Wyrd War Presents: FIRST BLOOD (1982) + Holiday Market
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Wyrd War concludes 2026, and our twelfth year of mayhem, with our version of a holiday classic. This one celebrates co-founder Tiffany Kenaley’s birthday with a special $10 ticket price for all! Come early for the Wyrd War Holiday Market in the upstairs lobby from 2:00pm to 10:00pm and support local artists, small businesses and general mischief makers. Film starts at 7:30pm.
Director Ted Kotcheff’s action thriller masterpiece FIRST BLOOD (1982) is the one that started it all. Frequently overshadowed by the more cartoonish franchise sequels that followed, FIRST BLOOD emerges in this beautiful 4K restoration as a master class in the craft of genre filmmaking and a dramatic meditation on post-wartime veteran PTSD. Sylvester Stallone plays John J. Rambo, bringing to life the character created by The Brotherhood of the Rose novelist David Morrell, the last of an elite special forces unit that served in Vietnam, who enters the Pacific Northwest town of Hope where he is quickly targeted for harassment by local law enforcement. Gorgeously shot by legendary cinematographer Andrew Laszlow (THE WARRIORS, SOUTHERN COMFORT, STREETS OF FIRE) and tautly edited by Joan Chapman, FIRST BLOOD is the most fun you will ever have watching an entire town blown to pieces for the holidays.
We brought this one to Seattle last December and many of our Portland friends asked us to bring it to Portland this year…so we did! Tickets are on sale now!
Director Ted Kotcheff’s action thriller masterpiece FIRST BLOOD (1982) is the one that started it all. Frequently overshadowed by the more cartoonish franchise sequels that followed, FIRST BLOOD emerges in this beautiful 4K restoration as a master class in the craft of genre filmmaking and a dramatic meditation on post-wartime veteran PTSD. Sylvester Stallone plays John J. Rambo, bringing to life the character created by The Brotherhood of the Rose novelist David Morrell, the last of an elite special forces unit that served in Vietnam, who enters the Pacific Northwest town of Hope where he is quickly targeted for harassment by local law enforcement. Gorgeously shot by legendary cinematographer Andrew Laszlow (THE WARRIORS, SOUTHERN COMFORT, STREETS OF FIRE) and tautly edited by Joan Chapman, FIRST BLOOD is the most fun you will ever have watching an entire town blown to pieces for the holidays.
We brought this one to Seattle last December and many of our Portland friends asked us to bring it to Portland this year…so we did! Tickets are on sale now!
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Where is it happening?
The Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd,Portland, Oregon, United States
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