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Sci-FI Pint & Pizza Night

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Science Fiction Pint and Pizza Night featuring alien invasion movies with Zontar, the Thing from Venus (1966), Robot Monster (1953) and other psychotronic weirdness, trailers, short films and strange giveaways Thursday, July 22, at Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. in Arcata. Doors open from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., cost is free with $5 minimum purchase of food or beverage and is all ages. Sponsored by La Dolce Video, The Arcata Eye, Daisy Drygoods, Vintage Avenger, Tin Can Mailman, The Clothing Dock and more!

It’s coming for you from space to wipe out all living things from the face of the earth! Can it be stopped?

Zontar, the Thing from Venus (1966) is a science fiction film directed by Larry Buchanan and is a remake of Roger Corman’s It Conquered the World (1956). A rocket scientist, who makes a home made “high power” radio set, starts to get messages from Zontar. Zontar is from Venus and thinks Earth people need to see and learn what it’s like to be without “modern” forms of communication. However, Zontar has other ideas too, like disabling the power supply of the entire world and taking possession of important officials with mind control devices. Oh, and he looks like an evil bat monster with possibly three eyes.

Incredible! Unbelievable! Told The Untamed Way!

Robot Monster (1953) is an American science fiction B-movie originally made in 3-D by Phil Tucker, though a black and white version will be shown. A young boy named Johnny (Gregory Moffett) is on a picnic with his widowed mother (Selena Royle) and sister (Claudia Barrett), when he meets a pair of archeologists (John Mylong, George Nader) exploring a nearby cave. Later, while napping, the Earth is attacked by an alien named Ro-Man (played by George Barrows in a gorilla suit with a diving helmet), using the “calcinator death ray” and giant fighting lizards and stop-action animation dinosaurs. Johnny and his family (with Mylong and his mother now married) and scientist Nader are the only survivors. They try to elude capture by Ro-Man, who turns out to have some very human failings despite his mechanized mentality, including a desire to experience human emotions, which greatly complicates his efforts to destroy the family.

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