Exhumed Films and PhilaMOCA present Psycho Santa’s Holiday Horror Party

‘Tis the season to be gory as Exhumed Films & PhilaMOCA unleash a seasonal celebration of sanguine cinema! Psycho Santa's Holiday Horror Party is our annual foray into festive fright flicks!

In addition to the main double feature event and a series of weirdo holiday shorts and trailers, we will celebrate the season with some of Exhumed's annual holiday party traditions: we will be having a pot-luck meal with assorted foods, snacks, desserts, and beverages before the films, holiday door prizes, and will also hold our "Psychotronic Secret Santa" gift exchange. Speaking of Saint Nick, we will have a special photo opportunity with Psycho Santa that is sure to make the perfect pic for your Christmas card.

Join us on Friday, December 13 for what's certain to be a holiday party to remember!

Eric Bresler dba Cinedelphia Entertainment LLC

Exhumed Films presents Psycho Santa's Holiday Horror Party

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Philadelphia

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The Art Wrestling Federation Urban League returns to PhilaMOCA for a holiday spectacular!

All ages

AWFUL Wrestling: Spectacular Holiday Spectacle

sport

Sport

The Spins

https://www.instagram.com/thespinsareaband

https://thespins.bandcamp.com/

Surf Haven

https://www.instagram.com/surfhavenband

https://surfhaven.bandcamp.com/

The Wallcarpets

https://www.instagram.com/wallcarpetsband/

The Spins / Surf Haven / The Wallcarpets

Gigs

Dominick Pupa, nightclub sensation and cohost of the hit podcast Fixing Famous People, makes his Phila/MOCA debut with Dom We Now Our Gay Apparel, his acclaimed annual skewering of the year that was. Jokes, songs, one elf, no shelf.

SOCIALS: @dominickpupa

https://www.dommentary.com

ABOUT

Dominick Pupa is a comedian, nightclub act and drama queen. He cohosts the hit podcast FIXING FAMOUS PEOPLE, appears weekly on THERESA CAPUTO: RAISING SPIRITS and portrays Mister P on the Roku series, LO. His acclaimed holiday show, DOM WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL, is a can’t miss annual staple performed around the country.

Former warmup comic for more than a dozen TV shows including The View, Tyra, Ricki Lake and Live! With Kelly. Carnegie Hall debut in 2013 as host of the Lucie Awards. Celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots with a sold-out 4-week run at The Duplex with TWIRLED HISTORY, a comedic reimagining if gay people had run the world from the beginning of time. Premiered his one-man works, GYPSIES, TRAMPS & ME, CHERSTRUCK, SURPRISING NO ONE and WE GET IT, YOU’RE GAY to acclaim at The Cutting Room, his performance home in NYC.

This is a 17+ event

DOM WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL w/ Dominick Pupa

comedy

Comedy

Puppy Angst

https://puppyangst.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/puppyangst

  
Sleep House

https://www.sleephouseband.com/

https://www.instagram.com/sleephouse

Rat Motel

https://theratmotel.com/

https://www.instagram.com/ratmotel

Wallace, Tonight!

https://wallacetonight.band/

https://wallacetonight.bandcamp.com/

Puppy Angst / Sleep House / Rat Motel / Wallace, Tonight!

Local Honeymoon

https://www.instagram.com/localhoneymoon/

https://localhoneymoon.bandcamp.com/

Wallace

https://www.instagram.com/wallace.music

https://wallace.bandcamp.com/

Tucked In

https://www.tuckedintheband.com/

https://www.instagram.com/tuckedintheband/

Local Honeymoon / Wallace / Tucked In

PhilaMOCA is proud to present 1975’s “new porn sensation” THE PASSIONS OF CAROL, a vintage XXX take on A CHRISTMAS CAROL!

Carol Scrooge (Merrie Holiday), the curmudgeonly editor of Biva Magazine, insists that her employees work on Christmas, much to their dismay. However, the night before Christmas, she is visited by three ghosts, each of whom shows her lurid visions of Christmases past, present, and future. Will Scrooge see the error of her ways and embrace the true meaning of Christmas?

From acclaimed filmmaker Shaun Costello (WATER POWER) comes the wildest, funniest adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL ever made. Featuring gorgeous production design and a cast of New York adult film regulars including Kim Pope, Jamie Gillis, Marc Stevens, Zebedy Colt, and Sonny Landham, THE PASSIONS OF CAROL features everything a good Christmas film should have: heart, humor, warm spirits, and, well, a healthy dose of stocking stuffing.

