Vanity Cinemanic Movies

Vanity Cinemanic Movies is a curated film screening comedy series hosted by Indianapolis’s own cinephilic drag thing Vanity Rex. Vanity often brings a local drag performer or comedian to cohost the event to provide live commentary, jokes and trivia during the films to make for an interactive experience with even a few surprises thrown in. The series features cult classics, queer cinema, childhood obscurities and horror including the films of John Waters and Joan Crawford as particular favorites.

'SCOOBY-DOO' WITH VANITY REX

Jun 20 '26

'BARB WIRE' WITH VANITY REX

Jul 18 '26

'HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II' WITH VANITY REX

Aug 15 '26

'WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?' WITH VANITY REX

Oct 24 '26

'FINAL DESTINATION 2' WITH VANITY REX

Nov 21 '26

Past experiences have included:

Mouse Hunt with Key Fabricator and Puppeteer Lynette Ecklund who worked on the film!
Theatre of Blood with Victoria Price, daughter of Vincent Price.
A burlesque education and performance from Rocket Doll Revue before the film Burlesque.
Live music set to silent films with Wife Patrol for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Duck Trash for Haxan.
Sold out shows for Friday the 13th Part III, Love Actually, and Pink Flamingos.

If you have an interest sponsoring future installments of this series, e-mail zay@kankanindy.com