Event Details: 🗓️ Date: Sunday, September 28, 2025 🕒 Time: 3:00 PM 📍 Location: Smodcastle Cinemas, 82 First Ave, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 🎟️ Tickets: Available at the link

🎭 What to Expect Get ready for an afternoon of Garden State gothic weirdness as Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman of Weird NJ unveil their brand-new Fall 2025 Issue in a setting as legendary as the stories they tell.

Happening inside Smodcastle Cinemas — Kevin Smith’s iconic childhood movie theater turned cult cinema shrine — this event is more than a screening. It’s a live, in-person celebration of New Jersey’s most haunting tales, outrageous roadside stories, and underground history.

Expect:

📰 The first look at the new Weird NJ issue

🎥 A multimedia hour of local lore, puppet theater & cult storytelling

🍿 Popcorn, Hot Tamales, and full cinematic immersion

👹 8-foot puppets of the Jersey Devil and more!

💬 Why It’s On Our Radar Because only in New Jersey can a childhood movie theater be reborn as a mythical monument to weirdness and only here can you catch bluegrass tall tales, puppet monsters, and a deep-dive into cryptid chaos in the same breath. It’s gritty, it’s ghostly, it’s pure NJ magic.