As per ush, we’re delivering the lowdown on cheap and easy things to do this weekend, with options from Dia de Muertos en Pike Place Market to a Practically Magic Halloweekend and from the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair to the Seattle Polish Film Festival. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week.
FRIDAY
FILM
SECS Fest Presents DRILLER
Full moon, close to midnight, Jheri curl, a red jacket with too many zippers. All signs point to… Driller? It might (or might not) surprise you that Michael Jackson’s iconic Thriller music video got an X-rated parody treatment back in 1984, and it’s every bit as bizarre as you might imagine. What started as a cheeky riff on Jackson’s cultural phenomenon somehow became a full-fledged Gothic nightmare, courtesy of adult-film veterans and horror enthusiasts Joyce James and Timothy Green Beckley. Starring adult film actress Taija Rae as an obsessed fan of a pop superstar named “Mr. J,” this low-budget horror musical swaps Hollywood polish for homemade monster effects, original songs, and enough eerie fog to fill a graveyard. LANGSTON THOMAS
(The Beacon Cinema, Columbia City, $15)
