SURFER: TEEN CONFRONTS FEAR (2018) — “a bizarre and worthy successor to The Room” — Friday Night WTF!
July 24 : 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Friday Night WTF screenings are cheap, weird, and out of control! Cult trashterpieces, so-bad-they’re-good crapfests, movies that make you ask “What the hell am I watching?!” — we’ve got ’em all on Friday night.
“A bizarre and worthy successor to the Room… Material this weird can’t be made up: it has to flow through one’s soul.” – SlashFilm
Doug Burke’s contemporary cult classic Surfer©: Teen Confronts Fear can only be seen in theaters, and now it comes to Arkadin! A passion project of writer/director/composer/actor Burke, Surfer©: Teen Confronts Fear is an intensely passionate and spiritual opus that has been captivating midnight movie audiences with its quotable lines, sudden Bible references, Jason Bourne-esque assassin subplot, and tour de force lead performance by Burke and his real-life teen son Sage. Critics have compared it to The Room, celebrated it as “tremendous, immense, indefatigable, and unique” (ScreenAnarchy), and dubbed it “peculiar, earnest, nonsensical, and assembled with little apparent understanding of how things are done” (SlashFilm). But one thing is for sure: no description can prepare you for it. “You may never truly understand it – and I’d worry for you if you did – but you have no choice but to respect it” (ScreenAnarchy).
Oh…what’s it actually about, you ask? According to the official synopsis:
Surfing since as young as he can remember, at the age of 13, Sage is crippled by fear after suffering a wipeout on a huge wave. The wave slammed him to the bottom and held him pinned there without air until he nearly died.
With his whole life still ahead of him yet now paralyzed by fear, Sage no longer surfs the waves. But unable to ignore the mystical and powerful pull of the ocean, he fishes in the surf, and finds more than he bargained for.
This is the story of a teenager who confronts fear . . .
Theater Policies
- All seats are first-come, first-served.
- The theater opens 30 minutes prior to showtime, except for “Happy Hour” events and pre-shows when the theater opens at the listed start time.
- All ages are welcome at Arkadin except for Drinkolas Cage events, which are restricted to 21+. We follow the MPAA rating guidelines for all other films.
- Tickets can be purchased using the BUY TICKETS link above. Upon ordering, you will receive a confirmation email from Square. Tickets may also be purchased on the day of the show at the concession counter.
- If you’ve purchased advance tickets, when you arrive, please give your name at the concession counter to check in.
- Tickets are returnable by sending a request through the contact form located on our About Us page prior to showtime.
- When an event is sold out, we reserve the right to release open seats to customers on the waitlist. If you have a pre-purchased ticket and arrive late and there is no seat for you, your ticket will be refunded.
- All screenings are held in our indoor theater unless indicated otherwise in the event description above.
- Please respect your fellow movie-goers by remaining quiet and refraining from using your cell phone throughout the screening.