ECCENTRIC CINEMA
Eccentric Cinema at the Drexel has a sack full of gifts this year with two holiday horror pics, a rowdy comedy, and one of the best cinematic musicals ever created.
Eccentric Cinema was inspired by the groundbreaking L.A. cable station Z Channel and its chief programmer Jerry Harvey. Dedicated to showcasing offbeat films, director’s cuts, and the more unique mainstream offerings, Harvey resurrected movies that had been cast aside critically, flopped at the box office, or developed cult followings. Adopting that same idea, Eccentric Cinema brings you some of the wildest, weirdest, underseen or most controversial movies, allowing audiences the opportunity to experience these films on the big screen.
BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)
Saturday, December 6, 9:30 pm
Bob Clark’s classic holiday slasher returns to the Drexel! Relive the horror as the deranged Billy Lenz taunts and torments the lovely ladies of Pi Kappa Sig on a snowy winter night. Steve Martin claims to have seen the film 27 times in theaters. Elvis Presley considered it his favorite Christmas movie! Don’t miss the chance to see this legendary nightmare on the big screen. Starring Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Art Hindle, and the king of the B-pictures, John Saxon.
KILLER RACCOONS! 2! DARK CHRISTMAS IN THE DARK! (2020)
Saturday, December 13, 9:30 pm
Bexley homeboy and co-host of The Foreign Report Travis Irvine writes and directs this gonzo comedy that plays like a mash-up of Under Siege 2 and The Naked Gun. After spending a decade behind bars for underage drinking, Casey Smallwood (Yang Miller) just wants to hop on a train and head out of town. Also onboard? A pack of demented domestic terrorists assisted by murderous raccoon killers (who’ve been trained by the government) with plans to destroy the city of Denver. Casey must fight back and save the citizens of Denver from a bloody Christmas.
THE ROOM (2003)
Second Saturday of every month
Saturday, December 13, 9:45 pm
Johnny is a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored with him and decides to seduce his best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again.
If you have not experienced The Room at the Drexel, you don’t know what you’re missing. The loyal fans have created their own live experience à la The Rocky Horror Picture Show. They’re always excited to indoctrinate newbies into the cult of Wiseau. A Drexel tradition for 16 years, The Room is a gonzo masterpiece. (2003, dir. Tommy Wiseau)
CHRISTMAS EVIL (1980)
Saturday, December 20, 9:30 pm
If Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle ever developed a Santa Claus complex, you would get Christmas Evil, a film John Waters declared “the best Christmas movie ever made.” Brandon Maggart (Fiona Apple’s real-life father) stars as Harry, a mentally scrambled toy factory worker who has never been able to accept the fact that Santa isn’t real. Ostracized from his family and mocked by his co-workers, Harry sinks further into lunacy, keeping a list of the neighborhood kids who misbehave and the adults who corrupt them. This year, everyone around Harry is getting a stocking full of terror.
PINK FLOYD: THE WALL (1982)
Saturday, December 27, 9:30 pm
Alan Parker directs this 1982 cult rock opera adapted from the smash-hit Pink Floyd album. Far from a typical musical, The Wall is a sensory onslaught, depicting lead singer Roger Waters’ mental collapse. Combining surreal live-action footage with Gerald Scarfe’s mind-bending animation, Parker creates the closest thing to a musical nervous breakdown to ever grace the big screen. Starring Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats as Pink and cinema god Bob Hoskins (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Long Good Friday) as Pink’s unscrupulous manager.
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