Odd World is back and ready to continue Video Game Summer with the most disappointing movie you ever saw at a birthday party in 3rd grade- Mortal Kombat: Annihilation!

See all new actors, terrible CGI, incomprehensible action, and a complete bastardization of everything you loved about 1995s original Mortal Kombat!

Nothing on earth can prepare you…for how absolutley terrible this movie is. As always the beer, friendships, and tickets are free!

Knife+Heart is a love letter to community, slashers, and pornography.

We follow Anne Parèze, a lesbian pornographer as she tries to make Anal Fury V but her crew keep mysteriously dying. Is the she culprit? Is it the specter of homophobia in late 70's France?!

Fantastical, pornographic, beautifully lit, made me cry. We could go on and on about what makes this film so unique (and so SO hot). With an original score by M83, this is one giallo-inspired film you don't wanna miss!

It’s time once again to dive into some pure cartoon magic! During this edition of Saturday Toon Time, we’ve teamed up with Animondays to bring you a high-energy lineup of our favorite kid-friendly anime classics. Get ready to relive the era when card games were serious business and every duel felt like the fate of the world was on the line.

Grab the whole crew and join us on the floor for a cozy hangout—complete with mats, blankets, and plenty of pillows to sink into. The lights stay on, the vibes stay relaxed, and the chatter, giggles, and wiggly moments are all part of the fun.

Pack your favorite snacks, fill up those sippy cups, and make it a laid-back family adventure full of nostalgia, excitement, and Saturday smiles.

We Luv Video presents a selection of short films by Isao Yamada on Wednesday, April 29th at 7PM. Beginning his career in the 1970s as an art director for the iconic experimental filmmaker Shūji Terayama (Pastoral: To Die in the Country, Grass Labyrinth), Yamada went on to develop his own distinctive style through 8mm and 16mm filmmaking. An essential voice in experimental cinema, Yamada’s poetic filmography captures the ethereality of dreams. This 90 minute program will highlight key works across the course of his career.

Digital scans of these films were generously provided by Yamada’s Production Company, Yamavica Film.

Program includes: The Fan of Spiral Shell (1983, 12 min), Crystal (1988, 12 min), Fragmentation of Night (1996, 12 min), Swamp (1999, 12 min), A Star and a Propeller (2000, 13 min), Girl Orphée (2001, 20 min), Feel (2004, 15 min) Total Runtime: 96 minutes

Real Genius (1985, dir. Martha Coolidge) is a lightweight comedy that is enveloped in a larger plot about the CIA using a university program to develop a weapon to kill political targets outside official declarations of war (topical!). Val Kilmer plays his part with a heavy-handed kookiness that isn’t as cool as it seemed at the time, but the dialogue is witty. Real teen Gabriel Jarrett, the central character who is not featured in most of the film’s advertising, is very good. He also strikingly resembles a young male version of Sarah Jessica Parker. There is a requisite party scene that looks like a ZZTop music video and some lite misogyny, but ultimately the film (for the most part) can be viewed with minimal cringing at the past. 

Resident artist Maura Murnane created her soft-sculpture installation around nostalgic physical pieces of dead media that she has held on to even though they have lost their function. This specific movie shared a themed VHS cassette in her childhood home with the movies “Weird Science” and “My Science Project.” Her parents taped it off of HBO when they had a 1-month free trial in California in 1989.

Murnane was born and raised in the oil base city of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, where uncensored western movies in general were technically illegal. Pirated VHS tapes, smuggled from Bahrain, could be rented through private clubs run from people’s homes. After leaving Arabia, Murnane has lived in Texas, New York, and California. She has a BFA from UT Austin and an MFA from UC Irvine. Murnane has taught art at Scripps College, Pitzer College, Whittier College, and UT Austin, and also works as a commercial photo retoucher. She is drawn to and repelled by petroleum byproducts and their many forms, and the nature of desire as is it constructed in images.

