First Blood (presented with Portland’s Wyrd War)
- Saturday, Dec 13, 2025, 8:00pm
Screening location: SIFF Film Center – 167 Republican St, Seattle (located within the Seattle Center, just north of Climate Pledge Arena / east of KEXP and The Vera Project)
Former US Army Special Forces soldier and Vietnam veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) wanders into a small town in the Pacific Northwest only to be harassed by the local sheriff (Brian Dennehy) and his deputies. When Rambo's flashbacks and emotional trauma take hold, he begins a one-man war against the police.
Co-presented with Wyrd War, a Portland-based record label and guerrilla action group, specializing in the advancement and celebration of strange and wonderful film, music, and art.
“Stallone brought intense physicality, obviously, but also hangdog vulnerability to a character who takes revenge on a cruel, unfeeling establishment and utters some of the most iconic lines in shoot’em’up history.” Kevin Maher, The Times (UK)