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.

Is your New Year’s Resolution to read more? To watch more movies? Either way, be sure to join We Luv Video’s book club for their first meeting of 2026.

Adaptations Book Club will be discussing Fyodor Dostoyevky’s second novel The Double along with a screening of Richard Ayoade’s 2013 adaptation.

Not adapted until nearly two hundred years after its publishing, The Double follows the awkward, socially incompetent Golyadkin and his, well, double. What begins as a fruitful friendship for both turns sours at Golyadkin Jr. begins to try to take over the original’s life. Surrealism ensues!
Doors @ 7PM Showtime 7:15PM

P.S. the host promises to only talk about their lifelong crush on Jesse Eisenberg for a maximum of five minutes. This is a club about literature not love!!

Odd World is back with a new look and ready to blast off into 2026 with one of the most massive misfires of modern film- 2019’s John Travolta in a bowlcut starring, Fred Durst directed, insanity that is The Fanatic!

A movie that is so bad it truly begs to be seen with a crowd, find out just how low Travolta will go as he portrays a man obsessed with a movie star played by 90s mainstay Devon Sawa. Also, did I mention this movie is directed by Fred Durst? If that’s not enough, this movie features the line of dialogue “you like a little Limp Bizkit?”

So anyway, as always the beer will be free and sponsored by Lazarus Brewing, the friendships and laughs will instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano and I (Joel) will be there ready to guide us all on this journey.

See y’all at the store 💚

AniMondays kicks off the new year at We Luv Video on January 12th, 2026 with a screening of SEOUL STATION.

The animated prequel to the box office hit Train to Busan, SEOUL STATION follows a man sleeping in a train station who becomes a catalyst for the pandemonium in downtown Seoul: a zombie apocalypse.

The film deconstructs a familiar zombie story but provides poignant social commentary, exploring topics of poverty, eviction, and sex work. Gwilym Mumford of The Guardian noted “Where [Train to] Busan was a brash and frequently deafening spectacle, this is notably more downbeat, cast in a muted, perma-grey hue and focusing on those desolate souls trapped in life’s margins.”

SunGays at We Luv Video presents “He Never Dies” on Sunday, January 11th at 7PM.

This showcase highlights the work of contemporary queer experimental filmmaker Kalil Haddad. This selection of short films critically examines the exploitation of queer youth via a collage of archival and original footage.

Reverse Shot describes his work as “making no compromises or apologies in confronting the complex lineage of violence, abuse, and exploitation that lingers beneath the surface of physical passion for so many young people stepping out of the closet and into the wild.”

Spanning his work from 2022 to 2025, “He Never Dies” is a crucial introduction to a new voice in the queer avant-garde. A live virtual Q&A with Haddad will follow the screening. These films are meant for mature viewing audiences. 18+ only.

Some shorts include flashing lights.

The showcase will include: My Secret Boyfriend Died in a Mass Shooting His Smell The Boy Was Found Unharmed The Taking of Jordan (All American Boy) Victim of Circumstance

Our current WLV Window Display Residents Ari Borazjanian and Jaden Mccreary present: Ghost World (2001). Based on Daniel Clowes’ hit 90’s comic, Ghost World has become a cult classic amongst co-dependent weirdo girls who have Daria-like humor. It follows the life of Enid Coleslaw (played by beloved child actress Thora Birch) and her best friend Rebecca Doppelmeyer (Scarlett Johansson) as they navigate the summer after graduating high school. Enid and Rebecca’s friendship comes to a crossroad following an encounter with the victim of their prankcalls, Seymour (Steve Buscemi) a much older proto-incel figure with an extensive blues collection.

Please join us at 7pm dressed as your favorite fictional duos to celebrate the end of Ari and Jaden's “Scene Through The Window” residency and Ari's 26th birthday!

artists bios:

Ari Borazjanian is a 26 year old multidisciplinary artist from Houston, Texas who studied printmaking at University of Texas San Antonio and currently resides in Austin, Texas. Ari’s work varies from sardonic mixed media portraits, identity based print works, to installations that emphasize archetypes and trauma through a lens of dark humor and nostalgia using bold colors palettes.

