skipping teenager and crackpot inventor, find themselves whisked back to 1955 in a time machine stylishly created in the shape of a DeLorean. Things look bad for Marty when he accidentally gets in the way of his then-teenage parents falling in love, and so begins a race to get them together before his own existence becomes doomed. 116 min/Rated PG

• March 15, 17--Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
  Directed by Steve Barron. Starring Josh Pais, Michelan Sisti, Leif Tilden, David Forman, Robbie Rist, Corey Feldman. Through contact with a mysterious substance called Ooze, 4 little turtles in the canalization of New York City mutate to giant turtles, who can speak, walk upright and love pizza. The wise rat Splinter becomes their mentor and educates them to be Ninja fighters, who seek to prevent their bad, bad arch enemy Shredder from taking over the world. 83 min/Rated PG

• April 19, 21--Fight Club (1999)
  Directed by David Fincher (Seven, Panic Room). Starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham-Carter, Jared Leto and Richmond Arquette. Edward Norton plays the nameless narrator, a corporate drone and insomniac completely dissatisfied with his life, who befriends the irrepressible force of nature that is soap salesman Tyler Durden. Together they start up a bare-knuckles, no-holds-barred fight club, where young, equally bored urban professionals meet once a week and beat the crap out of each other. 139 min/Rated R

• May 17, 19--Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
  Directed by Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys), from Hunter S. Thompson's semi-autobiographical 1971 novel. Starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, with double-take inducing cameos by Harry Dean Stanton, Christina Ricci, Gary Busey, Ellen Barkin, Tobey Maguire, Cameron Diaz, Flea, and old HST himself. Wacked out on narcotics and hallucinogens, the crazed duo of Raoul Duke (Depp playing a cross between Charles Bukowski, Timothy Leary and Groucho Marx) and his attorney, Dr. Gonzo, head for Las Vegas, where they continue their debauched odyssey by desecrating anything and everything that crosses their path. 118 min/Rated R

• June 14, 16--Ghostbusters (1984)
  Directed by Ivan Reitman. Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis and Annie Potts. In this sci-fi horror comedy that spawned several sequels, three odd-ball New York scientists kicked out of their cushy university positions, decide to set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money. 105 min/Rated PG

• July 19, 21--Jurassic Park (1993)
  Directed by Stephen Spielberg, from the best-selling novel by Michael Crichton. Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough. John Hammond has invited four individuals, plus his two grandchildren to join him at Jurassic Park, an island full of living dinosaurs. But will everything go to plan -- specially when one of the park's own workers attempts to steal the dinosaurs embryos. It's now a race for survival with everyone located all over the island. 127 min/Rated PG-13

• August 16, 18--The Big Lebowski (1998)
  Directed by the Coen Brothers. Starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro and Julianne Moore. In this wild, Raymond Chandler style tale and cult movie phenomenon, beardy low-life Jeff Lebowski -- aka The Dude -- is mistaken for millionaire Lebowski, and two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with a high pay-off, but it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude. 117 min/Rated R

• September 13, 15--The Princess Bride (1987)
  Directed by Rob Reiner. Starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn and Andre the Giant. In this rollicking romantic swash-buckler for all ages, a budding romance between the beautiful Buttercup and farmboy Westley is interrupted by fate when he is reportedly murdered by pirates, and she becomes the mournful fiance to Prince Humperdinck, who plans to use her as a pawn to start a war with a neighboring kingdom. But Westley returns from the "dead" to save the day, battling giants, large rodents, the Cliffs of Insanity and the Pit of Despair in order to be re-united with the love of his life. 98 min/Rated PG

• October 18, 20--Evil Dead 2 (1987)
  Directed by Sam Raimi (Evil Dead). Starring Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan HIcks and Kassie DePaiva. Perhaps the greatest horror comedy of all time, Evil Dead 2 opens with Ash, our hero from the original Evil Dead, returning to the demonic cabin in the Michigan woods. Can our brawny wiseguy save the day, or will his dead girlfriend come back to cause more trouble, in this highly imaginative and sophisticated satire of blood soaked, gore-filled horror. 84 min/Unrated

• November 15, 17--Army of Darkness (1992)
  Directed by by Sam Raimi. Starring Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz and Bridget Fonda. In this inspired sequel to the "Evil Dead" series, unassuming store clerk Ash is time-warped by a magic spell into England's Dark Ages, where he must find the Necronomicon, a compendium of the black arts, before he can return home. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, tongue-in-cheek battle between Ash's 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness. 81 min/Rated R

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