Shadow Whip

It's time again for another round of fine dining at Kung Fu Grindhouse. This August 20th we offer up the following meal four your brain to digest:

6:00pm - The Awful Hour - An appetizer of found videos

7:00pm - The Shadow Whip (1971)- The first course consists of some classical Shaw Brothers fare starring the epic Pei-Pei Cheng as a whip-wielding orphan on the path of revenge! Then again, so are a mob of other character heavies, and extras and, well everybody seems to be looking for this "Shadow Whip" person. Or was it somebody else, who IS the guilty party!? That's what all the fighting is about I suppose, and there is a lot of it. Set during the winter snows in Northern China, Shadow Whip is a rather unique piece of cinema-fu and one of our recent favorites!

8:30 - Macabre (1980) - For the second course we're offering up some Italian, with extra red sauce! When her lover is killed in an auto accident Jane is committed to a psychiatric hospital. Emerging a year later she resumes her life, seemingly recovered from the traumatic experience. But nothing is as kosher as it seems in this grotesque monstrification of sexuality. It is always entertaining to see what length men will go to to make women into monsters and this early effort from legacy director Lamberto Bava spares nothing. Set in New Orleans, Macabre figuratively and literally drips with atmosphere.

We'll see you on August 20th for a full meal of vintage genre cinema at the Sunset!

Invasion USA

Here we go again.... It's been way too long since we celebrated this fine feathered nation of ours, and an election year seems like as good a time as any. So, this July 16 we're going out in style with:

Awful Hour: 6:00pm - What sort of fun have we found in the used bin this month?

American Cyborg: Steel Warrior: 7:00pm - The title alone sends shivers up my spine and the movie only gets better. A woman with a fetus in a jar braves a dystopian urban wasteland to deliver the human-larva to the safety of a ship waiting just off shore. With the help of a Fabio-esque cyborg she must avoid the menacing evil of a very Rob Halford-esque cyborg bent on the destruction of all reproductive life. Personally, despite a dearth of titilation I think this lost gem of 90’s STV trash is literally swimming in sex metaphors a-la-robot. But don't take my word for it!

Invasion USA: 8:30pm -  Chuck Norris fends off the wily Commies (led by the late Richard Lynch) with only a couple of uzis and a pickup-truck (okay, okay a special pickup-truck.) No surprises there, but oh what fun it is to ride in a cocaine fueled nightmare of Cold-War patriotism! No more need be said about this film.

See you Dog-fearing Americanos at The Sunset/Kung Fu Grindhouse on July 16th!

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Bloody Fists of Justice

Thanks for making this another great show! We'll be back in July for some some good old fashioned jingoistic patriotism!

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See you 6:00pm, July 16th at the Sunset!

The Bloody Fists

Coming this June 18th to a Sunset Tavern near you:

The Awful Hour - 6 to 7pm: Rusurected VHS trash from the heyday of the magnetic format.

Steele Justice - 7:00 : In the 1980's Americans needed somebody to blame for the Vietnam War, someone to hold responsible for all the death, misery and wasted time. Lord knows there were lots of options; politicians, generals, big-business, the Soviets. John Steele (Martin Kove, the evil teacher in Karate Kid) has another idea though, why not blame the Vietnamese!? It's the perfect opportunity for the embittered, maladjusted Vet to fight the war all over again (in much lower budget) at home. Hey Mr., Put Rambo back in your pants!

The Bloody Fists - 8:30 : The eternal enemy of China returns once again to menace the motherland in the harrowing tale of Japanese Karate ruffians (played by Chinese) versus stoic Chinese Kung Fu defenders of justice. Heaps of violence ensue as the bandits repeatedly batter the inhabitants of a small village in an effort to take control of all the 'Dragon Herb". Some say that it cures the plague, some say that it changes your perspective. But everybody agrees that it worth killing the shit out of each other for, and when Jang Wu-dip shows up to defend the imperiled villagers, the Herb is sure to hit the fan.

Kung Fu Grindhouse provides the visuals for FREE, The Sunset provides the drinks and food for cheap, Dragon Herb is not included. We'll see you there!

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Hard Ticket Toast

Thanks again for making this month a success, we'll be back on June 18 for more award-winning cinema refry!

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Tough & Deadly

Check it out folks, this here is the rundown for the New Kung Fu Grindhouse on Monday May 21st:

The Awful Hour - 6:00pm - We have a plethora of new garbage to parade before your eager eye-holes.

Tough and Deadly - 7:00pm - Straight from the hands of goDs comes this bromantic tale of Elmo Freech (Roddy Piper) and John Portland (Billy Blanks) two rippling man-beasts with a vendetta to settle. When Portland is beaten into amnesia and left for dead it falls to his new-found pal Elmo to help him rediscover his identity (and it aint Puget Sound!) and exact punitive damages on the perpetrators. Through a series of heartwarming workout sequences, sweaty bear-hugs and cranial rearrangement scenes our two brotagonists beat the odds and bad guys just in time for the end credits. All the action satisfaction you can get in one FREE movie!

Hard Ticket to Hawaii - 8:30pm - From the incredibly imaginative mind of Andy Sidaris comes this harrowing tale of washed up Playmates working as drug enforcement agents on Molokai. Teaming up with some severely hunky man-meat, our lady-heroes tackle a heavy case that's sure to require a topless strategy session or two before cutting loose with the big guns. Arrayed against them are the forces of doobie-smoking evil and a big-ass rubber snake, but once you buy the ticket, you're bound to take the ride with these ladies. Pure existential lunacy in this razor-edged frisbee of a FREE film!

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7 Year Anniversary

It's true, after 84 straight months we're celebrating our seventh anniversary with some of our favorite movies of the last few years.

Awful Hour - Rescued VHS trash from the recycling bin of history resurfaces for sixty sweet minutes.

The Dirt Bike Kid - 7pm - Oedipal allegory and the kid from A Christmas Story combine into one hell of a Herbie the Love Bug knockoff.

Battle Wizard - 8:30 - The kung-fu laser beams begin in this film, a bizarre, no holds barred exception to the chop-socky rule. Giant snakes, a rubber gorilla and fire-breathing robotic chicken legs are only scratching the surface of this thing. It's amazing.

The Devil's Sword - 10:00 - The Indonesian film industry, while productive, has received little attention in the U.S. Fortunately this movie got a DVD release, and we thankfully return it to the screen at the Sunset. When the evil Alligator Queen kidnaps a village princess, it's up to Mandala to find The Devil's Sword and battle his way through a host of audacious monsters to rescue her. Horror, fantasy, kung-fu and laser-beams combine to make this one of the finest action films of all time.

Exciting changes are coming to Kung Fu Grindhouse, this April is going to be an awesome Anniversary show. We'll see you on the 23rd, and in the meantime, we've been holding out a long time for this but, LIKE US ON FACEBOOK.