This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Office of Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment

Joe Spinell (MANIAC, ROCKY, TAXI DRIVER) and Catherine Munro (STARCRASH, MANIC) star in this love letter to the horror genre, directed by former child actor and award winning choreographer David Winters. A rabid (and delusional) fan and aspiring auteur stalks his favorite screen queen all the way to the Cannes Film Festival as he attempts to convince her to star in his next horror picture, by any means necessary.

An insane, beautiful, brutal, surreal and sweaty picture, THE LAST HORROR FILM is a must for any gore fan, and the best way to see Spinell looking absolutely magisterial in a cape. It's one of the all-timers, and an absolute masterpiece from all involved, despite its unlikely conception. Please join us at the store to revel in the glory that is THE LAST (but not really!) HORROR FILM.  

Join We Luv Video in celebrating the reason for the season, one of the top numbers of all time….420.

Meet Rod Kimble (Andy Samberg), self-proclaimed stuntman extraordinaire preparing for the jump of his life. Rod has to jump over 15 buses to raise enough money to save his evil step father’s (Ian McShane) life! Sound silly? You got it. See a bunch of comedy heavyweights at the start of their cinematic careers (Bill Hader, Danny McBride, Jorma Taccone) with us this month!

also uhhhhh, does anybody else think Andy Samberg is like, so hot in this movie?!

With free refreshments from High Five, treats from Free Bakery North Loop, and goodies to take home from Earlybird your munchies will be satisfied as you laugh along with one of the goofiest comedies of recent memory.

April is Autism Awareness Month. Join Sandbox ABA and We Luv Video in presenting a sensory friendly screening of Dreamworks' 2005 film Madagascar.

We Luv Video's micro-cinema will be a space for friends to enjoy the screening how they feel most comfortable: with space to move, snacks to share, soft lighting, alternative sensory friendly stimuli when breaks are needed or even enjoying the adventure in one of our 25 theater quality seats.

Join us for a viewing experience where everyone is welcome to enjoy the classic animated hit filled with hijinks, adventures and a trip through the wild with friends old and new!

For more information about We Luv Video’s accommodations and accessibility visit here: https://www.weluvvideo.org/accessibility

Join us in celebrating Record Store Day 2026 with a special screening with Utopia Pictures and Matador Records!

To honor the 35th anniversary, Matador is rereleasing of Pavement’s PERFECT SOUND FOREVER on vinyl and Utopia pictures is bringing back the bangin’ experimental biopic Pavements.

ICYMI: Pavements is a docufiction film about the incredible indie band Pavement. With scripted scenes starring Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, and Tim Heidecker, documentary footage of Pavement AND a musical stage play based on the music of Pavement, there is no better way to start your RSD weekend off.

Join WLV and our neighbor Breakaway Records in ringing in the weekend with special giveaways, trivia, and awesome tunes on Friday April 17th!

On April 7th, Odd World returns just in time to celebrate the release of a certain animated video game adaptation with it’s MUCH better early 90’s live action take- Super Mario Bros!

Join Bob Hoskins, Johnny Legs, and Dennis Hopper as they drunkenly stumble through a fever dream of absurdity and surrealism that somehow manages to simultaneously miss the point of the games completely while also bringing a brilliantly unhinged and slightly familiar world to life.

From being maligned and considered one of the worst films of all time to achieving cult status and critical reevaluations, this movie is unlike anything you’ve ever seen (or played) before!

As always the movie, beer (courtesy of Lazarus Brewing!) and lifelong friendships are free!

See y’all at the store!

It's hot outside!

Grab the fam and watch some Saturday morning cartoons with us. We're introducing our children to the family friendly classics, one Saturday at a time.

The lights will be on, we'll have blankets and mats on the floor, and wiggles and chit chat are encouraged. Bring your own snacks and sippy cups!

On March 30th, Animondays presents the fantasy classic “The Fantastic Adventures of Unico.” Created by the “Godfather of Anime” Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Black Jack, Princess Knight), Unico is a magical unicorn boy that brings happiness to everyone he meets. When the gods grow jealous of his joy and whimsy, Unico sets off on a journey across worlds to escape their wrath, making new friends along the way. A cult hit for 80s anime enthusiasts, “The Fantastic Adventures of Unico” is full to the brim with playful, colorful animation and features a memorable cast of characters from a lonely devil to a talking cat.

