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. 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

Cult Movie Calendar

Please Note: Because of unforeseen circumstances (i.e., films being pulled out of theatrical release), this schedule is subject to change

• July 18, 20--Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981)
  Directed by Steven Spielberg (War Horse, The Adventures of TinTin, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List). Starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, John Rhys-Davies, Alfred Molina and Denholm Elliott. The mother of all action adventures, created by George Lucas of "Star Wars" fame. In the early half of the 20th century, archaeologist/adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government and pitted in a race against time to locate the mysterious and supernatural Ark of the Covenant before it falls into the hands of Adolf Hitler and his regime of Nazi supporters, who seek to use the Biblical artifact's power as a means for world domination. 115 minutes, Rated PG

• August 15, 17 -- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  Directed by Frank Darabont. Starring Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Ned Bellamy, David Proval, James Whitmore and Don McManus. Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940's, this old-fashioned, life-affirming tale shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner. This reverent adaptation of an unremarkable 1982 Stephen King novella was received tepidly at the box office, but gained an enthusiastic following and surprised many by netting seven Oscar nominations. 142 minutes, Rated R

• September 19, 21--Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  Directed by Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds). Starring Chris Penn, Michael Madsen, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Eddie Bunker and Steve Buscemi as the now-legendary color-coded gang of misfit robbers. Tarantino burst onto the Hollywood scene in 1992 with this bold crime drama, the standard by which all future robbery-gone-awry movies would be judged. Darkly funny at times, sadistic and brutal at others, Dogs wraps bloody mayhem and sharp dialogue around themes of loyalty and friendship. 99 minutes, Rated R

• October 17, 19--The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
  Directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, The Fun House, Invaders from Mars). Starring Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen and John Dugan. En route to visit their grandfather's ritually desecrated grave, five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, and eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home ... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills. 83 minutes. Rated R

• November 14, 16--Die Hard (1988)
  Directed by John McTiernan (The Hunt For Red October, Predator, Last Action Hero, Rollerball). Starring Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Gleason, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov and Robert Davi. In this pumped-up, high tech surprise hit of 1988, a triumph of slick direction and lowbrow thrills, NYPD officer John McClane is in Los Angeles with his estranged wife and kids for the Christmas holidays, when she and her co-workers are taken hostage by a Hans Gruber and his group of well-armed thieves in an imposing state-of-the-art new office building in Century City. Now it is up to the resourceful and fearless McClane to save the hostages, bring down Gruber, and reconcile with his wife. 138 minutes. Rated R

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