Our latest Netflix Party—Buster’s Mal Heart——starts in fifteen minutes.

Please install the Netflix Party extension if you haven’t already. You must have a U.S. Nextflix account (we think) and a Chrome-based browser (including Brave) to participate.

There will be no pausing or rewinding except for technical reasons.

We are offering no technical support, so help each other out if needed.

Here is the link to join: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80152442?npSessionId=928d2c013b198778&npServerId=s61

Be sure to click on the red Netflix Party icon to sync up and join the chat room.

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Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs and Blu-rays (and hot off the server VODs), and on more distant horizons…

Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links.

NEW VIDEO ON DEMAND:

Vampire Burt’s Serenade (2020): A “raunchy vampire musical” starring Diva Zappa and ex-Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson. Supposedly in limited release, but you’re more likely to find it on Amazon Prime, YouTube, or Google Play.  Vampire Burt’s Serenade official Facebook page.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

“Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection”: Ah, Al. This set contains all 31 “masterpieces” from schlockmesiter Al Adamson spread across 14 Blu-rays and including, most notably for us, Dracula vs. Frankenstein and Carnival Magic, along with the doc Blood & Flesh – The Reel Life and Grisly Death of Al Adamson and a 126 -page booklet. We never dreamed this day would come. Now do an Andy Milligan set—we dare you! Buy “Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection”.

CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

Independent theaters are slowly starting to reopen across the country at diminished capacity, although the big chains remain shuttered (and some are even considering bankruptcy). That said, we actually have one screening to announce this week. We expect this section to continue to grow slowly throughout the summer, although we wouldn’t expect things to return to anywhere near normal until the fall at the earliest.

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WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: The winner of the Netflix Party poll is Buster’s Mal Heart (by a nose), so we’ll be screening that this Saturday (June 13) at 10:15 P.M. We’ll drop the link here and on our Facebook and Twitter pages shortly before the show begins. For next week’s reviews, Giles Edwards will consider this week’s Netflix Party runner-up The Aerial [La Antena], in a post that could generate momentum for the Argentine allegory for the next Netflix screening, while Gregory J. Smalley revisits another runner-up, Hitoshi Matsumoto‘s kaiju mockumentary Big Man Japan. Onward and weirdward!

What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that we have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.

Here’s the poll to vote in our latest weird Netflix watch party, scheduled for this Saturday, June 13, at 10:15 PM EST. First order of business: voting on the movie to watch. If you plan on virtually attending, please vote for the movie we’ll be watching below.

There are two sets of instructions: one for the poll, and then the instructions for joining the Netflix Party.

POLL

Vote for which movie you’d like us to watch from the selections below. We’ll screen the movie that gets the most votes. Your host, Gregory J. Smalley, will personally break any ties. Note that unlike our other polls, you can only vote once. Poll closes at midnight EST on Thursday, June11. You may vote for multiple movies, but not for every movie (because that would be pointless).

NETFLIX PARTY

You must have a subscription to Netflix (U.S.) and a browser running Chrome. You must install the Netflix Party extension (from this site).

We will not provide tech support; you’re on your own.

When the party is set to begin we’ll try to announce it in three places:

• On this site (if you’ve signed up for regular email alerts via the sidebar you’ll also get a notice that way)
• On our Facebook page
• On Twitter

You will then receive the link to join the stream. Follow the instructions and be sure to have your Netflix Party extension active.

Once you join, you can customize your avatar and give yourself a screen name.

Now vote!

Direct link for voting

Last week, we fell just short of the five nominations we were looking for to justify holding a Netflix party, so we decided to try moving to a biweekly schedule instead.

We’ll once again be looking for comments from five people who plan to attend a screening scheduled for Saturday, June 13 at 10:15 PM EST (time and date negotiable if you ask nicely). If you responded last week and still plan to make it this week, please comment with a simple “I’m interested” (or whatever). We’re also looking for one more movie nomination (preferably from a person who didn’t chime in last week). Last week’s nominations will be carried over into this poll. The nominations were:

The Aerial [La Antena]

Buster’s Mal Heart

The Humanity Bureau

Sin City

Swiss Army Man

And now, the boilerplate rules:

You can nominate something you nominated before, but not something we watched in a previous party: so no The Platform, April and the Extraordinary World, The Bad Batch, Skins [Pieles], Under the Skin, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Enemy, A Ghost Story, Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema, or Between Worlds. We’ll open it up to reader suggestions until we get five planning to attend and one more movie nomination, then put up a poll to vote on which movie to screen. Only films in Netflix’s catalog are eligible. We don’t have to watch a Canonically Weird movie together, but just for your convenience, we’re reasonably sure these are all the (previously unscreened by us) ones available on the service at the moment: Kung Fu Hustle (2004), The Lobster (2015), Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), A Serious Man (2009), Sin City (2005), Swiss Army Man (2016), The Wicker Man (1973), and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). Feel free to nominate any of these, or ignore them in favor of other selections.

To join, you’ll need a U.S. Netflix account, a Chrome-based browser, and the Netflix Party extension.

Make your nominations in the comments below.

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Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs and Blu-rays (and hot off the server VODs), and on more distant horizons…

Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

Dreamland [AKA Bruce McDonald’s Dreamland] (2019): Read Giles Edwards’ Apocrypha Candidate review. We’re not sure if Bruce McDonald‘s dreamy hitman/jazz musician fantasia is actually playing in many theaters—very few are open in the U.S., after all—but we are sure it will simultaneously debut on VOD. Dreamland distributor’s site.

https://youtu.be/7k27GI0x81s

ONLINE SERVICES:

Alamo on Demand: While art-house theater chain Alamo Drafthouse has been pushing new streaming releases, the section of their site devoted to deep catalog titles is well-hidden. And yet, this area houses a plethora of interesting and, yes, weird movies, including 366 Canon entries Death Laid an Egg, A Field in England, Forbidden Zone, Glen or Glenda, Godmonster of Indian Flats, The Greasy Strangler, I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse, Mood Indigo, and Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Although most of these can be found elsewhere (and often cheaper), there are a few titles (such as those distributed by Vinegar Syndrome) that are, to our knowledge, not streaming on other services. If you want to support Alamo in the face of a pandemic that may be an existential threat to their deep-cut-movies-as-social-phenomenon business model, you may not mind paying a few extra dollars for the privilege. Alamo on Demand.

NEW ON HOME VIDEO:

1BR (2019): Read Giles Edwards’ review. This apartment complex thriller releases on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD; 1BR is worth a rental. Buy 1BR.

Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2019): Read Giles Edwards’ review. Crazy low-budget surreal satire involving virtual reality, CIA plots, superheroes, and the King of Ethopia. Available on the Arrow video channel and via Itunes only; we’ll let you know when availability expands. Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway on Itunes.

Valhalla Rising (2009): Read the List Candidate review. IFC releases Nicolas Winding Refn‘s hallucinatory Viking tale on Blu-ray for the first time (in North America); no special features are advertised. Buy Valhalla Rising.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: We’re going to shoot for a Netflix Party next week—June 13—and may go to a biweekly schedule from here on out. Look for details soon. Meanwhile, speaking of Netflix and parties, next week Giles Edwards will explain to all of you what you missed when you skipped our screening of Escape from the “Liberty” Cinema. And fresh off his review of the original “Boogiepop Phantom,” Gregory J. Smalley looks at Madhouse’s sorta-semi-sequel “Boogiepop and Others.” Quarantine season is cooling down (hopefully), but we’ll keep it weird as the summer heats up. Onward and weirdward!

What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that we have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.