QUEER HORROR kicks off 2025 in celebration of Portland-made HIDING HENRY (2024)! Sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery, this very special wall person edition opens with a preshow starring the cast and crew of HIDING HENRY, all hosted by Portland's premier drag clown (and HIDING HENRY co-star, in the flesh), Carla Rossi!

Directed by Sean Whiteman, HIDING HENRY (Christof Whiteman) was the very best at hide and go seek. Then, after one day in the 90’s, he was never found again. Thirty years later, Sarah (Shannon Neale) takes on a housesitting gig in Henry's legendary childhood home and can't help but seem to feel someone watching her... Filmed entirely on VHS and featuring supporting performances from Darby the dog and Carla's human counterpart (Anthony Hudson), HIDING HENRY is a gorgeous, bloody, and eerie VHS movie about the homes we keep hidden inside ourselves and those who keep themselves hidden inside our homes.

Tickets here.

QUEER HORROR gets possessed by THE CONVENT (2000) with stars Liam Kyle Sullivan (Kelly, "Shoes") and Megahn Perry (Heather the Vampire) in attendance, including a RARE Kelly performance! Hosted by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this Halloween season screening is sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery. Dress up, get your limited edition bottle of Mother Inferior Blackberry Hard Cider, and hear Carla chat with Megahn and Liam about THE CONVENT, "Shoes," "Text Message Breakup," and more!

Directed by Mike Mendez, THE CONVENT stars Megahn Perry (THE PERFECT HOST, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Mo, a Y2K-era goth who sneaks into a shuttered convent with friends Clorissa (Joanna Canton) and Brant (Liam Kyle Sullivan)—until inept Satanists show up and get everyone possessed by demonic day-glo nuns. Enter genre legend Adrienne Barbeau (CREEPSHOW, THE FOG) as Christine, the O.G. Final Girl who fought the nuns decades before, arriving on her motorcycle with an arsenal of weaponry to blow the convent back to hell once and for all. Co-starring Kelly Mantle (RuPaul's Drag Race), Coolio, and Bill Moseley, and playing like a rave-era tribute to NIGHT OF THE DEMONS (1988), THE CONVENT is a fast-paced, hilarious, neon-dripping cult classic that—if you haven't seen it—is about to become your new favorite horror film.

GET TICKETS HERE: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-convent-with-liam-kyle-sullivan-and-megahn-perry/

Queer horror isn’t a subgenre; it is the genre. Founded in 2015, QUEER HORROR is the only LGBTQ+ horror screening and performance series in the country—and now it’s a party! Carla Rossi’s Queer Horrors presents short horror films intercut with live (or undead?) drag performances from Portland’s finest ghouls, all curated and hosted by Carla Rossi. Featuring an artist market led by Jason Edward Davis, psychic readings, and culminating in a dance party—complete with a Friday the 13th costume contest—Carla Rossi’s Queer Horrors is guaranteed to be a scream.

With performances by: IZOHNNY, Rummy Rose, Gerrin Delane Mitchell, Blossom Drearie, and Carla Rossi

Artist Vendors: Jason Edward Davis, Alex Murd, Hell Bent for Glitter, Low Brow Antics, Matty Newton Illustration, Trash People from the Dump

DJ’d by Shannon F ( LIGHT ASYLUM )
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QUEER HORROR busts out an icepick for BASIC INSTINCT (1992)! Hosted by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this '90s tribute screening opens with our most unhinged preshow yet—starring Portland drag all-stars and sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery!

Directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Sharon Stone in a legendary performance, BASIC INSTINCT follows no-good, gun-happy, coke-snorting homicide detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) as he investigates a sex murder ripped straight from a book by queer novelist Catherine Tramell (Stone). Did Catherine kill her lover (played by pinup legend and Elvira's former beau, Bill Cable)? Will she kill Nick? And what will Catherine's murderous raver girlfriend Roxy (Leilani Sarelle) and Nick's psychologist girlfriend Beth (Jeanne Tripplehorn) do about it? Written by Hollywood's sleaziest screenwriter, Joe Ezsterhas (SHOWGIRLS), and partially inspired by Verhoeven's queer thriller THE 4TH MAN, BASIC INSTINCT is an anti-cop, anti-Hollywood satire that lampoons Americans' love for law and fear of sexuality—all dialed up to 11 and featuring one of the greatest femme fatales in film history.

