Science Fiction Pint and Pizza Night featuring Sci-Fi Arachnids

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.

A handful of girls enslaved by a diabolical human beast on an island where there is no way out…

The Horrors of Spider Island (1967) is a German-Yugoslav sci-fi film directed by Fritz Böttger  and origianlly titled  Ein Toter hing im Netz (1960) or literally translated as A Dead Man Hung in the Web. The film was dubbed and released in the United States as an adult-only feature titled It’s Hot in Paradise (1962) then later re-issued in 1967 in the slightly edited version here. En route to a show in Singapore a troupe of beautiful dancers, and their escort talent agent Egyptian leading man Alex D’Arcy, are stranded on a deserted island by a plane crash. Their routine of skinny-dipping and devising new skimpy outfits is interrupted when a radioactive spider bites their manager and turns him into a wild-eyed, furry-faced monster with three fangs and a passion for strangling. Then the fun begins, depending upon your idea of fun.

A race of deadly spider-women luring men to their death!

Mesa of Lost Women (1953) is a black and white science fiction film described as a “must-see for fans of the bizarre and unexplainable”. It won the award of “Most Primitive Male Chauvinist Fantasy” in the book Son of Golden Turkey Awards. Mutated spiders, mad geniuses, childlike mental patients, gold-digging blondes, and vengeful little people are only part of the madness in this legendary bit of oddball science fiction. Grant (Robert Knapp) and Doreen (Mary Hill) wander into a shack in the wastelands of Mexico’s Muerto Desert, where the sunburned and dehydrated pair tell their tale to a surveyor for an American petroleum firm. Jan, Doreen and pilot Grant were killing time in a roadhouse when they were joined by the eccentric Dr. Leland Masterson (Harmon Stevens), who had recently escaped from a mental hospital. Before Masterson’s nurse, George (George Barrows), can lure his patient back to the hospital, Masterson pulls a gun and shoots entertainer Tarantella (Tandra Quinn) while she performs a wild dance routine; Masterson then takes Jan and Doreen hostage and demands that Grant fly them away. Further engine trouble strands the traveling party on a mesa, where they discover a handful of strange, tiny men and statuesque women. In time, we discover that Masterson knows the story behind the Mesa’s unusual residents — they’re the products of a series of experiments by Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), whose research into the pituitary glands of spiders has produced unusual results.