A campy juggling act pastiche between 50's psychodramas, 60's beach films, and 70's slashers. Chicket is determined to be "one of the boys" and learn how to surf, though she's harboring a secret...or secrets...her multiple personalities.

Could she responsible for all the gruesome deaths in this otherwise colorful, happy beach town?

Captain Monica Stark (played by the hilarious Charles Busch) is on the case!

Rife with a cast of TV famous actors (that guy from Buffy!, that guy from Criminal Minds!, Amy Adams before her Smallville episode!) and a KILLER soundtrack, let us bring the beach to you this July.

But watch out....

Before “Black Christmas” terrified audiences, director Bob Clark crafted an even more unsettling vision of horror with “Deathdream,” a haunting exploration of war's psychological toll wrapped in supernatural dread. When the Brooks family receives news that their son Andy has been killed in Vietnam, their grief transforms into disbelief when he mysteriously appears at their doorstep. Something about the young man has changed, something that will plunge his family into a waking nightmare.

Clark's masterful direction transforms a familiar premise into a deeply disturbing meditation on trauma, family dysfunction, and the true cost of violence. Featuring Carl Zittrer's bone-chilling score that perfectly complements his atmospheric work on “Black Christmas,” plus early FX wizardry from Tom Savini, “Deathdream” delivers horror craftsmanship at its finest.

An unrelentingly bonkers summer jam from Greydon Glark, the man who brought us SATAN'S CHEERLEADERS and FINAL JUSTICE!

See what happens when an adorable cat with a larger, significantly less atractive cat inside it is UNINVITED to unleash murderous havoc on a yacht filled with sexy young people, criminals, and also, somehow, George Kennedy. Don't miss it.

Do you want to see Bill Paxton play a washed-up Jimmy Buffett type who owns a hedonistic island resort where horny 20-somethings are meticulously murdered? Of course you do.

Sail off to Pleasure Island in Club Dread, a sleeper slasher-comedy from Broken Lizard that blends blood, booze, and beachside mayhem.

Bonus points if you can sing along to Coconut Pete’s greatest hits.

All Wet N Mild screenings have up to 20% off new WLV memberships and FREE popcorn.

ANIMONDAYS exists to exhibit great works of animation from all over the world (but mostly Japan). Grab yourself a shaved ice, come sit on the porch, and join us for the breezy family action comedy Summer Wars!

Kenji accepts the offer for a summer job from schoolmate Natsuki, only to discover he now has to pretend to be her fiancé during a family reunion. Meanwhile, in the online world of OZ (imagine Zuckerberg’s Metaverse if it were actually cool and useful), a rogue program has been stealing accounts and using them to wreak havoc in the real world. As the danger escalates, Kenji, Natsuki, and her extended family may be the only people who can stop the destructive AI.

With Summer Wars, director Mamoru Hosoda puts his best foot forward to present an exciting sci-fi action flick nestled inside a much more poignant tale of the importance of family and analog relationships in the digital age. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles. Rated PG for some fighting and tense situations.

Oh, to live in Austin when Terry Kiser had his own acting school.

Tonight, we honor the man’s most iconic role — as a dead guy. Weekend at Bernie’s is a deeply dark, preposterous comedy in which a murdered businessman’s friends and lovers are so indifferent to him, his corpse fits right into their social calendar. Bernie still throws great parties.

How this corpse-forward cult classic ever cracked the mainstream is anyone’s guess. Come chill, munch the free popcorn, and soak up the beach vibes.

Adaptations Book Club is our monthly book club that meets to answer the age old question: Is the book truly better?

This July, we are reading Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers and watching Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 adaptation.
Many believe the book and the film are in direct contrast with each other politically, but both have been canonized as sci-fi classics in their own right. Do your part and join book club today!

Come ready to discuss the book as well as the film! Books purchased through our bookshop.org link directly benefit the store. Check it out!

Have you ever seen a movie kill someone’s career? If not, then now is your time!

Run don’t walk to Odd World this month for the Chris Elliott disaster Cabin Boy, a movie so misguided and poorly received that it relegated it’s (actually very funny and talented 🥺) writer and star to bit roles for the better part of two decades. In true Joel fashion though- I really love this movie and think it is very worthy of being seen through fresh eyes. A kids movie for adults or an adults movie for kids? You decide this month at Odd World!

As always the movie, beer, and friendships are free!

