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LAist Film Calendar: $20 for 12 Hours of Terror at the New Beverly's All Night Horror Show
It's the spook-spookiest season of all! This Saturday, the New Beverly shocks from dusk to dawn with the Third Annual All Night Horror Show. $20 nets 12 hours of terror: Dario Argento's Tenebrae ("a beautiful ballet of deplorable violence and stunning photography"), Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell ("[a] mastery of atmosphere [... and] straight-up, old school gore"), The Evil ("one of the best haunted house pictures ever"), a sinful secret film, big-bad-buzzard-bomb The Giant Claw, The Breeders ("packed with tasteless scenes [and] an overabundance of female nudity") and killer genie flick The Outing. As if that weren't enough, there's tons of trailers and other goodies between the scares. Last year was standing room only - so get there early, and stay there late! If you're cursed with a curfew (or a case of the sleepies), the Cinefamily features two more Argento films on Thursday evening, and a pajama party Saturday night which pairs Neve Campbell vehicle The Craft with campy musical Teen Witch. Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell will be in attendance if her schedule allows.
Laemmle's Sunset 5 halts the horror with 2012: Time for Change, which pierces through the doom-and-gloom that marks most 2012 theories. The holistic documentary links "the end" not to any apocalypse, but to a new beginning of sustainable living and expanded consciousness. Interviews include David Lynch, Sting, Ellen Page & hippies, with healthy amounts of animation to bridge the gap. An even more topical doc (particularly if you're mulling over Prop. 19) is Cash Crop, an exploration of the booming marijuana economy in Northern California. Director Adam Ross appears for Q&A sessions at the Sunset 5 Friday & Saturday evening shows. Cure those munchies with Kings of Pastry, following a French national cook-off with stakes so high it makes Hell's Kitchen look like an Easy Bake Oven.
Full list appears below. See you at the movies!
All Week
- 2012: Time for Change (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
- Cash Crop (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
- Douchebag (2010) (Nuart Theatre)
- Hot Summer Days (2010) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
- Khaleja (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
- Kings of Pastry (2009) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Thursday 10/7
- 9th Annual Indie Music Video Festival (Echo Park Film Center)
- The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector (2008) (w/ director Vikram Jayanti) (Egyptian Theatre)
- Black Sabbath (1963) / Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) (Egyptian Theatre) (Oh, The Horror!)
- Deep Red (1975) / Opera (1987) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Giallo!)
- Echotone (2010) (w/ director Nathan Christ and featured artists) (Downtown Independent)
- Inspector Bellamy (2010) (free event w/ discussion) (Melnitz Movies)
- La Strada (1954) / Juliet of the Spirits (1965) (New Beverly Cinema)
- Let Me In (2010) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (21+ screening)
- Poe (2010) (Laemmle's Royal Theatre)
- The Social Network (2010) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (21+ screening)
- The Usual Suspects (1995) (w/ director Bryan Singer) (Aero Theatre)
- You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) (Arclight Hollywood) (21+ screening)
Friday 10/8
- The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector (2008) (Egyptian Theatre)
- All About Evil (2010) (w/ special guests) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
- The Big Combo (1955) / They Made Me a Criminal (1947) (LACMA) (20th Anniversary Tribute to The Film Foundation)
- Cash Crop (2010) (w/ director Adam Ross at 7:45PM & 10:00PM shows) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) / Moon (2009) (Aero Theatre)
- Douchebag (2010) (w/ filmmaker Drake Doremus and special guests at 7:30PM & 9:30PM shows) (Nuart Theatre)
- Dreamcatcher (2003) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Stephen King: Adapting the Master)
- From a Whisper to a Scream (1987) / Tales from the Hood (1995) (w/ special guests) (Egyptian Theatre) (Oh, The Horror!)
- Ghostbusters (1984) (The Bay Theatre)
- Gone With the Pope (2010) (midnight show) (New Beverly Cinema) (Grindhouse Film Festival)
- Japanese Gore Night!: Mutant Girls Squad (2010) / Alien Vs. Ninja (2010) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
- La Strada (1954) / Juliet of the Spirits (1965) (New Beverly Cinema)
- Lady Filmmakers Film Festival (Aero Theatre)
- Kings of Pastry (2009) (w/ special guests at 7:20PM screening) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
- Three Little Words (1950) (Old Town Music Hall)
- Waxie Moon (2009) (Echo Park Film Center) (Cinekink: Los Angeles)
- Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Mondo Fridays)
Saturday 10/9
- The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector (2008) (Egyptian Theatre)
- Ahead of Time (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
- All Night Horror Show (New Beverly Cinema)
- American Psycho (2000) (Regency Academy) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
- Back to the Future (1985) (Outdoor Cinema Food Fest) (Los Angeles State Historic Park)
- Box of Moonlight (1996) / Conviction (2010) (w/ Sam Rockwell) (Egyptian Theatre) (A Tribute to Sam Rockwell)
- Cash Crop (2010) (w/ director Adam Ross at 7:45PM & 10:00PM shows) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
- Cinefamily Pajama Party II: Bitch-Craft! The Craft (1996) / Teen Witch (1989) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
- Cinekink: Los Angeles (Downtown Independent) (Echo Park Film Center)
- Crow's Milk (2003) (Echo Park Film Center)
- Douchebag (2010) (w/ filmmaker Drake Doremus and special guests at 7:30PM & 9:30PM shows) (Nuart Theatre)
- Genius Within: The Inner Life Of Glenn Gould (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
- Kings of Pastry (2009) (w/ special guests at 5PM & 7:20PM screenings) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
- Lady Filmmakers Film Festival (Aero Theatre)
- Last Train Home (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
- Pather Panchali (1955) / The Red Shoes (1948) (LACMA) (20th Anniversary Tribute to The Film Foundation)
- Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Sins O' The Flesh Midnight Show) (Nuart Theatre)
- Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Midnight Insanity Midnight Show) (South Coast Village Regency Theaters)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (Regency Westwood Village Theater) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
- Three Little Words (1950) (Old Town Music Hall)
Sunday 10/10
- The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector (2008) (Egyptian Theatre)
- Ahead of Time (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
- Assorted Morsels: New Films By Amy Halpern (w/ Amy Halpern) (Egyptian Theatre) (Los Angeles Filmforum)
- Cinekink: Los Angeles (Echo Park Film Center)
- Echo Park Time Bank Presents: Ruth Stout's Garden (Echo Park Film Center)
- Genius Within: The Inner Life Of Glenn Gould (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
- Ghostbusters (1984) (The Bay Theatre)
- The Haunted Castle (1921) (Echo Park Film Center) (Filmmobile Screening) (GHOULA)
- Lady Filmmakers Film Festival (Aero Theatre)
- Last Train Home (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
- Pet Sematary (1989) / Pet Sematary Two (1992) (w/ director Mary Lambert) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Mistresses of Horror)
- Three Little Words (1950) (Old Town Music Hall)
- Winter Kills (1979) (Egyptian Theatre)
That's all for this week. Three little words: I heart horror. Isn't it obvious?
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