Jaden McCreary was born in 2000, she received her initial training as a Multimedia Artist in Houston, Texas. In 2019, she enrolled at Houston Community College where she studied Liberal Arts, completing two semesters. In 2019, after transferring from Houston Community College, she then went on to study Fine Art at Texas State University. In 2022, she completed her Undergrad Studies, receiving a BFA in Studio Arts with a Concentration in Drawing. Her work has been shown at a variety of Museums and Galleries including The Odomone Center for Rest, Art, and Reimagination, Fort Worth, Texas ; The Arthur Rose Museum; Orangeburg, South Carolina; The Artist Circle Online Art Gallery; International, and more.

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

Join us for a rare showing of the 1988 cult classic PIN, Sandor Stern's unsettling psychological thriller that has haunted audiences for decades.

This bizarre tale of a young man's obsession with an anatomical medical dummy is a dark portrait of the effects of family trauma and psychological disorder. With its queasy atmosphere and disturbing premise, PIN has earned its reputation as one of the most underrated horror films of the 1980s.

To commemorate this special screening, we're giving away exclusive limited edition pins to all attendees.

We Luv Video and Breakaway Records present Kate Bush’s 1979 BBC Christmas Special on December 18th. Following her massively successful Tour of Life, 21-year-old Kate Bush accepted the BBC’s request to perform a selection of her songs during the weird week between Christmas and New Years. While not featuring any Christmas music (unless you count “December Will Be Magic Again”), Kate Bush fills the special with her unique theatrics. Featuring dancing violins, a wedding, and Peter Gabriel, this special is required viewing for all Kate Bush fans.

Screening will be preceded by a selection of Kate Bush music videos. (Come early for more Kate!)

Animondays returns to We Luv Video on December 15th with a screening of Junkers Come Here.

This coming-of-age film follows the slice-of-life adventures of Hiromi and her magical talking dog Junkers (Yoon-kers) as she navigates the hardships of early adolescence during the holiday season. Featuring gorgeous yet understated animation, this underseen gem is filled with lighthearted warmth.

Created by an all star animation crew including direction by Junichi Sato (Sailor Moon, Princess Tutu, Aria) and character designs by Kazuo Komatsubara (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Galaxy Express 999), it is only a matter of time before Junkers is recognized as an anime classic.

Highly recommended for fans of Ghibli’s Only Yesterday, Whisper of the Heart, and Kiki’s Delivery Service.

Tis the season for the Black Auteur Film Festival's THIS CHRISTMAS slumber party.
It is the holiday season, and the Whitfields are celebrating together. The matriarch, Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield and her boyfriend, Joe got joined by her six children, chaos ensues as this family joins together for their first celebration in four years.

PLUS!! BAFF is giving away holiday gifts to everyone who shows up in pajamas!

Come cozy!

Adaptations Book Club meets monthly to try to answer the age old question….is the book truly better?

We are wrapping up 2025 with a short story (less reading, our gift to you) . Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds was adapted and expanded by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963. We bet you’ve seen ti, but have you read the story? What happens when you take a short story that was originally about Cornwall post WW2 and translate it to a town in California? Can it keep its intended meaning or is it transformed into something else (better? worse?)
Twitter away with us on December 10th after the screening as we talk the film, the book, the lesbian themeing??? and so much more

You can find The Birds in the short story collection Don’t Look Now by Daphne du Maurier (out from NYRB books)

Videoheaven looks at video stores through the lens of the movies, TV shows, and commercials that featured them, exploring the full lifespan of the sacred cultural space we know as the video store.

Narrated by Maya Hawke, the film offers a sprawling, deeply felt look at how pop culture and media were transformed once movies came home. At times funny, sad, and surprising, it’s a love letter to a an era that deserves to be experienced in the place it celebrates: a video store!

After the screening, stick around for a live Q&A with director Alex Ross Perry—and enjoy free pizza from Home Slice Pizza!

ODD WORLD IS OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK!

Join us for a very special end of the year celebration of Odd World and our 21st screening- the feature length McDonalds commercial Mac and Me!

E.T who?! This is the seminal small boy befriends small alien in the suburbs movie and you’ll never convince me otherwise. You will see things you’ve never even dreamed of.

