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THIRD WEDNESDAYS AT THE TRYLON
From head explosions to flesheating mutants, Trash Film Debauchery has been satisfying your unsavory cinema needs since 2003. Shows are at 7 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month. Tickets are just $5. Get ready to get weird!
(2005, 86m, DVD) dir Minoru Kawasaki. Minoru Kawasaki directs this comedic psychological thriller that follows a large koala as he looks for help from several of his closest friends, which include a giant rabbit and frog. A hardworking executive at a pickle company, Mr. Tamura stands out from other employees because he's a koala bear…
Screenings: September 16 7:00
(1984, DVD, 85m) dir Todd Durham, Worth Keeter and Thom McIntyre. Igor the animatronic skeleton hosts this horror anthology series featuring married vampires who adopt a child, grave robbers who make a terrible mistake, and perhaps the most irresponsible Christmas story you've ever seen. Shown in exactly TWO dimensions. 7:00 $5
Screenings: March 20 7:00
(2007, DVD, 82m) dir Doris Wishman. A shy high school senior finds a magic locket that allows her to trade one physical feature with anyone she murders. This was the legendary Doris Wishman's final film (at nearly 90 years old!) and features cameos from The B-52's frontman Fred Schneider, John Waters, and scream queen Linnea…
Screenings: April 17 7:00
(1994, DVD, 83m) dir Reginald Hudlin, Warrington Hudlin and Kevin Rodney Sullivan. From the creators of House Party and Boomerang, Reginald and Warrington Hudlin take you on a journey with host George Clinton to a place where alternate realities exist. America offers wealth and prosperity in exchange for all Black people. A sacred statue comes…
Screenings: May 15 7:00
(2019, 66m) dir Ashley Hays Wright, Bobbie Hays, David Owen Wright, and Cadence Wright. Bigfoot is sighted in a small coastal town, When the town's children - and then Sheriff - go missing, the town's only hope is Police Chief Harrison to battle the beast. He finds himself without his weapons, and must go hand…
Screenings: June 19 7:00
(2012, 145m)dir S.S. Rajamouli w/ Sudeep, Nani, and Samantha Ruth Prabhu. After being killed by a powerful businessman, Nani gets reincarnated as a housefly and seeks his revenge. 7:00 $5
Screenings: July 17 7:00
(2010, 64m) dir Nabwana I.G.G. w/ Kakule William, Sserunya Ernest, and G. Puffs. Recognized as Uganda’s first action film, Who Killed Captain Alex? is about the aftermath of a police raid in Kampala in which a police captain is killed. 7:00 $5
Screenings: August 21 7:00
(2013,106m) dir Yûichi Fukuda w/ Ryohei Suzuki, Fumika Shimizu, and Tsuyoshi Muro. A high school boy receives mysterious superpowers from panties. 7:00 $5
Screenings: September 18 7:00
(2001, 85m) dir Lee Demarbre w/ Phil Caracas, Murielle Varhelyi, and Maria Moulton. The second coming is upon us, and Jesus has returned to earth. But before he can get down to the serious business of judging the living and the dead, he has to contend with an army of vampires that can walk in…
Screenings: October 16 7:00
(1985, 94m) dir Emmett Alston w/ Shô Kosugi, Brent Huff, and Emilia Crow. A trio of specialized soldiers is called in to stop a group of drug traffickers who have hijacked a busload of tourists in the Philippines and threaten to kill them all if one of their companions is not released from jail. Blackie…
Screenings: November 20 7:00
(2007, 82m) Santa teams up with "super-elf" Lex to save the North Pole from his scoundrel half-brother in this computer "animated" "film" based on the "hit" Elf Bowling game that took the early 2000s by storm. As a random guy on Rotten Tomatoes put it, "Animation, shit, story, shit, everything else, shit." Merry Christmas! 7:00 $5
Screenings: December 18 7:00
(2001, 72m, DVD) In the terrifying early days of the internet, one website held deadly power, and I don't mean rotten.com. Enter horrorvision.com, a cursed cyber-portal that turns its visitors into unwitting victims. After Dez, a down-on-his-luck web programmer, logs on, he triggers a supernatural assault on his girlfriend and anyone else who dares to…
Screenings: January 15 7:00
(2021, 93m, DVD) dir Dennis Alexander Nicholson w/Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Kathryn Kohut. A documentary crew follows a fertility scientist determined to claw his way back into the medical world with a radical breakthrough: he’s recruited four brave women to give birth to cats! From the minds that asked, "Why not?" comes a mockumentary romp full…
Screenings: February 19 7:00
