SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
THE INSPIRATION & THE INSPIRED 35MM DOUBLE! Friday, August 20, 2021
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. We’ll have staff to help guide/park you.
8p THE VIRGIN SPRING (1960, wri/dir by Ingmar Bergman, Janus, 90mns, 35MM)
10pm THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT [uncensored uncut version](1972, wri/dir by Wes Craven, Park Circus, 84 mns, 35MM)
*WARNING: We are screening the unrated/uncut version of Wes Craven's THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT in the interest of showing the movie as Craven intended it to be seen. Cut or uncut the movie contains graphic and unsettling scenes of rape and violence. Please be aware of the content before attending. NO ONE UNDER 17 YEARS OF AGE will be admitted to these screenings.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
***ALL GUESTS WILL BE TAKEN THROUGH PROTOCOLS PRIOR TO ENTERING THEATER SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE A FUN AND SAFE TIME.
HOW TO:
1)PLEASE BRING AND BE READY TO WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE THEATER. All folks MUST wear their masks when not eating/drinking concessions for their safety.
2)PRE-ORDER ANY CONCESSIONS OR MOVIE MERCHANDISE you would like from the additional Add-Ons. You can pick up all concessions & merchandise at our tables in our lobby prior to the screening.
We will be able to sell concessions & merchandise at the theater. But it will make everything much quicker and easier if you pre-order!
3)PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANYONE EXHIBITING COVID OR FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AT THE DOOR, WILL BE OFFERED COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS TO A FUTURE SHOW AND ASKED TO RETURN WHEN HEALTHY. So please, if you’re feeling sick, just write us at community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer your complimentary tickets to a future screening when you’re healthy. Let’s all do our part to beat this thing so we can go back to the complete movie going experience!
Tonight we return to our occasional double feature series of the original movie and then the classic second movie it inspired.
Tonight we screen Ingmar Bergman's unsettling, beautiful THE VIRGIN SPRING followed by Wes Craven's adaptation to the 1970's scuzzy horror genre THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT.
Bergman's movie (itself made by Bergman's admission as a response to Akira Kurosawa's cinema) tells the story of a medieval Christian family who send their daughter and servant to place flowers at a church. Along the way, the servant flees and the daughter is brutally raped and murdered by psychotic men in the forest.
When the Men unknowingly take shelter at the home of the murdered girl's family, the Father (played wonderfully by Max Von Sydow) struggles with his Christianity and extreme desire to take revenge.
This same basic plot was adapted for our next movie, the 1970's horror extreme classic THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, the debut feature movie of horror maestro Wes Craven.
Craven always had a talent for finding a way of threading the horrific, extreme, and intense with the literate, thoughtful, and subtle.
While there's not much subtle about THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, Craven does find a way, as Bergman did, of exploring what happens when an ethos of peace (here the flower power/hippie movement) runs head on into amoral psychosis that doesn't care about humanity's striving to be better.
An intense, violent, fascinating movie that in turn would inspire movies like Tobe Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is a must for horror afficianados. But be warned. It's as intense as you think it might be.
Best always,
Craig Hammill
35mm Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR OUR IN-DOOR THEATER SCREENINGS
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 us at: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening.
WHY ARE THE TICKET PRICES HIGHER THAN NORMAL?
In order for us to re-open, maintain health protocols and screen movies on 35MM, we need to temporarily raise our ticket prices. We apologize.
However, if you could look at this as partially helping the Secret Movie Club Theater re-open, make the improvements as we go to turn this into the amazing movie watching, movie making center we know it can be, we would be eternally grateful.
As we can increase capacity, we will IMMEDIATELY LOWER ticket prices.
If you could look at this as all of us being in this together, we WILL remember your kindness.
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.
We will have a staff member on duty to monitor all cars parked in the street-art alleyway at our entrance.
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.
HOW WILL OUR STAFF MAKE SURE THE THEATER IS AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE:
We will have staff in the theater at all times who make sure everyone is wearing masks and obeying protocols. We will have signage at entrance, markings at concessions, restrooms, etc so folks keep 6 ft distance at all times.
Anyone not observing safe protocols will kindly be asked to leave. On top of this, we’ll be making announcements at the head of each screening to make sure everyone understands the rules & regs!
HOW CAN WE STAY ON TOP OF NEWLY ANNOUNCED 35MM SCREENINGS, EVENTS, ETC?
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HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:
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