White Wall Cinema: VHS FEST – ROAD HOUSE

Join us for VHS Fest, a special three night film festival celebrating films that represent the classic era of VHS video. Each night you can take a stroll through our life size VHS rental store, indulge in some retro gaming, have a drink in our beer garden (with our VHS era playlist) and then enjoy a cult classic film from the era on the big screen. Tickets for individual nights are available as well as a discounted festival ticket for all three nights.

You may well have seen or heard about the new remake of this movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, and yes, it’s ludicrously silly. However, we can assure you this original 1989 version… is much sillier… but in all the right ways.

A glorious b-movie mix of fistfights, cowboy boots, Swayze’s glistening torso sex appeal and even a monster truck (why not?), Roadhouse is the story of Dalton (Patrick Swayze) a tough nightclub bouncer with a Ph.D. in philosophy from NYU (obviously) who is hired to clean up a notoriously rowdy bar in a small Missouri town. Dalton, ably abetted by Sam Elliot (The Big Lebowksi, A Star Is Born), applies not only his philosophy but also his fist (only when necessary of course) to the problem, and finds himself in a romance with a local doctor (Kelly Lynch – ‘Drugstore Cowboy’) as well as on the wrong side of the town’s criminal big shot (Ben Gazzara – ‘The Killing of a Chinese Bookie’).

• DOORS: 6pm*
• START TIME: 6pm*
• LAST ADMISSION BEFORE FILM: 7.30pm
• FILM RUN TIME: 114 mins
• CERT: 18

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