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Dir. various - 80s to the 90s! - varies - ALL SEATS $8 PER MOVIE OR DO THE ALL FESTIVAL PASS FOR $30 !!

The Guild Cinema welcomes the awesome blu-ray/dvd release label Vinegar Syndrome and the great film programming series Scream Screen to Albuquerque!  Five Vinegar Syndrome films screening over three nights presented by Theresa Mercado, programmer and host of Scream Screen (Denver)!  

BONUS!!  Get ready for a Vinegar Syndrome pop-up shop one hour before and after each screening in the Guild lobby...a ton of VS blu-rays, merch and more!  Long live physical media! 

ABOUT VINEGAR SYNDROME:   a film restoration and distribution company specializing in restoring "lost" horror, exploitation, american pornography and B-movies from the 70s thru early 90s. 

ABOUT SCREAM SCREEN:   a quarterly (or so) horror film series - the best in under seen and subversive horror cinema - programmed and hosted by Theresa Mercado at the Sie FilmCenter in Denver, Colorado featuring live music, special guests and outlandish cosplay before screenings of under-seen and classic genre films, on 35mm and 16mm film whenever possible. 

CO-SPONSORED BY LOCALS SPECTRAL YOUTH, LONGHAIR RECORDS, DARK ROOM HORROR AND BASEMENT FILMS!

Wed. May 18: 

6pm - DEMON WIND (1990) 

A man's investigation into his long-dead parents' demise leads to the haunted family mansion and a date with a demon.  [D: Charles Philip Moore]  View a trailer!

8:15pm- BLOOD HARVEST (1987) 

Bad things happen in a rural town where someone named Marvelous Mervo (Tiny Tim) runs around like a clown.  [D: Bill Rebane]  View a trailer!

Thur. May 19 :

6pm - TAMMY AND THE T-REX unrated gore cut! (1994) 

A teen (Denise Richards) learns that a scientist (Paul Walker) implanted her dead boyfriend's brain into an animatronic dinosaur.  [D: Stewart Raffill]  View a trailer!

8:15pm - SPOOKIES (1986) 

A dilapidated mansion becomes a slaughterhouse when an evil sorcerer unleashes his monstrous sidekicks on intruders.  [D: Brendan Faulkner, Thomas Doran, Genie Joseph]  View a trailer!

Fri. May 20:

10:30pm - NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR (1985) 

God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes making this horror anthology unlike anything you've ever seen.  [D: John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, Tom McGowan, Gregg C. Tallas]  View a trailer!

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Dir. Gaspar Noe - 2019 - 52m - France - In French with English Subtitles - No Matinees - not for the kids!

PLEASE NOTE:  This film contains extended sequences of flashing lights that may impact people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.

Taking place backstage of a French film production, often utilizing split-screens to follow two characters at once,  Charlotte Gainsbourg, acting as herself, plays the film’s — and the film-within-a-film’s — leading role of an actress taking on the role of a witch burned at the stake while French actress Béatrice Dalle, playing a version of herself as well, takes on the on-screen role of director. The film progresses with mounting tension as the set descends into aggressive chaos— both in style, form, and plot. Actress and model Abbey Lee (The Neon Demon), Karl Glusman (Love), Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull (Climax), Félix Maritaud (Sauvage / Wild, Knife + Heart), and Clara Deshayes also appear as interpretations of themselves.  

“The closing moments of Lux Æterna are such a disturbing outburst of light, color, and 3-D illusions they might make even stereoscopic auteur Ken Jacobs avert his eyes.” - Eric Kohn, IndieWire

“A fascinating sensory experience. It will either be exactly the nightmarish dreamscape one hopes for or the repellant fascinations of boundary pusher run amok.” - Nicholas Bell, Ioncinema

"Moves from comic improvisational chatter to anarchic chaos and violence featuring beautiful people.” - Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter 

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Dir. Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis - 2021 - 105m - Italy - In Italian & Spanish with English subtitles

Luciano is a wandering outcast in a remote, late 19th-century Italian village. His life becomes undone by alcohol, forbidden love, and a bitter conflict with the prince of the region over the right of passage through an ancient gateway. When the quarrel escalates, Luciano is exiled to the distant Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego where, with the help of ruthless gold-diggers, he searches for a mythical treasure, paving his way toward redemption. However, in these barren lands, only greed and insanity can prevail.

"Profound... [the film] owes its existence to a really good story, a little exaggeration, and the enthusiastic consumption of alcohol." - Screen Slate

"A work of genuine cinematic imagination and power." — FILM FESTIVAL TODAY

“Recalling the works of several revered auteurs, Italian and otherwise, it’s a novel film of various intersections announcing an intriguing pair of new directorial voices.” — IONCINEMA

“[An] unforgettable chronicle of humanity.” — INTERNATIONAL CINEPHILE SOCIETY

“Pirates, princes, crabs, treasure maps, gold-diggers, and shipwrecks… Billowing from the fantasy world of KING CRAB is an ancient pleasure, a childish enthusiasm that kept me hooked and hypnotized, prompting the question you’d expect from the very best of stories: what’s going to happen next?” — MUBI

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