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Some HFS movies are like fine wines or single-barrel bourbons -- they get better with age. Upheavals in fashion, cinematic style and the passage of time can turn an overlooked or odd little film into a bizarro gem ripe for rediscovery -- but then there are the films which arrive fully-formed in their holyfuckingshitness, as if willed from their creators’ fertile imaginations directly onto the screen for the slack-jawed amazement of thrill-seeking cinephiles, ever eager to plunder the zeitgeist junkpile. We spent last year chasing the dragon, looking for that next hit of pure cinematic weirdness -- and the results are in! HFS movies are made, not born. And these movies were made last year. Holy Fucking Shit!

2/6 @ 10:00pm / Series: HFS 2009
Bad Biology
(w/ director Frank Henenlotter in person!)
Basket Case director Frank Henenlotter, the Terence Malick of trash cinema, finally returns to the big screen with a vengeance. Nothing can prepare you for this ode to overstimulated sexuality, squishy bodily functions, and rampaging, monstrous genitalia, all filtered through the director’s cockeyed (literally) sense of humor. Seven-clitted Jennifer tends to screw her lovers to death and spit out grotesque offspring after mating, while poor Batz has developed a huge, detachable dick thanks to the abuse of member-enlarging chemicals.  Keep an eye out for references to some of Frank’s past classics like Brain Damage and Frankenhooker, too, and don’t miss the screen’s greatest vaginal POV shot! So very, very wrong in all the right ways, this crude, filthy, hilarious, lightning-paced gem is the perfect antidote to the last decade’s timid, sex-phobic horror films and a reminder of how transgressive low-budget movies can really be. Come and let a master show you how it’s really done. Frank Henenlotter will be here in person for a Q&A after the screening!
Dir. Frank Henenlotter, 2008, HDCAM, 85 min.

Watch the trailer for "Bad Biology"!


Tickets - $10

2/13 @ 10:00pm / Series: HFS 2009
HFS 2009 Super Secret Screening Party!
We’re keeping this one a secret. Come on by, and see the single most mind-boggling, jaw-dropping, eye-popping, face-melting, bone-shattering, ass-blasting, gut-busting, psyche-shattering, soul-crushing piece of bat-shit insanity we saw in 2009. We had to bring all the adjectives to this one, but we’re keeping the proper nouns to ourselves –- like all good awards, part of the fun is waiting for the envelope. Free popcorn if you guess the right movie, though.

Tickets - free admission ("first come, first serve" basis)

2/20 @ 10:30pm / Series: HFS 2009
The Human Centipede: First Sequence
"Not since Cronenberg was in his heyday has someone manipulated the human form for horrific effect to the extent that [director Tom] Six does here, not since Miike has someone created such a compelling, just-off-center view of humanity." - Todd Brown, twitch.com

Hey, wanna see a movie where people are sewn together ass to mouth? Of course you do! Well, your prayers have been answered, because here comes The Human Centipede, the most sickening, notorious piece of cinematic body horror from the 2009 festival circuit. Tom Six, one of Holland's most controversial auteurs, gives us a simple tale of a mad doctor who who is trying to create a single being out of three by attaching them at their digestive systems. Why? Who cares -- it's gross! This shit makes Hostel seem like On Golden Pond! Be the first at your workplace to bring up The Human Centipede at the water cooler. Screw Avatar, this is the real "game changer" in cinema for 2010!
Dir. Tom Six, 2009, 90 min.

Watch a clip from "The Human Centipede: First Sequence"!




Tickets - $10

2/27 @ 10:00pm / Series: HFS 2009
Birdemic: Shock And Terror
(hosted by Tim & Eric!)
The most discussed and anticipated avian-based disaster film since the The Birds, Birdemic: Shock And Terror is equal parts both epochal tale and cinematic warning shot. It tells the story of a couple unexpectedly and unforgettably caught in the eye of a feather-based storm -- an apocalyptic attack winging down from the skies in a twisted morass of feathers, talons and blood-soaked claws. And the man that fired the shot across the diegetic bow of cineastes everywhere? That would be writer-director-dream factory foreman James Nguyen. One of cinema's most persistent imagineers, Nguyen (legally trademarked as "The Master of the Romantic Thriller"™) funded his masterwork with savings accrued from his day job as a Silicon Valley software salesman. No less than five years in the making, Birdemic stands as a testament to Nguyen's dark, enduring vision. Not only is the screening hosted by Tim & Eric (Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), but following the show, stick around for a Q&A with director Nguyen and stars Whitney Moore and Alan Bagh!
Dir. James Nyguen, 2008, 90 min.

Watch the trailer for "Birdemic: Shock And Terror"!


Co-presented by Severin Films and BloodyDisgusting.com
Tickets - $10

Robert Heinlein defined science fiction as "realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method." Well, tell us how that goes -- 'cause those aren't the sci-fi movies we feel like watching this month. Get this, Mr. Heinlein: based solidly on our more-than-adequate knowledge of the pleasures that movies with brilliantly boneheaded predictions and production values bring, and on our thorough understanding of the nature and significance of watching these films on the big screen with a beer-crackin' gaggle of movie maniacs, we realistically speculate that we're gonna have a great frickin' time. We got one more prediction -- that you'll come join us for this month of gloriously silly flicks that take the words "science fiction" as a license to get gloriously stoopid.

