This event is free! Click “Buy Basket” to purchase a limited reserved spot, including popcorn and a bucket of beer. All other seating is first come, first served.
Free movies on the Enzian lawn! Wednesday Night Pitcher Shows are FREE and open to the public. Keep an eye on social media for information about rescheduled shows due to weather. Free overflow parking is available at Park Maitland School and Peach Valley across the street. Outside food & beverage is not permitted.
Want a reserved spot on the lawn with a bucket of beer and popcorn? Purchase one of our limited reserved picnic baskets at the Buy Tickets link above! All other seating is first come, first served.
Mars Attacks!:
30th Anniversary! In partnership with Horrorlando Film Club!
In 1996, director Tim Burton and an absolutely deranged collection of movie stars gathered together to answer one simple question: "What if cackling, bug-eyed Martians landed on earth... and everything went spectacularly wrong?"
The first film since The Garbage Pail Kids Movie to be based on a series of decidedly not-kid-friendly (but highly kid-obsessed) trading cards is a big-budget studio flick so chaotic and mean-spirited that audiences didn't know what to make of it. 30-years later, they finally understand: it's an ack-ack-acking masterpiece.
When Martians arrive on Earth promising peace, humanity responds with diplomacy, optimism, and some of the worst decision-making in cinematic history. What follows is an all-out extraterrestrial bloodbath featuring exploding monuments, incompetent politicians, trigger-happy generals, and celebrity cameos from an absurdly stacked cast—including Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Jack Black, Martin Short, Pam Grier, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Natalie Portman, Tom Jones, and about a dozen other people who really should have known better. A loving middle finger, if you will, to both 1950s sci-fi movies and the modern summer blockbuster, that Burton somehow convinced Warner Bros. to spend nearly $100 million to produce, only to watch it vaporize at the box office almost as spectacularly as the Martians' attack on Capitol Hill.
Don’t miss this extraordinary sci-fi horror comedy free on the lawn at Enzian Theater. But maybe leave your pet Sarah Jessica Parker/Chihuahua hybrid at home.
1996, 106 minutes, USA, In English and French, Directed by Tim Burton, Rated PG-13
“Part homage and part demolition job, Mars Attacks! is perhaps the funniest piece of giddy schlock heartlessness ever committed to film.”
– Peter Rainer, DALLAS OBSERVER
“Mars Attacks! is the film that Independence Day wanted to be but never could be.”
– John Paul Powell, JAM! MOVIES
“A holiday film with no conscience whatsoever, Mars Attacks! will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it definitely will make you wonder about Earth's ability to defend itself in the face of higher life forms.”
– Alison Macor, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
“The Martians aren’t the bad guys. They destroyed the political class, the capitalists, the generals, and the media so that the Earth could be inherited by service and transit workers, blaxploitation icons, gamer teens, and Tom Jones.”
– I.V. (@vishnevetsky) LETTERBOXD
“It is insane that I was allowed to see this in a theater at the age of 10!”
– David Sims, BLANK CHECK PODCAST
