FILM: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts celebrates the myth of the vampire and how it will never die with Rare Vampire Films. The films include Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark -- a "badass hillbilly nightmare", Vampire Hookers by Cirio H. Santiago -- "a long orgy scene, endless toilet humor, and sexy girl vampires with tan lines," and Vampyr by Carl Theodore Dreyer -- "unquestionably one of the greatest vampire films" with an "overwhelming atmosphere of dread."

7:30 p.m. // Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St) // $6-8

MUSIC: SF Zinefest kicks off with a Benefit Show presented by SMiLE! Featuring music by Upstairs Downstairs, Sleeptalks, Coloring, and Uni & her Ukelele with Miguel Zelaya of The Harbours, along with DJ Neil Martinson of SMiLE!

9 p.m. // Amnesia (853 Valencia St) // $5-20

COMEDY: Philadelphia sketch comedy troupe Writing Man Productions make their Bay Area debut with Sci-Fi: An Evening of Science Fiction Themed Shorts. "An eccentric amateur astronomer turned entrepreneur, a furniture salesman on a distant planet, and an undocumented alien" all make an appearance in the show.

7:30 p.m. // The Dark Room (2263 Mission St) // $20