It’s one thing to world-premiere The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan, the excellent and affectionate look at why the late NYC-based exploitation filmmaker Andy Milligan’s work, marked by inexplicable storytelling decisions and a general lack of polish and decency, deserves its place within the pantheon of universally discussed and debated New York City genre cinema, it’s quite another to show the work of Milligan today. To truly appreciate what Milligan was all about, one must experience his work just as moviegoers did back in the 1960s and ’70s heyday of Times Square grindhouse theaters.

That’s why Escape From Tribeca has teamed up with Severin Films, the producers of The Degenerate, for a pair of special World Re-Premieres, both of which were discovered and have been restored by the great Severin team. For the first time since the late ‘60s, behold a one-night-only big-screen double feature, hosted by film historian Jimmy McDonough (acclaimed biographer and author of the definitive book on Milligan, The Ghastly One) and complete with vintage exploitation film trailers and intermission commercials that capture the ways things really looked and felt in NYC at the time. First up is Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me! (1968), a demented domestic nightmare in which a New York woman fights her abusive husband amidst an affair with his friend; then, The Degenerates (1967), a shamelessly trashy exercise in post-apocalyptic sex and violence. And joining McDonough for the introduction will be actresses Natalie Rogers (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me!), Hope Stansbury (The Degenerates) and Laura Shaine Cunningham (credited in The Degenerates as Laura Weiss). Trust us, these need to be seen to be believed.—Matt Barone