NOT QUITE MIDNIGHT

Experience late-night screenings of cult favorites every Saturday at 9:30 pm. The Drexel’s new series, “Not Quite Midnight,” is a staff-selected curation of cult favorites and curiosities sure to amuse, horrify, and somewhat baffle.

This month’s series starts on September 7 with Mark L. Lester’s punksploitation classic, Class of 1984! Perry King stars as Mr. Norris, the new music teacher at Lincoln High, a rough-and-tumble school where the students are armed and dangerous. When Norris crosses paths with the psychotic Peter Stegman and his squad of punkers, all hell breaks loose as the teacher and pupil battle for control of the school. Only one of them will survive. A true exploitation great, Class of 1984 is brash, loud, nasty, and delivers an ending that will have the audience cheering. Roddy McDowall and a baby-faced Michael J. Fox co-star.

Our monthly screening of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room takes place September 14. 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 15 years, The Room is a gonzo masterpiece.

On September 21, join us for Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World, starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, and Steve Buscemi. Enid (Birch) and Rebecca (Johansson) are awkward recent high school graduates with no direction in their lives. After pranking eccentric record collector Seymour (Buscemi), Enid develops a fascination with the loner and befriends him, complicating her relationship with Rebecca and forcing her to question her jaded worldview. Hilarious, smart, insightful, heartbreaking — Ghost World is one of the greatest films of the 2000s, relatable to anyone who was ever a true outsider.

Closing out the program on September 28 is Robert Altman’s weirdo wonder, Brewster McCloud. As the follow-up to his mega-hit M*A*S*H, Brewster McCloud established Altman as a director who didn’t play it safe. Bud Cort (Harold and Maude) stars as a kooky loner who lives under the Houston Astrodome. As he builds a pair of wings he hopes will allow him to fly, he becomes the prime suspect in a series of bird-related murders. The lovable and luminescent Shelley Duvall makes her big-screen debut, playing an Astrodome tour guide who gets caught up in the murder mystery. Duvall sadly passed away on July 11, 2024. We’re presenting Brewster McCloud as a tribute to Duvall and her unforgettable presence.