Formerly local, currently NYC-based queer film scholar – and programmer of Queer Cinema: Lost & Found – Elizabeth Purchell video-introduces this trancelike art-horror by Ken Camp, director of As the World Burns and Mantra. It follows the fictional Los Angeles Freeway Killer as he stalks California and Nevada highways – an amalgam of three real serial killers that terrorized Camp’s Long Beach home in the Seventies, two of which were later identified as the Trash Bag Killer and the Scorecard Killer. More a meditation on eroticized violence than a horror film, this evocative feature hasn’t been seen in a theatre since its 1984 premiere at West Hollywood’s EZTV Video Gallery. Take this rare chance and immerse yourself in the hypnosis of the highway on the big screen… if you dare drive home afterward. – Lina Fisher
