New Arrivals: Films of Damon Packard

Night Flight Plus is beyond excited to launch a new section dedicated to visionary experimental filmmaker Damon Packard! From Damon: "Night Flight brings back everything about late-night TV in the ’80s and ’90s—the endless nights of channel surfing the few network channels there were, Movies Till Dawn, Friday Night Videos, Elvira or Night Flight itself. It was a completely different era, a strange and intoxicating dimension of television that can never really be recreated. Today’s culture feeds on commercialized nostalgia, mythologizing people, trends and creative movements that it never experienced first-hand, always reaching to the past where there is no future. But those of us who grew up with it didn’t need myth—we lived it. We thought those nights would last forever. Instead, they were the last flicker before the screen went dark."

Dawn of an Evil Millennium

Dawn of an Evil Millennium (1988–90) is a 20-minute Super 8 apocalyptic fever dream that blends pulp detective noir with cosmic horror and splintered sci-fi mythology. On the rain-slick trail of a demon hurled from another world, hard-bitten investigator Frank Bift (a nod to Blade Runner’s Deckard) chases a shape-shifting being that fractures on arrival—half good, h...Read More

Foxfur

Foxfur follows a sweet but mentally fraying young woman obsessed with crystals, dolphins, the Pleiadians, and fringe theorists like David Icke and Richard Hoagland. Disillusioned by the contradictions of New Age philosophy, she spirals deeper into an obsession with the Billy Meier Pleiadian contacts — a fixation that leads to her eviction and a sudden plunge into an...Read More

Reflections of Evil

Bob (Damon Packard), an obese watch-seller dying of sucrose intolerance, is the hero of this '00s extreme cult oddity that Henry Rollins calls “nothing short of genius." Bob survives by tramping the streets of LA, selling watches to anyone who will listen to his apologetic sales pitch and his days are repeatedly punctuated by irrational rage and displays of self-loa...Read More

Fatal Pulse

Tobo hasn’t worked a day in his life. But for years, he’s been the single most unmovable force in a house that controls the fate of the world. Living on the couch of global puppetmaster Trent Dupont, Tobo spends every waking moment watching 1-900 commercials, sedating himself with processed snacks and erotic distractions. As Trent manipulates world leaders and media...Read More

SpaceDisco One

SpaceDisco One (2007) is a delirious 45-minute fusion of retro-futurist spectacle and meta-cinema, imagined as both a lost sequel to 1984 and Logan’s Run. At its center are two glitter-clad heroines, Stargirl 7 and Frances 8, who roller-skate across a colossal starship designed as a hedonistic roller rink, their movements captured in a faux “behind-the-scenes” docum...Read More

Dawn of Evil

Director Damon Packard's non stop phantasmagorical mayhem featuring a 90min collection of short films, music videos and sketches spanning the late 80s to the late 2000s.

Tales of Madness

An omnibus of tales of horror and adventure by cult filmmaker Damon Packard.