(2015, 71m) dir Donald Farmer w/ Angela Kerecz, Bobby Kerecz, and Channing Dodson. Shark Exorcist proves that holy water and chum don’t mix. We’re gonna need a bigger cross. $5 7:00
Screenings: March 19 7:00
(1996, 104m) dir Michael Paseornek w/ James Marshall, Christina Applegate, and Faye Grant. Rising rock star T.J. (James from Twin Peaks) is on his way to the gig of a lifetime when he's attacked and loses both of his hands. Now, living on the streets with rubber hands, T.J. wakes up at a rave where he meets…
Screenings: April 16 7:00
(1994, 83m) dir Rick Jacobson w/ Michele Greene, Robin Curtis, and Scott Valentine. When a sinister and certainly unethical experiment creates a small army of deadly super-babies, one woman makes it her life's mission to eliminate them one-by-one. However she may have met her match with little Joey, an oddly slimy animatronic who mind-controls his…
Screenings: May 21 7:00
(1996, 96m) dir Raymond Martino w/ Anna Nicole Smith, Richard Steinmetz, and Branimir Cikatiæ. Anna Nicole Smith goes Die Hard on a building full of terrorists. $5 7:00
Screenings: June 18 7:00
(1989, 93m) dir Sergio Martino. After a stripper tricks him into filming a sex tape, Miami rickshaw runner Scott Edwards becomes embroiled in the murder of a televangelist's son when he inadvertently takes the wrong videotape. With the help of the stripper and a witch, Edwards sets out to clear his name while avoiding the…
Screenings: July 16 7:00
(1993, 97m, DVD) dir Fred P. Watkins. A shy young high school girl joins a secretive vigilante group of female high school students called "The Sisterhood." $5 7:00
Screenings: August 20 7:00
(1989, 95m) dir Vik Rubernfeld. An alien sent to Earth to retrieve a drug that was sent here on a black disc has to fight her race's enemies, who are also on Earth to search for the drug. $5 7:00
Screenings: September 17 7:00
(1993, 83m) dir J.R. Bookwalter with James Black, Tom Hoover, Bill Morrison. While on a stakeout, hard boiled cop Eddie Boone gets injected with a dangerous new designer drug causing nightmarish side effects. As he searches for his missing partner, Eddie discovers the urban streets full of mutants, monsters, and mayhem orchestrated by the mastermind behind the…
Screenings: October 15 7:00
(2009, 92m) dir Mohamed Khashoggi with Elliott Gould, Robin Givens, Diane Venora, and Terry "Hulk" Hogan as Zeus. Little Hercules travels from Mt. Olympus to live life as a mortal in Los Angeles. 7:00 $5
Screenings: November 19 7:00
(1998, 72m) dir John Polonia and Mark Polonia with Mark Polonia, Maria Davis, Courtney Polonia. Aliens invade Earth over the Christmas holidays, and it’s up to Santa Claus and his elves to save the world. 7:00 $5
Screenings: December 17 7:00
(2004, 97m) dir Dave Wascavage with Sue Lynn Sanchez, Bill Ushler, Dave Bonavita. When a giant, blood-thirsty Bigfoot goes on a killing spree in suburbia, a novice reporter and a mystical "Native American" warrior must try to stop its rampage. 7:00 $5
Screenings: January 21 7:00
(2015, 88m) dir Anthony DiBlasi with Paloma Kwiatkowski, Andrew Jacobs, James Caan. This modern adaptation of Wuthering Heights is set in Malibu, where a wealthy family adopts a troubled teenager named Heath, leading to a wild and destructive relationship with their daughter Cathy. 7:00 $5
Screenings: February 18 7:00
(2003, 105m) dir Philip J. Cook with Mark Redfield, Doug Brown, Gage Sheridan. A struggling artist, after a terrible car accident, wakes up in a dark, oppressive Windows 98 version of Purgatory and is recruited by a band of freedom fighters to battle the Despiser, the evil ruler of this chaotic realm. Probably the best…
Screenings: March 18 7:00
(1994, 97m, Cantonese w/English subtitles) Ho Kam-An is a lovestruck dim sum delivery boy who falls for a beautiful judo student. After being humiliated by her boyfriend, Ho Kam-An seeks the services of an aging master who teaches him a half-assed style of kung fu, "Karate Kid"-style. 7:00
Screenings: April 15 7:00
(2011, 82m) Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. In the end we…
Screenings: May 20 7:00
(1991, 86m, DVD) An unauthorized live-action adaptation of the Dragon Ball manga, it follows a band of misfit adventurers trying to stop King Horn and his goal to collect all seven Dragon Balls, and his wish of ultimate power. 7:00
Screenings: June 17 7:00
(2004, 120m, DVD) dir Gen Sekiguchi. Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances. $5
Screenings: July 15 7:00
(2009, DVD, 93m) dir Hitoshi Matsumoto. A Japanese man in polka-dot pajamas wakes up in a room with no doors. Meanwhile, a middle-aged Mexican wrestler prepares for his most challenging match ever. $5
Screenings: August 19 7:00