Dumpster Raccoon: FLASH GORDON – 45th Anniversary Screening!

Dumpster Raccoon – BACK TO THE BEGINNING 2025

45th Anniversary Screening! 

To celebrate SEVEN SPECTACULAR YEARS, Toronto’s acclaimed Dumpster Raccoon Cinema is going BACK TO THE BEGINNING all summer long with a triumphant rescreening of its FIRST THREE FILMS! Join us for the disasterpiece trilogy that started it all and set the delirious tone for all the lunacy that was to come, as we visit three phenomenal, hyper-melodic pop-art sci-fi fantasies – FLASH GORDON (1980), BARBARELLA (1968), and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974)!

SEE THE FILM that its own screenwriter declared to his infinite distress “GOT WAY OUT OF CONTROL!” SEE THE FILM that George Lucas didn’t get to make, so he made some dumb old Star War thing INSTEAD! SEE THE FILM that is such a glorious camp masterpiece, ONLY QUEEN COULD SCORE IT!

SEE: FLASH GORDON!!!!

When evil intergalactic overlord MING THE MERCILESS (Max Von Sydow, somehow???) grows too bored, he decides to DECIMATE THE EARTH! Only beefy football hero FLASH GORDON and glamorous travel agent DALE ARDEN and a SCIENTIST who EXPLAINS EVERYTHING can save the day! BRIAN BLESSED IS ALSO THERE AND HE HAS WINGS AND A LEATHER HARNESS??? ALSO IS THAT TIMOTHY DALTON????

A true camp classic that landed just as science fiction and comic book movies were demanding to take themselves seriously, FLASH GORDON is a glorious, joyous explosion of music, costumes, and giddy glee! DON’T MISS IT!

With SPECIAL LIVE PERFORMANCE, video preshow by host Anthony Oliveira, and cocktails by the Shameful Tiki Room! Sponsored by Bay Street Video!

Part of the Dumpster Raccoon series!

Cast/Crew Info
Director: Mike Hodges | Cast: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol, Ornella Muti