The Decline of Western Civilization
2025-04-25 20:30 - 22:00 (America/Denver) | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Apr 25
For the month of April, in conjunction with our PEEK theme of “new punk” we are showing weird punk movies, old and new.
Featuring concert footage of Los Angeles punk bands and interviews both with band members, the publishers of Slash fanzine, and with the punks who made up their audience, the film offers a look into a subculture that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time. The promotional poster for The Decline (and the record cover of the soundtrack album) featured a close-up frame of Germs singer Darby Crash supine on stage with his eyes closed. Crash died from a heroin-induced suicide shortly before the film was released (the poster was designed before his death). Bands included are Black Flag, Germs, X, Alice Bag Band, the Circle Jerks, Catholic Discipline, and Fear. The Germs’ performance was replicated in the 2007 Darby Crash biopic What We Do Is Secret. (Penelope Spheeris, 1981, USA, 1:40, NR)

FNW: The Code
2025-05-02 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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A sexless couple, paranoid about the status of their relationship, embraces surveillance, spying and performance as a means to fall in love again, in this absurd, high-concept comedy. Drawing on a plethora of pervasive digital aesthetics–social media, porn, iPhone video, Go-Pro, 3D cameras–Kotlyarenko concocts a mosaic of cinematic language to question performance, spectatorship, and the creation of authentic personal narratives in today’s media landscape. (Eugene Kotlyarenko, 2024, USA, 1:38, NR)

FNW: Tall Tales
2025-05-09 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Following the recent announcement of their debut collaborative record “Tall Tales” (out 9th May via Warp Records), pioneering electronic musician and producer Mark Pritchard and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke are sharing this cinema event in which fans will be able to hear the album alongside its accompanying feature film. An effective third member of the group, visual artist Jonathan Zawada – whose multi-faceted approach to melding analogue and digital techniques have seen him work alongside the likes of Coachella, Flume, The Avalanches, Royksopp, and Dua Lipa – directed, animated, and edited the “Tall Tales” visual experience. The groundbreaking production was developed over the past few years in tandem with the evolution of the music, juxtaposing it with uneasy landscapes of natural beauty and the brutal aesthetics of a dystopian world. Through Yorke’s lyrics, Pritchard’s atemporal compositions and Zawada’s visuals, “Tall Tales” questions where our insatiable appetite for ‘progress’ might have landed us. A prophetic cinematic experience, “Tall Tales” has been years in the making, but delivered right on time. (Jonathan Zawada, 2025, UK, 1:04, NR)

FNW: The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025-05-16 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Arrogant Judge Stefan Mortensen (Geoffrey Rush) suffers a near-fatal stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed and confined to a retirement home. Resistant to the staff and distant from his friendly roommate, Mortensen soon clashes with seemingly gentle resident Dave Crealy (John Lithgow) who secretly terrorizes the home with a sadistic game called “The Rule of Jenny Pen” while wielding his dementia doll as an instrument of cruelty. What begins as childish torment quickly escalates into far more sinister and disturbing incidents. When Mortensen’s pleas to the staff go unanswered, he takes it upon himself to put an end to Crealy’s reign of terror. (James Ashcroft, 2024, New Zealand, 1:44, R)

FNW: The Ugly Stepsister
2025-05-23 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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A sinister twist on the classic Cinderella story, THE UGLY STEPSISTER follows Elvira as she prepares to earn the prince’s affection at any cost. In a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira will compete with the beautiful and enchanting Agnes to become the belle of the ball. (Emilie Blichfeldt, 2025, Norway, 1:50, NR)

Daydreamers
2025-05-30 20:30 - 21:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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May 30
Saigon, present day. Vampires, once predators of the night, are all but extinct. The few who remain cling to a desperate truce to not kill. But in the shadows, a brother’s thirst awakens, igniting a dark desire that will pit him against his own kind, shattering the fragile peace and plunging the city into a bloody new era. (Timothy Linh Bui, 2024, Vietnam, 1:53, NR)

The Shrouds
2025-06-06 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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June 6
In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy. Written following the death of the director’s wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary balance of malevolence and wit, The Shrouds is a sly and thought-provoking consideration of the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite. (David Cronenberg, 2025, USA, 2:00, R)

