Spike and Mike's Sick & Twisted Animation Festival

Originally built in 1931.
Reimagined and restored in 2018. 
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The Parkway Theater

A zany collection of 14 shorts from animation outlaws Spike & Mike comes to The Parkway's big screen!

Friday, January 14, 20227 pm Doors // 8 pm Show$10 Advance General Admission // $15 At The Door18+Tickets sales are final &amp; non-refundable*The Parkway Theater requires Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative Test Result for entry to all events.*A zany collection of 14 shorts from animation outlaws Spike &amp; Mike comes to The Parkway&#x27;s big screen! With an eye for the obscure, Spike &amp; Mike were the first to theatrically premiere the likes of Beavis and Butthead, Wallace and Gromit, Tim Burton, Brad Bird, Happy Tree Friends, as well as the first Pixar shorts. Prepare to be astounded by what they&#x27;ve discovered. A guaranteed night of fun for fans of cult classics and indie animation.

Quiet Log TimeSpike Decker and Mike Gribble, aka "Spike and Mike,” founded Mellow Manor Productions in Riverside, California in the 1970s as a means of promoting rock bands and special screenings of horror films and movie classics. After spending the summer of 1977 giving out flyers for the Fantastic Animation Festival, they decided to focus on presenting packages of animated films themselves, known as the Festival of Animation in venues across the country.Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Animation Festival used alternative approaches to distribution. Many promoters are straight up businessmen but that’s not the case with Spike and Mike. Spike and Mike went underground to find the younger, cool audience who wanted to see and experience rowdy and uncharacteristic styles of animation. Planning and curating for such a successful show does not simply fall into one’s lap. With an eye for the obscure and the gut instinct to know if a film had what it takes to arouse the audience, Spike and Mike’s unique promotion styles have put their festival at the top and created the most desirable way to showcase a short film.Spike and Mike are also the subject of a documentary film, <a href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/animationoutlaws?fbclid=IwAR1QHRmw0L6EWVddzlQtwjWxFaPvvni3DtdDpZ7lxKUhZLPwfXhxe_9QYGs" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Animation Outlaws</a>.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/spikeandmikes/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Facebook</a>

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