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TRANSCENDING THE BOUNDARIES OF PAIN — THREE VISIONS OF HELL FROM OLAF ITTENBACH

Posted on September 22, 2025September 29, 2025 by smacfarlane

For 35 years, Olaf Ittenbach has been one of Germany’s most resourceful filmmakers and a pioneer in shot-on-video horror and splatter. He used funds from his work as a dental technician for his debut feature, the Spectacle classic BLACK PAST.

Ittenbach has always had an eye/ear for relentless, shrieking pain. He takes clear influence from canon classics like THE EVIL DEAD, HELLRAISER, and DEAD ALIVE while adapting entirely new ways of seeing through the most primitive of camera tech, juxtaposed with detailed phantasmaGORical violence. His morbidly meticulous gore effects are made with clear passion—and as a direct response to the German government’s historically draconian views on violent movies. The man has even lent his SFX talents to fellow German directors like Timo Rose and cinema bad boy Uwe Boll.

This Spectober, Spectacle is proud to showcase three utterly depraved and infernal works from one of underground horror’s most prolific voices: THE BURNING MOON, PREMUTOS: THE FALLEN ANGEL, and NO REASON.

THE BURNING MOON
Dir. Olaf Ittenbach, 1992
Germany, 98 min.
In German with English Subtitles

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 – 5PM
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 – 7:30PM
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 – 10PM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 – 10PM

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WHEN THE MOON IS FULL, THE BLOOD TIDE RISES

Widely regarded as Ittenbach’s masterpiece, this is one of the strangest horror anthologies ever made. Produced not long after BLACK PAST, Ittenbach writes, directs, and co-stars, playing an ultra-dirtbag fictionalized version of himself, the delinquent Peter. When he isn’t flunking classes or taking part in ultra-violent teenage gang wars, he’s stuck babysitting his little sister. He decides to torment her with two twisted tales: one about a woman on a blind date from hell, the other about a serial killer priest who hopes to literally raise Hell. The picture is infamous for its deranged maximalist finale, a Dante’s Inferno-like descent into the putrid. THE BURNING MOON is a must-see for folks who yearn for homemade gore in their horror.

Taking a trip into hell on a skateboard that’s rolling over shattered glass and broken bones.
–Bob McCully, creator/host of the Split Your Head podcast

This movie will purify you.
–Annie Choi, Bleeding Skull

Special thanks to AGFA.

PREMUTOS: THE FALLEN ANGEL
Dir. Olaf Ittenbach, 1997
Germany, 115 min.
In German with English Subtitles

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 – 10PM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 10PM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 – 730PM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 – 730PM

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Before Lucifer… there was PREMUTOS

For his third film, Ittenbach and team were given the prestigious opportunity to film on 16mm. The results are the kind of nasty, lush spectacle that would make even g enre legends like Peter Jackson and Clive Barker blush. Ittenbach directs, writes, and stars, playing yet another German boy who accidentally unleashes satanic horrors. This time around, however, the humans attempt to fight back, creating a gleeful bloodbath that rivals the likes of DEAD ALIVE. PREMUTOS is the closest thing Ittenbach’s made to an epic.

139 Dead Bodies; 75 Zombies; 17 Exploding Heads; 6 Decapitations; 2 Breasts; 6 Crucifixions; 3 Burning Houses; 1 Exploding Car
–Brewce Longo, Bloodsick Productions

NO REASON
Dir. Olaf Ittenbach, 2010
Germany, 74 min.
In German with English Subtitles

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 – MIDNIGHT
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 – 10PM
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20 – 10PM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 – MIDNIGHT

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After experimenting in English-language productions for two films, Olaf Ittenbach returned to Germany to make the strangest movie of his career. NO REASON stars Irene Holzfurtner as the tormented Jennifer, an ordinary housewife living an ordinary day until mid-bath, she mysteriously descends into a bloodsoaked, sadistic underworld, guided by a Cthulhu-masked individual. What begins as a series of morbid tests devolves into a dive into Jennifer’s unreliable psyche. A blast of psychological “woman in trouble” pulp and cosmic horror, NO REASON takes Ittenbach’s usual narrative intrigue of damaged characters seeking truth through dismemberment and pushes it to its limit.

