Horror in more ways than one at A Night with Greg Sestero: Miracle Valley and The Room, at the Rio Theatre April 8
The star of Tommy Wiseau’s cult hit hosts a double bill with his own desert horror flick
Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero make film history in The Room.
The Rio Theatre presents A Night with Greg Sestero: Miracle Valley and The Room on April 8
IT’S BEEN CALLED the “Citizen Kane of bad movies”, a “flat-out awful compendium of excruciating dialogue”, and “a midnight movie hit with the so-bad-its-good reputation of Plan 9 From Outer Space and the audience participation of Rocky Horror.”
However you want to describe Tommy Wiseau’s infamous cult classic The Room, actor-filmmaker Greg Sestero not only survived it, but turned it into the best-selling book The Disaster Artist—which later became the critically acclaimed film by James Franco.
You can catch the exquisite insanity of The Room this Friday night in a double bill with Sestero’s own Miracle Valley, a homage to ’70s/’80s horror that spans rural cults, sacred bloodlines, visceral effects, creepy desert locales, and beyond-eccentric personas. As Sestero told Stir’s Adrian Mack in the ultimate understatement last year: “I have this bizarre talent for finding very peculiar characters.”
Sestero will have a lot to say about both mind-bending films. And while we can't promise he'll be able to answer all the questions about The Room that have been tearing you apart—What's with the spoons? That dog in the flower shop?—we can be certain there'll be a lot of laughs over the course of the night at the Rio. And don't forget to shout out "Oh, hi Mark."
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