Adults only! 18+

This is an 18+ event

THE PASSIONS OF CAROL (1975) - Vintage holiday XXX

Tickets for the Euphoria Again record release show with Snoozer and Magic America. December 21st at PhilaMOCA.

Venue is wheelchair accessible.

4333 Collective

Euphoria Again, Snoozer, and Magic America

8static presents

FLOOR BABA

https://floorbaba.bandcamp.com/

https://linktr.ee/FLOOR_BABA

Chipocrite

https://www.chipocrite.com/

https://chipocrite.bandcamp.com/

Storm Blooper

https://www.stormblooper.com/

https://soundcloud.com/chrisdepew

Anton Corazza

https://antoncorazza.com/

Visuals by datacats

https://linktr.ee/datacats

FLOOR BABA / Chipocrite / Storm Blooper / Anton Corazza / datacats

FLOOR BABA

Anton Corazza

"The most ludicrous film you'll see all year, maybe ever" - Catherine Bray, The Guardian

PhilaMOCA's final film screening of the year goes to the wildest movie released in the US in 2024, Luc Besson's DOGMAN! Laughed out of the 2023 Venice International Film Festival, DOGMAN is a treasure trove of riches for adventurous moviegoers and will surely be appreciated in years to come.

Following a traumatic childhood, a disabled drag enthusiast (Caleb Landry Jones) finds salvation and justice through his psychic-like connection with dogs who assist him in jewelry thefts and neighborhood protection. It's even more wild than it sounds!

From acclaimed director Luc Besson (THE FIFTH ELEMENT, THE PROFESSIONAL) who assisted in the training of several of the film's canine stars.

"This is the perfect movie for those days you’re convinced that dogs are better than people—even if that’s every day" - Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine

Dogman (2023) - Cult Movie Monday

Foreland Basin is a Philadelphia-based 6-piece many-song 4-landbasin professional birdmocking-musician ensemble-friendship. They rove the path from joyous river chanting to solemn mountaintop confessions, pulling fruit from each branch of the folk family tree along the way. WE BELIEVE: no dance too outrageous, no movement too erratic, no hum too heavenly.

https://www.instagram.com/foreland.basin/

Pregnant was founded in 2008 by Northern Californian father and renaissance man, Daniel Trudeau. His interest in multiple genres of music teamed with his overflowing imagination led him to initially create music on his own. The project has burgeoned into multiple styles of live performance from soloist soundscapes designed with loop pedals and DAW’s to multi-faceted and difficult to explain 5 piece contemporary band stylings. Trudeau has collaborated with many if not all of his contemporaries to create albums that were exhibited live thorough self booked tours overseas in Asia and Europe as well as in and around several parts of the United States.

While there has never been any intentional aim towards a specific genre in Pregnant’s musical stylings it has settled at the bottom of the mining dish, mainly as psychedelic electronic pop music, and for lack of a better term.

https://www.instagram.com/danielispregnant

https://soundcloud.com/danielispregnant

VAMBI is a van. Like any good van, VAMBI runs on loops, synths, churning drums & distressed saxophone. Like spinning orbs of pinwheel starlight, they journey into the depths of our mindspace. VAMBI prioritizes health, the outdoors, and self-exploration.

Karl Blau is an atmospheric folk musician currently based in Germantown, Philadelphia. His latest album, Vultures of Love is the ecstatic synthesis of open-ended experimentation with personality and uncertain musicality. Above lumbering rhythm, lugubrious guitar, and fluttering horns, Blau asks questions of American hypocrisy. Are we being saved or scavenged by those around us, those that we want to think we can count on?

https://www.karlblau.com/

Foreland Basin / Vambi / Pregnant / Karl Blau

The Prince classic PURPLE RAIN presented with live musical accompaniment from the Paul Green Rock Academy!

A young musician (Prince in his film debut), tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer (Morris Day), a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.

The film will screen as normal, but all of the songs that made Prince a superstar will be performed live on stage by the talented students of the Paul Green Rock Academy!

NOTE: This ticket page is for the Saturday, January 4 performance, tickets for the Sunday, January 5 performance are available here:  
https://link.dice.fm/purplerainsunday

PURPLE RAIN w/ The Paul Green Rock Academy

The Prince classic PURPLE RAIN presented with live musical accompaniment from the Paul Green Rock Academy!