Featuring some of the most unhinged storytelling of the 90s, this fever dream of an ad for fast food and soda somehow crosses the threshold of badness directly into the realm of “best thing I’ve ever seen” territory. Seriously, don’t miss this one.

Please come in your best formal attire as we toast to the classiest monthly series you’ve ever been a part of.

As always the movie, beer (and champagne this month!), and lifelong friendships are free!

Austin filmmaker Daniel Erickson (Scary Movie) dives into the deep end of cinematic obsession with his sophomore effort Eve's Necklace, a yuppie fear thriller which holds the distinction of being the first feature film starring an all-mannequin cast.

When a deadly threat in the present collides with a dark secret from the past, a young couple's carefully constructed life begins to crack. Rendered in stark black and white cinematography that channels classic noir paranoia and late-eighties dread, this is the kind of audacious, demented filmmaking that separates true visionaries from mere mortals.

Director Daniel Erickson will be in attendance for Q&A! Witness the birth of a cult classic and hear directly from the mastermind himself. Fair warning: these performances are stiff, but the thrills aren't.

We Luv Video’s Local Film Showcase presents 12 short films from local filmmakers... ranging from horror to documentary to a 4 minute film of burning wood (shoutout long time WLV volunteer TJ). it's most definitely gonna be weird.

1. Canícula - Noises. Voices. Echoes. Of images and sound. Stuck to walls, trapped in crevices, smeared on tape. As you wander outside space and time in the land of the dead, the cycle of death and rebirth begins anew (but how can it ever begin?) with an attempt to take a dog out for a walk.

2. homemade - a perfect day in clarkville, austin, texas.

3. Stalling - A first-time cruiser gets more than he bargains for after dialing a number scrawled in a bathroom stall.

4. On The Eve Of The Sabbath - A priest conducts an exorcism, but the routine goes awry when the witches find a worthy host.

5. Business Proposal - A man living in the woods comes up with a scheme to sell squirrel meat outside of a gas station. After getting arrested, an expert witness defends him in municipal court, vouching for the inherent quality of the vendor's succulent squirrel snack.

6. Perspectivas - An intimate look at the retellings of a mother and daughter’s fractured relationship through the eyes of their son/grandson.

7. Cenotaph 6 - Prometheus - A short documentation of a wood and concrete sculpture being created, being burned. Sort of like a video fireplace, hyponotic ASMR.

8. The Death of Mayor Mellowton - A funeral for Mayor Mellowton goes sideways when the pancakes are discovered to be too delicious.

9. Plant Moms - Get to know your neighbors, they said! It’ll be fun, they said! Austin local Kayla Lane Freeman’s quirky, gross-out comedy will make you think twice about attending your next propagation party." - 2025 Fantastic Fest Film Guide

10. Mr. Mittens - Mr. Mittens lived with a loving family until one day they decided to neuter him, leaving him with no choice but to get revenge on every person involved in the removal of his testicles.

11. Do Not Disturb - Two C-List actors from different backgrounds attempt to film a sex tape in order to launch their careers in Hollywood. "Islamic Art in the Bayou City" A look into hidden Islamic Art gems in Houston

12. Transmissions From The Garden Of The Stone Roses - This is a journey through the subjective experience of the psyche, through the triumphs and suffering, and how it shapes one through the other side.

Join the mad minds behind Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel) and Maps to the Stars (Bruce Wagner) for the social satire and soap parody you need this Thanksgiving season.
Skip going home for the holidays and instead get your fill of familial BS with these two rich white upper class families living in Beverly Hills, California.

Follow a widowed television actress (Jacqueline Bisset), her circle of friends, and her employees. Her big plans for a comeback are squandered when people learn about her….uh sex life…. The actress soon starts a romantic relationship with a playwright, while rejecting jealous protests by her husband's ghost.
Full of pitch black comedy and sex scenes that will make you wish you were took a vow of celibacy, this underseen film by a queer Hollywood legend can’t be missed.

There's a horror movie we're not talking about enough called MARTYRS (2008). It's part of the New French Extremity canon, characterized by graphic depictions of violence and sex and their societal impacts.

Local Author Jess Hagemann picked MARTYRS to pair with the We Luv Video launch of her extreme horror novel MOTHER-EATING because: The same way the secret society in this film tortures people to uncover secrets about the afterlife, the cult in MOTHER-EATING practices a form of physical torture called Restoration meant to "cleanse" the cult members and "restore them to God."

