On Sunday, May 28th at 7PM, We Luv Video presents Gamera: Guardian of the Universe as a part of our KaiJune series. KaiJune is our month long summer series celebrating the Kaiju Film in all its forms.

Following a long absence from the big screen, Gamera made a triumphant return to form in time for his 30th anniversary, with upgraded special effects and a more serious tone. Now a guardian deity, Gamera tussles with a new incarnation of his old foe — the flying monster Gyaos — first in Fukuoka, and then in a spectacular aerial battle over Tokyo.

A highlight of the Heisei kaiju renaissance of the 90s, director Shusuke Kaneko (Giant Monsters All-Out Attack) crafted an emotive Spielbergian twist to the genre. An essential watch for kaiju fans of all ages.

Are you ready to plug into the organic gaming console of your nightmares? Join us at We Luv Video on Friday, June 26th, for a special screening of David Cronenberg’s fleshy, mind-bending sci-fi thriller, eXistenZ. Grab a drink, pick your favorite movie snack, and question reality with us.

Doors: 7:15 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM

In a world created by aliens, one man is forced to transform into an alien super soldier in order to save his girlfriend.

Loosely based on the Japanese manga series, The Guyver follows the story of Sean Barker who discovers a strange biomechanical device & suddenly finds himself on the run from the ZOANOIDS; humans who can change into super monster soldiers at will. This tokusatsu superhero style film from the brilliant minds of Screaming Mad George & Brian Yuzna packs in one punch after another. Starring b-movie bigwigs like Mark Hamill, Michael Berryman, Jeffrey Combs & David Gale you will soon find yourself drenched in glorious practical effects, beautifully crafted animatronics & elaborate prosthetic suits. Linnea Quigley even has a cameo in this campy sci-fi fest! Join us at the store for some essential 90's schlock therapy.

KaiJune is our month long series celebrating the Kaiju film in all its forms.

If you ever wondered what a serial killer film would look like shot as a stylized 80’s music video, White of the Eye is your answer. As a killer slashes through an upper-class desert community outside Tucson, suspicion falls on a custom hi-fi installer (David Keith), and his wife (Cathy Moriarty) faces dangerous consequences after she uncovers a disturbing secret.

Directed by cult filmmaker Donald Cammell (Performanc), White of the Eye is a strange concoction of toxic masculinity, suburban opulence, and cosmic dread, edited with painterly precision and featuring a score by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason and 10cc's Rick Fenn.

Three years before Peter Jackson’s BAD TASTE, David Blyth gave us this punk rock mutant brain surgery epic which also happens to be a strong contender for the first horror movie from the great country of New Zealand. DEATH WARMED UP is a revenge story on the Island of Dr Moreau.

It features some of our favorite mutant freak dudes, lingering dread, gore galore, incredible outfits and that wonderful sense of otherness you can only get watching a bonkers-but-beautiful movie like this.

It’s Kaijune and Odd World is ready to celebrate it the best way Joel knows how- with 1998’s wildly divisive American take on Godzilla.

See Matthew Broderick wear a backwards newsboy cap, see Roland Emmerich and Dean Devil desperately attempt to recreate the success of Independence Day, see a giant toad rampage through the streets of Manhattan!

Listen, this movie is bonkers but it kind of rules. Incredible and incredibly dated 90s soundtrack propelling the kind of epic disaster nonsense that permeated the culture at the time.

KaiJune is our month long summer series celebrating the Kaiju Film in all its forms.

Toss in a banger Taco Bell marketing campaign and you have the makings of an Odd World classic.

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

Join SunGays at We Luv Video for a very Kaijune screening.

From Greek and queer filmmaker Panos H. Koutras comes the campiest movie you’ve never seen. A giant piece of Moussaka is terrorizing the streets of Athens in the year 2000. and yes, we do mean the Greek dish. I can’t be monster piece that can’t be beat. This is a silly out of this world cult film from Europe.

KaiJune is our month long summer series celebrating the Kaiju Film in all its forms.

Depressed high school student, Hitomi Kanzaki wishes to disappear from the world. Unexpectedly her dreams magically come true when she is magically transported to another world called Gaea, where a battle for world domination is full on ragin'. This abbreviated version of the animated series The Vision of Escaflowne is a much darker reimagination featuring music from acclaimed Japanese composer Yoko Kanno. Infusing depression & suicidal thoughts with fantastical dragon beasts & consuming flesh armour in this epic allegory drenched in teenage angst.

Whether you are a fan of the series or a newcomer enjoy us for an evening of brutal mecha battles & gorgeous animation. Who knows maybe you'll even meet your new trauma buddy!

Instead of going directly to the Japanese legends like Godzilla, Mothra, or even Gamera, this Kaijune kicks off in the streets of Chicago. Everyone knows the urban legend: a child is given a baby alligator as a pet, it gets flushed down a toilet, and then it grows to a hulking, monstrous size, terrorizing the sewer system and beyond. Lewis Teague (Cat's Eye, Cujo) uses this as a launchpad for 1980's Alligator, a creature feature that takes the classic elements of Eastern cinema and infuses them with an inimitably American flavor.

