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2009 CONEY ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE |
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DAY & TIME |
SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE
1208 Surf Ave. Ground Floor |
CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM
1208 Surf Ave. 2nd Floor (please note: this venue is not wheelchair accessible) |
| FRI. OCTOBER 2, 2009 |
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| Fri. 7:30pm |
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Opening Night Screening:
Step Right Up & The Prince of Mermaid Avenue |
Fri. 9:30pm |
Opening Night Party at the Coney Island USA Freak Bar and Sideshows By The Seashore!
Hosted by The Great Fredini. Live performances by Sideshow and Burlesque stars! Open Bar! (Performers to be announced) |
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| SAT. OCTOBER 3, 2009 |
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Sat. 1pm |
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Program 1
Flying Pumpkins: The Legend of Punkin Chunkin
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Sat. 2pm |
Program 2
Somewhere Between Here and There
The Double
What Is She To You?
I Don't Sleep I Dream
Damaged
The Beneficiary
There's No Justice, It's Just Us
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Sat. 3pm |
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Program 3
Brooklyn Force
Small Time
Silent Treatment
Around the Block
The Vaudevillian
Draw
Got A Mind |
Sat. 4pm |
Program 4 Coney Island Films
Koolkidz Music Video: Positive
The Tin Soldier
Who Shot Coney Island?
I Had a Dream I Went to Coney Island
The Heart of Coney Island
Woman on a Train
The Mermaid Parade 2008
Presque Isle
Jigsaw Soul - 'Cockroach Hotel'
It's All Here, It's All Real, It's All Alive!!!
Frank Sidebottom Saves Coney Island
Palmflower - Buried Under
Coney Island 2057
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Sat. 5pm |
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Program 5
Friends (with benefits)
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Sat. 6pm |
Program 6
Horn Dog
Art Film
Turf
Circus
Attackazoids, Deploy!!
Silent Film Star vs The Undead
Las Historias Mas Sexy Del Mundo! No.2 aka The Sexiest Stories on Earth!
Blood
Rising Up: The Story of the Zombie Rights Movement
Piece of Meat |
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Sat. 7pm |
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Program 7
The Release of Jan
Sea Legs |
Sat. 8pm |
Program 8 The Horror
X-Mess Detritus
The Institute of Seance
The Babysitter
Wilted
The Fairy Princess
Dead Sucks
Death In Charge
Dealbreaker
Survivors
Self-Inflicted
Paper Dolls Live in Glass Houses
Ice Cream Sunday
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Sat. 9pm |
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Program 9
Bad Day at Red Hook
Red Hook
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Sat. 10:30pm |
Program 10 Special Screening
THE WARRIORS
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| SUN. OCTOBER 4, 2009 |
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Sun 1:00pm |
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Program 11
Fight Day
Are You Happy?
Finding Meeky: A Fragmentary History
Bay Rizz "Rescue"
Outside the Last Game at Yankee Stadium
The Retired Chef
No Strings Attached
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Sun. 2:00pm |
Program 12 Coney Island Films
'Blue Sky' KaiserCartel
End of the Line
Against The Tide
Young At Heart
The Poor Man's Follies |
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Sun. 3pm |
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Program 13
Here's Herbie
8 Days Later
Real Gone
Far From Home
Mermaids of New York: Bambi the Mermaid
The Dishwashers "Sweetcheeks"
Ed Hamell Rant & Roll
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Sun. 4pm
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Program 14
The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!
Slim and Lena
True Beauty This Night
Shoebox Redhead
Pirates of the Broadway: Part Deux
Good Old Days
Cesar Salad
Intervention
Test Music Video |
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Sun. 5:00pm |
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Program 15
Strongman
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Sun. 6pm |
Program 16
Mother
Medicine Man
Basket Bronx
Misunderstood
Father's Day
Maharishi
Mugs
F... That
Sensations of the Season
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Awards Presentation: El Dorado Auto Skooters, 1216 Surf Ave. Sunday, October 4th, 8:15pm
CONEY ISLAND FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS: "SUMMER OF HORROR" - SCHEDULE 2009
presented by indiefilmpage.com & Coney Island USA
SATURDAY NIGHTS MAY 16TH - SEPTEMBER 26TH
at the Coney Island Museum 1208 Surf Ave.
between Stillwell Ave. and West 12th Street
Tickets $5 general public, $3 for film society members. Doors open at 8pm. Pre-show at 8:15pm featuring classic drive in trailers, shorts, old commercials and more. Films start at 8:30pm. FREE POPCORN! Series runs from May 16th - September 26th. Please note the following Saturdays have no screenings,
May 23, June 20, July 4, September 12th.
Coney Island USA members at the $50 or above level qualify as Coney Island Film Society Members. To become a member, which includes discounts to film programs as well as other programs and perks, click here.
Travel directions, Click Here.
Please Note: A Nightmare Before Christmas scheduled for 8/29 has been cancelled. We have added Night of The Living Dead (1968) on 9/12.
May 16th - Psycho
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1960. Certainly Hitchcock's most unrelenting exercise in terror, PSYCHO remains one of the most terrifying films of all time. Countlessly imitated but never equaled, PSYCHO's tale of a strange young man and his possessive mother features the now-famous shower scene, the sinister Bates Motel, and the creepy house that overlooks it. Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles; Universal Pictures; Black and White; Not Rated; 109 minutes
Watch the Trailer |
May 30th -
Army of Darkness
Dir.
