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Grindhouse Film Festival

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The Grindhouse Film Festival is presented by Brian Quinn and Eric Caidin at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles and features the screening of rare 35mm prints of cult and exploitation films from the 1960s through the 1980s, many of which have not been publicly shown since the drive-ins and inner city grindhouse theaters faded away twenty years ago. For one low price attendees get two rare films, a reel of rare exploitation trailers, a free raffle, and very often appearances by the directors, cast and crew of the films being shown.
In addition to our events in Los Angeles, we also do special screenings in other cities from time to time (Las Vegas & San Francisco so far).
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Tuesday • May 13th, 2008
NEW BEVERLY CINEMA
7165 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 938-4038
Admission: $8.00

7:30pm TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! (1964)
Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis
Starring William Kerwin and Connie Mason
10:00pm TENDER FLESH {aka WELCOME TO ARROW BEACH} (1974)
Directed by Laurence Harvey
Starring Laurence Harvey, Joanna Pettet, Stuart Whitman, John Ireland and Meg Foster

Download a printable PDF of the flyer HERE .
Help spread the word by printing a bunch (pssst... do it after-hours at your job) and giving them out to friends, family and strangers or just leaving them in public restrooms.


Saturday • May 17th, 2008
NEW BEVERLY CINEMA
7165 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 938-4038
Admission: $7.00

Special Midnight Adult Show!
Join us as we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the New Beverly Cinema with a special program of vintage 1970's XXX footage from the attic. And we really mean from the attic, as the Beverly was an adult theater before becoming Sherman Torgan's New Beverly Cinema in May 1978 and during a recent renovation we found a bunch of old 35mm reels!
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Some 2005 Grindhouse reviews, filtered through chemicals and alcohol:
January / February / March / April / May
Thanks to Bob, Sage and Dave at Grindhouse Releasing for all the support. These events wouldn't have lasted as long without their help (and prints & trailer reels).
Thanks also to the companies who have supported us.
Please visit their websites and let them know we sent you.


Note to filmmakers: We'd love to have you as a 'friend', just realize that we are not a traditional film festival and we do not take submissions (unless you made your film between 1965 and 1985 and it features hungry zombies, crazed bikers, naked women, etc.).
Also, we love comments but please try to keep them somewhat related to our event and the type of films we screen. Feel free to plug your film or event if it's related to grindhouse cinema, but no large advertisements for your company that has nothing to do with our event. Thanks!

My Interests

Bringing the ghost of
The Deuce to Los Angeles!

Cutting class to hit the arcade, grabbing a bite at Orange Julius or risking Tad's Steaks, checkin' out the loops and girls at Peepland and Show World, smokin' some dust or a fat spliff, stuffing a 40 of Crazy Horse into my jacket, and checking out some sex, horror and kung fu on that beautiful strip of land between 7th and 8th Avenue...or at least trying to recapture a bit of that in the decaying, smog filled hellhole known as LA.

I'd like to meet:

Music:

..

Movies:

Grindhouse, Exploitation, Blaxploitation, Kung Fu, Sexploitation, Horror, Women in Prison, Porn, Cannibals, Zombies, etc.

