Thursday, October 25 - 7:30 PM

Double Feature:

Friday, October 26 - 7:30 PM

Saturday, October 27 - 7:30 PM
DUSK-TO-DAWN HORRORTHON:

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, 1985, MGM Repertory, 90 min. "They’re Back … They’re Hungry … And they’re NOT Vegetarian!!" Director/writer Dan O’Bannon’s gory, gleeful, punk-rock godfather of SHAUN OFTHE DEAD. An unofficial "sequel" to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, gas canisters leak at a medical supply warehouse, evaporate and then inadvertently rain down on the nearby cemetery and mortuary. Much skull-splitting, brain-eating hilarity ensues … along with a punked-out Linnea Quigley’s unforgettable erotic cemetery dance! With a wonderful team-of Clu Gullager and Don Calfa as Burt and Ernie. Production design by William Stout. With a great soundtrack provided by The Damned, Roky Erickson, The Flesh Eaters and The Cramps. "send……… more……paramedics."

FREAKS, 1932, Warner Bros., 64 min. Dir. Tod Browning. Based on the simple moral that beauty is on the inside comes this inspired tale of circus life, which feels almost like a documentary. Drawing from his past experience working for the circus, DRACULA director Tod Browning cast actual people with handicaps and deformities instead of using special effects and makeup, unthinkable for the time. Although banned in the U.K. for thirty years, it was later selected for preservation in 1994 by the United States National Film Registry as one of the greatest films of all time. Cleopatra, the trapeze artist and Hercules, the strongman plot to kill the side show midget and gain his inheritance. With never-again duplicated eerie performances by real life brother and sister Daisy and Harry Earles as Hans and Frieda. Featuring the beautiful conjoined Hilton Twins, Elvira and Jenny Lee Snow as Zip and Pip the pinheads, Johnny Eck as Johnny the half boy and the unforgettable Prince Randian as the human Torso with the most amazing cigarette smoking scene in film history. "Gooble gobble, gooble gobble, we accept her, we accept her, one of us, one of us!"

FROM BEYOND, 1986, MGM Repertory, 85 min. Dir. Stuart Gordon. Following up last year’s horrorthon presentation of RE-ANIMATOR is yet another great Stuart Gordon film based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Jeffrey Combs, Ted Sorel, and Barbara Crampton are plunged into a terrifying alternate universe when an ambitious scientist decides to forcibly evolve Man’s sixth sense organ. This opens up the gate to another dimension, mutating human beings and unleashing monstrous creatures from the netherworld. A wildly imaginative romp through a gleefully cruel horror wonderland. With the original DAWN OF THE DEAD’s Ken Foree.

THE BEYOND, 1981, Grindhouse Releasing, 87min. Dir. Lucio Fulci. A semi-sequel to THE GATES OF HELL, this is Fulci’s masterpiece. A Louisiana hotel that may or may not contain a doorway to hell, is the atmospheric setting for this beautiful and hauntingly surreal film. Fulci's tribute to Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty is not so much a film as a stunning series of brutal images. Faces eaten by spiders, seeing-eye dogs gone mad, men loosing eyeballs, and of course blood-soaked bodies -- a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo of gore. With David Warbeck (TWINS OF EVIL), Catriona MacColl (HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY). The production design by Massimo Lentini (INFERNO) warrants singling out.

LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, 1972, MGM Repertory, 83 min. Wes Craven’s (NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET; THE HILLS HAVE EYES) directorial debut is an audacious, grueling and all-too-believable grindhouse remake of Ingmar Bergman’s THE VIRGIN SPRING. A film so horrifying and controversial it has yet to receive its British certificate for release, and was accompanied in the U.S. with the tagline, "To avoid fainting, keep repeating-it's only a movie..." A pack of degenerate psycho killers led by the deliciously slimy David Hess unknowingly find a night’s lodging with one of their teen victim’s families, to their ultimately gory woe. Along with contemporaries George Romero and Tobe Hooper, Craven proved with LAST HOUSE… to be in the vanguard of a startlingly imaginative, high voltage rejuvenation of world horror cinema. Produced by FRIDAY THE 13^TH’s director Sean S. Cunningham.

THE CHILDREN, 1980, 93 min. Dir. Max Kalmanowicz. "Thank God they're somebody else's!" In the great horror tradition of a fictional New England town setting, comes the tale of a yellow radioactive gas leak which blows its way into a busload of children. The children go missing, only to return as zombified, black fingernailed killer kids who can burn people’s flesh by a simple touch. Featuring Marvin Shakar (SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER) and Gale Garnett (MAD MONSTER PARTY). Scored by Harry Manfredini (FRIDAY THE 13TH)

THE GATES OF HELL (aka CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD), 1980, Grindhouse Releasing, 93 min. Dir. Lucio Fulci. Do you like great photography, supernatural themes, painful insertions of carpentry tools, portals to Hell, vomiting-up of intestines and maggot-dripping zombies? If yes, then this is the film for you. Gruesome savant Fulci directs his follow up to ZOMBIE. A priest commits suicide by hanging himself in the church cemetery of Dunwich, and the horrific act opens the gates of hell. Zombies soon follow. A reporter, a psychic, a psychiatrist and his patient must close the gates before All Saints Day or the dead will destroy the world. In a very creatively violent and gory way of course. Fantastic make-up by Gino de Rossi and cinematography by Sergio Salvate. Special Horrothon Prices: General $20, Student/Senior $18, Members $15 -- includes all night snacks and food.