Screening: STARCRASH at The Tenth Avenue Arts Center [5/4/24]

Ticket sales for this event have ended. Tickets are only $5.40! Celebrate May The 4th Day! Co-Presented by The Casual Company at The Tenth Avenue Arts Center Downtown Doors at 6:00 PM (bring food in and eat at The Top of The Tenth Rooftop Lounge, details below) Show at 7:00 PM Nobody does a cash grab quite like Roger Corman. Except maybe the Italian film industry. Those two worlds collided in 1979, when Mr. Corman bought the US rights to a bizarro sci-fi film from director Luigi Cozzi (CONTAMINATION, PAGANINI HORROR) which very much resembled another galaxy far, far away (although it turns out that the script was in development even before STAR WARS.) The film, STARCRASH, has been called the ultimate STAR WARS rip-off, but it really deserves a little more credit than that, and that's why we've decided to screen it this May 4th day for all of you San Diego Jedis. Whatever the origins, STARCRASH can stand on its own two feet as one of the weirdest sci-fi films ever made, and there's a wo