HERCULES IN NEW YORK

MONDAY, AUGUST 19th at 8:00 P.M.

It's MONDO MONDAYS at The Loft, celebrating weird, wild and wonderful flicks from the Mondo side of the silver screen! Admission is only $2.00, and don't forget to check out our yummy "Mondo Munchies" snack bucket ... fill a cup for a buck!

"Essential viewing if you're working your way through the Ahn-nold canon -- You'd have to have a hard heart not to get a chuckle out of this one." - GREEN CINE

Sit back and enjoy the Leave it Off the Resume movie to end all Leave it Off the Resume movies … it's HERCULES IN NEW YORK, aka Hercules Goes Bananas, starring the only and only Arnold Schwarzenegger (billed as "Arnold Strong") in his first movie role. The producers of this infamous 1970 brain-drain flick had the stellar foresight to cast the almost unintelligible Arnold a full seven years before he rocketed to stardom in the 1977 bodybuilding doc Pumping Iron, and the future Governor of California's performance as the legendary strongman makes his turn as Conan the Barbarian look like an audition for the Royal Shakespeare Academy!

This ostensible action/comedy (you be the judge about the "comedy" part) offers a ridiculous new spin on the oft-told tale of Hercules. Bored with life on Mount Olympus, the legendary Greek hero leaves on a lightning bolt and hitches a nude ride on the outside of a 747, eventually landing in 20th-century New York. Unaccustomed to the ways of humans, the good-natured meathead gets mixed up with crooked wrestling promoters and a sleazy pretzel seller played by Arnold Stang, finds true love, and even wrestles a renegade grizzly bear (or at least a guy in a really bad bear suit) in Central Park. Through it all, Arnold and his perplexing Austrian accent manage to crank up the good times while simultaneously causing viewers to ponder the “what the f**k …?” meaning of it all.