A must-see for anime fans of any age.

Screening will be in Japanese with English subtitles.

This savage exploitation masterpiece from veteran Canadian filmmaker William Fruet (Spasms) traps a group of weekend partiers in a nightmarish fight for survival, where a peaceful lakeside getaway turns into a blood-soaked battleground.

Raw, relentless, and soaked in the sun-bleached dread of the Canadian wilderness, Death Weekend earns its place alongside the most bruising revenge films of the 1970s and is essential viewing for those who appreciates films such as Straw Dogs or Last House on the Left.

Join Lunchbox Cinema at We Luv Video on March 20th at 7:30 PM for a descent into the surreal, blood-soaked dreamscape of this 1970s cult masterpiece.

When a young woman travels to a decaying coastal town to find her father, she uncovers a Lovecraftian nightmare of weeping murals, flesh-eating locals, and a dark "Blood Moon" prophecy.

Experience one of horror’s most stylish, synth-driven fever dreams on the big screen with Austin’s community of physical media devotees.

When an elite dance academy behind the Iron Curtain suddenly allows American ballerinas to enroll, things immediately go terribly wrong. We promise it's not because they didn't cast any actual ballerinas to be in the movie. It's more murder-related.

Robert Englund plays both Madame, the faded Russian Prima Ballerina running the academy, AND the American hotshot sex-man ballerina who caused the motorcycle accident which abruptly ended her career. These are clearly the roles he was born to play. No notes.

This is SUSPIRIA, minus all the pretty light and glass… but with big boobs, knives, insane dance routines, hot tub sequences you really aren't expecting… and so much beautiful melodrama. It's an extremely satisfying early 90's slasher on its own, and becomes transcendent cinema when you add the extreme charisma of Englund as the gloriously camp faded grande damme, Madame.

Dance Macabre is a criminally under-watched banger from genre hero, director Greydon Clark, which we here at Blood Shed Theater would very much like to correct.

Odd World is back and ready to dive head first into the world of mystery, intrigue, deception, and wildly offensive makeup with 2002’s catastrophic failure The Master of Disguise! Follow Dana Carvey in an almost unbearably unfunny turn as Pistachio Disguisey - a bumbling idiot who realizes he’s actually a descendant in a long line of master spies known as The Masters of Disguise. See what critics called “a film about as funny as a seeping wound” “the worst film ever made” and “as amusing as an old lady slipping on a banana peel”

As always the lifelong friendships, beer, and tickets are free! (thanks Lazarus Brewing!)

See y’all at the store!

FILMS LIST

THREE TWENTY-FIVE

14min - Drama - dir. Eli Fischer

A real-time experience of a young couple’s final fourteen minutes together as they confront taking a major step in their lives.

THIS IS US

9min - Comedy - dir. Kevin Ralston

After stepping away from his Taco Bell order, a young man returns to find himself in an unprecedented dilemma.

PARKWAY HOP

15min - Drama - dir. Ben Pakman

Estranged millennial exes have a chance encounter in Brooklyn for the first time since one of them embraced a new life in Orthodox Judaism.

FOUNTAINBLEAU

11min - Slice of Life - dir. Derek Zimmer

Brief encounters and missed connections in the rooms and halls of a band rehearsal building

LANDLAND

9min - Video Essay - dir. Cesaire Carroll-Dominguez

A Cornell student’s curiosity about a campus tree leads to a larger story of displacement.

I WAS GONE FOR A WHILE

9min - Drama - dir. Sara Gaston

A young girl is torn between social expectations and listening to her gut when a neighbor invites her inside.

CHURCH PUPPETS EP 1

6min - Comedy - dir. Paxton Gilmore

A satirical knock-off of Christian programming from the 90s complete with a working phone number.

LUCKY NIGHT

12min - Sci-fi/Action - dir. Nick Nielsen

In a not-so distant dystopic future, a martial artist collects a debt.

BLACKBOARD/YELLOWSCREEN

10min - Experimental - dir. Charles de Agustin

Blackboard / Yellowscreen centers on an interview with writer, programmer, and activist Rosa Martinez, speaking in the middle of their trial as part of the CUNY 8, facing up to seven years in prison for their alleged actions at a Palestine solidarity encampment in New York.

