ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get spooked in ATLRetro this week! We’ve got MonsteramaCon and the Women in Horror Film Festival (WIHFF) to knock your socks off and so much more! As the days creep closer and closer to that most haunted pinnacle of fright and terror, we’ve dug up some spooktacular events just for you! The ghosts and goblins have been let loose, so don’t be a fraidy cat; get out and get Retro!

Monday, October 1

The Plaza Theater gets horrorific with screenings of Stephen Chiodo’s KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (1988) and Kevin Connor’s MOTEL HELL (1980), through Oct. 4! Or catch The Plaza’s screening of Quentin Tarantino’s KILL BILL VOL. 1 (2003) at 9:30pm! Celebrate 30 years of Hayao Miyazaki’s MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Get jazzy with Simona Minns at the Red Light Café! The Milk Carton Kids dish out a night of Americana at the Variety Playhouse! Spend the night with The English Beat at City Winery! Get your Beckett fix as 7 Stages presents WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta) screens Mike Newell’s HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2005) at 7:30pm! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Get the blues with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!

Tuesday, October 2

The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce at 7:30pm! Get intimate with David Byrne at the Fox Theatre! Kung fu it up with a screening of Chang Cheh’s FIVE DEADLY VENOMS (1978) at The Plaza Theater at 9:30pm! Rock out with A Hawk and a Hacksaw and Casey Hood at The Earl! Funk it up with The Senators at City Winery! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Blind Willie’s gets down with the Tyler Neal Band! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 3

Woodruff Park spooks it up with a free screening of Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988) at 6pm! Get spellbound and catch a screening of Nicolas Roeg’s THE WITCHES (1990) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Grind-core it up with Captured! By Robots at The Earl! The Star Bar dishes out a night of ‘60s psyche rock with The Sun Machine, Black Cat Rising and Naan Violence! Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s NOTORIOUS (1946) at 7:30pm! The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce at 7:30pm! Get kung fu’d with a screening of Jeong Chang-Hwa’s KING BOXER [FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH] (1972) at The Plaza Theater at 9:30pm! Or catch a screening of John Landis’ COMING TO AMERICA (1988) at Brookhaven’s CineBistro! Celebrate 30 years of Hayao Miyazaki’s MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Get your Gene Wilder fix at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) at 2:30pm/7:30pm, or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 1:45pm/7:25pm! Catch a screening of Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) at SCADShow at 6pm! Blind Willie’s gets rockin’ with their Blues Jam hosted by the Cazanovas! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 4

Take a walk down the “Dead Carpet” for the second annual Women in Horror Film Festival brought to you by Festival Directors Kool Kat Vanessa Ionta Wright (RAINY SEASON) and Samantha Kolesnik (keep your bloody eyes peeled for our exclusive Kool Kat interview with Sam, coming soon), killing it through Oct. 7 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel & Convention Center in Peachtree City, featuring a horrorific lineup of shorts and feature-length films, panels, vendors and special guests including Marianne Maddalena (SCREAM; THE HILLS HAVE EYES), Trina Parks (DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER), Ross Childress (Collective Soul) and more!

Cineprov gets kaijurific with a night of MST3K-style laughs at The Plaza Theater as they screen/riff Noriaki Yuasa’s GAMMERA THE INVICIBLE (1966) at 7:30pm! Or kung fu it up at The Plaza with a screening of Jim Jarmusch’s GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (1999) at 9:30pm! Creep on down to the FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock for night with Dacre Stoker and the release of his new book, DRACUL at 6:30pm! Shakey Graves dishes out a night of rockin’ Americana at the Tabernacle! Rock Chastain 2018 brings you 10,000 Maniacs, Yellow Brick Road (a tribute to Elton John), the Dreambrother Band and Pony League! 7 Stages presents WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14! Bloody Disgusting presents Amityville Double Feature with screenings of Sandor Stern’s AMITYVILLE: THE EVIL ESCAPES (1989) and Tony Randel’s AMITYVILLE: IT’S ABOUT TIME (1992) at Studio Movie Grill (Duluth/Marietta); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and, Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee)! Burly Q it up with The Candybox Revue’s Burlesque Karaoke at the Red Light Café!  Rock out with Landt, Wicked Spring, 72nd & Central and Katie Martin at The Star Bar! Folk it up with Donovan Woods and Tyler Boone at Eddie’s Attic! Get your ‘90s alt rock fix with Edwin McCain at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with the Georgia Mountain String Band at Venkman’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get swanky and hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes with The Knotty Boys and some killer island cocktails! Get the blues with The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 5

The horror! The horror! Atlanta kicks off its Halloween celebrations with a bang! Spook up the weekend with a whole lotta horror classics by haunting on down to the fifth annual Monsterama Convention invading the Atlanta Marriott Alpharetta and haunting all your senses through Oct. 7! You won’t want to miss our exclusive Kool Kat interview with Director Jeff Burr (FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM; PUMPKINHEAD II; TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III) coming soon! Experience five horrorific tracks (Main, Maker, Literary/Arts/Comics, Media and Film Screenings) while perusing the monsterific vender tables. Catch some killer guests including  Luciana Paluzzi (THUNDERBALL; THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN); Jeff Burr; Rachel Talalay (FREDDY’S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE; TANK GIRL); Ken Sagoes (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3); creaturific artist Kool Kat Mark Maddox; Kool Kat Shane Morton, ghost host with the most, a.k.a. Professor Morte; glamour ghoul Kool Kat Madeline Brumby and so much more! Tonight you won’t want to miss the Monster Kids PJ Fiesta with a screening of Jules Bass’ MAD MONSTER PARTY (1967) at 7:30pm; the Professor Fear and Pinky Show; a concert by Valentine Wolfe (Victorian chamber metal); Cineprov riffing Don Dohler’s THE FIEND (1980) in 16mm at 10pm; and a screening of Howard Ziehm’s FLESH GORDON (1974) at midnight! So, come on down for the horror that is Monsterama and get your classic horror fix!