Special Thanks to Stephen Biro and Suzie from Unearthed Films

SPECTACLE X CDFF PRESENTS JOE ZASO’S SCREAMBOOK I + II

Posted on September 22, 2025October 20, 2025 by smacfarlane

This Spectober, Spectacle is thrilled to again work with local documentary filmmaker Curtis Whitear and the rest of the Childhood Delusion Film Festival crew to bring you one of the more obscure horror anthology series. This duology was the first foray into filmmaking for New York City’s own “Horror Himbo,” Joe Zaso— evoking another Spectacle classic HAWK JONES, SCREAMBOOK and SCREAMBOOK II: THE NEXT ISSUE are brazenly playful send-ups of Tales of the Crypt and similar series from our youth, all shot and acted predominantly by kids. Do you dare give in to your childhood delusions and open the SCREAMBOOK?

Q&A with director, writer and producer JOE ZASO moderated by Curtis Whitear and Phil Ginley October 26th 7:30 pm

All screenings will feature a sneak peek from the Childhood Delusion Film Festival team

SCREAMBOOK
Dir. Joe Zaso, 1984
United States, 78 min.
In English

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 – 7:30PM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 – 10PM
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 – 7:30PM
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 – 5PM

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IT WILL TEAR THE SCREAMS RIGHT FROM YOUR THROAT

Joe Zaso’s directorial debut at the age of 14, SCREAMBOOK is SOV horror meets high school public access TV experiment. Modeled after anthologies like CREEPSHOW, we’re treated to five spooky stories–“Family Reunion,” “Tommy,” “Secret of the Bottle,” “Ye Old Toy Shop,” and “Worms”– all lovingly introduced with construction paper and crude marker-drawn comic covers that match-cut into live action. Silly, glitchy, and charmingly creative, SCREAMBOOK is an essential piece of Long Island cinematic horror history, as well as a textbook example of young auteurs making art by any means necessary.

Screambook is a euphoric thunderclap of surrealism. It’s a voyage to other realms, where cooked spaghetti is a murder weapon and melted Play-Doh is a substitute for monsters.
–Joseph A. Ziemba, Bleeding Skull

SCREAMBOOK II: THE NEXT ISSUE
Dir. Joe Zaso, 1985
United States, 74 min.
In English

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 – 10PM
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 – 10PM
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 – 7:30PM (Q&A)

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FROM THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE YOU “SCREAMBOOK” COMES FOUR NEW HORRORS!

Like all great sequels, THE NEXT ISSUE is bigger and badder in every regard. We begin with a setting from a bygone era: the mom-and-pop video rental store. Unfortunately for the customers, the ghoul behind the counter (Jill Casey) is more concerned with telling scary stories than the latest tape release. The Cryptkeeper-like hostess with a cackling, manic no-wave jr. energy introduces four more fuzzy lo-fi tales of terror: “Till Death Do Us Part,” “Silversweets,” “Birthday Wishes,” and “A Grave Matter.” It’s DIY filmmaking as play, with all the howling and youthful tenacity from your school’s field day.

Don’t overanalyze it. Just bask in the kaleidoscopic confusion of lights, demented laughter and all the glorious mom perms. Gives you the warm fuzzies that you’ve come to expect when you blindly stumble upon an attic box full of clamshell nostalgia.
—13beersl8r, letterboxd

Special thanks to Joe Zaso and Curtis Whitear

SHRIEKSHOW XIV

Posted on September 19, 2025September 19, 2025 by Ben Harris

Hold on to your skulls for Spectacles’ 14th annual Shriek Show Marathon! Featuring fourteen hours of mind-melting mystery horror films from six different countries.

Day passes are available online for $25, and single screening tickets will be available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis for $5.

OCTOBER 25th: 12PM- 2AM

DAY PASSES

NOON
XXXXXX
Dir. XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXX, 1988.
Indonesia. 94 min.
In Indonesian with English Subtitles.

A woman learns the ways of black magic to exact revenge.