RABBLE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY

1min20sec - Experimental - dir. dirtyclean

An exploration of a psycho-geography that exists underneath the imagined city and its layout.

WORLD SLOW STAIN

6min - Experimental - dir. Hector Iglesias

A silent, wordless exercise in videographic painting.oon <3

How often do you think about an embarrassing thing you've done? Does it make you cringe? Does it ruin your day? When two coworkers set up their roommates on a blind date, the aftermath pushes all four of them to the edge of their emotional comfort zones. As awkwardness turns into confrontation, they’re forced to test the limits of empathy and face the scariest challenge of all: talking about it.

DONTWATCHTHECLOCK invites you to a test screening of their debut feature film, ’Small Talk’. Fully funded from the settlement of a car crash, the team built a ragtag crew of filmmakers & actors to "weekend warrior" their most personal piece yet.

PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT
96min - Folk Horror - dir. Christopher Bickle

Max, a young record store clerk, stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into the world of a 1970s hippie commune. An invitation to the remnants of the cult and its unholy spawn leads to grave circumstances for Max and her friends.

Maggots and Men is an experimental depiction of the story of the March 1921 uprising of the Kronstadt sailors. Anarchist sailors in a Russian port city rose up against the increasingly bureaucratic Soviet government.

Featuring the largest cast of trans actors ever in a film and reminiscent of the films of Kenneth Anger and Guy Maddin, Cary Cronenwett pays homage to Battleship Potemkin (1921) along with the theater group Blue Blouse.

Dance along to Russian folk music and flirt with other queer hotties at this month’s sunGays

“In Drawing a parallel between the history of revolution and the free expression of gender, Maggots and Men evokes the poignant sense that our present world is haunted by radical potentials that have yet to be fulfilled."  -- Susan Stryker

This Month our guest curator for AniMondays is jumping over from Blood Shed Theater, and she’s bringing some heat. Battle Angel is the timeless tale of Galley (or Alita if you’re nasty), a cyborg warrior who is dumped into the garbage heap beneath the sky city, where the fancy people toss their space trash. She’s limbless, and has no memory beyond the martial arts. Daisuke Ido, a cyberphysician (a good future profession we all should look into) finds and re-assembles her, and a beautiful friendship is born.

It’s a dystopian cyberpunk classic about trying to make the most of living on a ruined planet, surrounded by absolute monsters... featuring lots of massive dudes in goggles getting punched in the face by a tiny badass cyborg chick. The Manga by Yukito Kishiro was later adapted by Robert Rodriguez, but here the focus is mainly on the first two collections, and Christoph Waltz does not appear. (We're Sorry!)

Deep in the vaults of local film history lies MONGREL, a raw and haunting horror film directed by Robert A. Burns, the visionary art director behind The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. MONGREL tells the story of a group of hapless boarders who are being slowly picked off by an unknown evil presence.

Shot in downtown Austin with the same guerrilla filmmaking energy that made Chainsaw a cultural phenomenon, the film showcases Burns' masterful eye for unsettling atmospheres and visceral horror. The film also features the screen debut of Mitch Pileggi, years before his iconic role of FBI Assistant Director Skinner on The X-Files.

In 1965, former Mr Universe (and ex husband of Jayne Mansfield) Mickey Hargitay, starred as The Crimson Executioner, a reincarnated nobleman (who may or may not be the Marques De Sade.. this point is unclear).

Ironically, he himself was executed for torturing too many people to death in his murder castle and also not wearing a shirt. Now he's back in the form of an ex muscle man, who also doesn't like wearing a shirt. What happens when a bunch of cute models randomly show up to do a fun horror novel cover shoot? Nothing good, which is good fun for us.

BLOODY PIT OF HORROR is what would happen if HOSTEL was an episode of 60s TV BATMAN! - It is weird, trashy, and beautiful. Also expect a bunch of henchmen dressed like sailors, in pants which are so tight it should be illegal, because it’s the 60’s and that’s just how it goes.

