Our Universal Horror series at the Heights wraps up with this spare, black and white haunted house picture — one of the first films in that now-venerable spooky genre. Ruth Hussey and Ray Milland play siblings who buy a suspiciously-cheap house in Cornwall, only to find that you get what you… Continue reading
The answer is Clint, obviously. Ronnie is too clean cut. Throw in some Olivia Hussey, Jan-Michael Vincent, David Warner, baseball star Steve Garvey and, of course, the son of Lee Majors and you’ve got yourself quite a movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTuCwJq90f0 Wednesday, October 23 at 7pm Buy Tickets Continue reading
We bid farewell to summer and our Pierre Étaix series this Labor Day weekend. Summer leaves exhausted, drenched from the heat. But Étaix leaves us smiling and happy with this collection of four vignettes looking at modern life. And I guarantee that not only will the Trylon keep you cool on… Continue reading
Hellboy Did you see Pacific Rim last weekend? Want to keep that Guillermo del Toro vibe going for a few more days? Check out Hellboy, del Toro’s take on the long-running Dark Horse comic. Fantastic monsters, rollicking plot, 35mm projection…a great way to spend a summer evening. Monday & Tuesday: 7pm,… Continue reading
Ok, more than half the cast is British, but is there any better movie to celebrate July 4th than The Great Escape? I think not! The Trylon will be showing John Sturges’ prison escape classic all weekend. Get out of the heat, grab a popcorn and celebrate with Steve McQueen. Not… Continue reading
Our week of low-budget monster movie premieres kicks off with this mélange of ’50s sci-fi tropes: juvenile delinquents, aliens, flying saucers and, of course, musical numbers. Ok, that last one is a bit of curveball but Johnny X makes it all look gorgeous with the last batch of Kodak’s Eastman Plus-X black… Continue reading
Low-budget monster movie workhorses Joe Estevez (star of 60% of straight-to-vhs horror films) and director Gary Jones (who worked himself up from an effects guy on Evil Dead to a director/writer of similar fare) team up to deliver an American take on the Finnish film Rare Exports. Instead of a bloodthirsty Santa, Axe… Continue reading
