The Name of the Game is Kill!
Anomaly at The Dryden Theatre!
A desert-sun-blasted thriller of strange hospitality, sinister isolation, and a family that just can't seem to get their backstory straight...
PRESENTED ON 35MM FILM! Returning for the second year in a row to the George Eastman Museum’s Dryden Theatre, to uncover hidden treasures from the museum archive not typically considered for the general program.
This year’s selection finds Jack Lord (famous for playing Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O), as hungarian hitchhiker Sym who gets in over his head. Heading west on a deserted Arizona road, he’s picked up by Mickey (Susan Strasberg), whose Jeep overheats. The two are attracted to each other immediately, so Mickey takes Sym home for the night… but her family is wary, especially when dark secrets start to be revealed. More details & tickets
(Only logged 220 total times on Letterboxd, if that’s a selling point to you!)
USA / 1968 / 1 hr 24 mins
Content Warnings: violence, mental illness, spiders, car violence, abuse (off-screen)
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Freya the Jackal and her husband Jericho are top tier assassins vacationing aboard their luxury yacht when they are ambushed by Freya's rival, Darla, and her army of scuba mercenaries.
USA / 2024 / 8 mins
Content Warnings: blood, violence, death