August 18th Events & Coupons

Auctions, Pop Ups and Marketplaces See All

Netflix Bites MGM Grand Las Vegas
Pop Ups and Vendor Markets | Feb 11, 2025 - Feb 20, 2026
United States > Nevada > Las Vegas > > 89109

Conventions, Live Shows and Fairs See All

Hall of Excellence Rare Sports Memorabilia Exhibition at Fontainebleau
Memorabilia Exhibition | Jun 20 - Dec 31, 2025
United States > Nevada > Las Vegas > > 89109
Michael Jackson MJJ5 Exhibition at The Showboat Resort
Memorabilia Exhibition | Jun 15 - Aug 31, 2025
United States > New Jersey > Atlantic City > > 08401

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Flying Sword Heroes: Gravity-Defying Tales from Taiwan Screening Series
Film Screenings and Series | Aug 14 - Aug 24, 2025
United States > New York > Schenectady > > 12305

Narratives See All

Flying Sword Heroes: Gravity-Defying Tales from Taiwan Screening Series
Film Screenings and Series | Aug 14 - Aug 24, 2025
United States > New York > Schenectady > > 12305

Show and Movie Releases See All

Hong Kong Cinema Classics Retrospective of John Woo, Tsui Hark and More
Film Screenings and Series | Aug 15 - Aug 28, 2025
United States > New York > New York City > > 10014
Flying Sword Heroes: Gravity-Defying Tales from Taiwan Screening Series
Film Screenings and Series | Aug 14 - Aug 24, 2025
United States > New York > Schenectady > > 12305

Social and Cultural Events See All

World Photography Week
Social and Cultural Events | Aug 12 - Aug 26
Make Music New York, World Music Day
Social and Cultural Events | Jun 21 - Dec 21

August 18th In History

Auctions, Pop Ups and Marketplaces See All

Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own Exhibit and Auction
Memorabilia Exhibition | Aug 1 - Sep 11, 2023

Contests and Giveaways See All

EA Sports Madden NFL 24
Game Release Dates | Aug 18 - Sep 6, 2023
Ladies of STK DJ Tour
Contests | Jul 20 - Aug 26, 2023
United States > New York > New York City > > 10014

Firsts, Starts and Openings See All

First-ever Fanatics Fest NYC Takes Place
Inaugurals | Aug 16 - Aug 18, 2024
United States > New York > New York City > > 10014
Birth / Rebirth
Television/Streaming Premiere | Aug 18, 2023

Milestones See All

EA Sports Madden NFL 24
Game Release Dates | Aug 18 - Sep 6, 2023

Narratives See All

Ben Cross
Deaths | Aug 18, 2020

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Blue Beetle
U.S. Theatrical Releases | Aug 18, 2023

Zombies: The Beginning Visual Vengeance Screening Hosted by Forbidden Planet | Mar 21, 2024

Zombies: The Beginning Visual Vengeance Screening Hosted by Forbidden Planet

Film Screenings and Series | Mar 21, 2024

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg

United States > New York > Brooklyn > > 11249

Visual Vengeance

An evil corporation sends a team of marines led by the sole survivor of a previous attack on a rescue mission to a remote Pacific Island following a zombie outbreak stemming from nefarious scientific experiments. It all goes bad really fast.

Zombies: The Beginning is the final film from legendary Italian horror director Bruno Mattei (Hell of the Living Dead, Zombie 3, Rats: Night of Terror) who made a career of high energy knock offs of Hollywood hits featuring his unique splatter signature.

In the final years of his career, Mattei made several shot-on-video movies for the international market, and this was one of the best of them – featuring the plot lifted from James Cameron’s Aliens, mixed with elements of his own 1980 knock off of George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. What follows is a third world acid trip from hell, with Grand Guignol gore, high-caliber weapons, mutated rugrats and goopy tentacles all colliding in a Calabrian casserole of spaghetti sauce-slathered greatness.

Presenting the most obscure analog gems salvaged from the video store era, the VISUAL VENGEANCE series highlights the peak of homemade genre cinema between 1980 and the early 2000s, and includes many forgotten, lost or never seen remnants of the direct-to-video boom. Whether it’s horror, action, sci-fi or just an unclassifiable stew of SOV psychosis, this series salutes those movies cobbled together by some of the most resourceful filmmakers to ever pick up a camera.

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