Long Beach Geeks

Welcome back movie fiends to the Celluloid Crypt.

We have been hosting at the amazing Wicked Wolf bringing our own twist with Mystery Science Theatre commentary. We are not a serious movie club only here to have fun and meet amazing people. There will be trivia with prizes!

There is no cover charge. All we ask is to support the local business by purchasing a drink or snack before joining in. We are in for a good time!!

This month we are watching another double feature:
The first movie is the 1980 classic The Changeling.
It was the perfect family vacation for composer John Russell and his family when a freak automobile accident claims the lives of his wife and daughter. Consumed by grief, John, at the request of friends, rents an old turn of the century house. Mammoth in size, the house seems all the room that John needs to write music and reflect. He does not realize that he is not alone in the house. He shares it with the spirit of a child who has homed in on John's despair and uses him to uncover decades of silence and deceit. With the help of Claire Norman, the one who aided John in procuring the house, they race to find the answers and soon learn that a devious and very powerful man guards them.

The second feature film is Thir13en Ghosts (2001):
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

Be ready for trivia and games! We are only here to have fun and enjoy a great local bar.

"A transporting novel told in the voice of a girl Virgil left in the margins. It is an absorbing, reverent, magnificent story.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer
National Book Award–winning literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin reimagines Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid through the eyes and voice of Lavinia, Aeneas' last wife.
In The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.
Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner—that she will be the cause of a bitter war—and that her husband will not live long. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. And so she tells us what Vergil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life.

Bring your favorite card or board games and play a few games with your fellow geeks! Game player slots are first come, first serve, but don't worry if you're a little late, there will be several board games available to play.

We are open to new places to try. However, we are out to support our local businesses. Currently we are at Hof's Hut.

If you have a request, please feel free to post it here in case a fellow geek happens to have a copy of that game. If you'd like to demo a game, we'd encourage that as well.

We only request if you are bringing a game old or new that you are able to teach it to the group.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

[SIDE NOTE] This venue is indoors. Masks are optional, though if you are experiencing covid-19 symptoms you're encouraged to stay home.

In honor of the Guest Author at LosCon (ask us about this local convention) - we present.....

An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller

A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist
A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee
A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” from Hugo, Locus, & Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher
*A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.
Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.