Who leaves the crusts?
Check out the new T-Shirt company An Infinitude of Tortoises by one of my favorite customers… some weird, wild, and great stuff! Make sure to search for “leaves the crust” for the answer. An Infinitude of Tortoises: • Something to Delight, Offend, And/Or Mystify Almost Everyone! • Stuff Unlike Other Stuff! • Transcendentally nerdy high [...]
Annual Post Thanxgiving Comix and Graphic Novelist Night!
Jeffrey Lewis, Fuff Born and raised Lower East Sider Jeffrey Lewis leads a double-life, as both a comic book writer/artist and a musician (or is that a triple-life?). His critical writings on the comic book Watchmen have lead to Jeffrey lecturing all over the world. Jeffrey’s most recent self-published comic book Fuff is an anthology [...]
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 [...]
VHS Trailer Show Part Deux 8/18/11
Coming this Thursday to the 92Y Tribeca Screening Room… VHS Trailer Show Part Deux! I hope you guys are not tried of hearing me talk about VHS cause it ain’t stopping anytime soon. Some of us refuse to let go of our VHS tapes. One reason is that they have become a treasure trove of [...]
Riki-Oh this weekend at Nitehawk Cinema
If you got plans this weekend, clear them! Cause Ricky is coming to town. The awesome Nitehawk Cinema strikes again!
Lloyd Kaufman @ The Strand 7/6/11
Lloyd Kaufman will be at The Strand tomorrow (July 6th) at 7 PM to discuss and sign his new book Sell Your Own Damn Movie. Make sure to drop by Forbidden Planet before hand and stock up on Troma merch to get signed. We have tons of DVDs, shirts, stickers, books and more!!! Everybody should [...]
Destroy All VHS
Coming to Brooklyn this Sunday July 10th, Wild Eye Releasing and Nitehawk Cinema present an event to sate the needs of any film freak. This ain’t no retro throw back, this is the real deal! Put your life on pause and prepare to Destroy All VHS! Not literally, I hope… but you never know what might [...]
Alone In The T-Shirt Zone @ Spectacle Theater 6/25/11
This Saturday June 25th at midnight, everybody’s favorite cult film podcast Junk Food Dinner presents another lost classic at Brooklyn’s Spectacle Theater. This time around we are treated to Mike B. Anderson’s 1986 Alone in the T-Shirt Zone. If you like weird flicks this is a must, trust me. They are also gonna have some [...]
Latin Horror presents The World of MIDEO 6/4/11
Listen up fright fans… This Saturday make time to check out The World of MIEDO: The Business of Horror, a panel discussion in conjunction with the East Harlem International Film Festival. LATIN HORROR and East Harlem International Film Festival bring you a dynamic, multimedia panel that explores the world of horror from both the scream [...]
Saturday Nightmares This Weekend!!!
This weekend at the Sheraton Meadowlands in East Rutherford New Jersey Saturday Nightmares returns! I went last year and it was one of the best convention experiences I’ve ever had. Worth checking out for The Twilight Zone marathon on the big screen alone. One of my favorite parts of the Saturday Nightmares convention is the [...]
How to Talk to Women
This Saturday night check out the new animated short by Forbidden Planet’s very own Josh Weisbrod. Josh’s new short How top Talk to Women will be playing at the Audience Choice Screenings for the 8th Annual NYC Downtowm Short Film Festival. It’s all going down this Saturday May 21st at 8PM at Duo Theater 62 [...]
Meet Onrie Kompan Thursday May 19th @ Noon
Meet Onrie Kompan of Yi Soon Shin fame this Thursday at Noon, right here at Forbidden Planet!
B-Horror Art Show at MF Gallery
Grab your self a fresh pair of underwear cause those cool cats from MF Gallery are hosting an awesome B-Horror themed art show that will make you crap! Some good friends of mine (who just so happen to be killer artists) like Michael Nirenberg and Kirsten Flaherty are involved so show your support. Here’s a [...]
An Evening with Frank Quitely
Coming this Tuesday, April 5th… comic artist superstar Frank Quitely (We3, Batman and Robin) in conversation with Jose Villarrubia (Conan, Batman Year 100) a few blocks away from Forbidden Planet! Forbidden Planet’s hawking advance tickets in-store. They’re also available from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, who have prints and signed postcards to commemorate the [...]