After Hours – Midnight Movies August 2023

Stay up After Hours with Hollywood Suite’s weekly trip into the weird and wonderful world of “midnight movies”!

From John Waters to Jim Wynorski, After Hours features the most NSFW movies in the Hollywood Suite catalogue, including salacious and uncensored selections that we wouldn’t dare air in the light of day. Camp out on the couch every Friday night with a different cult classic, forgotten fave, or hard-to-find film from throughout film history, all lovingly curated by Programming & Marketing Coordinator Lacey Novinka.

See more from Lacey on Hollywood Suite’s TikTok page, where she highlights more hidden gems that truly have to be seen to be believed.

COMING THIS AUGUST

Super Fly (1972)

August 4 at 1:05am ET on HS70
Available on demand in August
Director: Gordon Parks Jr.
Starring: Carl Lee, Ron O’Neal, Sheila Frazier

Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet.

In the Cut (2003)

August 11 at 1:40am ET on HS00
Available on demand in August
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Damici, Sharrieff Pugh, Sunrise Coigney

New York City writing professor, Frannie Avery, has an affair with a police detective who is investigating the murder of a beautiful young woman in her neighbourhood.

Xanadu (1980)

August 18 at 12:25am ET on HS80
Available on demand in August
Director: Robert Greenwald
Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, James Sloyan, Michael Beck

A struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.
 

Festival Express (2003)

August 25 at 12:50am ET on HS00
Available on demand in August
Director: Bob Smeaton
Starring: Buddy Guy, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson

The filmed account of a large Canadian rock festival train tour boasting major acts like Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and The Band.