The conventional wisdom that midnight movies had been killed by home video was proven wrong last year in two popular series of midnight features at the Amherst Theatre. These late night screenings proved that the best way to enjoy some movies is with a crowd of like-minded fans at a time when you would normally be drinking or dreaming. Midnight Movie Madness returns to the Amherst this Saturday with “Seven from the ‘70s,” a series of favorites from the decade of bell bottoms and afros (white and black). Opening the series is Martin Scorsese’s 1973 classic Mean Streets, starring Harvey Keitel and Robert DeNiro as low-level members of a Little Italy mob. Upcoming weeks will feature Charlton Heston as The Omega Man (Feb. 25); the Bruce Lee classic Enter the Dragon (March 4); Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds in Deliverence (March 11); DeNiro, Keitel and Scorsese back with Taxi Driver (March 18); 1979’s The Warriors (March 25); and the original Shaft (April 1). For more information visit www.dipsontheatres.com

Saturday, February 18 at midnight. Amherst Theatre,

3500 Main St. (834-7730). $8.