From the sickos who brought you RAT SUMMER— comes another deranged creature feature collection at your favorite goth bodega microtheater. This time around, we’re spotlighting the city’s least favorite insect– the cockroach. Scaly, grotesquely persistent and has a long-held mythology around their survivability, Spectacle is proud to screen two classic cockroach horror joints (THE NEST and BUG) and house the New York City premiere of analog thriller 3D short ROACH™
ROACH™
Dir. schnüdlbug, 2022
Canada. 31 min.
In English.
SUNDAY, JUNE 1 – 5 PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 7 – MIDNIGHT
MONDAY, JUNE 16 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 27 – 7 PM (w/Q&A)
“FOLLOW THE SUN” A whole new kind of space odyssey– a nameless pilot (voiced by Sydney Thorne) is adrift alone in space until they encounter a massive, well, ROACH. Screening for the first time in the New York metro area with the eye-popping 3D cut, ROACH™ bears the outer aesthetics of a trendy analog horror short but unfolds into something far more singular. Sensory overload for a lost universe, ROACH™ is one of the more unique shorts of this modern hyper-digital age.
“A truly unique synthesis of video game nomenclature and cinematic form. A minimalist yet vast audiovisual odyssey wholly imbued with atmosphere. I fell under its spell.”
— Scott Barley, director of SLEEP HAS HER HOUSE
Every screening will precede THE NEST, with a virtual director Q&A with schnüdlbug on Friday, June 27th.
NOTE: ROACH WAS CREATED FOR ALL AUDIENCES. HOWEVER, IT CONTAINS PROLONGED SEQUENCES OF FLASHING LIGHTS WHICH MAY AFFECT PHOTOSENSITIVE INDIVIDUALS.
Screens with:
THE NEST
Dir. Terence H. Winkless, 1987
United States. 89 min.
In English.
Produced by Julie Corman under the Corman couples’ genre movie distributor Concorde Pictures, THE NEST remains one of the decade’s nastiest monster movies. Deceptively shot in California depicting a sleepy New England town overrun by mutant cockroaches, the picture’s gonzo production period was marked by an ironic in-studio infestation of over 2000 flying roaches. A carnage heavy sci-fi horror hybrid leading up to a phantasmagorical SFX laden finale, THE NEST is a certified crowd-pleaser for those in pursuit of gory genre camp.
BUG
Dir. Jeannot Szwarc, 1975
United States. 99 min.
In English.
SATURDAY, JUNE 7 – 10 PM
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11 – 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, JUNE 17 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 27 – MIDNIGHT
The final project behind b-movie hype-man William Castle as well as one of the few he’s given screenwriting credit, BUG is a gnarly under-the-radar entry in the natural horror canon. Bradford Dillman plays a level-headed professor whose logical world is set ablaze by a new species of cockroaches with pyrotechnic abilities, building to a showdown between rational science and the cosmic unknown. Firmly shot in Panavision and accentuated by a surreal space-synth score from award winning composer Charles Fox, BUG is one creepy crawly psychological trip and a singular movie-going experience from twilight era of Hollywood produced weird genre flicks.
Special thanks to Tiffany Greenwood and SWANK.