fresh meat from the grindhouse
Featuring Adelaide premieres and second-run revivals, the Mercury Cinema is offering the choicest cuts of cult cinema, old and new, served up raw on the big screen. Adelaide’s own grindhouse is the first place to go on the weekend before a night out in the city.
Tickets $11/$9
BLUE VELVET || GRINDHOUSE || SWEENEY TODD || PARANOID PARK
MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN
7:30pm Friday 11 July
BLUE VELVET (R18+)
Dir: David Lynch
US 1986 120mins 35mm
After returning to his hometown of Lumberton, Jeffrey Beaumont discovers a severed human ear in a vacant field. Befriending the detective’s daughter, Jeffrey investigates the mystery himself and becomes drawn into the menacing underworld that lies beneath the idyllic surface of the town. Stars Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rosselini, Brad Dourif and Dennis Hopper.
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6:30pm Friday 18 July & Saturday 19 July
GRINDHOUSE (MA15+)
Dir: Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino
US 2007 191mins 35mm
For two nights only… the complete, full-length double feature experience has arrived at the Mercury Cinema, the way it was originally intended to be seen. This sleazy homage to Z grade exploitation shockers delivers two movies for the price of one, replicating the grindhouse theatre going experience of the seventies and eighties. A gun-legged woman named Cherry has to hold back an outbreak of murderous, zombies destroying small-town USA in… Planet Terror. A psycho named Stuntman Mike stalks and kills beautiful women with his hotted up muscle car in… Death Proof. Plus trailers for upcoming features so gruesome, you may never see them in their entirety!
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7:30pm Friday 25 July
SWEENEY TODD (MA15+)
Dir: Tim Burton
US/UK 2007 116mins 35mm
Benjamin Barker, a man unjustly sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit, returns to London vowing revenge for his cruel punishment. Reopening his barbershop, he transforms into Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and slices the throats of everyone that crossed him while his amorous accomplice Mrs. Lovett creates diabolical meat pies to conceal the evidence. Based on Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller. Stars Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen.
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7:30pm Friday 1 August
PARANOID PARK (M)
Dir: Gus Van Sant
US/ France 2007 85mins 35mm
Like a lot of teenagers, Alex has deal with issues such as his parents’ separation and his intensifying relationship with his girlfriend. But Alex has a bigger problem, accidentally killing a security guard when he was caught hitching a ride on a freight train. He decides to say nothing, recounting the events leading up to the tragedy in an attempt to relieve himself of his guilty conscience. Cinematography by Christopher Doyle.
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7:30pm Saturday 2 August
MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN (MA15+)
Dir: Bruce Campbell
US/Germany 2005 90mins
He's losing their minds. Sleazy American industrialist William Cole winds up with part of his brain replaced by that of a former KGB operative, Agent Yegor, in this story of greed, betrayal and revenge. Brought back to life by a mad scientist, the capitalist and the communist now must reconcile their differences to hunt down the beautiful gypsy freak that killed them both. Stars Stacy Keach, Ted Raimi and the immortal Bruce Campbell. Shot in Bulgaria!
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