Join us on Wednesday, July 2nd to celebrate the life of Brian Wilson with a screening of the underseen documentary: I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times. Filmed in 1995 by music producer Don Was, this doc chronicles a turning point in Wilson’s career as he records reimagined versions of his classic compositions. Featuring interviews with members of the Beach Boys, Van Dyke Parks, John Cale, Tom Petty, Thurston Moore, and many more.

Co-presented with Breakaway Records.

Prepare yourself for the most mind-bending cinematic experience of the year!

From the darkest corners of the cosmos comes a domestic nightmare unlike anything you've ever witnessed. "Xtro" defies all conventions of science fiction and horror as it plunges you into the twisted tale of a father's desperate attempt to reconnect with his son after a mysterious absence.

There's just one small complication... Dad's returned as a biologically altered alien-human-canine hybrid with abilities that defy all earthly logic! Witness the boundaries between family drama and cosmic body horror collapse in this cult classic that asks the question: how far would you go to rebuild a broken relationship when you're no longer entirely human?

Bold, bizarre, and utterly unforgettable, "Xtro" delivers scene after scene of jaw-dropping practical effects and surreal imagery that will haunt your dreams.

Join We Luv Video and Out of the Closet Thrift Stores in celebrating Pride Month with an underseen throwback! Connie and Carla is Nia Vardalos’ zany follow-up to My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

A riff on Some Like It Hot, two airport lounge singers find themselves in hot water after witnessing a mafia hit. Connie and Carla (Nia Vardalos & Toni Collette) run away to Los Angeles and disguise themselves as drag queens (men performing as women! This is 2004 after all) and become hosts of a local drag revue! Even messier: Carla falls for one of her new friend’s straight brother (David Duchovny), who thinks she’s a man! Screwball silliness ensues and they hide from the mafia & become local drag legends!

Full of 2000’s “tolerance” lessons, broadway references, and cameos that will make you * gay gasp *. Connie and Carla is a cult-hit waiting to happen! Be there or be straight!

P.S. Expect some goodies from Out of the Closet.

Get pitted (so pitted) with nostalgia with our Back to the Beach screening—where the 90s collides with 60s surf charm. So many cameos in this love letter to beach party films.

Highlights: Texas legend Stevie Ray Vaughan is reimagined as a surf rock god while Pee-wee Herman delights with Surfin’ Bird. There are endless cameos to make you scratch your head and say, “Hey wait a minute, is that Bob Denver?”

Bring your boardshorts. Up to 20% off new memberships and FREE popcorn.

Part horror movie, part art film, all demented joy. SKINNED DEEP is the story of one family whose car trouble brings them together with a clan of eccentric murder mutants, each with their own unique ‘thing’. There’s Granny, there’s Surgeon General, there’s Brain. Then we have Plates, played by the brilliant Warwick Davis of WILLOW. Plates, as you may have guessed, kills people by throwing plates at them. Trust us, you’re going to love this movie. 

The directorial debut of SFX master Gabe Bartalos, whose credits are as diverse as the LEPRECHAUN Films, Frank Henelotter's BRAIN DAMAGE and Mathew Barney’s CREMASTER CYCLE, SKINNED DEEP manages to be frightening, funny and strangely beautiful, playing out like a demented surrealist’s fever dream. It’s the kind of horror movie which makes you fall in love with the genre all over again. (Oh, and did we mention Captain Sensible is on the soundtrack?)

Skinned Deep screens Friday, June 20th at 7:30 pm. Tickets $5.00. 

Odd World has ventured into some pretty wild territory since we started this adventure a little over a year ago. The one place we haven’t been? Reality.

Join us for our very first documentary screening, the 2008 stalker doc I Think We’re Alone Now. What could easily have been a bleak and exploitative documentary instead grows into something strangely sweet and human. Love, sex, loneliness, identity, and crime all intersect in this fascinating portrayal of two people convinced they have found their soul mate, 1980s pop singer Tiffany.

As always the movie, beer, and friendships are free.

We Luv Video presents our first Summer Series — Wet and Mild.

Unserious movies that are damp to the bone in the Texas heat.

Our first entry? Friday the 13th Part 8, aka Jason on a Boat (and Then 10 Minutes in Times Square).

The least violent and most drenched movie of the entire series — expect more cheese than scares. But don’t be fooled: this film is definitely not for the aquaphobic. Jason is wet. THE ENTIRE TIME.

We’ll be dishing out free popcorn and offering membership specials for each entry in the Wet and Mild series. So put on your galoshes, lighten up, and enjoy the show.

