Music Box Massacre 24 Hour Horror Movie MarathonNoon Saturday, October 14th noon Sunday, October 15th Hosted by Rusty Nails Appearance by Count Midnight Live Music Costume Contest Vintage Movie Trailers Prizes Surprise Guests & More Director Joe Dante in Person! Director John Hancock in Person! Tickets are $24 in advance, $29 at the door. Advance tickets are available at the theatre box office as well as Ticketweb. (Last year's event sold out. We suggest buying your tickets in advance.) Films Include: |
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The Cabinet of Dr. CaligarinoonThis classic example of German Expressionism relates the stylized tale of a Dr. Caligari, a fairground showman who hypnotizes an innocent villager and compels him to carry out fiendish murders. Inarguably a landmark in world cinema, Robert Weine's one-of-a-kind thriller features fantastical, heavily stylized sets, cabinets, antirealist acting, and evocative subjective camerawork. (1919, 71m) |
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Bride of Frankenstein1:35pmThis sequel to Frankenstein stars Ernest Thesiger, a weird doctor who compels Dr. Frankenstein into making a mate for his creation. Else Lanchester plays both the bride (of Frankenstein) and Mary Shelley (author of The Last Man) in an amusing prologue. (James Whale, 1935, 75m) |
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It Came From Outer Space3:00pmShown in 3-D! A meteor crashes in the desert near a small Arizona town, and a research scientist thinks it's a spaceship (from outer space), but no one will believe him. Weird evidence begins to back up his theory, however, from the strange behavior of some of the locals, to the slime trails, and the apparitions of hideous alien eyes swooping down on passing cars. (Jack Arnold, 1953, 81m) |
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Masque of the Red Death4:30pmRoger Corman's 1964 adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story is a work of consummate imaginative power and originality. In medieval Italy, the devil-worshipping Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) abducts an innocent village girl (Jane Asher) and tries to interest her in his diabolical goings-on while the plague rages outside his castle. This is both beautiful and horrifying, with a fine sense of ambiguity and a wealth of subtleties. Chicago Reader (86m) |
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Joe Dante's Homecoming6:06pmJoe Dante's (Piranhas) contribution to the Masters of Horror cable series concerns a publicity official for the U.S. Army who discovers he has his worked cut out for him when the deceased soldiers of the war come back to life, looking for a few good men. Shown on video. (2005, 60m) |
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Piranha7:10pm"Operation Razorteeth," a government project involving the breeding of mutant piranhas, gets way out of hand when the piranhas raid a lake at a summer camp for kids in this Roger Corman-produced, Joe Dante-directed classic about piranhas eating people. (1978) |
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Q & A with Joe Dante8:45pmJoe Dante (GREMLINS, THE HOWLING) will partake in a Q & A following the presentation of his 1978 film PIRANHA and his episode from the Masters of Horror television series. |
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Let's Scare Jessica To Death10:00pmJessica goes to a seaside retreat to recuperate after a nervous breakdown - but drownings, corpses, ghosts, sΘances and even vampires impede her recovery and scare her to death. (John D. Hancock, 1971, 89m) |
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Q & A with John Hancock11:30pmDirector John D. Hancock (BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY) will partake in a Q & A following his 1971 film LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH. |
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The Thing12:30amA group of scientists in an isolated camp deep in Antarctica chance upon an alien being, frozen solid. When the alien awakens, it is not in the best of moods and proceeds to take over the identities of the scientists. THE THING is surely one of John Carpenter's definitive films and a true horror classic.(1982, 109m) |
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Night of the Creeps2:25amThis horror/comedy film is about two college students who try to fulfill their fraternity initiation by stealing a dead body. Unfortunately, when they do so they unwittingly release "the creeps" large, slimy, wormy beings that can transform an unfortunate person into the walking dead once they enter the body. Can they save the town before it's too late? (Fred Dekker, 1986, 88m) |
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Zombie4:10amItalian director Lucio Fulci's cult favorite ZOMBIE spawned an incredibly prolific industry of Italian zombie and cannibal films. On a remote caribbean island, a professor has been working to uncover the secrets of a mysterious disease that turns people into horrifying zombies with a taste for human flesh. (1979) |
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Friday the 13th Part 25:50amA fresh batch of teenage camp counselors return to the ill-fated Camp Crystal Lake five years after its most recent atrocities, unaware that they are being stalked by an unseen figure (seen in the photo on the left) who lives in the woods. (Steve Miner, 1981, 89m) |
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Deep Red8:50amFrom the Italian horror mastermind Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA), comes DEEP RED starring David Hemmings as a jazz pianist who witnesses the murder of his neighbor, a psychic who had read the mind of her murderer. A supremely effective thriller, DEEP RED is considered by many to be his masterpiece. (1975) |
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An American Werewolf in London10:35amIn this grisly black comedy, David Kessler and Jack Goodman (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne, respectively) are two American students on a backpacking tour of Europe. David becomes a werewolf (in London). (John Landis, 1981) |