There's body horror here, but ecstatic rebirth, too; and plenty of questions about the roles both women and religion play in society.

Your ticket includes a brief presentation from Hagemann on MARTYRS and MOTHER-EATING, followed by a screening that, if you've never seen the movie, will leave you speechless.

Please join us.

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

For November we are reading an under-read book along with an under-seen adaptation.

Originally published in 1999, Laura Kasischke’s White Bird in a Blizzard follows a 16 year old girl adjusting to her mother’s sudden disappearance. In her daily life she’s able to still be a regular teen girl but in her dreams, she is haunted by her mother’s absence.

Adapted by New Queer Cinema legend Gregg Araki in 2014, this book is full of the teen angst you know you feel in the winter!

P.S. it’s Araki so you know there’s a killer soundtrack <3

Ah, November.

The time for feasting and family, football and…wait, I’m sorry does this say giant anthropomorphic cat? Shit- looks like Odd World is back with 2003’s abomination of Seussical proportions The Cat in the Hat.

Bring the kids, or don’t, because this movie is aimed at ages 5-35 and features more double entendres and potty humor than you can shake a stick at, so much so that we will likely never get another live action Seuss movie!

So come see what upset Mrs. Seuss so much and as always the movie, beer, and friendships are free.

The award-winning “Your Name” follows two students in wildly different parts of Japan who have been waking up in each other’s bodies. In addition to being the strangest way to start a long-distance relationship, their unique situation may also be the key to averting the destruction of an entire town.

Kirk Speaking: When I first watched “Your Name,” I was a single young man on his own, finally settling into a full-time job, who wanted to see a promising new anime film in theaters with his friends. I walked out of that film with the dozen-or-so others that accompanied me dead silent; I was doing my absolute best not to bawl my eyes out. The beauty had overwhelmed me; this wonderful, hopeful, soul-soothing balm of a film had cradled my heart and reminded me that I, too, both craved and deserved real human connection. I was so moved, in fact, that I was compelled to reach out to one of those friends that same night just to help me process it all, leading to the richest and most fulfilling relationship of my life.

While I was perhaps uniquely primed to receive the film going in, this still speaks to the power of Makoto Shinkai as a writer and as a director. He, with his talented production teams, is able to present all the lovely, hateful, hopeful, familiar, messy facets of relationships in such a real and meaningful way that audiences can’t help but connect with these characters. “Your Name” is one of his best and obviously my personal favorite, and I encourage everyone with a working heart to give it a chance. Even the stoniest among us can appreciate the intriguing disaster plot and the inherent humor of a Freaky-Friday scenario.

I’d call it PG-13 just to be safe, mostly for a couple of boob jokes, but this is a family film through and through. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

After the North Loop Block Party and The Austin VHS Swap we’re sponsoring at our neighbors, Double Trouble, earlier in the Day, head back to the store to re-enroll in Vince Lombardi High School as our favorite punk rocker Riff Randell (P.J. Soles) retakes the campus from an oppressive faculty with a little help from her friends The Ramones.

Produced by Roger Corman and featuring the greatest line in cinema: “Hey Guys, Pizza. It’s great. Let’s dig in!” Rock N’ Roll High School is exactly where we need to be. Unless you happen to be Joey. Then no pizza for you!

Do you like lesbians? Do you like vampires?

What about lesbian vampires that are kinda also zombies and French and sad?

….and there’s a Rob Zombie song about them?

Well look no further than Jean Rollin’s 1982 classic The Living Dead Girl. Join Catherine on her quest for blood (and to rekindle her love with her childhood best friend Hélène) in a gorgeous mansion and around the French countryside. Jean Rollin had a whole slew of lesbian vampire flicks but this one is the closest to our hearts <3 If you wish that Heavenly Creatures had more blood sucking, this is the film for you.
Feel free to come covered in blood, wearing fangs, and bring your childhood best friend you had homoerotic tension with! ‘tis the season!

Join Fangoria and We Luv Video in celebrating the Halloween season with Lamberto Bava’s Demons 2.