Vulcanizadora
2025-06-13 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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June 13
Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact made years earlier. It is only after things go shockingly awry that the surreal and unsettling consequences of their actions are revealed. “The undisputed maestro of ‘metal slackerism’ again serves up a singular experience” —IndieWire “A darkly funny heavy metal comedy that deftly shifts into a poignant existential drama.” —BLOODY DISGUSTING (Joel Potrykus, 2025, USA, 1:25, NR)

Sister Midnight
2025-06-27 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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June 27
In SISTER MIDNIGHT, the audacious debut feature from London based Indian artist and filmmaker Karan Kandhari, rebellious small-town misfit Uma (acclaimed Indian actress Radhika Apte) arrives in Mumbai to find herself totally unsuited to life as a housewife. At odds with her prying neighbors and under the constant oppressive noise and heat of the city, she decides to break free from the shackles of domesticity and follow her own path in this bold, unpredictable, and darkly funny debut. Featuring an eclectic soundtrack (Interpol frontman Paul Banks makes his debut as composer) and singular visual aesthetic, the film world-premiered in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight and won the award for Best Film in the Next Wave section at Fantastic Fest. (Karan Kandhari, 2024, UK/India, 1:47, NR)

Friday Night Weird: Dangerous Animals
2025-07-04 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 4
When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below. (Sean Byrne, 2025, Australia, 1:38, R)

Friday Night Weird: Hot Springs Shark Attack
2025-07-11 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 11
There have been cases of disappearances of hot springs visitors in Atsumi city, Japan. When the victims are found dead with injuries mysteriously resembling a vicious shark attack, the towns people being to investigate. (Morihito Inoue, 2024, Japan, 1:10, NR)

Friday Night Weird: AJ Goes to the Dog Park
2025-07-25 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 25
A surreal and gag-driven comedy about an ordinary man named AJ, who enjoys a simple life in the midwest haven of Fargo, North Dakota. When his favorite dog park is taken away, it begins a chain reaction that completely upends his existence and sends him on an unforgettable odyssey to fight, fish, scrap, scrape and sap things back into place. (Toby Jones, 2025, USA, 1:19, NR)

Friday Night Weird: The Sound
2025-08-01 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Aug 1
A group of climbers embarks on a dangerous climb that has been off-limits for years. What initially begins as an audacious expedition transforms into a battle for survival against a force that toys with them. (Brendan Devane, 2025, USA, 1:39, R)

Friday Night Weird: Brush of the God
2025-08-15 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Aug 15
For decades master model-maker and effects artisan Keizo Murase has crafted memorable monster costumes for the GODZILLA, GAMERA,
DAIMAJIN, KAMEN RIDER and ULTRAMAN franchises. At the age of 88, Murase has completed his first feature film as a director, and it’s truly something special. The kaiju scenes are of course a joy, but more than it is a generously self-referential rolic, a venerable master’s reflection on his extensive legacy. In this movie a boy comes across a rabbit, guardian of a magical brush to prevent the Yamata no Orochi from re-emerging in the modern world. (Keizô Murase, 2024, Japan, 1:14, NR)

Friday Night Weird: Together
2025-08-22 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Aug 22
Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country. With tensions already flaring, an encounter with an unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love and their flesh. (Michael Shanks, 2025, Australia, 1:42, R)

Friday Night Weird: 40 Acres
2025-08-29 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Aug 29
After a series of plagues and wars leaves society in ruins, the Freemans are surviving — even thriving — on a farm in the middle of nowhere… so long as they repel the occasional raiding party. Former soldier Hailey (Danielle Deadwyler) and her partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes) fled the collapse along with their children, training them to fight (and, yes, kill). But now Hailey’s eldest Emanuel (Kataem O’Connor) is a young man, and when he meets a young woman (Milcania Diaz-Rojas) in the forest beyond the fence, his need for human contact could place the whole family in jeopardy. (R.T. Thorne, 2024, Canada, 1:53, R)

