What we’re about
Do you always have to catch the latest scare flick alone because your friends think you are insane to watch this stuff?
Do you get strange looks when you start to rave about '2001' or 'House of 1000 corpses'?
This is your group :) (... and if your friends don't think you're insane please bring them along ... )
We are a bunch of friendly people with an offbeat taste in films, with emphasis on Horror, SciFi and Fantasy.
I hope to see you at our next event!
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Chain Reactions (2024) - The impact of Texas Chainsaw MassacrePresidio Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Join us also for a screening of the movie itself after this documentary (I posted a separate meetup event).
Showtime is 6.30 pm, we will meet at 6 at the Presidio Theatre. Buy your tickets here.
Chain Reactions
Japanese horror maestro Takashi Miike remembers that he went to see Chaplin’s City Lights when he was 15, but ending up watching The Texas Chain Saw Massacre instead. Today he wonders if he would even be a filmmaker if not for that twist of fate. Novelist Stephen King puts Tobe Hooper’s 1974 slashtastic classic in context with his own work and recalls his own association with the director. Australian film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas describes her long fascination with the movie and how she relates its terrors to a fire in the Outback. In Alexandre O. Philippe’s 78/52 (Festival 2017) engrossing documentary, these three and others speak to the cultural significance of Hooper’s sophomore feature and observe how this low-budget, 16mm gorefest went on to not only captivate a legion of fans but also influence and inspire succeeding generations of filmmakers. - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) @ Presidio TheatrePresidio Theatre, San Francisco, CA
A rare opportunity to see this classic on the big screen. It's part of a 6 film horror retrospective at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
Showtime is 9.15 pm ... we'll meet around 8.45 pm at the Presidio Theatre. Buy your tickets for this event here.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
It’s been 50 years since Tobe Hooper’s slasher masterpiece first chilled the world with its nihilistic portrait of a murderous family living in a Texas farmhouse. Having spawned sequels and remakes and a legion of admirers and detractors, the film traveled the path from grindhouse nasty to cult classic to the Library of Congress National Film Registry. The story boils down to essentials—five teenagers on a road trip stop at a rural homestead looking for gas and find a family hellbent on murder instead. With a cast of relative unknowns, shot on 16mm with a miniscule budget, Massacre is chilling because there is no tidy backstory for the bludgeoning brood, just a plethora of fearsome farm implements (including the titular chainsaw) used to ply their psychopathic pastime. As a special treat, the Festival also offers Alexandre O. Philippe’s Chain Reactions, where five artists discuss the impact this film had on their lives and craft - Free Preview Screening: "Until Dawn" @ AMC MetreonAMC Metreon 16, San Francisco , CA
Join us for a free preview of Sony's video game adaptation of "Until Dawn".
Important - your RSVP to this meetup event is not enough. You must RSVP for the screening here and will receive email confirmation for your spot a couple days before the event.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/rZfwvLe961k
Please be at the theater no later than 6.30 pm for the 7 pm screening. We'll meet on the second floor near the concessions. No need to get in line - if you're confirmed you have a guaranteed seat.
Until Dawn
One year after her sister disappeared, Clover and her friends head to the remote valley where she vanished to search for answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they soon encounter a masked killer who murders them one by one. However, when they mysteriously wake up at the beginning of the same night, they're forced to relive the terror over and over again. - Sinners (Ryan Coogler, 2025) in IMAX 70mm @AMC MetreonAMC Metreon 16, San Francisco , CA
Join us for Ryan Cooglers amazing "Sinners" - it's shaping up to be one of the best films of the year.
Coogler shot the film with two camera systems, Ultra Panavision 70 (last used by Tarantino for The Hateful Eight) and IMAX 70mm. We're going to watch it on the latter.Rave reviews everywhere, a New York Times critics pick and close to 100% positive audience ratings (unheard of for a horror movie) make it a must-see.
We'll be doing the late show ... buy your tickets now, the good seats in the theater go fairly quickly. If you want to sit close, I have H11/H12.
Showtime is 10 pm, we'll meet no later than 9.50 in the upstairs lobby of the theater.Sinners
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their Mississippi hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
