With this B-Z screening, we’re serving up a nostalgic sci-fi & monster double bill of impressive scale. First, we journey into the deepest reaches of the cosmos in Galaxy of Terror, a cheap but entertaining rip-off of Alien. The tried-and-true formula is spiced up here with an extra dose of nudity and gore, plus a B-movie cast to die for: Sid Haig (Spider Baby), Robert Englund in a pre–Freddy Krueger role, Grace Zabriskie (a favorite of David Lynch), plus a rather unfriendly extraterrestrial lifeform of the slimy variety.

The Japanese film studio Toho was at the cradle of the Godzilla franchise in the 1950s, unleashing many monsters from the stone—or rather atomic—age upon audiences, sometimes with the help of an extraterrestrial subplot, as in the evening’s second film, Destroy All Monsters. It’s one by director Ishirō Honda, the undisputed master of kaijū, and features an exciting back catalogue of nearly all the monsters from the Toho stable, including Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Gorosaurus, Kumonga, Varan, and Baragon!