Media Meltdown

17/12/2024

We had a great time Sunday night at Movie Madhouse! Thanks so much to everyone came out and especially to the folks who joined our fairy procession! Can’t wait to see y’all again next month!

15/12/2024

Following the tradition we began last month, we’ll have a limited edition pin to offer at tonight’s show with custom art by our rockstar pal Matt based on tonight’s first film “A Monster’s Christmas”. These came out so well and we can’t wait to share them with folks so make sure to snag your ticket for tonight’s show! (Ticket link in bio)

13/12/2024

We’re so excited to have musical guest Another Bard dropping by Movie Madhouse this Sunday to serenade us with what I’m sure will be a holiday classic any day now. The song was featured in our most recent production of Select Thine Own Journey, but originally came from the NZ television movie The Monster’s Christmas that we’ll be screening first on Sunday. It wasn’t Another Bard’s hit song “I Am Tombus Bombadillus”, the performance of which was so beautifully captured here by , if that helps you narrow it down! Come see Another Bard in all their wintery glory this Sunday at 7:30pm only at the 4 Star Theater (ticket link in bio)!

11/12/2024

This Sunday, Movie Madhouse presents a double feature of weird holiday films including “The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus” (1985). This was the last film produced by Rankin & Bass who brought us such classic holiday films as “Frosty the Snowman” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”. But for their final outing, they decided to produce the most metal, pagan “Christmas” movie imaginable. Based on a book from L Frank Baum, creator of the Marvelous World of Oz, this film follows the Faerie Court as they put Santa on trial to determine if he’s earned immortality. It’s absolutely delightful and strange, not to mention visually stunning, so kick off your holiday season with Media Meltdown this Sunday by grabbing you tickets at 4-star-movies.com (link in bio)

09/12/2024

This Sunday, we’ll be screening a double feature of weirdo holiday movies at the , including The Monster’s Christmas, a bizarre 1981 New Zealand television film that has almost no references to Christmas but plenty of other wild hijinks. Fans of our show Select Thine Own Journey might recognize that this movie was an inspiration on our latest production and we’ll be having Select star performing live to highlight the crossover! All these and a lot more surprises in store this Sunday at the 4 Star (ticket link in bio)!

07/12/2024

In just one week, Media Meltdown will be celebrating the holidays Movie Madhouse-style with a double feature of two of the strangest "Christmas" movies (emphasis on the quotation marks) we've ever seen!

First up, we've got The Monster's Christmas, a 1981 New Zealand TV movie about a little girl who teams up with some very disturbing creatures to help them reclaim their voices from an evil witch! We'll do a little show for y'all and then jump into The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus! All you Wicked fans should get amped for this one because it's based off a book by L. Frank Baum who wrote the Oz series. But don't expect any ruby slippers or Dr. Dildoman in this one - it's the most metal, pagan Christmas movie imaginable as Santa Claus is put on trial by the Fae Court to determine if he deserves to become an immortal.

If you're like us and even a Die Hard or Eyes Wide Shut aren't quite weird enough for your annual holiday viewing, we've got you covered! Once again, we'll be opening this one up to an all ages audience but only bring your cool little punks cause this one is for the freaks. See you next Sunday!

02/12/2024

We had such an amazing time hosting the Northern California premiere of S/HE IS STILL HER/E - The Official Genesis P-Orridge documentary two Thursdays ago! We’re still so thrilled that the screening sold out and additional screenings continue to do well at the Roxie, but that opening night in conversation with director David Charles Rodrigues and Genesse and Caresse P-Orridge was so magical. We’re incredibly grateful to them and everyone else who worked on this film for creating such a beautiful love letter to a singular artist. We’ve seen the doc multiple times now and I can’t wait to watch it again! If you haven’t yet, go grab your tickets to the final Roxie screening this Wednesday!

