Rated: NR    Runtime: 162 mins.
XTRO/THE DEADLY SPAWN
Co-Sponsored by the Alamo Drafthouse

HAND-DELIVERED 35mm PRINTS COURTESY OF YOUR HOST, ZACK CARLSON!

XTRO
In 1983, the ever-idiotic viewing public was quick to chalk this up as an ALIEN knock-off, but that's as wrong as a bag of wet cigars. I'm not sure what that meant, but the point is: XTRO is a goddamn masterpiece, with more inventiveness and chaos than any other movie of its type and/or time. It'd be difficult to give you an exact plot
breakdown, so instead I'll just tell you two key scenes: 1) A woman gives birth to a full grown man, and 2) A giant plastic army soldier attacks an old lady in her living room. Also, 517 other insane things happen. This print is being smuggled from the other side of the Earth to play for all you undeserving diaperoids. If anyone talks during this screening, I’ll shove a doberman up every hole in their body. Try me. Dir: Harry Bromley Davenport. Starring Phillip Sayer, Bernice Stegers and Danny Brainin. 1983. 35mm. 81 mins. 5:45pm

THE DEADLY SPAWN
McKeown’s low-budget backyard scifi terror epic is THE defining accomplishment in the mighty ‘80s Homemade Horror genre. An alien meteorite unleashes a hideous, carnivorous beast that gorges insatiably on the unwitting denizens of a New Jersey town. The massive meatmonster grows exponentially while it casts off knife-faced
leechlets to further the annihilation. No one is off limits; old ladies and adolescents and everyone in between are all fair game for this unstoppable eating machine. From unbelievable creature creations to some of the best horror dialogue ever captured, no shoestring production before or since has contained a fraction of the fearless
filmmaking on display here. Shot for the cost of a new washer/dryer combo, THE DEADLY SPAWN is a bona fide, undeniable fuck-you to major studio exploitation crammed with an impossible amount of ambition,
masterful latex effects and unbridled, flesh-ripping satisfaction. Dir: Douglas McKeown. Starring Charles George Hildebrant, Tom DeFranco and Richard Lee Porter. 1983. 35mm. 81 mins. 4pm