
Deja Vu Showgirls
6315 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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Functions: Live Performances
Previous Names: Cave Adult Movie Theatre, Cave VIP Lounge, Hollywood Cabaret
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Located next to the Vine Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, the Cave Adult Movie Theatre was another XXX adult theatre that thrived in the 1970’s and 1980’s. It was opened on February 5, 1971 with “The Ways of the Harlot”.
By September 2007 it had been renamed Cave VIP Lounge which had closed by July 2011 . It became the Hollywood Cabaret, offering live ‘adult’ performances. By March 2014 it was the Deja Vu Showgirls strip club. It was closed on February 19, 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. During closure it was remodeled and reopened in Fall of 2023.

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I went to the Haunted House Club a few times in the late 1960’s.
On September 3rd, 2011 during a trip that included Los Angeles, I stood waiting at a bus stop in front of a former business with an aging mustard yellow marquee. A folding gate blocked the doorway, where discarded soda cans and fast food wrappers had accumulated in the space between. Some other signage made statements such as “Girls, Girls, Girls” (reminding me of the Motley Crue song)… I thought, “Oh, it’s a defunct movie theater that is now a defunct strip club!”.
For a while as I waited for the bus, two women in their early 20’s stood silently under the marquee holding a handmade cardboard sign that said “Hungry Hobos” and a request for money. Occasionally some people would offer assistance and chat with them, but I got the impression this was possibly a sort of performance/experiment to see how people would respond.
A year or so later I thought it would be fun to try to find the place on Cinema Treasures, but couldn’t remember what it was called or where in L.A. I had been.
Then on February 12th, 2016, I was watching the documentary “David Bowie – Five Years” that was airing on PBS. During a segment describing Bowie’s time in Los Angeles in the 1970’s, an interviewee’s voice says Bowie felt he needed to leave L.A. because the culture was getting too crazy and therefore unhealthy for him, while for a moment the image on the screen is a lit up marquee of a theater called The Cave taken from a passing car. …. I wrote down the name and looked it up on Cinema Treasures: Ha – it just happened to be the theater that I had stood in front of back in 2011! (Apparently with a remodeled exterior and reopened as a strip club.)
The Cave theatre opened on February 5th, 1971 with “The Ways of the Harlot”, an adult movie. Grand opening ad posted.
The Cave is featured in the 1984 movie “Angel”. In addition to showing the exterior, two scenes take place inside; when the killer attempts to hide among seated patrons/is confronted by the manager and in a follow-up scene when he is discovered by police/flees. The giveaway that they actually shot the scenes inside the Cave is a faux stalactite visible to the left of the screen, framing an exit door, when they briefly flash to the movie being played (the 1983 adult film “Sweet Alice”). At the time of filming, the auditorium looked to be small (under 100 seats) and had a red/black color scheme. The exterior entrance was wood paneled, with slats arranged in a diagonal pattern, and the carpeting was brown.
As of September 2022, the venue has yet to reopen from the 2020 pandemic shutdown. The gated entryway has amassed a great deal of debris and dust, suggesting that there hasn’t been any activity since the closure. However, the club is still listed as “Temporarily Closed” online and the Deja Vu group maintains a webpage for the site.
The Deja Vu completed a remodel and reopened sometime over the past couple of months.
The Cave Theatre’s lobby, along with the neighboring Howard Johnson’s (now an empty lot), were utilized in the opening segment of the 1979 adult film “Candy Goes to Hollywood”.
Thy used the place in the new film shot in Hollywood ‘MaXXXine’ You can also see the Vine Theatre next door in the film with the marquee letters up from a movie in 1985.
The Cave Theatre can be seen in the 1988 thriller “Jack’s Back” starring James Spader.
It’s amazing how often this hole in the wall theatre has popped up as a location in films. “Angel”, “Sweet Alice”, “Candy Goes To Hollywood”, “What Would Your Mother Say”, “Don’t Answer The Phone”, “10 to Midnight”, “Armed & Dangerous”, “Jack’s Back”, “Where The Day Takes You”, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”, “MaXXXine”, W.A.S.P.’s “I Wanna Be Somebody” music video. I’m sure I’ve missed a few with this list too.
On a trivia side note: The Cave’s use in “Angel” is somewhat of a cameo within a cameo, with a shared thread. In “Angel”, there is a scene where a character is watching “Sweet Alice” at the Cave and “Sweet Alice” contains a scene in which a character is watching a film at the Cave (a storyline film starring the namesake Sweet Alice character). So, at one point, a film’s fictional Cave patron would be watching another film’s fictional Cave patron; both ultimately watching films involving the fictional Sweet Alice character.