Get tickets to BASIC INSTINCT here: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/basic-instinct/

QUEER HORROR celebrates Feminist March and Carla Rossi's birthday with BIRDS OF PREY (2020)! Hosted by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this birthday celebration opens with a preshow tribute to Carla's favorite clown queen Harley Quinn, sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery!

Produced by Margot Robbie and directed by Cathy Yan, BIRDS OF PREY AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF HARLEY QUINN stars Robbie as the queer psychiatrist-turned-antihero, right on the heels of her breakup with Mr. J—and Gotham is coming for Harley with a laundry list of grievances. But when gay crime boss Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor) and his hench-boyfriend Victor Zsasz (a bleached-blonde Chris Messina) put a bounty on teen pickpocket Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco), Harley allies with Detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), chanteuse Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), and The Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) to take back Gotham with a wave of radical femme vengeance. A frenetic, ultraviolent explosion of color, sound, wicked writing, and pitch-perfect performances, BIRDS OF PREY is the end-all Harley Quinn film: a chaotic queer fantasy in line with TANK GIRL and the funniest feminist superhero film ever made.

Get tickets to BIRDS OF PREY here: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/birds-of-prey/

QUEER HORROR does the dance of the BLACK SWAN (2010)! Hosted by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this winter edition opens with a preshow ballet starring Portland drag all-stars and sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery!

Directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman in an Academy Award-winning performance, BLACK SWAN transforms Portman into Nina Sayers, a hungry young dancer suffering under the expectations of herself, her domineering mother (Barbara Hershey), her predatory artistic director (Vincent Cassel), and the angry diva (Winona Ryder) she's set to succeed in a new production of Swan Lake. But as Nina tortures herself to become the Black Swan, a romance with a beautiful rival (Mila Kunis) sends Nina spiralling into a whirlwind frenzy of self-discovery, self-actualization, self-destruction, and ultimate perfection.

Get tickets to BLACK SWAN here: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/black-swan/

QUEER HORROR opens the box and unleashes HELLRAISER (1987)! Hosted by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi, and with a preshow starring Portland drag all-stars, this Halloween night screening is sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery. Dress up and trick or treat for your own signed bottle of Carla and Double Mountain's new Call Me By Your Pain Peach Belgian Ale after the show!

Written and directed by out gay creator Clive Barker, HELLRAISER follows Kirsty (Ashley Laurence), who just wants to live a normal teenager's life. Unfortunately, her family has just moved into the home of her hedonistic, sadomasochistic, and freshly-skinned Uncle Frank (Sean Chapman), who has entered into a murderous love game with Kristy's wicked stepmother Julia (Clare Higgins), just in time for Pinhead (Doug Bradley) and the cenobites to come and collect what's theirs. A stunning debut based on Barker's novella The Hellbound Heart, HELLRAISER is a gorgeous, gory, and outrageously horny injection of iconic '80s queer horror.

Get tickets for HELLRAISER here: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/hellraiser/

QUEER HORROR celebrates 25 years of PRACTICAL MAGIC! Hosted by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this anniversary screening opens with a preshow starring returning Portland drag all-star Pepper Pepper and sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery.

Based on the book by Alice Hoffman, PRACTICAL MAGIC stars Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as Sally and Gillian Owens, two sisters in a family of witches whose husbands are all cursed to die. But when their aunts (Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest) leave town, they soon find themselves raising the dead and simultaneously fending off demonic possession and a handsome murder detective (Aidan Quinn). Co-starring Goran Visnjic, Evan Rachel Wood, Camille Bell, Chloe Webb, and character actress Margo Martindale, PRACTICAL MAGIC is a cross-genre oddity and classic that will leave you craving midnight margaritas.

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QUEER HORROR returns for its first ever re-watch with DEATH BECOMES HER (1992) on 35mm! Hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this resurrected edition opens with a preshow starring Pepper Pepper and Carla—re-mounting their epic fight from 2017—and all sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery!

