2-For-1 Double Features, One Week Only!

*** HOLIDAY PRIZES + Guest programmer ZACH CLARK in person
Friday, Nov. 25 + Saturday, Nov. 26 ***

"VHS TURKEYS" is a week-long series of cult monstrosities, failed art films, and whacked-out double features that are too weird to live, too rare to die, and only available on videocassette. Guest programmed by former video-store clerk and reRun filmmaker Zach Clark (MODERN LOVE IS AUTOMATIC and the NY Times "Critics' Pick" VACATION!), the series will offer 2-for-1 Double Features from November 25th - December 1st. All tossed-off descriptions courtesy of Zach:

* ALT SCREEN is hosting Zach's full program notes here.

* THE WALL STREET JOURNAL interviews Zach here.

Friday, Nov. 25:
CHRISTMAS A GO-GO

ELVES
(Friday 11/25, 7pm)
1989, dir. Jeffrey Mandel, 89 minutes

[Watch the trailer] "Neo-Nazis are trying to cross-breed elves and virgins to create a new master race and only an alcoholic, homeless shopping mall Santa Claus played by Dan 'Grizzly Adams' Haggerty can stop them! If there existed a TROLL 2 Christmas special, this would be it."

MAGIC CHRISTMAS TREE
(Friday 11/25, 10pm, STAY FOR FREE AFTER "ELVES")
1964, dir. Richard C. Parish, 60 minutes 

[Watch the trailer] "Watch the world's most boring child and the world's bitchiest talking plant team up for Holiday Hijinks! Also starring a witch, a pervy giant and what appears to be a drunk they put in a Santa Claus outfit while he was passed out. A Kiddee Klassic!"

Saturday, Nov. 26:
NEW WAVE SCI-FI

KAMIKAZE 89
(Saturday 11/26, 7pm)
1982, dir. Wolf Gremm, 106 minutes

[Watch a clip] "Uber-auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder just barely keeps it together in his last appearance on film as a leopard-print-suit-wearing private dick in the new wave future. Come see what Variety hailed as 'a thriller!'"

VOYAGE OF THE ROCK ALIENS
(Saturday 11/26, 10pm, STAY FOR FREE AFTER "KAMIKAZE 89")
1984, dir. James Fargo, 97 minutes 

[Watch the trailer] "What if aliens from outer space formed a Devo rip-off band? What if Ruth Gordon was a small town sheriff? What if someone thought Pia Zadora had talent?"

Monday, Nov. 28:
OUTCASTS & OUTSIDERS

MULTIPLE MANIACS
(Monday 11/28, 7pm)
1970, dir. John Waters, 90 minutes

[Watch a clip] "Still the weirdest, nastiest and roughest movie of John Waters' career. Opens with a chicken's head being chopped off and goes downhill from there. If you haven't seen Divine get raped by a giant paper-mache lobster, you haven't really lived."

THE WEIRDO
(Monday 11/28, 10pm, STAY FOR FREE AFTER "MULTIPLE MANIACS")
1989, dir. Andy Milligan, 91 minutes 

[IMDb] "You haven't scraped the depths of the cesspool of bad cinema until you've seen Andy Milligan's movies. And you haven't scraped the depths of the cesspool of Andy Milligan's movies until you've seen THE WEIRDO."

Tuesday, Nov. 29:
TRUE STORIES

MANSON
(Tuesday 11/29, 7pm)
1973, dir. Robert Hendrickson & Laurence Merrick, 83 minutes

[IMDb] "This documentary isn't a turkey. It was nominated for an Oscar. But, it's only on VHS and it will give you the fucking creeps."

MARQUIS
(Tuesday 11/29, 10pm, STAY FOR FREE AFTER "MANSON")
1989, dir. Henri Xhonneaux, 83 minutes 

[Watch a clip] "Leave it to France to produce an all-puppet Marquis de Sade biopic, complete with a talking penis. This will also give you the fucking creeps."

Thursday, Dec. 1:
THERE'S NO WAVE LIKE NO-WAVE

FEAR, ANXIETY & DEPRESSION
(Thursday 12/1, 7pm)
1989, dir. Todd Solondz, 85 minutes

[Watch a clip] "This movie is so good that Todd Solondz disowned it. You get to hear him sing a song, too. Misanthropy!"

BLOOD ORGY OF THE LEATHER GIRLS
(Thursday 12/1, 10pm, STAY FOR FREE AFTER "FEAR, ANXIETY & DEPRESSION")
1988, dir. Meredith Lucas, 74 minutes 

[Watch a clip] "A scum-soaked, sleaze-punk juvenile delinquent clas-sick! Cheapness as an aesthetic. Feminism?!?"