Not To Miss!
This Sunday, April 21st at Public Assembly in Williasmburg its the 2nd annual BROOKLYN ZINE FEST! Come out and support bright self publishing folks who all look like they could use a shower!
Killer Klowns From Outer Space Toys In Stock
If you’ve never seen this amazingly campy sci-fi horror schlockfest you’re missing out. No hyperbole. If you have experienced its majesty (“It’s Craazzyy!”) you most likely get all or part of The Dickies theme song stuck in your head every now and then, and are wonderfully haunted by images of popcorn guns and other sideshow grotesqueries. [...]
Somewhere Around The Number Ten Best Comics That Nobody Told You About
Part 1: I love Chris Ware. Bit redundant to say so this holiday season with everyone and their sister buying Building Stories, but with so much comic awesomeness that happened in 2012; between Charles Burn’s second installment to his X’ed Out trilogy, The Hive, and Brian K. Vaughn’s Saga…SAGA… It’s too easy for amazing comics [...]
Secret Adventures of Houdini Release Spectacular – Nov 21!
Come one, come all! At Forbidden Planet NYC on November 21st, illustrator and escape artist Sean Von Gorman will lock himself inside a man-sized steel cage until we sell every copy of his new release from Alterna Comics, The Secret Adventures of Houdini: Book One! Yes, that would be the very same Sean Von Gorman who handcuffed [...]
Secret Adventures of Houdini Alterna Comics Edition EVENT
In addition to our Ron Wimberly and Noku November events, Forbidden Planet will be hosting another day of shenanigans with Secret Adventures of Houdini artist Sean Von Gorman… this one even BIGGER than the one we threw in March 2012. Don’t remember that one? Well here’s some video of it to refresh your memory and/or acclimate [...]
Forbidden Planet NYC is Open Today
Electricity and running water have kicked in again for much of lower Manhattan and we are open for the first time since last Sunday. Items of note: We will be closing at 10pm every day until Wednesday the 7th. In fact, today, in the interest of safety for all involved, we may close slightly earlier. [...]
10/28 Forbidden Planet Storm Warning!
Hey Dudes and Dudettes! Turns out there is a storm of epic proportions coming our way and they are closing the subways down because of it. Unfortunately this means we are closing early today, 6PM to be exact. So make sure to head down here now and stock up on stuff to read, movies to [...]
Forbidden Planet is on Google+
We are indeed on Google+. Come share wonderful, geeky stuff with us! I’ll be Hanging out On Air at 4pm today… fingers crossed. Still working out the logistics, but the plan is to chat from the new shop’s basement as we process this week’s shipment, discuss some of tomorrow’s new releases, make a really neat-o [...]
New Location No Phones Yet
Verizon has failed to install our communications when they said they would and subsequently we have no phones or data lines at present time. We apologize to all our customers for the inconvenience. Any inquiries should be sent to our sales department or to Manager Jeff Ayers until they get of their collective butts. And [...]
Grant Morrison MBE
Grant Morrison, a writer of trashy “funny-books,” has been made a Member of the British Empire. The decline of Western civilization now seems to be complete. Morrison is not properly English, nor of gentle birth, having been born to Scottish commoners. In fact, his father was an active dissident, so deranged as to protest against [...]
MICROWAVE MASSACRE Midnight Saturday @ Spectacle
Saturday, May 5th / Midnight Spectacle Theater 124 South 3rd Street. Williamsburg Brooklyn HORROR BOOBS presents: MICROWAVE MASSACRE dir. Wayne Berwick, 1983 76 mins, USA Donald & May are a working class couple in Los Angeles. When May decides she want to try up their social status by getting gourmet in the kitchen, she purchases a humongous new microwave. Donald, content [...]
FRIDAY OCT 28th @ CINEMA VILLAGE DRILLER A SEXUAL THRILLER!
WILD EYE INVITES YOU TO REPLACE YOUR GLITTER GLOVES WITH RUBBER GLOVES FOR A SPECIAL THEATRICAL SCREENING OF 1984s ONE AND ONLY, ADULTS-ONLY SPOOF OF MICHAEL JACKSON’S THRILLER – DRILLER! PLUS, A BRAND NEW 1980s ONLY TRAILER SHOW EXTRAVAGANZA! This Halloween, Wild Eye Releasing intends to raise more than your eyebrows with a very rare [...]
Lady Terminator @ 92Y Tribeca
Your plans for Friday night… At this point, it’s probably safe to assume that you have seen James Cameron’s 1984 movie The Terminator. It’s also probably safe to assume you’ve seen a couple of the sequels and maybe played an officially licensed pinball machine or two. It seems less likely that you caught the 1989 [...]
Grab The Taint!
One of my new favorite movies The Taint is now available at www.fpnyc.com, and in store! So grab a Taint while the grabbing is good!
VHS Goes To College @ Nitehawk Cinema 8/25/11
Thursday August 25th VHS Goes To College @ The Nitehawk Cinema Get pepped for the second installation of VHS Vault: VHS Goes To College! Featuring a night full of programming straight from the A.V. Club’s personal collection. On Thursday, August 25th, Nitehawk Cinema, Wild Eye Releasing, Horror Boobs and Lunchmeat Magazine team up to blow [...]