2PM
XXXXX
Dir. XXX XXXXX, 1974.
United States. 83 min.
In English.

A snake collector lures residents of a small town to his snake ranch.

4PM
XXXXX
Dir. XXX XXXXXXXXX, 2005
United States. 85 min.
In English.

I know what you did in Louisiana last summer.

6PM
XXXXXX XX: XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX
Dir. XXXXXX XXXXXXX, 1991.
Germany. 72 min.
English Dub.

8PM
XXX XXXXXXXXX
Dir. XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX, 2006
Thailand. 97min.
In Thai with English Subtitles.

A woman visits a gothic mansion to find her lost husband.

10PM
XXX XXXXX XXX
Dir. XXXXX XXXXX, 1989
Italy. 96min.
In English.

Dario Argento’s New Nightmare.

MIDNIGHT
XXX XXX XXXX XXXX
Dir. XXXX XXXXX, 2004
Japan. 50 min.
In Japanese with English Subtitles.

A woman tries to bring her child back from the dead.

SON OF MOTERN MANIA

Posted on September 2, 2025October 15, 2025 by Mark A

Most movies we see are by people who have “made it.” There are many reasons to love the films of Matt Farley and Charlie Roxburgh, and chief among them is how they articulate both the struggle and the necessity of remaining creative even when any hope of “making it” falls away.

— Will Sloan

Last summer, sold-out crowds packed a sweltering Spectacle to experience Motern Mania, a showcase of the films of Matt Farley and Charlie Roxburgh. Farley is a dedicated Spotify algorithm gamer who is probably the most prolific songwriter in the history of American popular music; streaming royalties for his untold thousands of songs — about poop, gluten, fear of the Pope, and everyone who’s ever had a birthday — fund a reasonable middle-class lifestyle, and support a flourishing filmmaking practice. Farley’s book, The Motern Method, is a Bible for aspiring outsider artists (sample chapter headings: “Release Everything”; “Embrace Nonsense”), and the films in which he stars, directed by longtime friend and coconspirator Roxburgh, are beacons of resourcefulness and, in this modern grindset world, refreshing examples of hustle culture directed to economically unrewarding but spiritually fulfilling aims.

Self-described “backyard movies” shot in accessible New England locations with a cast of friends and neighbors — each blazing their own their own unique trail through thickets of loquacious dialogue — the Motern films are charming and uncompromising advertisements for the DIY spirit, but are also distinguished by their canny realism about the life of the middle-aged small-town artist, plugging away in garages and grange halls for little to no tangible reward, and by their wildly inventive approach to genre, recombining the elements of classic creature features and exploitation films with a self-aware wit.

Following Spectacle’s initial streaming-only retrospective in 2020, Motern Mania has spread across North America, the tumor-like growth of their fame only increasing in its rapidity since last year’s retrospective. Farley and Roxburgh’s films have played to appreciative crowds at venues of increasingly legitimacy, including 2024’s TIFF precursor event Midnight Dankness. With the streaming release of their latest film, EVIL PUDDLE, now imminent, we’re delight to welcome them back to Spectacle with a new selection of old and new films, once again programmed in collaboration with Brianna Zigler.

Thanks to Peter Kuplowsky.

EVIL PUDDLE
Dir. Charlie Roxburgh, 2025.
United States. 95 min.
In English.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 – MIDNIGHT

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 – 5PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 – 7:30 PM, Q&A with Matt Farley & Charlie Roxburgh, moderated by Brianna Zigler. This event is $10.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 – 7:30PM

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GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS

If you’re not counting one of the handful of alternate cuts for Heard She Got Murdered, Motern’s new release Evil Puddle marks Farley and Roxburgh’s triumphant return to color, for the first time since 2016’s Slingshot Cops. That stylistic choice is in-keeping with the film’s tone, a family-friendly homage of low-budget disaster films like Ants! and Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo.

After a town’s water supply becomes tainted with evil water from an alternate dimension, it’s up to William Van Rhyn (Matt Farley) to keep his community safe while figuring out how to stop encroaching evil puddles from freezing his fellow citizens where they stand. Features an eclectic ensemble cast including a star-marking appearance by Motern Mania co-programmer Brianna Zigler!!!

