Wyrd War Presents: 40th Anniversary Screening of FEAR CITY (1985) at Hollywood Theatre

Name: Wyrd War Presents: 40th Anniversary Screening of FEAR CITY (1985) at Hollywood Theatre
Start: 2025-02-15T19:30:00-08:00
Location: The Hollywood Theatre

Schedule

Sat, 15 Feb, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

The Hollywood Theatre | Portland, OR

WYRD WAR brings cult director Abel Ferrara’s neon-noir 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 (1985) to the big screen for one night only on the 40th anniversary of its North American theatrical release!
An emotionally damaged ex-boxer and his dubious business partner attempt to track down a psychopath who is targeting nightclub dancers while a hardboiled detective assigned to the case pursues them through New York City’s sleazy small time criminal underground. Filmed on location in Times Square during the Big Apple’s most corrupt era, 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 was Ferrara’s gritty, neon-drenched attempt to crossover into the mainstream with an accessible crime thriller featuring an all-star cast including Academy Award nominees Melanie Griffith, Tom Berenger and Michael V. Gazzo alongside genre favorites Rae Dawn Chong, Billy Dee Williams and Jack Scalia. It was everything but accessible. The result was so violent, so hypersexualized, so morally ambiguous, so unhinged - so FERRARA! - that 20th Century Fox unceremoniously sold it to Aquarius Releasing where it withered on the vine of independent cinema obscurity. Until now!
Come for David Johansen’s aerobic theme song (“New Yaaaawk Dolls!!!!”) Stay for Melanie Griffith’s nearly two minute strip tease. And the full blown martial arts confrontation with a nameless psycho killer. "𝐹𝑒𝑒𝓁𝓈 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝒾𝓉’𝓈 𝑔𝑜𝓃𝓃𝒶 𝒷𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒…"