Sam Raimi, 1993. Horror master Sam Raimi delivers another visual tour-de-force in this outrageously comic sword-and-sorcery fantasy about an innocent 20th century man (Bruce Campbell) hurtled back to the Dark Ages. In a hilariously macabre tug-of-war between the living and the walking dead (courtesy of spectacular special effects), Campbell relies on his unreliable chainsaw, aging 12-gauge shotgun, and a beat up 88 Olds to battle demonic forces and return to his own time. Starring: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, Richard Grove; Universal Pictures; Rated R; 80 minutes
Watch the Trailer
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June 6th -
The Crow
Dir. Alex Proyus, 1994. Mixing the traditions of film noir and high-style action, THE CROW, based on James O’Barr’s popular underground comic book, introduces a mesmerizing hero of the urban music scene in this gothic urban fantasy for the ‘90s. Featuring the final performance of Brandon Lee, an ordinary guitar player becomes a ray of superhuman hope in a city of fear. Lee’s haunting work is the centerpiece of this stunning film that turns O’Barr’s vision of good vs. evil into a music-driven, fully realized cinematic tale of love, death, and revenge. Starring: Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott; Miramax Films; Rated R; 100 minutes
Watch the Trailer |
June 13th - The Horror of Party Beach. Hosted by Vlad & Creighton of Ghoul A-Go-Go
Dir. Del Tenney, 1964. Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community. Starring: John Scott, Alice Lyon, Allan Laurel. Black & White; 80 minutes. 
Watch the Trailer
The film will be preceded by
the Surfing Episode of Ghoul A-Go-Go.
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June 20th - No screening. Mermaid Parade
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June 27th - The Lost Boys
Dir. Joel Schumacher, 1987. Hip, party-loving teenage vampires are terrorizing the seemingly quiet seaside community of Santa Cruz. When Michael (Jason Patric) moves to the city with his family, he falls for the head vampire’s (Kiefer Sutherland) girl (Jami Gertz) and unwittingly finds himself in a world of trouble in this vampire story with a comic twist. Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Jami Gertz, Dianne Wiest; Warner Bros.; Rated R; 97 minutes
Watch the Trailer
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July 11th -
Friday the 13th
Dir. Sean S. Cunningham, 1980. In this classic horror film, a nightmarish world of blood and terror is unleashed from an ancient curse. A harrowing film of suspense and horror, twisted teenager, Jason, returns from the bottom of a lake to violently stalk and murder everyone at a quiet summer camp. Starring: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, Kevin Bacon; Paramount Pictures; Rated R; 95 minutes
Watch the Trailer
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July 18th - House of 1000 Corpses
Dir. Rob Zombie, 2003. Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers. Starring: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie; Universal Pictures; Rated R; 89 minutes
Watch the Trailer
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July 25th-
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Dir. Wes Craven, 1984. A group of friends who live on Elm Street are having nightmares about a killer with razors on his hands. The frightening figure is Freddy Krueger who can kill you in your dreams. This group must find a way to stop Freddy’s reign of terror in this modern horror classic. Starring: Robert Englund, Johnny Depp; New Line Cinema; Rated R; 91 minutes
Watch the Trailer |
August 1st -
They Live
Dir. John Carpenter,1988. Wrestling star Roddy Piper stars as a struggling blue collar worker who stumbles upon a deadly discovery—society has been overtaken by grotesque aliens who are depleting the earth's resources and are controlling the earth through a television system whose hypnotic signal lulls an unsuspecting public into submission. Starring: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster; Universal Pictures; Rated R; 115 minutes
Watch the Trailer
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August 8th -
Village of the Damned
Dir. Wolf Rilla, 1960. In the English village of Midwich, the blond-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers Starring: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens. MGM; Black and White; Not Rated; 80 minutes
Watch the Trailer |
August 15th -
Carrie
Dir. Brian DePalma, 1976. A high school wallflower and outcast (Sissy Spacek) with a telekinetic ability wreaks havoc and revenge upon her classmates after they play a horrible joke on her at her senior prom. This horror classic is based on the novel by Stephen King. Starring: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta United Artists; Rated R; 98 minutes
Watch the Trailer
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August 22nd - Dracula
Dir. Tod Browning, 1931. Dracula’s (Bela Lugosi) castle stands in the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains, a symbol of fear and suspicion to the villagers who live in the valley below. Real estate agent Renfield (Dwight Frye) journeys to the castle to conclude a business transaction with its elusive owner. Tension mounts as Renfield learns the truth about his mysterious host and succumbs to Dracula’s will to become his mindless victim. Starring: Bela Lugosi, Dwight Frye; Helen Chandler; Universal Pictures; Black and White; Not Rated; 75 minutes
Watch the Trailer
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September 5th -
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1920) with Live piano accompaniment by Liz Magnes
Dir. John S. Robertson, 1920. Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself. Starring: John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst; Black and White; Not Rated; Silent; 82 minutes
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September 12th -
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
Dir. George A. Romero, 1968. When unexpected radiation raises the dead, a microcosm of Average America has to battle flesh-eating zombies in this landmark horror film. Starring: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Russ Streiner; Black and White; Not Rated; 90 minutes
Watch The Trailer
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September 19th - Dead Alive/Braindead
Dir.
Peter Jackson, 1992. A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors. Starring: Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody; WingNut Films; Rated R; 104 minutes
Watch the Trailer |
September 26th - Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Dir. Charles Barton, 1948. Wilbur Grey (Lou Costello) is chased by Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) who wants to transplant Chick Young’s (Bud Abbott) brain into the skull of Frankenstein’s Monster. The Wolfman thwarts Dracula’s plans, however. Even the Invisible Man makes a non-appearance in this superb horror comedy. Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr. Universal Pictures; Black and White; Not Rated; 83 minutes
Watch the Trailer |
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