December's Mystery Movie

This Month's Theme: You Can't Out Run the Truth Forever

Your Hints: This month's movie is a classic haunted house movie, and could be argued to be a genuinely well made horror movie. Stars an A-list 80s cast, and some simple but incredibly effective effects work.

Content Warnings: [SPOILER ahead] This month's movie does depict child harm, specifically the sudden death of one child and [here's the SPOILER] the Filicide of another. If you have questions about this content, or concerns about other possible content, please reach out to us through faceplace and we will address them the best we can.

Mutual Aid Suggestion: Each month we suggest a way to participate in mutual aid, and this month's suggestion is one of the simplest things you can do every day! Wear a mask. (This suggestion is especially appropriate because the writing half of Tape Freaks will be missing this month's screening because, after almost three years of successfully avoiding all illnesses, I currently have COVID.) Wearing a mask decreases the spread of most of our socially communicable diseases, and that directly impacts our disabled community members, our working-poor community members, our "customer-facing" community members, our elder community members, our immune compromised community members, our medical care working community members, as well as ourselves and our own families and friends. If you're out in public, wear a mask. Easy breezy, and effective as fuck.

Get Your Tickets Here: Tape Freaks presents: Mystery Movie @ the Trylon, 7pm $5

November's Mystery Movie

This Month's Theme: Third Time's the Charm

Your Hints: This month's movie would fit nicely into January's Cinema of the Macabre theme. It features an actor who played an iconic character on ER, and the actor father of two Hollywood icons. While you're watching, you'll probably find yourself quoting a recently popular tiktok sound. 

Content Warnings: no content stood out to us, but if you ever have concerns please reach out to us through faceplace and we'll absolutely address them!

Get Your Tickets Here: Tape Freaks presents: Mystery Movie @ the Trylon, 7pm $5

September's Mystery Movie: Animals Attack

This Month's Theme: Animals Attack (or is Animals Fight Back more accurate...)

Your Hints: This month's movie features an animal stunt actor, and although the consensus by cast and crew* is that the animal is indeed just acting out it's training, it's a pretty good reminder that we could just live in harmony with animals and nature. Oddly enough, this month's animal stunt actor also had a significant appearance in another movie that questions the validity of white colonial-minded men needlessly meddling with nature. And although this month's movie is an animal attack movie, it's also basically a straight up slasher film.

Content Warnings: If stressed-out appearing animals or depictions of animal testing upset you regardless of context, I'd skip this month, or reach out to us directly (through FB ideally) for more info on the movie.

Get Your Tickets Here: Tape Freaks presents: September's Mystery Movie @ Trylon, 7pm $5

*The consensus was in interviews from present day, rather than when the movie was being promoted, which I feel lends more weight to the probably-true end of the scale. American Humane did have this to say about it as well (I've changed the wording to keep you guessing) "...the movie depicts [a lot of animal] violence, [but all the] animals on the set were treated very humanely. American Humane was [on] set every day during filming, [and] observed and filmed the training [of the star animal].

Heavy Metal Horror: April's Mystery Movie

Ok, I (Colette, the writing half of Tape Freaks) might have overstated the "heavy metal" aspect of this month's theme. Either "rock and roll" horror didn't sound as good, or the voice actors in this month's movie over sold the metal-ness of its band, and I let it slide in favor of alteration. Honestly there's only one way to find out which it is, however neither deception will leave you disappointed! 

But if it does turn out that I'm the deceptor, allow me to defend my choices by assuring that most everything in this film, from vibe to the wardrobe, better fits under the category 80s-metal trope.

Tape Freaks Presents: April's Mystery Movie at the Trylon Cinema, April 6th @ 7:00pm, only $5!

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