FREAKY FARLEY
Dir. Charlie Roxburgh, 2007.
United States. 83 min.
In English.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 – 7:30PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 – 10 PM, Q&A with Matt Farley & Charlie Roxburgh, moderated by filmmaker Adrian Anderson. This event is $10.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 – 7:30PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 – 5PM

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Farley Wilder (Matt Farley) is an adrift young man, spending his days as a voyeur peeping in the windows of cavorting women. When he’s not living up to his reputation as the town weirdo, he’s disappointing his overbearing father. Though his father just wishes his aimless son (now “too old for college”) would finally get a job, Farley quietly brews with resentment until one day, it unleashes in a bloody wrath! Sent away for his crimes, who will save Farley’s small New Hampshire town when its woods become overrun by beasts known as Trogs?

A tribute to one of Farley and Roxburgh’s all-time favorite B-movies, Silent Night, Deadly Night 2, this early-career outing is also the Motern duo’s first and only foray into 16mm filmmaking. The muted colors and homey, old-fashioned quality to the film grain gives this autumnal-set horror film the perfect Halloween vibe.

METAL DETECTOR MANIAC
Dir. Charlie Roxburgh, 2021.
United States. 108 min.
In English.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 – 5PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 – Midnight, introduced by Matt Farley & Charlie Roxburgh. This event is $10.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 – 10PM

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GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS

The Motern version of a noir sees Matt Farley and Tom Scalzo playing versions of themselves as music professors and amateur musicians who become citizen sleuths in the face of an unknowable menace: a weird guy with a metal detector. As the pair delves deeper into the dark past of their “Metal Detector Maniac” during sabbatical, they find him a surprising source of inspiration for their forthcoming album.

As ever, Metal Detector Maniac is a hilarious treatise on artistic hangups and the struggle for creativity. At the same time, it plays out like something akin to Matt Farley’s Blue Velvet, as Tom and Matt uncover the rot hidden at the heart of their otherwise “sleepy bedroom community.”

THE MEDIATOR (POSREDNIK)

Posted on September 2, 2025 by manny

THE MEDIATOR (POSREDNIK)
Dir. Vladimir Potapov, 1990
USSR. 219 min.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 7:30 PM
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 – 7:30 PM

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THE LAST SOVIET SCI-FI FILM

Aliens with the ability to implant their consciousnesses inside living people make first contact in a quiet Soviet town. It seems that only children, geniuses and the clinically eccentric are unaffected by the invaders’ mind control device – the mediator. Alien influence spreads through the area without restraint, and it soon becomes difficult to tell comrade from foe. Racing to stop the imposters before they can execute the final stages of their plan, the fate of the world depends on the success of three young friends on a dangerous mission.

Loosely based on the novel Main Noon by Aleksandr Mirer, THE MEDIATOR was released as a three-part TV movie in 1990. The looming dissolution of the Soviet Union hovers right near the surface of the film with outside influence driving a rift in the small industrial town. It’s a war of intellects and ideologies, but don’t think it’s short on artillery and style. Explosions, slow motion machine guns, glowing orbs and attack helicopters abound. Shot in both color and a beautifully moody sepia tone and accompanied by eery, reverb-loaded sound design, THE MEDIATOR succeeds in sending Soviet sci-fi off with a bang.

The film will be shown in its entirety with a 10 minute intermission.

THE WORLD DROPS DEAD / WHEN THE MOON RETURNS

Posted on August 31, 2025September 5, 2025 by Zach Fleming

THE WORLD DROPS DEAD
dir. Brandon Colvin, 2025
United States, 70 min
In English

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 – 7:30 w Q&A moderated by Joanna Arnow
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH – 7:30PM w Q&A moderated by Brandon Streussnig
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH – 5PM w Q&A moderated by Mark Asch
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST – 5PM
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH – 10PM

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REGULAR TICKETS

Claire struggles to cope as the shock of her father’s passing ripples through her small Quaker community. Beset by visions and desperate to reunite with the only person who seemed to understand her, Claire reaches out to her father across the boundary of death.

to be followed by a screening of

WHEN THE MOON RETURNS
dir. Brandon Colvin, 2025
United States, 15 min
In English

Young Deirdre and her clan of druids eke out an itinerant existence in the forest. When the threat of Christianizing forces grows more imminent, a holy sacrifice is made that changes Deirdre’s life forever.