Alligator has so much going for it, not the least of which is a gator the size of a bus. Penned by the legendary John Sayles between his work on Joe Dante's Piranha and The Howling, he takes a potentially absurd concept and grounds it with realistic, human characters. Starring the great Robert Forster (Twin Peaks: The Return, Jackie Brown) as a detective whose partners seem to have trouble staying alive alongside the woefully underappreciated Robin Riker (Get a Life) as a herpetologist whose childhood alligator (Ramon!) just happens to be the beast wreaking havoc, they join forces to hunt down the voracious reptile before it figures out how to ascend to street level.

Don't miss the monster madness when Ramon's rampage hits the screen on June 7th! KaiJune is our month long summer series celebrating the Kaiju Film in all its forms.

Welcome to Camp Arawak! We Luv Video and Slowpoke Tattoo are teaming up to bring you the ultimate summer horror kickoff at Camp East! Hosted by Lunchbox Cinema, we’re hosting a special outdoor screening of the 1983 slasher classic Sleepaway Camp.

Come hungry, thirsty, and ready for some ink: - Wood-fired pizzas from Samataro -Wine selections from Cork & Screw -Flash tattoos on-site from Slowpoke Tattoo

Saturday, June 6th Movie starts at 8:30 PM Camp East (2905 E 12th St, Austin, TX 78702) Seating is limited, so we highly recommend bringing your own lawn chair or blanket!

Entry is free/donation-based! We will be proudly accepting donations at the event for Out Youth, supporting Central Texas LGBTQIA+ youth. Come out for a killer night under the stars!

Relive your 90s childhood either by yourself or with your little ones! We’ll be showing classic episodes from all our family-friendly faves.

BYO-snax and we’ll bring the pillows, blankets, and fun!

Before Jeff Goldblum became everyone's favorite eccentric pitchman, he starred in a string of diverse and unusual films, including this forgotten thriller where he plays a charming, enigmatic person arrested for a series of murders who calmly insists that he is in fact the Devil himself.

If you haunted video stores in the early '90s, there's a good chance the cover of Mister Frost stared back at you from the shelf more than once. The film has since slipped into near-total obscurity, making this screening a rare chance to experience yet another unique performance from Golbum that sits comfortably alongside his fascinately weird roles in The Fly, Transylvania 6-5000, and Earth Girls Are Easy.

Austin Clubhouse is a non-clinical, community-based mental health organization dedicated to supporting adults living with mental health diagnoses through meaningful work, connection, and purpose. We believe recovery is possible when people have places to belong, contribute, and create.

As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, Austin Clubhouse is proud to partner with We Luv Video to screen 'My Missing Screw', a striking documentary that explores art, struggle, and the search for meaning in the aftermath of a mental health crisis. 

"After a failed suicide attempt and time in a psychiatric hospital, Raffael decides to sculpt his own "missing screw' and take it on an epic, poignant, often hilarious journey around the world. Leaving his son behind, he travels with the 10-foot-tall screw to Dachau, Van Gogh's grave, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Ganges River. Along the way, Raffael finds patrons, lovers, and friends - but the son feels abandoned. Can Rafael reinvent himself, his art, and his family?"

Join us for this special screening and conversation about what it means to support one another through life’s hardest moments.

On Sunday, May 17th at 6PM, We Luv Video will screen Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze’s new film Dry Leaf.

When a sports photographer goes missing, her father embarks on a journey through the countryside to find her. Shot entirely on a 2008 cell phone camera (Sony Ericsson W595), Koberidze crafts a three hour personal epic across rural Georgia in 144p. At the forefront of the los-res DIY filmmaking movement, Dry Leaf is essential viewing for fans of adventurous cinema.

Please note the run time for this film is 3 hours and 6 minutes. We will be starting the film no later than 6:10 so please arrive on time.

Join We Luv Video and Slow Poke Tattoo at Camp East for a special outdoor screening of Chef (2014), starting at dusk around 8:00 PM. We’re coming together to support our community with a canned food drive benefiting the Central Texas Food Bank, so please bring along non-perishable donations to help feed our neighbors.

You can grab a bottle from Cork & Screw or a pie from Sammataro Pizza while you watch, and while there is some picnic table seating available, we highly recommend bringing your own lawn chair or blanket to ensure a cozy spot under the stars. Come enjoy a night of film, food, and East Austin community spirit—we’ll see you there!

The Convent is DEMONS meets DEMONIA meets DOOM GENERATION. Straight up Y2K brilliance from director Mike Mendez, featuring satanic ghost nuns, cyber AND trad goth teenagers, co-eds plus Bill Mosely, and Adrienne Barbeau kicking the Devil’s ass. Oh, did we mention Coolio? Join us at the store for this gem of video rental old school horror perfection.

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.