Friday Night Weird: Abraham's Boys
2025-09-05 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 5
Extending the Dracula canon, this generational drama follows Max and Rudy Van Helsing, who have spent their lives under the strict and overprotective rule of their father, Abraham. Unaware of his dark past, they struggle to understand his paranoia and increasingly erratic behavior. But when they begin to uncover the violent truths behind their father’s history with Dracula, their world unravels, forcing them to confront the terrifying legacy they were never meant to inherit. (Natasha Kermani, 2025, UK, 1:29, R)

Friday Night Weird: Harvest
2025-09-12 20:30 - 23:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 12
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. Townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity. (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2025, UK, 2:13, NR)

Friday Night Weird: Somnium
2025-09-19 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 19
After a painful breakup, small-town Gemma moves to Los Angeles with the hopes of making it big. To get on her feet, she takes a job working the overnight shift at Somnium – a mysterious, experimental sleep clinic where dreams are made real. Meanwhile, Gemma throws herself into the cutthroat world of Hollywood auditions. But as the pressure to succeed mounts, she begins to experience strange and unsettling phenomena, and soon finds herself trapped in a nightmarish spiral as she discovers a darkness lurking within the clinic walls. (Racheal Cain, 2025, USA, 1:32, NR)

Friday Night Weird: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025-09-26 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 26
A stop-motion/live-action masterpiece inspired by the works of Jewish-Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz. A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival, Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard, who tells him that his father’s death, the death that has struck him in his country, has not yet occurred and that here they are always late by a certain interval of time of which the length cannot be defined. Jozef will come to realize that the Sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness and that time and events cannot be measured in any tangible form. (Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay. 2025, UK/Poland, 1:15, NR)

Drácula (1931 Spanish version)
2025-10-03 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Oct 3
As the classic Dracula was being made, Hollywood was aware of an international audience that it wanted to reach, so each evening after shooting, a different cast and crew would come to work making a Spanish-language version of Drácula. Originally released in Cuba and forgotten by most, now rediscovered, this version is considered by many to be superior to the one most people know. About 30 minutes longer and much livelier, with more camera movement and less studio oversight, this is a Drácula not to be missed. (George Melford, 1931, USA, 1:44, NR)

Friday Night Weird: The Addiction
2025-10-10 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Oct 10
A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood. (Abel Ferrara, 1995, USA, 1:22, NR)

Friday Night Weird: The Transfiguration
2025-10-17 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Oct 17
When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo’s fantasy into reality. (Michael O’Shea, 2016, USA, 1:37, NR)

Friday Night Weird: Sinners
2025-10-24 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Oct 24
Set in Jim Crow South, this is nuanced social commentary through horror, leveraging rich cultural heritage through music and dance. Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Themes of colonialism, class and cultural appropriation are woven naturally into the script creating a cultural artifact that elevates the vampire movie to new heights. (Ryan Coogler, 2025, USA, 2:17, R)

The Vampire Ball
2025-10-31 20:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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“When the night comes, we shall rise.”
On All Hallows’ Eve, the Dairy Arts Center invites you to The Vampire Ball, a decadent realm of shadows and desire straight from your most delicious nightmares. Our nocturnal coven welcomes you to a world of ballgowns and bloodlust, opera gloves and neon lights, 1890s grandeur meets 1990s underworld.
For one night only, creatures of the night, their fiends, friends, and foes will gather for an evening of dark opulence and electric indulgence:
– Dance to death in the grand ballroom with DJ sets from Stella Witcher and Cyber Princess, where sultry techno meets pop mayhem
– Meet the Vampire Queen (Riley Anne Martin) and barter for eternal life deep in the crypt
– Embrace the thrall with live performances from Thee Fiasco and Saline Conjure
– Sharpen your fangs with vampire cinema screenings with our Friday Night Weird film series until the witching hour
– Lose yourself in immersive art installations and decadent surprises lurking in every shadow, including projection mapping from Eren Autumn
– Satiate your bloodlust with one complimentary Blood Bag Cocktail included with every ticket
Come dressed to distress — the more extravagant, the better. This is a night for the wicked, the glamorous, and the unholy.
All proceeds benefit the immortal vitality of the Art and Cinema Programs at The Dairy.

