2026 Pride Movie & Music Series – Slumber Party Massacre & Naga Brujo
The Bloody Rose Boutique Pride Movie & Music Series returns! We are back on North Loop at Barrett’s Too (formerly Double Trouble) with one film and one punk band and vendors every Wednesday night in June!
_Films_
June 3 – Times Square
June 10 – Psycho Beach Party
June 17 – Slumber Party Massacre
June 24 – Elvira Mistress of the Dark
_Bands_
June 3 – Maiden Mother Crone
June 10 – TEMPTRIX
June 17 – Naga Brujo
June 24 – Dednamez
_Vendors_
Bloody Rose Boutique – dark things for dark people
Queeriosities – Original handcrafted t-shirts, hats, stickers + more.
Sara Froelich – VHS and more
_Location_
Barrett’s Too
103 N Loop Blvd E, Austin, TX 78751
ALL AGES
FREE ADMISSION
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__Times Square__
In his 1999 monograph Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Samuel R. Delany describes the cross-class sexual and social contact that made Times Square central to his and other gay men’s lives. The civic and commercial redevelopment projects targeting the neighborhood meant, he argues, “major demolition, destruction, and devastation in what had established itself not only in the American psyche, but in the international imagination, as one of the world’s most famous urban areas.” – Screen Slate
__Psycho Beach Party__
Originally a 1987 stage play by Charles Busch, a drag performer and PBP screenwriter, Psycho Beach Party is the quintessentially queer horror comedy satire and parody of the early-2000s, and we don’t talk about it enough. This could be due to the popularity of another horror comedy parody of the same year: Scary Movie (2000). However, while Scary Movie has queer characters, they are marred by extremely pervasive stereotypes that have persisted in film, especially horror, for decades. Psycho Beach Party, on the other hand, has more to offer horror queers than Scary Movie. It was created by a queer individual and satirizes 1950s/1960s conservatism and family values. This campy summer flick that draws from films like Psycho (1960) and Surf Party (1964) deserves more recognition for its creativity and proud queerness. – Horror Press
__Slumber Party Massacre__
Amy Holden Jones’ Slumber Party Massacre (1982) is like a queer-coded haunted house, with jumpscares and gags around every corner.
In many ways, this fast-paced 80s slasher doesn’t seem to deviate from the tropes and stereotypes prevalent in the genre at the time. Trish (Michele Michaels) and her group of friends throw a slumber party while her parents are out of town, but of course, a murderer is on the loose. Girls stay home alone for the first time, break their parent’s rules, and get punished for their moral delinquencies by a blindly murderous man with a drill. However, once you consider that it was directed, produced and written by women (the screenwriter is queer feminist author Rita Mae Brown), you start to see the movie through a queer lens. Also, once you learn that it was originally written to be a parody but later changed to be a straight-up slasher, you can see the elements of comedy and self-awareness. The inclusion of subtle queer subtext subverts these overplayed tropes and adds a layer of camp over the film. Plus, it’s always fun to play ‘find the queer subtext’, sometimes even inserting a bit of your own. -Queer Fear Film Festival
__Elvira Mistress of the Dark__
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, is an utter delight, the perfect Halloween film. The premise concerns a local-TV horror host who longs to parlay her talents into a Vegas showgirl career (which is Peterson’s career trajectory, only in reverse). In an effort to scrape together the money for her show, she lands in the tiny conservative town of Falwell, Massachusetts, where her mysterious recently departed aunt may have left behind the resources Elvira needs. The story vibrates with queerness — not explicitly, but so plainly in the subtext I don’t know how heterosexuals can even make sense of what they’re seeing. There’s name of the town, of course (a reference to the anti-gay preacher Jerry Falwell), and then there are the villains of the piece, a self-appointed club of moral crusaders who consider Elvira to be a poor influence on the local kids due to her sexuality, and they want to expel her by any means necessary. What queer person can’t identify with that? – The Stranger
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