Join your funky hosts Jay Katz and Miss Death every week for a feast of film, music and other exotica at the Mu Meson Archives and the Annandale Hotel.
Here’s the April programme!
Monday 4th April
Dear Dead Delilah (1972)
This suspense/horror is a Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte homage about a crippled, wealthy owner of a mansion whose greedy relatives search for lost money on her southern plantation. When they begin being stalked by an axe murderer, fingers are pointed every where especially at the matriarch’s new housekeeper, who coincidently was just released from prison for killing her mother with an axe thirty years ago? She gets revenge when the relatives start losing their heads. This is one of the films that was spawned by Whatever Happened to Baby Jane in which an older actress graces a horror movie with her presence; in this case, Agnes Moorehead, who seems to be on autopilot here (it would be her last movie). This one is especially for axe murder completists.
Annandale Hotel 7.30pm Donation
Fri 8th April
Pioneering Marionettes before The Thunderbirds
Roberta Leigh and Jerry Anderson share a similar career. In fact they worked together on the first Marionette series ever broadcast. Tonight we concentrate on Roberta Leigh and some extremely rare, lost episodes that have recently been found and re-mastered. The Adventures of Twizzle, Space Patrol first Episode The Swamps of Jupiter. Paul Star pilot, lost science fiction series in color. The Solarnauts pilot (pre Star Trek) live action with beautiful model work, and an interview with Roberta Leigh herself. If you are a lover of Marionettes you will be in seventh heaven. Mu-Meson Archives 7.30 for 8pm start $10 with supper.
Monday 11th April
The Legacy (1978)
Six beautiful people arrive for a weekend in the country. Six guests of the unseen host who lies wasting away upstairs…Five heirs to a mysterious Legacy watch the body of the sixth float to the side of the pool…Four claim the unspeakable power of the Legacy, while a red stain spreads across the ceiling…Three realize that the Legacy has come to claim THEM, while outside dogs dine on what was once a man…And then there are two…. It boasts clever death schemes, the surface of a swimming pool turns to solid while a woman drowns below, Roger Daltrey of the Who and Richard Marquand who also directed Return of the Jedi.
Annandale Hotel 7.30pm Donation
Monday 18th April
Serpent Island (1954)
A tropical island filled with knife- wielding natives, deadly voodoo rituals and gargantuan serpents is the arena for two rugged seamen fighting for the attention of one voluptuous woman on a quest to find her grand father. Sonny Tufts (Cat Women of the Moon) stars as one of the men but seems to be holding his stomach in most of the time. Unfortunately he cannot hold this pose throughout the entire film and at times drops his guard (stomach) making for great laughs. This is low budget drive-in fair with real voodoo ceremony footage inter cut. From Bert I. Gordon, the exploitation director known as “Mr. Big” for his initials and for his two most popular films, The Amazing Colossal Man and Village of the Giants. Not to be missed.
Annandale Hotel 7.30pm Donation
Friday 22nd April
Night Of The Hunter - A Tribute to Hunter S Thompson
“Fear and Loathing In Annandale”
Due to overwhelming response and demand we will repeat last months special tribute TO THE LATE GREAT DR HUNTER S THOMPSON.
Featuring Over 90 Minutes of rare and seldom seen footage including The Notorious Sheriff Campaign in Pitkin County, The Filming of Fear & Loathing with Ralph Steadman, Del Toro, Johnny Depp, Hunter S Trashes The Rolling Stone Office and much, much more! plus readings from guest celebrities and Jay Katz discusses “Did Dr Gonzo Really Take His Own Life?”
Free quasi-hallucinogenic Gonzotronic Punch (add your Angels Trumpet) – Please check all firearms at the door – In reverence – NO AVIATOR GLASSES PLEASE! – Bring a bottle of Chivas Regal and share it around!
Mu-Meson Archives 7.30 for 8pm $10
Monday 25th April
The Bubble in 3D (1966)
Filmed in complete secrecy, Arch Oboler, master of the unusual brings you the worlds first feature utilising fourth-dimensional Space Vision. Star Michael Cole (The Mod Squad) recalls, “So secret were the plot and methods of photography projecting into the fourth dimension of space that the studio’s top brass were persona non grata and barred from their own stages. “I don’t know how the other actors felt but when I went home at night I often felt I was literally floating into space after a day in front of all the technical equipment needed to photograph this new process.” A pilot and his two passengers must make an emergency landing when a violent storm overtakes their craft. The next morning they head into town to discover Americana gone awry. Its residents are robot like, repeating the same thing over and over again. The three grab a truck and head out, but are met by an impenetrable wall that stretches all around them. Is there any escape from this alien bubble? What has the whole town terrified they’ve turned into mindless zombies? Who put the glass cage on Earth, and why?3D glasses will be provided.
Annandale Hotel 7.30pm Donation
Friday 29th April
Incidents and Footage of UFO’s part 2
Over the last 15 years the archives has amassed an enormous amount of material on UFO’s. We have begun slowly cataloging and digitizing this footage. Tonight is the second in a series of Best of programs. With many people leaving the archives last month claiming that they are now true believers we will be looking at high profile incidents that made headlines to the more obscure but just as fascinating and inexplicable as the better known cases. How can there be so much evidence for a true phenomenon that ridicule is still commonly the only way people perceive the subject!!
Mu-Meson Archives 7.30 for 8pm $10
Mu-Meson Archives are located at the corner of Parramatta Rd and Trafalgar Streets in Annandale at the end of King Furniture Building and up the steel staircase. Phone 9517-2010.
Annandale Hotel is at 17 Parramatta Rd Annandale. Ph 9550-1078
