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Oddball Films presents Killer Science: Nature's Horror Show, an evening of vintage 16mm science and nature films from the 1930s-1970s highlighting the dark, grisly, and deadly aspects of Mother Nature's wrath. From man-eating sharks to killer hurricanes to hungry bugs and battling squids, it's one night of nature's fury you won't want to miss. Leonard Nimoy explores the mysteries of the earth's deadliest storms when he goes In Search of Hurricanes (1978). Marvel at the ferocity of tiny adversaries when termites square off against hungry ants in The Battle of the Centuries (1932). Then, go under the sea to see the manta rays, battling squid and killer eels that are the Demons of the Deep (1938). Decades before Jaws, the British Pathé warned Australian visitors and newcomers to The Shark Menace (1955). For a little sci-fi fun, we revisit a highlight reel Tarantula (1955) to witness a giant arachnid that lays waste to a whole town. Plus, segments and snippets galore including the faux-suicidal lemmings of Di$ney's White Wilderness (1958), the bugs that bring on the end of the world in the pseudo-documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971), and a mantis looks to a caterpillar for dinner in The Butterfly with Four Birthdays (1965) from one-man-band turned amateur-filmmaking legend Sid Laverents. Everything screened on 16mm film from our massive stock footage archive. Date: Thursday, October 13th, 2016 at 8:00 pm Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to RSVP@oddballfilms.com or (415) 558-8117 Web: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com/2016/10/killer-science-natures-horror-show-thur.html Featuring: In Search of Hurricanes (Color, 1978) A strangely prescient episode of the Leonard Nimoy show In Search Of focused on nature's most horrific storm - the hurricane. Revisit killer storms of yesteryear including 1969's hurricane Camille that killed over 200 people and devastated the Eastern seaboard and the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926. In Search Of was a show largely interested in unexplained phenomena like Bigfoot and Lost Civilizations, but this episode takes on the vengeance of Mother Nature. The Battle of the Centuries (B+W, 1932) In this early educational film, we get a front row seat to the fiercest battle one log has ever seen! We follow the life-cycle of those disgustingly fascinating wood-munchers, termites, up to when they must lay their lives on the line to battle their mortal enemies, marauding bands of hungry ants. Simultaneously riveting and repellant, this film was produced by Standard Oil not long after the advent of sound. Tarantula (B+W, 1955, 10 min Condensed Version) Leo G. Carroll plays a scientist working on a growth factor which is creating giant creatures. The giant tarantula is set loose by a monster attack, and it continues to grow, wrecking havoc. After state police lay dynamite, and the Air Force bombs the spider, an atom bomb finally lays it waste, but not the townspeople, who are magically unharmed. Directed by Jack Arnold and starring Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott, and Edwin Rand.