Poster art by Soren Lang find him on Instagram @062a.00

Adaptations Book Club is our monthly book club that meets to answer the age old question: Is the book truly better?

This June, we are reading Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and watching Ulrike Ottinger’s West German comedic take Freak Orlando. Both the novel and this film are celebrated for their unique takes on gender, sexuality, and queerness. Told over the course of five episodes, Freak Orlando provides a one-of-a-kind adaptational experience for the viewer.

Come ready to discuss the book as well as the film! Books purchased through our bookshop.org link directly benefit the store. Check it out!

ANIMONDAYS exists to exhibit great works of animation from all over the world (but mostly Japan). This month we're hitting the road with Kino's Journey!

Kino and the talking motorcycle Hermes travel from country to country in a fairy-tale world, seeking only to learn about each unique place and its people's way of life. Though the pair always try to respect the traditions of their hosts, the locals don't always take too kindly to drifters. It's a good thing Kino always keeps a pistol or two close at hand...

Kino's Journey (2003) is more often than not a gentle, thought-provoking series. Each episode presents a new philosophical dilemma, daring you to pick a side before revealing some perspective-shifting piece of context that complicates the problem even further. The author of the source novels, Keiichi Sigsawa, is not interested in providing easy answers; rather, he wants the reader/viewer to see the incredibly human origins of these conflicts and the 'beauty' of a flawed but compassionate world.

Join us on June 9th, 7:00 PM, for the first four episodes of Kino's Journey - just enough to cover our protagonists' backstory, as well as a city full of telepaths and the shocking story of people who actually want to go to work! Presented in Japanese with English subtitles. Rated PG for occasional violence.

Beat the heat and shred the waves at this month’s Family Matinee screening, SURF’S UP. After March of the Penguins in 2005 and Happy Feet in 2006, Surf’s Up delivers more penguin activities in a much warmer climate.

In this animated mockumentary, we follow young penguin Cody as he leaves Antarctica to compete in an international surf competition. It may seem like a ridiculous premise, but with each stupid joke, this movie delivers genuine heart.

The late, great Wings Hauser wears short shorts and fights angry locals and mutant murder zombies who all have hands that look suspiciously like vaginas in this criminally under-looked small town horror movie from 1984. He's helped by the local sheriff, played by genre stalwart Bo Hopkins and the town doctor (Jennifer Warren) who has maybe the worst string of patients in cinematic history and pours a lot of red stuff into beakers to unravel the town's terrible mystery.

Wings Hauser was a favorite actor of ours, having played some of the most incredible and most charismatic heavies and anti-heros; from VICE SQUAD to TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE, and please don't forget PALE BLOOD... However, after his passing, we very much wanted to screen a film where he plays a hero. Granted, he's not perfect. He's not the best driver. His pants are a little too tight, his kicks a little too high and reckless, but hey, he's fighting mutant zombies in a town gone mad. You kinda can't blame him. We love Wings, and we're gonna miss him.

Please join us for MUTANT. It's gonna be a wild ride!

The gloriously grotesque cult classic STREET TRASH returns with a vengeance in this mind-bending post-apocalyptic sequel premiering exclusively at We Luv Video!

Visionary director Ryan Kruger (Fried Barry) cranks the mayhem to eleven as a totalitarian regime implements their horrifyingly literal "solution" to homelessness through technicolor melting madness. Equal parts social satire, splatter comedy, and surrealist nightmare, this audacious update delivers the perfectly twisted mirror our bizarre times deserve.

Grab your hazmat suit and prepare for the year's most deliriously unhinged cinematic experience – it's a meltdown you won't want to miss!

Presenting the best short films from local student filmmakers. This line up of Little Movies brings you shorts about longing. That’s right! Longing! Longing for love, longing for friendship, longing for home, and maybe also connection.

Join us for at least three (or maybe five), but definitely no longer than sixty minutes of wildly different films that all tackle themes of longing through sometimes humorous, more often heartbreaking, yet always interesting lenses.

These films are hot off the press, so catch them BEFORE they hit the festival circuit and chat with a slate of at least three (or could be five) up and coming filmmakers, so that together we can answer the question “is there an end to human want?”

Screening to be followed by a brief Q+A.

SunGays is getting tender y’all.