The ludicrious follow up to Bava’s Demons, Demons 2 takes place years after the sudden outbreak of Demons, normal life has returned to the inhabitants of the big cities….but not for long. Featuring incredible effects from Sergio Stivaletti - there’s no better way to pre-game your Halloweekend.

In addition to the screening, join us for Horror Movie Trivia AND a Costume contest for a chance to win prizes from Arrow Video! (rumor has it there will even be some boxsets….)

Come by and experience watching A Girl Walks Home At Night with your fellow we luv-ers.

This screening will have viewers follow an Iranian vampire that defies the norms set foot by conservative traditions and storytelling.

This is director, Ana Lily Amirpour’s feature film debut, premiering at Sundance Film Festival in 2014, captivating it's audience at it's initial viewing Filled with symbolism and themes of feminist empowerment tied together with captivating imagery, Girl Walks Home At Night presents the audience with an experience that makes each view a fresh new interpretation and a lot to discuss amongst each other and friends post.

Recommended for those who enjoy movies of Julia Ducournau and for fans of Let the Right One In!!!

Vampires. They love BLOOD. LUST for it. And when they get too horny for a sweet sanguine snack, Vampire Hunter D(addy) has to come put them down. He’s half-vampire himself, so he knows the fearsome yearning for that ruby-red neck juice. He also knows just where to give them the stabby-stabby to make sure they stay dead. This time he's out to slay for pay; a nobleman's daughter has been kidnapped, and Papa knew well enough to put D on the case.

Western anime fans’ cultish affection for the original Vampire Hunter D was so strong that the follow-up, Bloodlust, targeted a U.S. release. Their love was validated; the visuals are sharp and darkly enchanting, and the simple plot gets twisted into surreal chaos by all the post-apocalyptic psychic weirdos that are stranger than the monsters they chase. Join us, you creatures of the night, for a spooky tale of future-gothic woe!

Presented in the original theatrical ENGLISH (global release, remember?). Rated R for blood. Lots of blood. And a little nudity.

Join Vinegar Syndrome and We Luv Video for a deliciously devious evening.

Starting at 5PM Vinegar Syndrome will be setting up shop at We Luv Video! Pop by to grab your genre films, smut, and hidden gems.

All ticket holders will get complimentary Black’s BBQ starting at 6PM (yum yum, do you sense a theme here?)

And finally at 7PM join us in the WLV Microcinema for Cannibal! The Musical.

From the deranged and brilliant minds behind the international TV sensation South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s legendary feature filmmaking debut CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL is the over-the-top, all-singing, and all-dancing story of real-life Colorado cannibal Alferd Packer! Follow Parker as Packer and featuring a guest appearance from legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, this unpredictable and thoroughly unhinged musical memoir through one of the grislier footnotes in American history.

This October Blood Shed Theater is teaming up with Rockin' Bones Events to bring you a uniquely 90's Halloween Fever Dream.

Produced by Blood Shed hero Fred Olen Ray, JACK-O is an ode to the best things that this season has to offer; a child with a great destiny who's babysitter happens to be scream queen, Linnea Quigley, a witch in a cool sweater who's definitely down to hang, parents who care more about their garage halloween haunt than their kiddo, bad teenagers in leather jackets with sick motorcycles, Cameron Mitchell hitting you with some rhyming couplets, John Carradine sitting in a field reciting ominous oaths (because they didn't have the budget to pay him his standing up rate), and, of course, the greatest almost-but-not-quite kid friendly pumpkin headed scythe wielding murder guy. It is also, essentially, the story of a hundred year witch curse on a small town which involves the titular pumpkin man, but this can be a bit difficult to work out at times- and that's totally OK!

JACK-O is a beautiful, surreal romp, intercut with fake horror hosts and movies shot to bolster the cast and add to the vibes, which makes you long for that CRT and to go back to 1994, when the fake spiders were plentiful, and everything was right with the universe.

On October 14, Odd World returns with a look at parenthood unlike any you’ve ever seen before- 2004’s Seed of Chucky.

That’s right, Chucky got lucky… and had a kid, and that kid is going through a lot of stuff! This delightfully silly and gleefully meta 5th sequel flopped hard with critics and audiences upon release but has grown into it’s own over the years.

So grab your lover and head on down for a special Halloween themed edition of Odd World!

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