The Fog - Encore
Weekend One • Weekend Two
Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life, Rev. Malone (Hal Holbrook) stumbles upon a dark secret about the town’s founding. radio announcer Stevie (Adrienne Barbeau) witnesses a mystical fire, and hitchhiker Elizabeth (Jamie Lee Curtis) discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
Directed by John Carpenter
United States, 91 minutes
Friday, April 21 • 11:55 p
Weekend One
Sunday, April 30 • 2p
Weekend Two
Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films – Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man – through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre’s revival over the last decade.
Fright Night: Part 2
Three years after the vampire was destroyed in Fright Night, his sister - in the guise of a mysterious performer - seeks revenge on the heroic duo who carried out the staking.
Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films – Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man – through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre’s revival over the last decade.
The Hitcher with Horror Queers - Live Podcast
Weekend Two • Presented with Horror Queers - Live Podcast
While transporting a car from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a hitchhiker named John Ryder (Rutger Hauer), who claims to be a serial killer. After a daring escape, Jim hopes to never see Ryder again. But when he witnesses the hitchhiker murdering an entire family, Jim pursues Ryder with the help of truck-stop waitress Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh), pitting the rivals against each other in a deadly series of car chases and brutal murders.
Directed by Robert Harmon
United States, 97 minutes
The Blair Witch Project
Found video footage tells the tale of three film students (Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams) who've traveled to a small town to collect documentary footage about the Blair Witch, a legendary local murderer. Over the course of several days, the students interview townspeople and gather clues to support the tale’s veracity. But the project takes a frightening turn when the students lose their way in the woods and begin hearing horrific noises.
Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films – Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man – through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre’s revival over the last decade.
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
Weekend One • Presented by Severin Films • Introduction by Kier-La Janisse
Also known as Ghost Cat of the Cursed Pond, Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit is one of the many mid-century Japanese explorations of “Kaibyo” or “ghost cat” mythology, and one of the best. Director Yoshihiro Ishikawa was no stranger to kaibyo country, having co-written Nobuo Nakagawa’s equally chilling Black Cat Mansion (1958) and directed Ghost Cat of Otama Pond (1960). Released the same year as Kaneto Shindo’s more well-known Kuroneko, Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit mines that indelible trope of the cat ghost story: a violent and greedy Lord kills a young woman when she refuses to become his concubine, only for her cat to drink her blood and become her shapeshifting avenger. “Beginning in a quietly haunting vein reminiscent of Ugetsu,” wrote Spectacle Theatre in their promotional text for a 2016 screening of the film, “Bakeneko descends into a nightmarish parade of splattered blood, decapitations and ghosts gnawing on severed limbs.” Not to be missed by anyone with a beloved feline familiar! (Kier-La Janisse)
Directed by Yoshihiro Ishikawa
Japan, 86 minutes
Japanese with English subtitles
World Premiere of New 2K restoration from Severin Films
This screening of Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit is held in conjunction with the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies’ presentation of Alexandra West’s multimedia lecture “The Cat Came Back: Feline Familiars in the Horror Genre”.
Demons
Patrons (Natasha Hovey, Urbano Barberini, Geretta Geretta) attending a mysterious movie screening at a Berlin theater get more than they bargained for when the audience turns into ravenous demons one by one.
The Blood on Satan's Claw with The Faculty of Horror - Live Podcast
When a mysterious corpse is accidentally dug up by a boy in a small town, a group of local teens starts acting very strangely. The adolescents, led by a girl named Angel (Linda Hayden), are convinced the corpse was once possessed. Hoping to get in touch with the devil through the body, the teens act out a series of demonic rituals that causes a stir among the townspeople. When word of the satanic activity spreads, certain parents start trying to lock up the kids behind the spooky stunts.
The Fog
Weekend One • Weekend Two
Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life, Rev. Malone (Hal Holbrook) stumbles upon a dark secret about the town’s founding. radio announcer Stevie (Adrienne Barbeau) witnesses a mystical fire, and hitchhiker Elizabeth (Jamie Lee Curtis) discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
Directed by John Carpenter
United States, 91 minutes
Friday, April 21 • 11:55 p
Sunday, April 30 • 2p