SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our MARCH MUSICAL MADNESS & TAKE A CHANCE CINEMA Series, Thursday, March 30, 2023
LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021
*Please note entrance/parking is actually in the back of the building. Make a right on Wilson Street, then a right behind the building. We’re the first set of black steps after the big gate.
7:30pm THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES (1964, dir. Ray Dennis Steckler, AGFA, USA, 82mns, Digital)
9:20pm VOYAGE OF THE ROCK ALIENS (1984, dir. James Fargo and Bob Giraldi, AGFA, USA, 97mns, Digital)
Look. Sometimes you gotta show bat-sh@t crazy movies to remind you that anyone with a dream, a will of granite, and some serious delusions of grandeur can get movies made. And sometimes, yes sometimes those movies will endure and gain crazy cult status.
And many times, those movies will blow your mind.
First up, we show cult classic The Strange Creatures… by Ray Dennis Steckler. Shot by Vilmos Zsigmond and Laszlo Kovacs (!!) for only $38,000.00, the movie has something to do with an amusement park and zombies and the occult. But it also has musical numbers, dance sequences, amazing color. How did this movie get made?! Because Ray Dennis Steckler had a dream and refused to hear the word no!
So mind-blowing Mystery Science Theater 3000 did an episode on it, join us if you need to re-discover your love of cinema through a movie you never thought could exist. Ray Dennis Steckler has gained a reputation like Russ Meyer and Larry Coen for making truly bizarre movies that have something there that is brilliant and indescribable.
We follow it with 1984’s camp rock and roll musical Voyage of the Rock Aliens starring Pia Zadora, Craig Sheffer, Harold and Maude’s Ruth Gordon (!!), Jermaine Jackson, the Hills Have Eyes guy. . . I don’t even know where to start with this one. Aliens. Rock and Roll. Hormones. Atlanta, Georgia. A movie that could only be made because someone wanted to reverse engineer singles and soundtracks into some kind of feature film.
Look. You need to laugh. You need to reward yourself. You need to discover cinema you didn’t think possible.
You need tonight.
Best always,
Craig Hammill
Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
REFUNDS:
We can offer refunds up to 24 hours before showtime. Please request a refund through Eventbrite and we will process ASAP. After that, no refunds. Sorry.
However if something last minute comes up and you can’t make the screening, for whatever reason, just write to us before showtime: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening, good for 90 days. (Disclaimer: Future screening must have available tickets, cannot be a fundraiser, and must be comparably priced)
HELPFUL SECRET MOVIE CLUB (1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021) THEATER PARKING TIPS:
We recommend that you park just outside our theater. Remember our theater is actually in a beautiful street art alleyway in the back of the 1917 Bay Street building. You get to our entrance by taking a right on Wilson, then a right behind the building. We are the first set of black steps on the right after the big gate.
There is also a parking lot at the corner of Mateo and Violet Street, just 2 blocks from our theater, which costs $7 per car.
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