In celebration of AANHPI Heritage Month, we proudly present 1995’s Shinjuku Boys. Shinjuku Boys explores the lives of three transmascs who work at the New Marilyn Club (a host club) in Tokyo. Follow these three onabe as they discuss romance, family life, concepts of gender + presentation, and their general outlooks on life. This sweet 53 minute doc will leave your heart full and begging for a Where Are They Now? sequel.

Preceding Shinjuku Boys will be a screening of the short film Dead Youth (1967). Using Mutsuo Takahashi’s poetry as a backdrop, diretor Donald Richie paints a portrait of queer men’s desire.

The Black Auteur Film Festival presents: We Real Cool

A night of short films by local Black filmmakers. Stick around after the screening for a Q&A.

Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
Genre: Mumblecore, Autofiction

Synopsis: Blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction, me and my victim is about co-directors and subjects, Maurane and Billy Pedlow, who are not quite friends and not quite lovers and the true, messy, and kind-of-fucked-up story about how they met. a messy, whirlwind, imperfect, orgasmic, meme-inflected, jump into the rabbit hole of their on-again, off-again situationship, their ultra-micro-budget (the film was made for less than $1000 us) confession playfully captures the humanity of love and lust in the 21st century. 

Adaptations Book Club is our monthly book club that meets to answer the age old question: Is the book truly better?

We are changing it up for May by doing an author study rather than a direct adaptation. Read any title by Yukio Mishima before our screening of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. This unique biographical drama weaves in elements from the following books if you need guidance on a book to select to read: Runaway Horses, Temple of the Golden Pavillion, and Kyoko’s House.

Come ready to discuss Yukio Mishima and his life as well as the book you read! Books purchased through our bookshop.org link directly benefit the store. Check it out!

Not familiar with Yukio Mishima? Here is a summary of his life to help inform your reading + watching.

Hey you, yeah you, are you cool? How cool are you? Are you the coolest? Maybe you are, maybe you aren’t but there is no denying that in 1991- one Mr. Vanilla Ice was cooler than the rest. In fact, he was Cool as Ice.

Join us as we celebrate the life of the coolest guy you’ve ever met as he tries to convince his babe to trade her life or horseback riding for a life of yellow motorcycles and wrap around sunglasses! Along the way he battles gangsters, bad fashion, and the sneaking suspicion that maybe he wasn’t meant to be an actor.

As always enjoy free beer and free friendship at this very free and very cool installment of Odd World.

ANIMONDAYS exists to exhibit great works of animation from all over the world (but mostly Japan). This month we take a backwards dive into cyberpunk philosophy with Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell.

In the future, cybernetic enhancements are so common that most human consciousnesses ('ghosts') are connected directly to the internet, while their bodies ('shells') have been augmented beyond normal human capabilities. Major Motoko Kusanagi is tasked with preventing cyber terrorism and tracking down the enigmatic Puppet Master who hijacks people's brains to commit high-profile crimes. As she follows the trail left by the ghost-hacker, she wrestles with questions of identity and humanity in a world where the line between person and machine continues to blur.

Ghost in the Shell holds a colossal presence in cyberpunk and anime history, directly influencing blockbuster Hollywood directors like the Wachowskis (JUST LOOK at The Matrix - it's the closest we'll ever come to a live-action GitS!* ), James Cameron, and Steven Spielberg. Its reflections on the nature of consciousness only grow more pertinent with the current commercial push towards artificial intelligence. Plus, it's packed with some of the best action sequences and head explosions ever put to screen!

Join us on May 12th at 7:00 PM, and ponder your terrifying existence with Ghost in the Shell. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles. Rated somewhere between PG-13 and R for violence, non-sexual nudity, profanity, and intense action.

*I know what I said.

Free the chickens and avoid the pies with this month’s Family Matinee screening.

British chickens, Scottish chickens, American chickens. All the chickens.

Featuring quite a few chickens, this Aardman Animation classic still reigns supreme as the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film of all time.

Join Fangoria and We Luv Video for a fun-filled night of horror trivia and sweet, sweet slashin’!

This May, follow Courtney (survivor of the FIRST) Slumber Party Massacre, as she faces off against a supernatural foe with a power-drill guitar.

The Driller Killer is like if Fred Krueger was really into Elvis. Seriously. You don’t wanna miss this!

Fangoria Trivia is sponsored by Oddwood Brewing.

Join us for a fun filled night of horror trivia with Fangoria and Righteous Retro!
This April we are showing Lamberto Bava’s Demons!

A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons….hmmm we promise this won’t happen during your screening….

hopefully.

This event will have free beer courtesy of Celis Brewery!