Some of the films we've screened already: Hit List • Maniac • Ms. 45 • Alley Cat • Penitentiary • Welcome Home Brother Charles • Scum of the Earth • The Opening of Misty Beethoven • The Vampires Night Orgy • God Told Me To • Bone • Satan's Mistress • Scream of the Demon Lover • Man From Deep River • Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks • The Sinful Dwarf • Goliathon • Infra-Man • Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things • Black Shampoo • The Human Tornado • Switchblade Sisters • The Swinging Cheerleaders • Silent Night, Bloody Night • Young Warriors • Malibu High • The Forest • Don't Go in The Woods • Vampyres • The Blood Spattered Bride • Mausoleum • Demons • Zombie • The Grim Reaper • The Astro-Zombies • Dolls • Crash! • Devil Woman • Lady Terminator • Don't Go Near the Park • House on the Edge of the Park • Torso • What Have They Done To Solange? • Dolemite • Brotherhood of Death • Headless Eyes • Night of the Zombies • Silent Night, Deadly Night • Black Christmas • Hollywood Hillside Strangler • Don't Go In The House • Combat Cops • Grizzly • The Visitor • Night of the Howling Beast • The Psycho Lover • The Toolbox Murders • Shock Waves • Burial Ground • The No Mercy Man • Rolling Thunder • Maniac Cop 2 • Vigilante • Amityville II: The Possession • Women's Prison Massacre • The Black Gestapo • The Legend of the Wolf Woman • Invasion of the Blood Farmers • Scream Bloody Murder • Satan's Sadists • The Northville Cemetery Massacre • The Child • The Children • Pieces • Nightmare {in a Damaged Brain} • Simon, King of the Witches • The Centerfold Girls • Night of the Bloody Apes • Blood Diner • Blackenstein • Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde • Deathdream • Satan's Cheerleaders • The Candy Snatchers • We're Going To Eat You • Ed Gein • Ted Bundy • Blood Feast • She Freak • The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires • The Thrill Killers • Mantis in Lace • Mondo Teeno • Barbed Wire Dolls • Hot Spur • Welcome to Arrow Beach • 2000 Maniacs • Dr. Butcher, M.D. • Cannibal Ferox • Barn of the Naked Dead • Gates of Hell • Spider Baby • The Big Doll House • Wizard of Gore • Vampyres, Daughters of Darkness • I Drink Your Blood • Blood Eaters (aka Toxic Zombies).

Heroes:

Russ Meyer, Ed Wood, H.G. Lewis, Dave Friedman, Jack Hill, George Romero, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Frank Henenlotter, Jess Franco, Doris Wishman, Tobe Hooper, Michael and Roberta Findlay, John Carpenter, Bob Clark, William Girdler, Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted V. Mikels, Bill Lustig, Ed Adlum, Jamaa Fanaka, Jeff Lieberman, Sergio Martino, Larry Cohen, Andy Milligan, Mario Bava, Cirio Santiago, Harry Novak, Don Edmonds, Wes Craven, Umberto Lenzi, Greydon Clark, Radley Metzger, Robert Vincent O'Neil, Lee Frost, Bob Cresse, Ruggero Deodato, Rene Cardona, Fernando Di Leo, Joel M. Reed, Jorge Grau, Brad F. Grinter, Lawrence D. Foldes and all the other dreamers, hacks and twisted visionaries who've churned out at least one film that's thrilled, shocked, amazed, horrified or otherwise entertained the wacked-out denizens of the now lost grindhouses and drive-ins.
All the old theaters that lined 42nd Street and have now been demolished, hidden, converted to retail space, or turned into a tame Disney version of NYC:
Selwyn • Apollo • Lyric • Times Square • Victory • New Amsterdam • Cine 42 • Harris • Liberty • Empire • Anco • Bryant • Rialto • Harem • Roxy Twin

My Blog

Horror/Cult Items for Sale - UPDATED 10/18

Lots of horror/cult/exploitation film items for sale. Send a message if interested in any of this, or if you have any questions or want to see photos. Watch for more posted here soon, including DVD's ...
Posted by Grindhouse Film Festival on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:19:00 PST

Should we bring these back for a second screening?

Since we've added a lot of new people to our audience over the last couple of years, we're thinking of bringing back some of the films we screened between 3 - 5 years ago for a second showing. These w...
Posted by Grindhouse Film Festival on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:33:00 PST

New Film Request Blog

Since the last request blog has gotten unwieldy and hard to follow with well over 100 comments, here's a new one.We're currently putting together our schedule for the next few months, so if there's so...
Posted by Grindhouse Film Festival on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:11:00 PST

Let Your Voice Be Heard! (Closed to New Comments)

We're currently putting together our schedule for the next few months, so if there's something you'd like to see now's the time to let us know.We don't have access to 35mm prints of every bizarre, sic...
Posted by Grindhouse Film Festival on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST