Wednesdays get weird when Late Shift at the Grindhouse hosts Ross Meyer, Joe Derderian, and Aaron Holmgren dig up low-budget b-movies, horror and gore-fests, and camp classics for your viewing pleasure. Buy your ticket and take a ride in our Time Machine! Punch in and earn a bonus! $4 Pabst Blue Ribbon & Hamm’s tallboys, $4 small popcorn, small soda and candy! $1 off beer/wine/soda/popcorn/candy for FilmScene members. PLUS -- special custom trash trailer reel curated by Ross with cheap swag and prize giveaways!We celebrate the book release of author Scott Jones's The New Blood with the original Japanese release of Godzilla.
"Gojira is the most emotionally resonant fake monster movie ever made." - Slate
“You’ve all probably seen the recut and dubbed Americanized version, but this is the real thing.” - Michael J. Weldon, The Psychotronic Video Guide
“This is a much more serious film than you might think, concerned with the horrors of nuclear war more than entertaining the kids.” - Ken Kish, Video Wasteland: Rental, Reference and Review Guide
“Those movies scared the shit out of me actually. Godzilla was a scary fucker.” - 42nd Street Pete Chiarella
“The film is quite somber in tone as it openly displays the pain and destruction of the rampaging kaiju and the human suffering at the hands of this seemingly unstoppable force of nature. Its stark black-and-white imagery is at once beautiful and apocalyptic.” - Matthew A. St. Cyr, Weng’s Chop
“In the beginning, Godzilla was a straightforward monster.” - The Phantom of the Movies
a.k.a. Godzilla
The ocean's surface boils white-hot and a Japanese freighter mysteriously vanishes in the Pacific. Rescue boats meet the same fate, and the superstitious villagers of Odo Island fear an ancient legend has come true, the legend of Godzilla! Reawakened from eons-long sleep by an H-bomb test, the behemoth seeks revenge on the civilized world, turning Tokyo into a wasteland of atomic fire and rubble. Caught in the monster's path of destruction are young lovers Emiko and Ogata, who must betray their friend Dr. Serizawa, a brilliant but tormented scientist, in order to save the world.
The New Blood:
Four stories of horror, desolation, and hope in the face of death and destruction. A young woman resurrected for revenge after her brutal death. A group of friends trying to survive as their city is laid to waste by monsters from another world. A broken and haunted man on a mission to recover a girl on the run through the wasteland of humanity. A Synthetic being trying to find purpose and love in a world that hates and fears her kind. A new dawn is on the horizon, and this is the new blood that pumps through its dark heart.
Late Shift at the Grindhouse Author-in-Residence Scott Jones is a graduate of The University of Iowa, and avid fan of horror and sci-fi. He lives in Iowa City, IA.
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