Mickey is beyond wonderful here, and our love for him and this movie cannot properly be expressed. It fills the BLOODY PIT OF HORROR in our souls.

An avant-gutter psychedelic dream, ANYTHING THAT MOVES is an erotically charged, blood-soaked thriller set in the sticky corridors of Chicago. Shot on fleshy Super 16mm, director Alex Phillips' rust belt giallo continues on his trajectory of taboo-shattering horror cinema with this tense, funny, and absolutely twisted murder mystery.

Join Adaptations Book Club for one last book.
We are finishing this series with Thomas Harris’ classic thriller Red Dragon.

Oft adapted but never quite as stylish as Michael Mann’s 1986 film Manhunter.
Meet Will Graham, a former agent for the FBI who has come out of retirement for one last case. (are you sensing a theme in the curation here?!) Will has to find “The Tooth Fairy”, a serial killer stalking and killing families during the full moon.

Read the book and come hang with us on February 11th to watch Manhunter and chat the book, the movie, and maybe even some Hannigram….?

It’s February and you know what that means- love is in the air at We Luv Video and we have the perfect movie for this month’s installment of Odd World: Tiptoes!

Yes, that’s right, the wildly offensive complete misfire of a romcom starring local legend Matthew McConaughey, Kate Beckinsale, and Gary Oldman (in the performance of a lifetime!) has finally made its way to a theatre near you. Join us as we shake our heads in bewilderment and ask the age old question “what the hell is happening?!” in this…heartwarming (?) look at family, love, and the little secrets we keep.

As always the beer will be free and sponsored by Lazarus Brewing, the lifelong friendships and tickets are also free so you really have no excuse.

Experience the whirlwind, silly romance that is Beyond Gravity at this month's SunGays.

Released in 1989, this 50 minute short follows Richard, an anxious man obsessed with the eventual explosion of the sun as he is intensely (lovingly) pursued by an audacious Italian-Kiwi man named Johnny.

Together, the odd pairing adventure around Auckland, escaping the monotony of Richard's every day. Think Before Sunrise/Sunset but gay and kiwi.

With a synthy 80's score, hot boys, and aussie accents fall in love with this sweet lil movie (recently restored by Altered Innocence).

Bring a date! Bring some tissues! Luv u <3

In celebration of Cinematic Void's January Giallo Series, Lunchbox Cinema is bringing the blood-red brilliance of Dario Argento’s TENEBRAE to We Luv Video.

Experience one of the genre's most self-reflexive and visually stunning slashers in the most nostalgic room in Austin.

Grab a seat, pour some J&B, and get ready for a mystery where everyone is a suspect.

We Luv Video Is proud to present The Dirt Road To Psychedelia, a documentary about Austin's emerging psych and counter-culture scene in the 1960s directed by local independent filmmaker Scott Conn. The film originally premiered at the Dolbie theatre in 2008. This screening will feature a Q&A with the director and a screening of his 1991 experimental punk rock vampire horror short HER DOG SATAN, which stars several Austin luminaries.

The Dirt Road To Psychedelia -Feature documentary 72min. (2008) A folk singing Janis Joplin, the 13th Floor Elevators, peyote, LSD and the first psychedelic music venue in Texas, Austin was a fertile ground for the emerging counter-culture of the 1960s. Seen as nonconformists, Beatnik inspired students were drawn together by folk, country and Blues music while dabbling with peyote and later exploring with LSD. Traditional values became challenged as they sought a lifestyle outside of the system. Civil Rights and the war in Vietnam were galvanizing factors in 1960s American society, but the advent of psychedelics made it electrified!

This is how Austin became groovy.

Join We Luv Video in celebrating the life and continued legacy of David Lynch on what would’ve been his 80th Birthday.
With free coffee and donuts, come and chill in the microcinema for as long as you’d like and watch a curated series of interview clips, weather reports, shorts, and so much more from Lynch. (Have you seen the man cook Quinoa?!). Our staff are ready to chat all things Lynch too.

This free event is open to all Lynch Lovers and will run from 7:30-10:00PM. Come and go as you please.