3/6 @ 10:15pm / Series: HFS - Stoopid Futures
TV Of Tomorrow
(feat. The Running Man)
Don't touch that dial! Stay tuned, we'll be right back -- with the decline and fall of western civilization! Of all the goofball prognastications that litter the landscapes of stupid future flicks, none are more consistently amusing and instantly dated than the inevitable peek at what television is going to look like in the future. Aside from the quaint idea that people will still be watching TV rather than cruising the grand central computerverse, one can enjoy how every wacky graphic and ironic khyron is irreversibly stamped with the year these film were made. So come take a couch trip back to the future, as we show you 1976's vision of 1985 (X-rated commercials as the new "normal"), 1997's vision of 2010 (nakedly crypto-fascist news broadcasts), and finally, we'll all watch 1987's 2019, brought to you in the form of one of our favorite "Most Dangerous Game"-show flicks, The Running Man, starring the Governator and hosted by "Family Feud"'s Richard Dawson.
The Running Man   Dir. Paul Michael Glaser, 1987, 35mm, 101 min.

Watch the trailer for "The Running Man"!


Tickets - $10

3/13 @ 10:00pm / Series: HFS - Stoopid Futures
Idiocracy
While the term "stoopid future" takes on a completely different meaning in Idiocracy than in the rest of the films in this series, we just couldn't resist an excuse to show this hilarious take on the stoopid-ification of American culture, especially since it's had shamefully little play on the silver screen. Buried by its studio and practically disowned by its director Mike Judge (creator of Beavis And Butthead), Idiocracy played in only a handful of cities for one week, with virtually no advertising -- and now, extant 35mm prints are scarce. Luke Wilson plays a perfectly average man with an IQ of 100 (dead in the middle of the bell curve) who's transported to the future, Rip Van Winkle-style, to awaken in a world where humankind has devolved into a race of imbeciles, leaving him to now be the smartest man on the planet -- and amongst a garish garbage culture dominated by fast food, corporate logos, 5th-gradespeak and La-Z-Boy toilets, Wilson strives to save the human race from itself! The advertising parodies' laser-sharp detail alone are worth the admission, but the film's gutsy premise also earns Judge a permanent spot in the pantheon of great film satirists.
Dir. Mike Judge, 2006, 35mm, 84 min.

Watch the trailer for "Idiocracy"!


Tickets - $10

3/20 @ 10:00pm / Series: HFS - Stoopid Futures
"Futureskate" double feature:
Prayer Of The Rollerboys (w/ director in person!)
shown with
Solarbabies
Imagine a world decades into the future. What advanced technologies will remain in the wake of our economic collapse? What cultural seismic shifts will result from the world's environmental devastation? The answer could only be -- widespread rollerblading. Fuck the bicycle, and its 200-year evolution as the most efficient form of manpowered transportation! Clearly the rollerblade is the only solution to a world without gasoline! And thank Christ someone in the film community had the vision to see that rollerblading was more than a temporary fad for hormonally-charged teen punks, and that it was destined to stay cool forever, that it would never devolve to the point where its only remaining popular use is a day-rate rental for a Myspace hookup with a Venice Beach bunny. To celebrate the enduring spirit of the time-honored "futureskate" subgenre, here's a double feature that's more Xtreeeeeeeme than Sonic The Hedgehog® ultimate-fighting Cheetos' Chester Cheetah® in a cage suspended over a raging river of Mountain Dew®. First up, Prayer of the Rollerboys, which stars Corey Haim and his spiky moussed hair battling a fascist legion of White Power crack-dealing 'bladers wearing uniform khaki dusters. Then, Solarbabies, the even more preposterous post-apocalyptic tale of an orphan gang tapped to save the planet with the help of rad field hockey skills, a plucky attitude and a E.T.-like glowing orb. Prayer of the Rollerboys director Rick King will appear in-person for a Q&A before intermission!
Prayer of the Rollerboys  Dir. Rick King, 1991, 35mm, 95 min.
Solarbabies   Dir. Alan Johnson, 1986, 35mm, 94 min.

Watch the opening minutes of "Prayer of the Rollerboys"!


Watch an excerpt from "Solarbabies"!


Tickets - $10

3/27 @ 10:00pm / Series: HFS - Stoopid Futures
Sexy Sci-Fi
(feat. Galaxina)
It's gonna be party time all over the planet as the beautiful people of the galactic jetset gather around Cinefamily's outer space orgasmatron for a cosmic clip show of our favorite sci-fi sex scenes. Come see the future fashion parade of space bikinis and neon nighties, the randy robots looking for a place to plug in, and the Venusian nymphets collecting sperm samples from the local populace and discovering XXX-tra terrestrial ecstasy. After the pre-show is over, we'll watch Galaxina, featuring not only a "Star Wars cantina"-style whorehouse full of Spock ears, blue afros and triple-titties, but also Playboy's 1980 Playmate Of The Year as the arousing android in the skin-tight white spacesuit trying to figure out: "What is this thing called Love?"
Galaxina   Dir. William Sachs, 1980, 35mm, 95 min.

Watch a vintage TV spot for "Galaxina"!


Tickets - $10

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