SCREAMBOOK II: THE NEXT ISSUE
Dir. Joe Zaso, 1985
United States, 74 min.
In English

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 - 10PM
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 - 10PM
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 - 7:30PM (Q&A)

FROM THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE YOU "SCREAMBOOK" COMES FOUR NEW HORRORS!

Like all great sequels, THE NEXT ISSUE is bigger and badder in every regard. We begin with a setting from a bygone era: the mom-and-pop video rental store. Unfortunately for the customers, the ghoul behind the counter (Jill Casey) is more concerned with telling scary stories than the latest tape release. The Cryptkeeper-like hostess with a cackling, manic no-wave jr. energy introduces four more fuzzy lo-fi tales of terror: "Till Death Do Us Part," "Silversweets," "Birthday Wishes," and "A Grave Matter." It’s DIY filmmaking as play, with all the howling and youthful tenacity from your school's field day.

Don't overanalyze it. Just bask in the kaleidoscopic confusion of lights, demented laughter and all the glorious mom perms. Gives you the warm fuzzies that you've come to expect when you blindly stumble upon an attic box full of clamshell nostalgia.
--13beersl8r, letterboxd

Special thanks to Joe Zaso and Curtis Whitear