Directed by Robert Zemeckis and co-written by queer screenwriter Martin Donovan, 1992’s DEATH BECOMES HER turns lifelong Hollywood rivals Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) and Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) into immortal frenemies after they acquire an elixir of youth kept by the mysterious Lisle von Rhoman (Isabella Rossellini). Unfortunately everlasting youth—and Madeline and Helen’s feud—survives well after their pulses cease. Co-starring Bruce Willis, DEATH BECOMES HER is jam-packed with breakthrough effects, iconic one-liners, and legendary performances that cement its status as a camp classic for an eternity to come.

NOTE: to protect our performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

BUY TICKETS HERE: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/death-becomes-her-in-35mm/

QUEER HORROR presents the world premiere of Body Academics' Portland-made rock opera EVIL BABYLON (2023)! Hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi—who also portrays EVIL BABYLON's villainous Queen Urethrea—this special edition opens with a triumphant performance by the artists and is sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery.

A film by local collective Body Academics, and supported in part by the Regional Arts and Culture Council, EVIL BABYLON is a phantasmagorical, psychosexual science-fiction movie musical masterpiece: the story of a sexually-repressed evangelical race car driver and the kink-positive party planet that leads him on a journey towards self acceptance. Made with all-original music, incredible animation, and starring a bevy of Portland drag all-stars, EVIL BABYLON is a riotous new spectacle that must be seen to be believed.

NOTE: to protect our performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

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The Hollywood Theatre’s bimonthly program QUEER HORROR returns for a Valentine's Day PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)! Hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this date night opens with a preshow starring PDX all-stars Kimber Shade, Valerie DeVille, and Wanda Bones, and is sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery.

Directed by Peter Weir from Joan Lindsay's classic novel, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK follows an Australian girls' school's titular class picnic on Valentine's Day, 1900. But when three girls and their teacher suddenly vanish, as if into the Hanging Rock itself, it sets the remaining schoolgirls, their unflinching headmistress Mrs. Appleyard (Rachel Roberts), and the neighboring colony on a collision course with obsession and doom. Gorgeously filmed (and inspiring Sofia Coppola's THE VIRGIN SUICIDES) and featuring multiple queer-coded characters, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK is a sumptuous masterclass in existential terror and how to make it beautiful.

NOTE: to protect our performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

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Nearly a year after her passing, the Hollywood Theatre’s bimonthly program QUEER HORROR pays tribute to Anne Rice with INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994) in lavish 35mm! Sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery, this immortal edition opens with a preshow starring PDX all-stars Svetlana Trantastic, Valerie DeVille, and hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi.

Directed by Neil Jordan from a screenplay by Anne Rice herself, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE brought gay vampires into the mainstream with some of the '90’s biggest stars. After Louis (Brad Pitt) finds himself newly undead as the chosen companion of the vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise), the two venture from New Orleans with their vampire child Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) while everything in the world changes except for themselves. Featuring a breakthrough performance from 10-year-old Dunst and one of Tom Cruise's most compelling characterizations—so much that Anne Rice, who intially spoke out against his casting, put a two-page ad in Variety praising his work—and co-starring Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, and Thandiwe Newton, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is a lush and crucial entry in the saga of queerness, not just in horror but on film as a whole.

NOTE: to protect our performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

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The Hollywood Theatre’s bimonthly program QUEER HORROR haunts Halloween night with 30 years of BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992)! Hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this edition opens with a preshow starring PDX all-stars Wanda Bones and Loretta Lordchild, all sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery and celebrating their newest collaboration with Carla: Dracarla's Revenge Fresh Hop IPA! After the screening, get your limited edition bottle signed by Dracarla herself.