19/11/2024

In just two days, Media Meltdown will be co-presenting the beautiful film S/HE IS STILL HER/E - The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary at the Roxie Theater! Tickets are selling fast for the Thursday night screening which will include a performance by Media Meltdown and a conversation with director David Charles Rodrigues and Genesis’s two daughters Genesse and Caresse P-Orridge! Even if you’re not familiar with Genesis’s work, this incredible portrait of a transgressive, boundary-pushing artist is so incredible and deserves to be seen so do yourself a favor and jump on the last few tickets before they’re all gone! Tickets at Roxie.com (link in bio)

17/11/2024

Tonight!! We can’t wait to present DRAGHOULA tonight at the 4 Star with our special guests Bat Noise! We’ll be offering free vampire fangs to all self-identifying crossdressers in the audience and will be giving away limited addition pins featuring this incredible poster art by comics creator Harry Nordlinger! So get dolled up for a night of manic music and strange cinema and head out to the 4 Star at 7:30pm! (Ticket link in bio)

14/11/2024

Kicking off Movie Madhouse this Sunday, we’ve got a set by industrial doom jazz deathwave legends Bat Noise! Arrive early before DRAGHOULA to catch their incredible set!

Having also played as The Floating Corpses, Moira Scar, and V.E.X., Bat Noise is the most freaky elemental and sonic essential mutation of the outfit. Bat Noise is LuLu Gammaray: theremin, synth, samples, vocals, trombone. Roxy Monoxide: tenor sax, floor tom, vocals, FX.

First photo credit: Travin McKain // Second photo: R. Collision

12/11/2024

This Sunday’s Movie Madhouse may be our most anticipated of the year. Playing in theaters for perhaps the first time ever (?) from its video store VHS release, we’re screening the 1995 film DRAGHOULA! Following a repressed scientist who transforms into a crossdressing vampire, this low budget labor of love deserves to be seen by all midnight movie maniacs and we’re so excited to be joined by Oakland-based industrial deathwave jazz freakout band BAT NOISE! Don’t miss all the madness this Sunday at the 4 Star! (Ticket link in bio)

09/11/2024

We can’t wait for this show!

“A true download of her consciousness into what has now become a feature film" is now director David Charles Rodrigues describes S/HE IS STILL HER/E: THE OFFICIAL GENESIS P-ORRIDGE DOCUMENTARY.

See it here November 21, with a live performance from co-presenter Media Meltdown plus a post-show Q&A with Rodrigues and Genesse & Caresse P-Orridge.

Co-presented by OUTlook: https://roxie.com/film/s-he-is-still-her-e-the-official-genesis-p-orridge-documentary/

25/10/2024

We’re so excited to announce the next Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse is DRAGHOULA (1995) on 11/17! Picture it - you’re a French Canadian and it’s the 90s and you have no money, but are obsessed with Rocky Horror and Anne Rice, so you decide to make a low budget film about a repressed scientist who gets bitten by a Transylvanian rat and turns into a cross-dressing vampire! And if you are that filmmaker, call us (we paid for IMDBPro and LinkedIn Premium trying to get ahold of you)!! We’ve been OBSESSED with this movie for years and are so excited to screen it in a theater using the $75 VHS we bought on eBay!

Plus, we’ll be kicking off the evening with a set by industrial doom jazz deathwave legends Bat Noise! Just because it’ll be mid-November, who says spooky season is over?? At the Movie Madhouse, everyday is Halloween so come prepared to get weird with us! Free vampire fangs to all crossdressers in the audience so we can all be creatures of the night!

This incredible poster is by the amazingly talented Harry Nordlinger !

Tickets available at 4-star-movies.com (link in bio)

24/10/2024

Thanks to everyone who came out to Vamp on Sunday! We had such a great time with our special guests from Scared Gay and Bettyie Jayne! We CANNOT WAIT to share Draghoula with you next month - go snag your tickets using the link in our bio!

16/10/2024

Media Meltdown is so excited to be partnering with Oliver Branch to take you back to The Lighthouse this Friday at Slay-24! We can’t wait to celebrate Mudd the Two Spirit’s birthday with what is sure to be an insane sendup to A24, producers of some of the greatest films of the last decade! Don’t forget to spill yer beans all over the Oasis dance floor (but don’t tell them we said so if you get caught)!