Freaky Fridays Archive 2009 late night cult
Worship at the temple of cult cinema every Friday at 10pm.
Featuring the enigmatic, the anti-establishment, the quirky and movies so outrageously wrong they're right! Meet your friends at the ACMI Lounge before revelling in our cult picks - and watch for bonus shorts screenings!
Curated by Roberta Ciabarra.
Full $13 Concession $10
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Jodorowsky directs and stars as the Alchemist in this psychedelically-propelled quest narrative.
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This cult Mex-western by Alejandro Jodorowsky kicked off the 1970s midnight movie craze.
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Director Gus Van Sant's 1989 break-out hit, featuring Matt Dillon and Beat icon William Burroughs.
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River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star as street hustlers in Gus Van Sant's 1991 indie classic.
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Vincent Price battles a fear-inducing parasite in William Castle's legendary horror film.
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Screen queen Joan Crawford stars as an axe-wielding maniac in this 1964 chiller thriller.
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Michael Crichton's 1973 sci-fi fantasy western stars Yul Brynner as menacing robot gunslinger.
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Creepy 1981 sci-fi splatter-fest co-starring Michael Murphy and Louise Fletcher.
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The notorious 1982 high-camp splatter flick from veteran 'Ozploitation' producer Anthony I. Ginnane.
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Oz vampire horror from 1979 starring David Hemmings and Chantal Contouri.
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Four actors head to the woods to write a screenplay in the latest feature from Jay and Mark Duplass.
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The Sundance-acclaimed debut feature from Jay and Mark Duplass (the 'Coens of Mumblecore').
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Cult U.S. propaganda films from the 1930s. Too tired to think? Let the State do it for you!
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Tales of moral and social ruin from the Ed Wood of '30s exploitation flicks.
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Mr Tamura is a Japanese salaryman who just happens to be a koala.
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On his way to a gig, handsome, affable cabaret singer Marc Stevens' car breaks down - in the dark, in the rain, in the Belgian backwoods (uh-oh!)
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When supermodel Derek Zoolander's (Ben Stiller) Model of the Year crown is nabbed by newcomer Hansel (Owen Wilson), Derek completely loses his mojo.
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Jay Katz of Sydney's Mu-Meson Archives, presents a pastiche of film excerpts mashed up by today's most prominent advocates of Synchromysticism.
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Veteran craftsman Riccardo Freda kicked off the Italian gothic horror cycle with I Vampiri, then delivered this moody little fright-fest in 1963.
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A landmark film from the New American Cinema movement of the early '70s, John Boorman's Southern Gothic thriller still has the power to shock.
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Slimy alien parasites terror-bent on destroying the world infiltrate small town America! Underground albino creatures keep humans as slaves!
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Astronauts get chummy with a kittenish band of suspiciously beatnik moon maidens!
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Classics from space thriller maestro Phil Tucker - thrill to the gorilla in the diving helmet! Chill to the coolest villains ever put on celluloid!
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This pop porn parody of the '30s Flash Gordon movie serial camps it up and gets its kit off at every opportunity - phallic spaceships awaaaay!
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Inspired as much by Lon Chaney as Abbot & Costello, the cult status of John Landis' 1981 comedy horror has lost none of its currency.
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A mind pretzel satire about an alternate 'future' that imagines life in the U.S. in the aftermath of a nuclear attack.
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Tank Girl employs live action, animation and CGI to re-create a kick-ass comic strip aesthetic for the big screen.
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Director F.W. Murnau and lead actor Emil Jannings were both offered Hollywood contracts on the strength of Murnau's beguiling 1924 silent film.
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If you like a little sex with your sci-fi, gene-splicing-gone-wrong subtext notwithstanding, then this is the alien genre picture for you.
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Cronenberg set new standards of 'ewww' with this story of lab-engineered parasites turning occupants of an apartment block into very horny zombies.
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This oddball feature debut from Ari Gold follows an air-drumming mine worker from New Mexico, who is given the chance to air-drum his way to glory.
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This lively Elvis vehicle has the Pres posing as a waterski instructor to try his luck at wooing the oblivious and lovely Shelley Fabares.
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Covert government agency lets loose deadly chemo-virus, Nietzsche-loving pole dancer contracts said virus, mutates into super zombie, becomes a star.
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