Directed by Frances Ford Coppola, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA takes the titular text and throws it in a blender with every Dracula film before it. This time Jonathan Harker is a silver-haired Keanu Reeves with a vaguely British accent; after being held hostage in a castle by old Dracula (Gary Oldman), Jonathan's feminist fiance Mina (Winona Ryder) and her best friend with benefits Lucy (Sadie Frost) find themselves in danger of becoming undead. Can the weird, loud, Dutch, and arguably queer Abraham Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins) and a coterie of Victorian men save these women from liberation? Co-starring Cary Elwes, Monica Bellucci, Richard E. Grant, and Tom Waits as Renfield, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA is queer in its remixing of the Dracula mythos and its feminism, and is downright gorgeous to look at—complete with a slew of in-camera effects that still stun 30 years later.

NOTE: to protect our performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

BUY TICKETS HERE: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/19299/

The Hollywood Theatre’s bimonthly program QUEER HORROR checks into PSYCHO (1960)! Hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this screening presents a new restoration of the original, unrated theatrical release including 13 seconds of excised footage (unavailable from 1960 until 2020), and opens with a preshow starring PDX all-stars Pepper Pepper and Matthew Leavitt as Toonces, all sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring legendary queer actor Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, PSYCHO finds Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) checking into the Bates Motel after stealing $40,000 from her employer. But when Marion disappears without a trace, her sister (Vera Miles), her fiance (John Gavin), and a private investigator (Martin Balsam) uncover the shocking truth behind Norman Bates and his mother. Featuring the most famous shower scene ever committed to film, an iconic score by Bernard Herrmann, and a killer queer twist, PSYCHO remains a horror masterpiece today just as it was in 1960.

NOTE: to protect our performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

BUY TICKETS HERE: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/18601/

The Hollywood Theatre’s bimonthly program QUEER HORROR learns the teaches of Peaches (Christ, that is) with her film ALL ABOUT EVIL! Hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this special Pride edition celebrates the new Severin Blu-ray release of ALL ABOUT EVIL with none other than drag legend Peaches Christ in attendance—and with a preshow featuring Portland drag all-stars and sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery. Stay after the film for a meet and greet with Peaches and get your own autographed copy of ALL ABOUT EVIL!

Written and directed by Joshua Grannell (Peaches Christ), ALL ABOUT EVIL (2010) tells the tale of Deborah Tennis (Natasha Lyonne), a mousy librarian who takes over her late father’s movie theater—and the series of grisly murders caught on camera that transform her into the new queen of indie splatter cinema. Co-starring Cassandra Peterson (Elvira), Mink Stole, Thomas Dekker, Heklina, and Peaches Christ herself, ALL ABOUT EVIL is a beautifully bloody and queer love letter to depraved horror films, independent moviehouses, and the cults of rabid fans who love them.

NOTE: to protect our performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

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The Hollywood Theatre's bimonthly program Queer Horror goes back to campus with SCREAM 2! This 25th anniversary screening is hosted by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi and opens with a meta slasher preshow starring Portland drag all-stars and sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery.

Written by out queer screenwriter Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven, SCREAM 2 (1997) finds Sid Prescott (Neve Campbell) on the college quad when a bloody bout of copycat murders starts up thanks to a new horror film called STAB. Co-starring Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Jada Pinkett, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Heather Graham, Tori Spelling, Portia De Rossi, Rebecca Gayheart, and Laurie Metcalf as Debbie Salt, SCREAM 2 is one of the best and most fun slasher sequels of the 20th century—and the only one featuring Aunt Jackie.

NOTE: out of concern for live performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

BUY TICKETS HERE: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/17764/

The Hollywood Theatre celebrates seven years of QUEER HORROR and Carla Rossi's birthday with THE LURE! Sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery, this overdue anniversary is hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown and opens with an all-musical preshow!

Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska and featuring music by Barbara & Zuzanna Wronska, THE LURE chronicles Silver and Golden (Marta Mazurek & Michalina Olszanska), two man-eating mermaids adopted by a washed-up lounge singer (Kinga Preis) to entertain at the sleaziest club in 1980s Warsaw. But when one of them falls in love with a human man, their victims won’t be the only ones ripped apart. Partially based on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid," THE LURE is a surreal, frenetic, and gorgeously gory queer fantasy on rocking techno waves.

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Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test will be required to attend this screening. Learn more here. This film will be sold at 100% capacity. Masks are required while in all common areas, including in your seat when not actively eating or drinking.