Writer/director Brandon Colvin (A Dim Valley) returns with another daringly poetic microbudget salvo from the American south. With The World Drops Dead and the accompanying animated short, When the Moon Returns, the director has created a cryptic cinematic diptych that fearlessly explores a trinity of interrelated concerns—love, faith, and death.

Part What Dreams May Come, part folk horror, part Clive Barker, part Takeshi Miike, Colvin’s pair of elegant new works represent the most exciting possibilities for contemporary independent film. Minimal yet thematically and visually ambitious, these idiosyncratic and emotionally raw films interrogate the darker sides of the human mind and heart without blinking and without suggesting easy answers. Elevated by Colvin and collaborator Aaron Whitt’s hypnotic score, and given thorny psychological depth by the dense, shadowy foliage of its wooded setting, The World Drops Dead is a film rich with sensorial delights.

When the Moon Returns supplements the feature with its own expressive and implicit mythic connections, turning pagan ritual into hallucinatory psychedelia. It’s a heady and satisfying pair of films that revel in their own esoteric complexities as works of intimate fantasy, love, and grief only possible outside of the mainstream.

MEXICAN REVOLUTION TRILOGY

Posted on August 29, 2025September 2, 2025 by Nicolas Pedrero

Trilogía de la Revolución
(The Revolution Trilogy)

For all intents and purposes, Fernando de Fuentes is Mexican cinema. A pioneering studio filmmaker whose work includes one of the earliest examples of the ranchera comedy, as well as the seminal gothic horror film The Phantom of the Monastery, de Fuentes is a fountainhead of Mexican cinema. Not only did he inaugurate numerous popular genres at the domestic box office, but earned Mexico its first major international award at the Venice Film Festival in 1938, in addition to ushering in a national visual language that proliferated during the peak of Mexico’s Golden Age of Cinema.

Born in Veracruz in 1894, de Fuentes studied Philosophy at Tulane University and spent some time working at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C. before returning to post-Revolution Mexico. In 1933, a mere decade after the end of the Mexican Revolution, he directed EL PRISIONERO 13, a satire so caustic its ending had to be re-edited after military authorities objected to its depiction of government corruption in the throes of Mexico’s long and bloody Revolutionary War. What followed were two more films, GODFATHER MENDOZA (1934) and LET’S GO WITH PANCHO VILLA! (1936), of equal ire and bite. His Revolution Trilogy, though controversial upon release, is now acknowledged as a cornerstone of classic Mexican cinema.

As Mexicans everywhere remember their nation’s Revolution this September 20, we’re proud to present de Fuentes’ landmark trilogy in New York City for the first time in 15 years.

EL PRISIONERO 13
(PRISONER 13)
dir. Fernando de Fuentes, 1933
México, 76 min
In Spanish with english subtitles

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 – 5 PM
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 – 7:30 PM
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 – 10 PM

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Fernando de Fuentes’s first installment in his Revolution Trilogy concerns a drunk colonel (Chilean actor Alfredo del Diestro, in one of several wonderfully agonizing roles for de Fuentes) who takes a bribe that ends up biting him in the back. At a lean 76 minutes, de Fuentes’s scathing parable about the price of corruption folds multiple moral dilemmas into a masterclass of melodrama. Del Diestra’s Colonel Carrasco, typifying the naked corruption that seized Mexico in the wake of its revolutionary fervor, provides the Mexican silver screen with one of its slimiest and most memorable characters. With its taut editing, chilling narrative, and distinctive performances, EL PRISIONERO 13 sets the bar high for a filmmaker whose career is full of precise and potent visual storytelling.