The Lost Boys (with ticket to the Vampire Ball)
2025-10-31 20:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
Oct 31
Come to the Vampire Ball at the Dairy, where we will have vampire movies all night, starting with this 80s horror classic. Notable for making vampires young, fashionable and cool, as well as an amazing soundtrack, this centers on newcomers to a coastal town where it doesn’t take long for two brothers to realize the area is a haven for something much more sinister than party-going surfers. (Joel Schumacher, 1987, USA, 1:37, R)

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“When the night comes, we shall rise.”
On All Hallows’ Eve, the Dairy Arts Center invites you to The Vampire Ball, a decadent realm of shadows and desire straight from your most delicious nightmares. Our nocturnal coven welcomes you to a world of ballgowns and bloodlust, opera gloves and neon lights, 1890s grandeur meets 1990s underworld.
For one night only, creatures of the night, their fiends, friends, and foes will gather for an evening of dark opulence and electric indulgence:
– Dance to death in the grand ballroom with DJ sets from Stella Witcher and Cyber Princess, where sultry techno meets pop mayhem
– Meet the Vampire Queen (Riley Anne Martin) and barter for eternal life deep in the crypt
– Embrace the thrall with live performances from Thee Fiasco and Saline Conjure
– Sharpen your fanGs with vampire cinema screenings until the witching hour
– Lose yourself in immersive art installations and decadent surprises lurking in every shadow, including projection mapping from Eren Autumn
– Satiate your bloodlust with one complimentary Blood Bag Cocktail included with every ticket
Come dressed to distress — the more extravagant, the better. This is a night for the wicked, the glamorous, and the unholy.
All proceeds benefit the immortal vitality of the Art and Cinema Programs at The Dairy.

Good Boy | Nov 7
2025-11-07 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Nov 7
Our canine hero, Indy, finds himself on a new adventure with his human owner—and best friend—Todd, leaving city life for a long-vacant family home in the country. From the start, two things are abundantly clear: Indy is wary of the creepy old house, and his affection for Todd is unwavering. After moving in, Indy is immediately vexed by empty corners, tracks an invisible presence only he can see, perceives phantasmagoric warnings from a long-dead dog, and is haunted by visions of the previous occupant’s grim death. When Todd begins succumbing to the dark forces swirling around the house, Indy must battle a malevolence intent on dragging his beloved Todd into the afterlife. (Ben Leonberg, 2025, USA, 1:12, PG-13)

Boys Go to Jupiter | Nov 14
2025-11-14 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Nov 14
Set in the liminal period between Christmas and New Year’s, the story follows the adventures of Billy 5000 (Jack Corbett), a teenage gig worker with a rise-and-grind mindset whose quest to make $5,000 is derailed by the appearance of a gelatinous little dude from outer space. Using the power of lo-fi musical numbers and deadpan comedy, Billy must save Donut and his family from the evil schemes of the Dolphin Groves Juice Company. The voice cast — which also includes Julio Torres, Sarah Sherman, Joe Pera, Cole Escola and Elsie Fisher — is a who’s who of weirdo comedy all-stars, adding to the charmingly strange vibe. (Julian Glander, 2024, USA, 1:30, NR)

The Fantastic Golem Affairs | Nov 21
2025-11-21 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Nov 21
After a night of partying, David drunkenly falls from a terrace while his friend Juan watches helplessly. David’s body hits a car hood and shatters into a thousand pieces. Since no one else seems shocked by this, Juan sets out to discover what happened, finding himself immersed in a labyrinth of fleeting romances, unbreakable friendships and pianos falling from the sky. (Juan González & Nando Martínez, 2024, Spain, 1:38, NR)

Mr. K | Nov 28
2025-11-28 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Nov 28
Traveling magician Mr. K (Crispin Glover) is down on his luck. Business is slow, and the few gigs he’s picked up along the road have left him adrift. After spending the night in a remote hotel, he is alarmed when he discovers that he is unable to find the exit. As he explores the maze-like corridors, he hears strange noises and encounters a series of curious inhabitants who have formed their own factions within the walls of the hotel. Alone and afraid, he starts mapping out the corridors, desperately hoping to get to the bottom of the building’s layout before it is too late. Stuck more hopelessly than ever and about to give up, he makes a bizarre discovery that will change everything. Starring the ever-eccentric Crispin Glover, this Kafkaesque mystery offers a bold new take on falling down the rabbit hole. (Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab, 2025, Netherlands, 1:36, NR)
