Grindhouse

Spider Baby

While our allotment of advance tickets has sold out online, some additional tickets will be available to purchase at the door on a first come, first served basis on the night of the show. Box office & doors open approximately 1 hour before showtime. For shows that have sold out online, in-person ticket purchases are limited to 2 tickets per person.

The first solo feature from exploitation legend Jack Hill (Foxy Brown), Spider Baby remains one of the wildest and weirdest horror films of the 1960s. The credits dub this “the maddest story ever told,” a promise that’s well on the way to being fulfilled in the opening scene alone, when Virginia traps and kills a hapless deliveryman in her makeshift web. She’s one of three siblings, including exploitation wild man Sid Haig, who suffer from a unique genetic disorder that causes them to regress back to childhood while retaining the physical strength and sexual maturity of adults. Lon Chaney, Jr. (The Wolf Man) gives one of his most memorable late performances as Bruno, who manages to cover up the crimes of the “kids” until two distant relatives lay claim to their house. Blending elements of gothic horror and gallows humor, Spider Baby drops somewhere between The Addams Family and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. (American Genre Film Archive)

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?

A daytime trip to the carnival turns, well, incredibly strange, when the happy-go-lucky Jerry (Cash Flagg) is transformed into a brainwashed killer by the scheming fortune teller Madame Estrella. As carnival patrons begin going missing and performers start turning up dead, will the midway be safe from Estrella and her army of acid-scarred zombies? Shot in “Terrorama” by acclaimed cinematographers Joseph V. Mascelli, László Kovács, and Vilmos Zsigmond, and directed by DIY champion Ray Dennis Steckler, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? is also the world’s first monster musical! (American Genre Film Archive)