The Screening Room is hosting Cult Movie Summer Nights on Friday and Thursdays throughout the summer.
The films are:
Summer Nights: Labyrinth (1986)
July 29 & August 4
An angst-ridden teenage girl travels to a dangerous labyrinth, inhabited by a number of majestic creatures, to save her baby brother from the clutches of The Goblin King after she unintentionally wishes the boy be taken away from her.
Summer Nights: Lost Highway (1997) – 25th Anniversary 4K Restoration!
July 22 & 28
From the mind of David Lynch: A jazz musician, tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, finds himself framed for her murder, while, in a parallel story, a young mechanic is drawn into a web of deceit by a woman, cheating on her gangster boyfriend.
Summer Nights: Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 (2003)
July 15 & 21
Double Feature! A woman exacts revenge on the team of assassins who left her for dead at the altar. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there’s nothing left to do … but kill Bill.
Summer Nights: American Psycho (2000)
August 5 & 11
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
Summer Nights: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) – New 4K Restoration!
August 12 & 18
Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather’s grave in Texas are terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer. One by one, they wander into the murderous clutches of Leatherface and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Summer Nights: Princess Mononoke (1997)
August 19 & 25
A film by Hayao Miyazaki & a landmark in the world of animation: A prince becomes involved in the struggle between a forest princess and the encroachment of mechanization.
Summer Nights: Death Becomes Her (1992)
August 26 & September 1
After losing her man to a movie star and friend years prior, a novelist returns home to confront them, looking radiant. Her ex-husband’s new wife wants to know her secret, and discovers the existence of an elixir which grants eternal life. But she soon finds out that immortality has a price.
Summer Nights: Spirited Away (2002)
September 2 & 8
During her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.