SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our DISCIPLES OF HITCHCOCK/FILMMAKER Q&A Series, Friday, August 25, 2023
SPECIAL NOTE: Writer/Director James Nguyen will be in attendance for a between movies Q&A
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 BIRDEMIC: SHOCK & TERROR (2010, dir. James Nguyen, USA, 90mns, Digital)
9pm Q&A with writer/director James Nguyen
9:45pm BIRDEMIC 3: SEA EAGLE (2022, dir. James Nguyen, USA, 83mns, DCP)
In 2010, a sleeper movie crept up on the movie loving world and blew. . .its. . .mind. Birdemic: Shock & Terror not only wears its love of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds on its cinematic sleeve (including a cameo from Tippi Hedren herself) but it achieves emotional reactions no other movie is really capable of.
In fact, Birdemic was one of the movies I personally chose for Secret Movie Club when it was just a group of friends showing other friends movies they had never heard of that would make their jaw drop.
AND TO TOP IT OFF, WE HAVE WRITER/DIRECTOR JAMES NGUYEN IN PERSON FOR A Q&A!
If you’ve never seen Birdemic or heard about Birdemic, it basically follows couple Rod and Natalie on a romantic getaway. In fact this romantic getaway takes a large part of the first part of the movie. So much so, you might be asking, where are the birds?
But let me tell you, when the birds show up (and do they show up), violence, bird attacks, danger, tension, and humans fleeing for their lives from strangely designed birds ensues.
The effects for Birdemic are. . .you have to experience them. But when you do, you will realize you have seen nothing like it.
We’ll talk to writer/director Nguyen about how he made his micro-budget effects heavy horror film. How it spawned two sequels (with another in the works) and became one of the most well know bat-sh@t crazy movies of the 21st century.
We will follow the Q&A with a screening of Nguyen’s newest: Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle where this time. . .climate change. . .sea eagles. . .a lot of waiting for the birds to appear. . .then. . .effects that will melt your mind.
If you need a fun time and to see totally singular moviemaking, tonight is your night.
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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