It’s Day 2 of the Women in Horror Film Festival, so come on down and get your horror fix with a helluva lot of killer films, genre panels and more! Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 4! Get hellacious with Out of the Box Theatre’s production of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, killing it through Oct. 20! The Georgia Metropolitan Dance Theatre presents Dracula: The Halloween Ballet with a Bite at the The Earl Smith Strand Theatre, through Oct. 7! The Plaza Theater kills it with screenings of David Hartman’s PHANTASM (1979), Stuart Gordon’s RE-ANIMATOR (1985), and Don Coscavelli’s BUBBA HO TEP (2002), through Oct. 7! Make your way to Oktoberfest in Piedmont Park at 6pm! The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce at 7:30pm! ATL Collective relives The Police – SYNCHRONICITY at the Buckhead Theatre! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra gets bewitched with their Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets in Concert featuring a live performance of John Williams’ score with the film playing on a 40-foot screen, at Atlanta Symphony Hall, through Oct. 7! 7 Stages presents WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14! Spend the night with Eliot Bronson at Eddie’s Attic! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Rock ‘n’ Roll Extravaganza featuring We Want Blood, Genki Genki Panic and the HARAKIRIS! Amy Scott’s documentary covering the live of Hal Ashby, HAL (2018) opens at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema! Funk it up New Orleans-style with Dumpstaphunk and AJ Ghent at the Variety Playhouse! Get your ‘90s alt rock fix with Edwin McCain at City Winery! Venkman’s celebrates Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse! Geneva Red & The Original Delta Fireballs get down at Blind Willie’s! Get the old-school blues with Robert Lee Coleman at the Northside Tavern! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, October 6

Day 2 of the Monsterama Convention kills it with Professor Morte’s Silver Scream Spook Show’s screening of Kinji Fukasaku’s THE GREEN SLIME (1968) on 16mm with special guest Luciana Paluzzi at 4pm. Monster Mash it up at the Monster Prom! Day 3 of the Women in Horror Film Festival brings you more killer panels, workshops and blocks of killer films! Rev on down to The Vista Room for a night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The PsychoDevilles! Get hellacious and hell-bent at the Masquerade with Slaughter Que 2018, featuring one helluva rockin’ line-up with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Order of the Owl, Gunpowder Gray and so much more! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema presents a Hal Ashby matinee screening of HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) at 11am! Head on down to the Sweet Auburn Music Fest getting down through Oct. 7! Skank on down to City Winery for a night with Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley and the Southern Ska Syndicate! Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3! Creep on down to the Center for Puppetry Arts for A Ghastly Gathering with the Ghastly Dreadfuls! Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema for a Sting and Police Jam! The Georgia Metropolitan Dance Theatre presents Dracula: The Halloween Ballet with a Bite at the The Earl Smith Strand Theatre, through Oct. 7! Get folksy with Maria Muldaur at the Red Light Café! Rock out with New Junk City at The Earl! Leucine Zipper and the Zinc Fingers geeks it up and rocks out with the El Caminos, the Wussy Pillows and more at The Star Bar! Get some soul with Amel Larrieux (Groove Theory) at City Winery! The Turnpike Troubadours dish out a night of Americana at the Tabernacle! Boogie on down to The Basement for Heyday Pride – 80s Dance Party! Or make your way to Kavarna for a night of Yesterday Calling featuring ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s covers! Get experimental and rock out with Lydia Lunch Retrovirus at the Drunken Unicorn! Keisha & Kourtney Jackson dish out their Ladies of ‘60s Soul at Venkman’s! Get your second helping of Eliot Bronson at Eddie’s Attic! Cody Matlock gets down at the Northside Tavern! Geneva Red & The Original Delta Fireballs get down at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, October 7

It’s your last chance to get terror-fied at the Women in Horror Film Festival, so come on out and get your horror movie fix! And it’s day 3 and your last chance to get your classic horror fix at the Monsterama Convention! Geek it up at Atlanta Comic Con from 11am – 5pm! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema presents a Hal Ashby matinee screening of BEING THERE (1979) at 11am! The Atlanta Opera brings you CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD, a jazz opera about the life of Charlie Parker at Paris on Ponce at 3pm! The Georgia Metropolitan Dance Theatre presents Dracula: The Halloween Ballet with a Bite at the The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Get down with The Dirty Heads at the Tabernacle! Celebrate 50 years of Peter Yates’ BULLITT (1968) starring Steve McQueen at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Blitzen Trapper! Get some soul with Amel Larrieux (Groove Theory) at City Winery! UB40 celebrate 40 years and rocks out at the Buckhead Theatre! Have a bloody fantastic time at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John Carptenter’s classic HALLOWEEN (1978) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Get your Beckett fix as 7 Stages presents WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14!

Get hellacious with Out of the Box Theatre’s production of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, killing it through Oct. 20!

Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21!

Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3!

Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 4!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.