A young musician (Prince in his film debut), tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer (Morris Day), a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.

The film will screen as normal, but all of the songs that made Prince a superstar will be performed live on stage by the talented students of the Paul Green Rock Academy!

NOTE: This ticket page is for the Sunday, January 5 performance, tickets for the Saturday, January 4 performance are available here:  
https://link.dice.fm/purplerainsaturday

PWRUP

https://pwrup.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/pwrupband

Kmoy

https://kmoy.bandcamp.com

https://www.instagram.com/kmoypro/reels/

Take Today

http://www.taketoday.com/

https://www.instagram.com/taketoday

13 Cavities

https://13cavities.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/13cavities

PWRUP / Kmoy / Take Today / 13 Cavities

Blood Sick Underground Presents: FISH PISS from Janice.Click with director Steven Reifsteck in attendance!

Ultra low budget movie trash. Shot using an old RCA camcorder and an old cursed VHS tape found in a dumpster somewhere. Fish Piss is a story about a man that must jerk off a giant fish monster in order to get his next fix of fishy piss. Fish piss allows the man to get superhuman strength. Featuring an exclusive song from David Liebe Hart (Tim and Eric).

Fish Piss was shot just outside of St. Louis Missouri. The film budget was roughly $800. Three hundred of that went to David Liebe Hart. Janice.click's second full length movie.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGMGvpTMYLo

FISH PISS

"A NEW CULT CLASSIC" - The Toronto Star

Inspired by a real-life series of events in 2019, a troubled young man launches a bizarre crime spree against the citizens of Toronto in this thriller-comedy from director Braden Sitter Sr. starring Rishi Rodriguez, Spencer Rice (Kenny vs Spenny), and Paul Bellini (Kids in the Hall).

See the film critics are calling "hilarious", "crazy", "dazzlingly stupid", and "A MASTERPISS"!

“No film better encapsulates the animating forces of the New Toronto Bizarre than Braden Sitter Sr.'s ‘The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man’." - Quinn Henderson, The Toronto Star

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deMY5I4Iylo

https://www.peepeepoopooman.com

https://www.instagram.com/the_pee_pee_poo_poo_man_movie

THE PEE PEE POO POO MAN - Philly Premiere

Motorcycles! Rockets! Boxing monkeys! Just kidding, In celebration of the brand new “Sandwiches of History: The Cookbook”, Barry is hitting the road to share the history of Sandwiches of History! Each stop will feature special guest stars, live sandwich making and tasting with audience-suggested plus ups, audience Q&A and more surprises! As seen on CBS Sunday Morning!

There are four ticket types:

General Admission  
Book Bundle (GA + a copy of the book)  
GA + Post-show Meet and Greet  
VIP tickets include early 6:45 PM admission, priority seating, signed copy of SANDWICHES OF HISTORY: THE COOKBOOK, and a post-show meet & greet

Sandwiches of History: Live! w/ Special Guest Dean Clean of The Dead Milkmen

BORN INNOCENT makes the case for Redd Kross as the seminal West Coast band of the last half century. Their influence reaches across the genres of punk, college rock, grunge, metal and indie rock. Long a “secret handshake” favorite of true music fans, it’s time for the world to discover the joyful and irresistible music of The McDonald Brothers.

Featuring members of Pearl Jam, The Go-Go's, Soundgarden, Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Melvins, L7, Circle Jerks, Minutemen, and many more!

BORN INNOCENT: THE REDD KROSS STORY - Philly Premiere

Dan Licata is a NYC-based comedian and high school senior. A fixture of the Brooklyn alternative comedy scene, Dan has written for shows such as Saturday Night Live, Teenage Euthanasia, and Joe Pera Talks With You, on which he also served as a producer and appeared as "Radio DJ." One of the episodes he wrote titled 'Joe Pera Reads You the Church Announcements' was included in several year-end lists. Dan was named a "Comedian You Should and Will Know" by Vulture, and was selected as one of the New Faces of Comedy at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, where his set was described as "a hyper storm of unbridled manice hilarity...". In 2024, he returned to his hometown of Buffalo, NY to record his first comedy special, FOR THE BOYS, in front of an audience entirely comprised of 15-year-old boys, where his set was described as "not appropriate for 15-year-old boys."

This is an 17+ event

Dan Licata

“A rich amalgam of film noir, the manipulative authority of the medical profession, and the power of sexuality.” — Bright Lights Film Journal

Newly scanned from an ultra-rare film print by AGFA + Something Weird!

