LADY VENGEANCE: HALLOWEEN DREAM
By Farihah Zaman
While theaters all across America have been raiding the vault to bring us horror favorites throughout the month of October, there’s just nothing like catching something gory, bloody, spooky or flat out disgusting on Halloween night, sweating in your topical costume and getting sugar-high on candy corn.
Here are my All Hallow’s Eve picks from a few special theaters around the country, and if you don’t happen to reside in one of the cities below, there is always Netflix and Amazon streaming, several options on demand, and a typically killer lineup on Turner Classic Movies, including Lady Vengeance favorite Village of the Damned at 8:00PM EST.
Austin, TX
HALLOWEEN (John Carpenter, 1978)
9:30PM, Blue Starlite Mini-Urban Drive-In Theater
http://www.bluestarlitedrivein.com/home
What better way to celebrate Halloween than with the film that casually co-opted the name of this day devoted to fear? As simply satisfying as the holiday, Halloween ushered in many of the tropes we now associate with modern horrror – the hunted babysitter, the haunted spaces of suburbia, the virginal survivor girl – not to mention anointed Jamie Lee Curtis as the scream queen of the subsequent 1980s. The idea of seeing this classic in the vulnerable dark of a drive-in fills me with terror and delight.
New York, NY
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN: An Evening with Alejandro Jodorowsky (1973)
7:00PM, Museum of Modern Art, Theater 1
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/13607
A delayed grand finale to the Jodorowsky retrospective earlier this year, the Museum of Modern Art will be screening The Holy Mountain, with the a rare appearance by the man himself for a post-screening Q+A. Mythical, magical, bizarre and surreal, The Holy Mountain tells the journey of a figure known as The Thief as he tries to unite heaven and earth. Don’t you want to find out why this film played The Waverly Theater for 16 months straight?
Advance tickets to this event are sold out so run over to MoMA now to get tickets from the information desk.
San Francisco, CA
ZOMBIE (Lucio Fulci, 1979)
7:00PM and 9:00PM, Roxie Theater
http://www.roxie.com/events/details.cfm?eventid=AC61A71C%2D1143%2DDBB3%2DC6788E528381DA05
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