SAT MAY 14, 2022 12:00 PM Sunshine and Noir: 1980s L.A. Horror Marathon $20.00 (member) ; $25.00 (general admission) Aero Theatre | Guest Programmed by Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh. Presented in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Cinematic Void. THEY LIVE, SOCIETY, THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE, CHOPPING MALL, BLOOD DINER and ANGEL Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE EVENT Borrowing its name from the phrase cultural historian Mike Davis used to describe how Los Angeles is more sinister, intense, and foreboding than the city’s boosters care to admit, Sunshine and Noir: 1980s L.A. Horror Marathon takes a deep dive into the L.A.-based horror films that terrorized a generation and continue to define its fears. Curated by Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh, who brings a loving yet critical eye to the genre as a Black horror fan, and Cinematic Void’s James Branscome, the marathon illuminates the ways in which horror films played out 1980s L.A.’s preoccupation with ambition, health, and wealth. With a guest artist panel foregrounding the voices of women and issues of representation, Sunshine to Noir promises a both thoughtful and chilling descent into the City of Angels’ dark side. – Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh, curator ABOUT THE FILMS THEY LIVE, 1988, Universal, 87 min, USA, Dir: John Carpenter. FORMAT: 35mm SOCIETY, 1989, AGFA, 99 min, USA, Dir: Brian Yuzna. FORMAT: TBA THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE, 1982, AGFA, 77 min, USA, Dir: Amy Holden Jones. FORMAT: 35mm CHOPPING MALL, 1986, AGFA, 77 min, USA, Dir: Jim Wynorski. FORMAT: 35mm collection print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive BLOOD DINER, 1987, Lionsgate, 88 min, USA, Dir. Jackie Kong. FORMAT: 35mm ANGEL, 1984, AGFA, 94 min, USA, Dir. Robert Vincent O’Neil. FORMAT: 35mm