Thoughtful, surreal, and daring, GLEN OR GLENDA is the infamous directorial debut from Ed Wood (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE). Glen (played by Ed himself) has a secret which could destroy a happily-ever-after with his lady, for how can she handle another woman in Glen’s life? And what will she do when she finds out Glen is the other woman? And what in the world is Bela Lugosi going on about when he says, “PULL THE STRINGS?!” As we re-examine our cinematic past, GLEN OR GLENDA emerges as the world’s first trans-centric movie—though as it predates contemporary terminology, its characters are not technically definied within the movie as “trans." GLEN OR GLENDA is not only rock-solid history—it’s deeply touching as well.

Screening as part of PhilaMOCA's ongoing Cult Movie Monday series, the fourth Monday of every month throughout 2025.

GLEN OR GLENDA (1953)

Ani DiFranco crashed onto the music scene in the early ‘90s, a thundering new voice in the cultural wilderness, unapologetically bisexual, political and feminist. She toured relentlessly, thrashing out hundreds of frenzied shows that were part mosh pit, part hootenanny and part full-on tent revival, then selling cassette tapes from the trunk of her car to make it to the next gig.

Ani became a worldwide phenomenon when she beat the male-dominated music industry at its own game by founding Righteous Babe Records, the first “woman-run non-corporate queer-happy” label, still going strong after nearly 35 years. The press called her “an entrepreneurial wonder” and “the industry’s worst nightmare.” Prince called her “my hero.” Ani simply called herself a folk singer, dedicated to art, activism and staying true to herself, no matter the cost.

1-800-ON-HER-OWN takes us on a wild cinematic road trip, from DiFranco’s punk-folk past to her life today as she reinvents herself as a passionate activist and revered rock star. Throughout the ride, she’s brutally honest, famously foul-mouthed and totally hilarious. Her daily challenges resonate as we reveal both an enduring, inspiring musical icon and a very relatable contemporary “everywoman” with her own epic fails and hard-won victories.

Producer Amy Hobby in attendance.

1-800-ON-HER-OWN: ANI DIFRANCO

Jonathan van Halem is a stand-up comedian based in Brooklyn, New York. He currently works at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and previously worked at Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out The News. He’s also served as a contributor to the parody website Clickhole.

Known for his observational comedy and relatable style, Jonathan has worked as an opener for comedians such as Kevin Nealon (SNL), Kyle Gordon (Planet of the Bass) and Sabrina Wu (Joy Ride). He’s achieved significant success online, with clips routinely garnering millions of views on Instagram and TikTok. His rant against AMC A-List was named one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Shorts of June 2024. and he also received acclaim for this fun, semi-viral video about Chappell Roan. He’s represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

When he’s not doing comedy, he’s patiently waiting for the New York Mets to win the World Series. His favorite Family Guy character is Stewie.

Jonathan van Halem

Edy Modica is a New York based comedian whose stand-out performance on the Emmy Nominated breakout comedy of the year, JURY DUTY (Freevee), earned her a place in the Hollywood Reporter's list of ‘20 Supporting Actors Who Stole The Scene…’ in 2023. As a creator, Edy was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s ‘25 New Faces of Film Independent Film 2022,’ from her debut short film NICOLE, which is also a featured Vimeo Staff Pick, and most recently, listed as Vultures 'Comedians You Should and Will Know' list 2023. On the small screen, Edy has recurred on HBO Max’s MADE FOR LOVE, HBO’s HIGH MAINTENANCE, and appeared in several Adult Swim produced series and shorts. Edy performs her raw and unfiltered style of stand-up comedy throughout New York, and is currently developing a new hour of stand-up comedy with Irony Point.

Edy Modica

Featuring the music of the masters: Metallica, Slayer, Maiden, Priest, etc + some Pop metal for the parents and modern bands for the PGRA students who like metal.

NOTE: This page is for Night One tickets, tickets for Saturday, 3/1 are available here:  
https://link.dice.fm/pgrametalnighttwo

The Paul Green Rock Academy presents Classic Metal

Featuring the music of the masters: Metallica, Slayer, Maiden, Priest, etc + some Pop metal for the parents and modern bands for the PGRA students who like metal.

NOTE: This is for Night Two tickets, Friday, 2/28 tickets are available here:  
https://link.dice.fm/pgrametalnightone

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