EL COMPADRE MENDOZA
(GODFATHER MENDOZA)
dir. Fernando de Fuentes, 1934
Mexico, 85 min
In Spanish with english subtitles

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 – 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 – 7:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 – 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 – 10 PM

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The second installment in Fernando de Fuentes’s Revolution Trilogy revolves around Rosalio Mendoza (Alfredo del Diestro, in a weary-eyed performance), a rich landowner whose estate serves both Zapatista revolutionaries and Huertista army men. A rich parable about Janus-faced desperation, EL COMPADRE MENDOZA sees Fuentes double down on his critique of government corruption. The country setting also lets him build upon his cinematic technique, making ample use of landscapes and crowds, as well as optical effects and music, to heighten the drama on the screen.

¡VÁMONOS CON PANCHO VILLA!
(LET’S GO WITH PANCHO VILLA!)
dir. Fernando de Fuentes, 1936
Mexico, 92 min
In Spanish with english subtitles

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 – 7:30 PM
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 – 5 PM
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 – 10 PM

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The last chapter in Fernando de Fuentes’s Revolution Trilogy follows the “Lions of San Pablo,” six brave men who join Pancho Villa’s Army. Where Fuentes’ previous two films focus on the rotten rituals of Mexico’s old guard (its government functionaries and rich landowners), ¡VÁMONOS CON PANCHO VILLA! skewers the false promises of its revolutionary class. An early epic of Mexican cinema, de Fuentes’s film shows the Revolution as it was, as no more and no less than a bloody conflict.

Special thanks to ACERVO-FILMOTECA UNAM.

I KNOW YOU’RE OUT THERE: LOVE, FEAR, AND ALIENS

Posted on August 29, 2025September 9, 2025 by David Williams

For centuries, humanity has turned to the sky for answers; facing the clouds, begging for mercy, salvation, an answer. Let’s try it together! Wherever you are, look up at the sky. What do you see? A bird? A plane? A drone? A security camera? Or something else?

For truthseekers, the knowledge you crave is all around – if you know how to ask the right questions, that is. This September at Spectacle, we hope to provide a roadmap when it comes to all things Extraterrestrial. A Beginner’s Guide to asking the right questions: Will I find love? Will I find fear? Am I being manipulated? Can you really cut a chicken with a laser?

Only you can answer these questions for yourself. But Spectacle is here to help. Trust us 😉

A STRANGE HARVEST
Dir. Linda Moulton Howe. 1980.
United States. 58 min.
In English.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 – 10 PM [BUY TICKETS]
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 – 5 PM [BUY TICKETS]
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 – 7:30 PM [BUY TICKETS]
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 – 10 PM [BUY TICKETS]

Produced in 1980 by Emmy-winning environmental documentarian and former Miss Idaho Linda Moulton Howe, A STRANGE HARVEST examines multiple disturbing and unexplained incidents of cattle mutilation and their potential causes. This and future investigations into the phenomenon would change Linda’s life forever, starting her down the path towards disclosure advocacy and cementing her as one of the foremost voices in the world of UFOlogy.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES DEPICTED!

MIRAGE MEN
Dir. John Lundberg. 2013.
United Kingdom. 85 min.
In English.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 – 10 PM [BUY TICKETS]
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 – 7:30 PM [BUY TICKETS]
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 – 10 PM [BUY TICKETS]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – MIDNIGHT [BUY TICKETS]

MIRAGE MEN follows the case of Paul Bennewitz, an engineer and UFO researcher driven to madness by U.S. Airforce Intelligence Operative, Disinfo Agent, and possible Lizard Person Richard Doty and the swirly, murky machinations of United States Deep Intelligence. MIRAGE MEN is a must-see for all true believers and anyone holding even a small window into our alternate reality. “Question Everything” means exactly that: Believe Nothing. You are not immune to propaganda and manipulation. Nothing around you is what it seems. Nothing.

LOVE & SAUCERS
Dir. Brad Abrahams. 2017.
Canada/United States. 67 min.
In English.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 – 10 PM [BUY TICKETS]
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 – 10 PM [BUY TICKETS]
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 7:30 PM [BUY TICKETS]
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 – 7:30 PM w/ Q&A (This event is $10) [BUY TICKETS]

For as long as he can remember, completely sane New Jersey based artist David Huggins has been visited by beings from another world. However, these Close Encounters really emphasize the closeness; David is being used as a human stud in an off-world breeding program with his alien wife Crescent, with whom he has sired at least 50 alien-human hybrids. As any good artist would, David has chosen to document his experiences through the power of the paintbrush. LOVE & SAUCERS offers a strangely breathtaking peek into Huggin’s out of this world lifestyle to anyone who chooses to believe.

