Weird Elephant at The Grand Cinema

Your bi-weekly late-night cinephile infusion. Screenings of cult classics and new nightmares!

06/21/2024

What better way to celebrate the solstice than to see The Craft tonight? We're drawing you in with our powers

06/20/2024

Solstånd!

Scarecrow Video says it needs to raise $1.8M or face possible closure 06/20/2024

A NW indeed a WORLD icon. Donate now! And also to us ;-)

Scarecrow Video says it needs to raise $1.8M or face possible closure The University District nonprofit Scarecrow Video holds one of the largest publicly accessible video collections, with more than 148,000 titles, in the U.S.

06/20/2024

Glad we got to see Invasion of the Body Snatchers not too long ago. RIP Donald Sutherland

06/18/2024

"it would be reductive to describe The Craft as a revenge film. It’s also a compelling depiction of female joy, of reveling in one’s power and one’s friends." -Anne Cohen, Refinery29

The Craft is just a few days away!! Get tickets to this 90s-tastic feminist cult classic at the link below!
https://grandcinema.com/movie/the-craft

The strange q***r powers of ‘The Craft’ | Xtra Magazine 06/18/2024

Let's celebrate the "strange q***r powers" of THE CRAFT this weekend!

The strange q***r powers of ‘The Craft’ | Xtra Magazine How a coven of magical teen misfits sparked my ’90s coming out story

06/07/2024

How many of you weirds came out to Run Lola Run when we played it for Weird Elephant in 2019??

In addition to tonight and tomorrow night's Weird Elephant screenings of Rock 'N' Roll High School, we've got a WHOLE WEEK of screenings for Run Lola Run!

Check out showtimes and get tickets here: https://grandcinema.com/movie/run-lola-run

06/03/2024

"Thanks to a superb soundtrack, a quip-packed screenplay, and P.J. Soles' boundless energy, it's near-impossible to resist this film's goofy charms." -Matt Brunson, Film Frenzy

Rock 'N' Roll High School plays this Friday & Saturday night at 10pm as part of Weird Elephant at The Grand Cinema!

Get tickets: https://grandcinema.com/movie/rock-n-roll-high-school

Unrated Slasher 'In a Violent Nature' Debuts With $2 Million in Theaters 06/03/2024

Make sure you see this unique slasher before it leaves The Grand this Thursday. 7:45 nightly.

Unrated Slasher 'In a Violent Nature' Debuts With $2 Million in Theaters Like Terrifier 2 before it, the acclaimed slasher movie In a Violent Nature was released into theaters in its UNRATED form over the weekend, and the box

Film Review: 'In a Violent Nature' is a One of a Kind Horror Experience - Awards Radar 06/01/2024

Reviews are great for In A Violent Nature. See it this week only at The Grand and at Weird Elephant tonight! Trivia and free tickets!

Film Review: 'In a Violent Nature' is a One of a Kind Horror Experience - Awards Radar Awards Radar seeks to provide objective, thoughtful, and wide-ranging coverage of the awards season, as well as the entertainment world in general

06/01/2024

What did you think about IN A VIOLENT NATURE, people who went last night?

In A Violent Nature 05/31/2024

We've got a special treat this week, with the new Canadian slasher flick "In A Violent Nature" playing at 10pm for tonight and tomorrow's Weird Elephant AND playing daily in an earlier time-slot for you early-birds out there!

Get tickets: https://grandcinema.com/movie/in-a-violent-nature-2

Read up on the buzz this gore-fest is generating below!
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/this-gory-horror-film-got-raves-at-sundance-its-earned-its-canadian-terror-bona-fides/article_9f4226f0-1e02-11ef-8bd9-bf3d609723d4.html

In A Violent Nature The enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness. Starring Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Cameron Love

05/30/2024

Roger Corman, RIP. In your honor, we bring the Weirds... Rock 'n' Roll High School! June 7 and 8 at 10pm. 45th Anniversary. Ramones! Hey Ho Let's Go! Yes, this is another BIG SCREEN BUCKET LIST (TM) presentation.

“A true cult classic… it’s near-impossible to resist this film’s goofy charms”
—Film Frenzy

05/30/2024

Like slashers? Enjoy the gnarliest kills you may have ever seen with In A Violent Nature. Opens Friday, and we'll have our usual 10pm Weird Elephants with trivia to boot!

Oh yeah, our website and ticketing get a MASSIVE upgrade starting TOMORROW (Thursday May 30). We don't know about you, but we'll be refreshing the page all night long to see the magic happen!

http://grandcinema.com/

05/27/2024

I suppose you would all like an explanation of our clues for the mystery screenings. Walk with us...

Slumber Party Massacre:

Director Amy Holden Jones not only wrote and directed Slumber Party Massacre, but also big hits Mystic Pizza (LOVE) and this classic...

05/27/2024

I suppose you would all like an explanation of our clues for the mystery screenings. Walk with us...

Dr. Strangelove:

This question mark is in the Futura font - denoted by it's odd #2 shape and the characteristic squig at the "tail"

Futura is Stanley Kubrick's favorite font

Photos from Weird Elephant at The Grand Cinema's post 05/26/2024

And the mystery films were....

05/23/2024

Saturday Clue for the Mystery Screenings

05/23/2024

Another clue for Friday's screening

Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) 05/22/2024

Another misleading clue for our guess the mystery films contest!

Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) Gertie is the best preserved film of pioneering animator Winsor McCay. It was named #6 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time in a 1994 survey of animators.

05/22/2024

Another misleading clue for our guess the mystery films contest!

05/22/2024

Another misleading clue

05/22/2024

WHAT will be the mystery movies this week? A correct guess will win an individual membership to The Grand and a Weird Elephant t-shirt and a custom Weird Cabal poster! Over $75 in value! Start your engines...two prizes, one for each screening are available! If multiple guesses are made, the first to post wins.

Post guesses here!

Yes, this image is a misleading clue

05/22/2024

MYSTERY WEIRD ELEPHANT ALERT! 🤯

THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AT 10PM! ⏰️

WHAT WILL THE MYSTERY SCREENINGS BE? 🤔

COULD THEY BOTH BE DIFFERENT FILMS?? 🥸

ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT! 😱

GET TICKETS: https://www.grandcinema.com/films/mystery-screening

05/21/2024

WHAT will be the mystery movies this week? A correct guess will win an individual membership to The Grand and a Weird Elephant t-shirt and a custom Weird Cabal poster! Over $75 in value! Start your engines...two prizes, one for each screening are available! If multiple guesses are made, the first to post wins.

Post guesses here!

Yes, this image is a clue

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