*CANCELLED* Cinema Ray: The Thing *CANCELLED*

2/20/18: Due to illness, this event has been cancelled.

If you’d rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH, Cinema Ray‘s got you covered with a screening of John Carpenter’s The Thing!  Experience the timeless beauty of practical effects & animatronics while you attempt to figure out just who has been assimilated.

Early arrivals will get a ticket for a Lucky Drawing!  Shorts & oddities presented before the feature film.

Doors at 7:15, starts at 8pm.

$5 admission
$1 beef or bean tacos, until we run out!
$2.50 Tecates
Half off drafts 5-7pm & 10-11pm

Cinema Ray: The Shining

Come experience one of the greatest horror films ever created when Cinema Ray presents Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, the film that single-handedly created your irrational fear of twins, elevators, hedge mazes & Johnny Carson catch phrases.

Early arrivals will get a ticket for a Lucky Drawing!  Shorts & oddities presented before the feature film.

Doors at 7:15, starts at 8pm.

$5 admission
$1 beef or bean tacos, until we run out!
$2.50 Tecates
Half off drafts 5-7pm & 10-11pm

Cinema Ray presents: Rare Exports

Join Cinema Ray for a screening of Rare Exports, the horrific holiday tale set in the Korvatunturi Mountains where the biggest, most evil secret about Santa exists!

Be sure to get there early for a lucky ticket drawing for terrific prizes, followed by an award winning short film. As a bonus, show up in an ugly holiday sweater for additional cool prizes!

The festivities begin at 8pm with the doors opening at 7:15pm. Admission is $5.00.

$1 all beef or veggie bean tacos-until we run out!
$2.50 Tecates all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

Cinema Ray: The Devils

Cinema Ray brings another hard-to-find screening for your viewing pleasure!  This month is Ken Russell’s 1971 historical drama horror film, The Devils.

Very loosely based on the the rise and fall of a 17th century French priest who was executed for witchcraft, this film was heavily edited (where it wasn’t outright banned) for its disturbingly violent, sexual & religious content and is hard to find in print today.

Get here early for a lucky ticket drawing for fabulous swag, followed by a mix of film shorts and oddities!

Doors at 7:15
$5.00 admission
$2.50 Tecates all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
$1 all beef or veggie bean tacos until we run out!

Cinema Ray: Martin

Join Cinema Ray for George A. Romero’s self-proclaimed fav film, and his first collaboration with Tom Savini, Martin.

A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his blood-craving urges.

Come early for a lucky ticket drawing for prizes and a preshow of shorts and oddities. Doors open at 7:30.

$5 Admission

$1 all beef or veggie bean tacos (until we run out!)
$2.50 Tecates all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

Cinema Ray: Fritz the Cat

Cinema Ray presents Ralph Bakshi’s feature film debut and the first animated film to receive an X rating, Fritz the Cat.

Watch Fritz the swinging college student navigate his way through the wild 60’s, sex, drugs & rock ‘n roll. Come early to catch a few pre-show shorts and oddities, and you could win a prize in the lucky ticket draw!  This event fills up fast!

All profits from this screening will benefit Josephine Brigandi’s mother.

Doors open at 7:15pm
$5 admission
$1 beef or bean tacos
$2.50 Tecates
1/2 off all draft beer 5-7 & 10-11pm

Cinema Ray & PUFF present The Evil Within

15 years in the making, The Evil Within could be the next horror cult classic!

Andrew Getty, heir to the Getty Oil fortune, poured $5M of his own money in this production and he personally agonized over every frame. During the 5 years of production, he insisted on elaborate, expensive sets, custom-built camera rigs, and realistic animatronics.  Over the course of 15 years, this horror film consumed Andrew Getty.  He never saw it completed as he died from a methamphetamine overdose on March 31, 3015.

Now YOU can experience the madness due to the collaboration between PUFF & Cinema Ray!  The film with be introduced by PUFF founder, Madeleine Koestner and Birth.Movies.Death. writer, Phil Nobile Jr.

$5 admission
Doors at 7:15…be there EARLY to get a seat as this fills QUICKLY!

$1 beef or bean tacos (until we run out!)
$2.50 Tecates
Half off drafts 5-7pm & 10-11pm

Cinema Ray presents Heavy Metal

Cinema Ray presents the 1981 dark erotic fantasy/horror animation, Heavy Metal.

“Adventures from deep space to futuristic New York, and beyond. Each world and story is dominated by the presence of the Loch’nar — the sum of all evils manifest as a glowing green sphere whose power infects all times, all galaxies, all dimensions. To some, it appears as treasure, a green jewel they must possess. Others worship it as a god. Few escape it. Even in death and through death its powers continue. From war to war and world to world it seems invincible.”

Be sure to get there early for entry into a drawing for some cool prizes.  Seating is limited!

$5.00 admission
Doors open at 7:15

$1 all beef or veggie bean tacos (until we run out!)
$2.50 Tecates all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

Cinema Ray presents Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Cinema Ray presents the once banned (and certainly still controversial) film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom in which four fascists kidnap young men and women and subject them to torture and perversion.  Mature content!

The final work of notorious Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, this film updates the Marquis de Sade’s most extreme novel to fascist Italy in the final days of WW II. Dispensing with the novel’s meditations on sexual liberation and the search for truth, Pasolini presents four decadents who kidnap dozens of young men and women and subject them to the most hideous forms of torture and perversion in an isolated villa. Rape, murder, and a coprophagic banquet are only the beginning of the atrocities on display. Photographed by Tonino Delli Colli, the film also features a lavish score by Ennio Morricone. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

Seating is limited, so be sure to arrive early to make sure you get drinks and snacks!  A short pre-show will features selected shorts and trailers.

$5 admission, doors at 7:15
$1 all beef or veggie bean tacos from noon – until we run out
$2.50 Tecates all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm