It's 1:30 on a hot Monday afternoon in August, and 25-year-old Ryan Matthews, shirtless, is panhandling on the corner of Franklin Street and McGrath Boulevard, asking passing motorists for money. On a good day, he says, he can make 30 to 40 dollars.
Back in June I had the privilege to meet Doug Bradley at Niagara Falls Comic Con , and moderate a Q&A with him talking about his work in theater, his time as Pinhead , and his thoughts on the new Hellraiser film. Since then I've been jonesing for a little "pain and pleasure, indivisible" so I succumbed to my earthly desires and spent some time with my favorite cenobites.
Back in June I had the privilege to meet Doug Bradley at Niagara Falls Comic Con , and moderate a Q&A with him talking about his work in theater, his time as Pinhead , and his thoughts on the new Hellraiser film. Since then I've been jonesing for a little "pain and pleasure, indivisible" so I succumbed to my earthly desires and spent some time with my favorite cenobites.
Last night, Alamo Drafthouse once again proved how terrific a new cultural asset it is for San Francisco, hosting the local premiere of a restored print of John Waters's early, trashy masterwork, Multiple Maniacs . It's not likely that too many of you who aren't Waters superfans have seen the film - Waters says it last screened in San Francisco at the Palace Theater, home of the Cockettes, in 1970, and after a brief run in a couple midnight-movie houses it basically disappeared.
Last night, Alamo Drafthouse once again proved how terrific a new cultural asset it is for San Francisco, hosting the local premiere of a restored print of John Waters's early, trashy masterwork, Multiple Maniacs . It's not likely that too many of you who aren't Waters superfans have seen the film - Waters says it last screened in San Francisco at the Palace Theater, home of the Cockettes, in 1970, and after a brief run in a couple midnight-movie houses it basically disappeared.
The hilarity returns! If you missed it on the Garden Stage in the chill of January 2015, escape the heat of August with this over-the-top comedy by Charles Busch . An outrageous parody of the campy beach party movies of the 1960s, this revival of the Immersive Theater production reunites the original cast, include Doug Joseph and Nick Hardin .
Perfect for Halloween, scary characters from the big screen are brought down in size with 2016 Funko Horror Classics Mystery Minis Series 3. Horror fans will find familiar faces in each mystery box. Most of the figures are essentially miniature replicas of their Pop! horror vinyl figures , including Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger.
If you're like so many others out there, you have already binge-watched the entire first season of Netflix's must-watch horror thriller Stranger Things , a love letter to genre fiction from the 1980s that centers on a small town's citizens tracking down a missing boy. While Season 2 is all but certain, considering Netflix's track record with renewals, nothing has been made official yet.
A new version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is heading our way in October, and up now is a video in which the producers discuss their casting process for the character of Frank-N-Furter and why Laverne Cox was born to play the role. About The Rocky Horror Picture Show: FOX is doing the Time Warp with a brand-new production of the 1975 cult classic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, set to air October 20, 2016.