Science Fiction Pint and Pizza Night featuring Psychedelic Italian Sci-Fi

6 PM to 10 PM

All ages

FREE with minimum $5 food or beverage purchase

Beer and Pizza specials all night long

Back by popular demand! The best in B science fictions movies, drive-in classics, psychotronic weirdness and more.  We’ll also do raffle prizes throughout the evening so expect some very cool, very strange science fiction prizes including figurines, posters, books, cards, VHS movies and more for that inner science fiction enthusiast in us all. Sponsored by La Dolce Video, The Arcata Eye, Daisy Drygoods, Vintage Avenger,  Tin Can Mailman, The Clothing Dock and more.

Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977)  is an Italian film (Battaglie negli spazi stellari) directed by Alfonso Brescia and starring John Richardson. An insubordinate space captain investigates an apparently deserted but unstable planet after being drawn there by a mysterious gravitational force. He and his expedition discover the remnants of the once dominant civilization living on a subsistence level in caves. Long ago their advanced society had become so complacent that they built a super-computer to run and maintain the machines that supported their indolent, self-indulgent lifestyle. After the machines were destroyed by a meteor shower, the inhabitants found themselves without the knowledge to rebuild them, completely subservient to the computer whose megalomania was now unchallenged. The cruel cyber-despot reveals that it arranged for ship’s landing because it needs the skills of the Earthlings to make critical repairs in its damaged circuitry. When the computer announces future plans for the conquest of the Universe, the captain and his crew know it is time to act.

With scenes that invoke 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dark Star the spaced-out spaceship and a sex scene derived from Barbarella involving a machine that looks exactly like the Death Star, this psychedelic monster-piece with bright colored costumes resembling Star Trek and trippy visuals will make you wonder if you’ve lost your visual connection with reality. Or maybe it will just make you laugh a lot…

Battle of the Worlds (1961) is an Italian (Pianeta degli uomini spenti) science-fiction film directed by Antonio Margheriti and stars Claude Raines, Bill Carter and Maya Brent. A stray “spaceship” planet in a collision course for Earth, controlled and piloted by a gigantic computer programmed for the conquest of Earth, slows down and takes up orbit. The aliens responsible for this plan, and of the voyage which has required decades in space travel, are by now extinct, and the planet is lifeless, make exception for the computer and thousands of radio controlled flying saucers under it’s control. The computer, unaware of the extinction of its creators, continues relentlessly with the plan of conquest in order to complete its mission. An offbeat scientist, Professor Benson (Rains), works around the clock with his team of scientists to try to save the earth from attack from the invading planet and its fleet of flying attack saucers. With a soundtrack evoking  Ennio Morricone, free jazz and synthesizer eeriness this pre-psychedelic oddity should tweak your senses in a good way.