Grindhouse Cinemas

Fiend Without A Face playing at the Rialto Theater (1481 Broadway and 42nd Street, NY)
1958

Gate of Flesh playing at the Apollo Theater (223 West 42nd Street, NY)
1964

Olga's Girls playing at the Victory Theater (209 West 42nd Street, NY)
1964

Mme. Olga's Massage Parlor playing at the Rialto Theater (1481 Broadway and 42nd Street, NY)
ca. 1965

Another Day Another Man playing at the Victory Theater (209 West 42nd Street, NY)
1966

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage playing at the Selwyn Theater (229 West 42nd Street, NY)
1970

Love Camp 7 playing at the Mini-Cinema (New York)
1971

Black Gunn playing at The DeMille Theater (Broadway and 47th Street, NY)
1972

Blacula playing at the Criterion Theater (1514 Broadway, NY)
1972

Orca playing at the Criterion Theater (1514 Broadway, NY)
1977

Squirm playing at Cine 42 Theater (216 West 42nd Street, NY)
1977

Bad Penny playing at the Rialto Theater (1481 Broadway and 42nd Street, NY)
1978

Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (aka House of Psychotic Women) playing at the Lyric Theater (213 West 42nd Street, NY)
1978

Maraschino Cherry playing at the Rialto Theater (1481 Broadway and 42nd Street, NY)
ca. 1978

The Day After Halloween playing at the Selwyn Theater (229 West 42nd Street, NY)
1979

Caligula playing at the Liberty Theater (234 West 42nd Street, NY)
1980

Revenge of the Bushido Blade playing at Times Square Theater (217 West 42nd Street, NY)
The Lyric Theater can also be seen in the photo.
1981

Maniac playing at the Lyric Theater (213 West 42nd Street, NY)
1981


Here's a view of the same marquee at night from a different angle

Baby Cakes playing at Circus Cinema (1604 Broadway, NY)
1982

Zombi Holocaust (aka Doctor Butcher MD) playing at the Lyric Theater (top left picture - 234 West 42nd Street, NY), and the Embassy 49th Street (top right picture - 153 W. 49th Street, NY)
1982

Cannibal Ferox (aka Make Them Die Slowly) playing at the Liberty Theater (234 West 42nd Street, NY)
1983

The Dead Zone playing at the Lyric Theater (213 West 42nd Street, NY)
1983

Kung-Fu Zombie playing at Empire Theater (234 West 42nd Street, NY)
1983

Inside the Empire Theater


In 1998, the theater was actually moved about 160 feet down 42nd Street and incorporated into a huge 25 screen complex called AMC Empire 25. Also of note, this huge entertainment and retail complex at 234 West 42nd Street also houses the historic facades of two other former grindhouse theaters, the Harris and Liberty theaters.

Cleopatra Jones playing at the Roxy Twin Theater (210 West 42nd Street, NY)
circa 1984

Combat Shock playing at the Liberty Theater (234 West 42nd Street, NY)
The building next to the Liberty Theater is ,Empire Theater, which looks to be boarded up and closed by this time
1984

Eaten Alive (aka Doomed To Die) playing at the Liberty Theater (234 West 42nd Street, NY)
1985

Snuff Bottle Connection playing at the Rialto Theater (1481 Broadway and 42nd Street, NY)
1985

Mountaintop Motel Massacre playing at the Selwyn Theater (229 West 42nd Street, NY)
1986

Pray For Death playing at the Liberty Theater (234 West 42nd Street, NY)
1986

TerrorVision playing at the Selwyn Theater (229 West 42nd Street, NY)
1986

Blood Diner playing at the Harris Theater (226 West 42nd Street, NY)
1987

Enemy Territory playing at the Selwyn Theater (229 West 42nd Street, NY)
1987

The Gate playing at Times Square Theater (217 West 42nd Street, NY)
1987

Steel Dawn playing at Cine 42 Theater (216 West 42nd Street, NY)
1987

Schlock playing at the Hollywood Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
1973

The New One-Armed Swordsman (aka Triple Irons) playing at the United Artists Theater (150 Bagley Street, Detroit, MI)
1973