Sorry in advance. October’s Hallucinations screening is Frank Henenlotter’s uproarious gross-out horror Frankenhooker!

When Jeffrey Franken’s fiancée meets an unfortunate end via runaway lawnmower, his grief drives him to an entirely reasonable conclusion: build her a new body from the “best parts” of New York’s sex workers. Enter lightning, purple potions, and more bad decisions than humanly possible. It’s cartoon slapstick meets a morally questionable science fair.

If mad science is an art form, this is its neon masterpiece.

Hosted by Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.