Medicine para Pesadillas has a VHS movie night and you are all invited!

Noche de Movies will happen the 4th Thursday of every month featuring movies of the strange, irreedimable and chingon kind. presented in sturdy VHS format. Expect swear words, violence, and some nudity. Hosted by the pinche pochxs soledad con carne y Josiah Luis Alderete.

This month’s feature is Johnny Mnemonic starring Keanu Reeves, Ice-T, and Henry Rollins.

Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 cyberpunk action film about a data courier in a dystopian future who must retrieve a secret stash of information from his brain before it kills him: Set in 2021, the film is about a data courier named Johnny (Keanu Reeves) who has a brain implant that stores confidential information. Johnny is tasked with transporting 320 gigabytes of data from Beijing to Newark, but the data will kill him if he doesn't retrieve it within 48 hours. Meanwhile, he is hunted by a gangster and a businessman who both want the data. Robert Longo directed the film, which was written by Sci-Fi author William Gibson, who also wrote the 1981 short story that the film is based on.