Boardinghouse
No Longer Playing
1982 88 min
Presented by Music Box of Horrors | Free Admission for Music Box Members
Nothing can prepare you for BOARDINGHOUSE. Jim (director John Wintergate), a psychic-gigolo who wears a leopard-print thong, rents a haunted house to "beautiful women with no ties." From there, this unworldly slasher transforms into a sleazy, hallucinogenic maelstrom of gore, sex, chainsaws, pie fights, killer refrigerators, jacuzzis, beds that eat people, a new wave band called 33 and 1/3, and a leading lady known only as Kalassu.
Author/film critic Preston Fassel will introduce and do a post film conversation about BOARDINGHOUSE, which is featured in his latest book Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street, the first ever biography of Sleazoid Express founder Bill Landis.
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