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By Ella Mitchell, Staff Writer • April 22, 2024

Washington Psychotronic Film Society to relocate as McFadden’s closes

GW students and fellow revelers are not the only crowds affected as McFadden’s shuts its doors for good: The Washington Psychotronic Film Society must find a new place to hold meetings.

The film club had its fair share of complaints about McFadden’s before a stabbing at the bar last month left five people seriously injured. WPFS President Carl Cephas told DCist that the service was poor and the group was already looking for a better location to screen cult films each week.

Instead of its usual schedule of quirky films, the group’s website states: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, the WPFS is on a short hiatus until further notice.”

WPFS is in its 26th year of “appreciation and defense of: Independent, cutting-edge, student, experimental, anime, off-beat, underground, obscure, super-8, low-budget, classic, forgotten, must-see, and just about anything on film.”

Cephas told DCist that the group has hosted events at about 30 venues in the D.C. area over the years.

In the past, WPFS has hosted a “Christopher Lee Appreciation Night” and recently showed “No Blades of Grass,” in which a virus destroys crops across the globe.

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