SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our HALLOWEEN-O-THON 2023 Series, Wednesday, October 4, 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 1917 Bay St building. Our entrance is NOT on Bay Street. You access our entrance from Wilson Street by turning into the street art alleyway/corridor in the back of the building. Look for our signs which are always posted on Wilson and in the corridor to guide the audience.

7:30pm ARMY OF DARKNESS (1992, co wri & dir by Sam Raimi, Universal, USA, 81mns, 35mm - Theatrical Cut)

Sam Raimi at his best makes movies like a cinema obsessed teenager jacked up on powdered sugar, too many ideas, and a need to make the camera do what no one thought it could ever do.

This is what makes Raimi movies, even underseen ones like his wildly entertaining Western THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, such treats to watch.

Raimi has a kind of in-your-face, let me throw this camera out the window and ramp up the speed, and do some claymation at the same time approach that only fifteen year olds who don't know something is impossible to do would dare to do.

Tonight, we kick off our Halloween-o-thon 2023 (our month-long deep dive into horror, scary, spooky pictures of all kinds, shapes, and sizes) with Raimi's ARMY OF DARKNESS, the third movie in his now multi-media running Deadite series (that started famously with EVIL DEAD in 1981).

After the one-two punch of EVIL DEAD and EVIL DEAD II, Raimi had his sights on many genres and many projects. He directed the Coen Brothers co-written CRIME WAVE and the dark superhero vengeance movie DARKMAN along the way. But just before Raimi would embark on his "there's not a genre I can't do" period, he came back to tie up loose ends with ARMY OF DARKNESS starring muse Bruce Campbell as Ash, the long suffering, but ever strengthening hero whose disasterous night in a cursed cabin in the woods, would turn into a lifelong quest to fight the forces of evil.

Here, Raimi picks up exactly where he left off in EVIL DEAD II, tweaking a few things (which became a joke in itself), so that he can send Ash back to the middle ages to fight the Evil, woo beautiful women, and try to get back to his own time as manager of a superstore.

ARMY OF DARKNESS plays like a kind of bastard mischievous child of BACK TO THE FUTURE and WILLOW. Campbell, now fully in control and aware of the comedic potential of his Ash character, has a ball while he battles Deadites and even himself (!?!).

The movie continues to showcase Raimi's bravura moviemaking and his love of mixing shock scares, action sequences, and broad broad slapstick comedy (often influenced by the Three Stooges). The most comedic and fantastic of the first three, this is the one you can bring your significant other to watch if they don't like horror movies.

And we've got it on 35mm!

Best always,

Craig Hammill

Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer

*Please note that though we strive to always show titles on 35mm film if advertised, we may have to screen digitally if the print we receive is in such bad shape or if we don't receive the print in time because of a shipping delay. We will do our best to alert the audience. When this does occur, we will offer each ticket holder who chooses not to attend a complimentary ticket to a future event in exchange. (Disclaimer: Good for 90 days – Future screening must have available tickets, cannot be a fundraiser, and must be comparably priced)

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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HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:

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