Join us at Spectacle for a Q&A with director Brad Abrahams on September 30 at 7:30 PM!

THE ALIEN REPORT
Dir. Patrick Donnelly. 2022.
United States. 81 min.
In English.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 – 10 PM [BUY TICKETS]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 – MIDNIGHT [BUY TICKETS]
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 – 10 PM [BUY TICKETS]
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 – 7:30 PM [BUY TICKETS]

A man tormented by a lifetime of alien abductions discovers an ingenious way to document and share his encounters. The result is THE ALIEN REPORT, one of the most acclaimed and mind-meltingly terrifying found footage films of the decade.

WARNING: STROBES AND FLASHING LIGHTS!

HOWLING AT THE HARVEST MOON

Posted on August 29, 2025August 29, 2025 by Ben Harris

This September, in honor of the Harvest Moon, Spectacle is proud to bring you three underseen gems of werewolf-dom.

LYCAN COLONY
dir. Rob Roy, 2006
United States. 92 min.
In English.

TICKETS

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2nd – 10PM
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6th – 7:30PM
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15th – 7:30PM
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH – MIDNIGHT

WELCOME TO NEW HAMPSHIRE …. LIVE FREE OR DIE!

Some small towns hold many secrets. Two siblings and a newly settled doctor’s family are about to find out this town’s darkest secret…the hard way. The town folk are good and evil werewolves! And all things are not as they appear.

While you can probably count the werewolf features from the early aughts on one hand, the best of them for this programmers money is LYCAN COLONY.

It’s clearly a labor of love, and though it may have gotten the RiffTrax treatment in 2020, I would respectfully argue that it makes enough baffling and unique choices that it circles around past bad into something totally singular, dirt cheap digital (and practical) effects and all.

Director Rob Roy has had a strong connection to wolves his entire life. It started after he first saw Balto (1995) and it inspired him to create his own wolf film which eventually became Lycan Colony. He even attempted to contact Kevin Bacon for a cameo but was chased off the actor’s property, ironically by dogs in 2003. – Imdb Trivia

MOM
dir. Patrick Rand, 1990.
United States. 95 min.
In English.

TICKETS

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2ND – 7:30PM
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH – MIDNIGHT
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH – 10PM
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH – 10PM

A string of ferocious animal attacks terrorizes Los Angeles, and when a kind elderly woman is bitten by the creature, she begins a terrifying transformation. Now, her son Clay must stop his mother from harming anyone else and find a way to reverse her horrifying condition.

Starring horror legend Brion James (HOUSE 3, BLADE RUNNER) and Jeanne Bates (ERASERHEAD, MULHOLLAND DRIVE), MOM presents as a typical comedy-horror flick but quickly evolves into something much darker that will stay with you long after the credits roll. Using the werewolf as an analogy for a degenerative disease, Rand masterfully guides the audience through the emotional tolls of watching a loved one lose themselves and become something unrecognisably monstrous.

LONE WOLF
dir. John Callas, 1988
United States. 97 min.
In English.

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The quiet town of Fairview, Colorado is rocked by a rash of gruesome killings that the locals blame on packs of wild dogs. Meanwhile, recent Chicago transplant and heavy metal frontman, Eddie and his fellow students learn that they must take matters into their own hands to end the madness, when the token nerd among them discovers an eerie moon-related coincidence between the killings.

Written by the late experimental horror maven, Michael Krueger (NIGHT VISION, MINDKILLER), LONE WOLF is an underseen and underrated gem among the 80s bumper crop of werewolf movies. A grisly DTV creature feature featuring some of the oldest looking “teenagers” ever put to film, and enough hair— human and lycanthrope— to flesh out at least a dozen other werewolf features.

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Posted on August 13, 2025 by danielstangl

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