More Halloween fun
The Lowes Jersey theater (a restored 1930s-era "cinema palace") always has a good Halloween program, and this year it's better than ever:
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Coming For Halloween
October 24-25
Friday, October 24
A Val Lewton Double Feature
Cat People (1942) & The Body Snatcher (1945)
Saturday, October 25
Lon Chaney Sr
in
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
with live organ accompaniment
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"The Body Snatcher" is one of my favorite -- if not my absolute favorite -- Boris Karloff movies. Based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson, and featuring Karloff at his most unctuous and repulsive, "The Body Snatcher" is a terror treat from Hollywood veterans Val Lewton (producer of other fright classics like "The Cat People", "Bedlam" (also starring Karloff), "The Demon", and "I Walked with a Zombie") and Robert Wise (whose eclectic career included films such as "The Sound of Music", "West Side Story" and "Star Trek The Motion Picture" as well as horror classics like "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "The Haunting").
As if that weren't enough to get excited about, the Lowe's Jersey's in-house organ has now been fully-restored and will provide live accompaniment to the Lon Chaney 1925 masterpiece "The Phantom of the Opera". And it's Sarabeth's birthday.
Rad.
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Coming For Halloween
October 24-25
Friday, October 24
A Val Lewton Double Feature
Cat People (1942) & The Body Snatcher (1945)
Saturday, October 25
Lon Chaney Sr
in
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
with live organ accompaniment
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"The Body Snatcher" is one of my favorite -- if not my absolute favorite -- Boris Karloff movies. Based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson, and featuring Karloff at his most unctuous and repulsive, "The Body Snatcher" is a terror treat from Hollywood veterans Val Lewton (producer of other fright classics like "The Cat People", "Bedlam" (also starring Karloff), "The Demon", and "I Walked with a Zombie") and Robert Wise (whose eclectic career included films such as "The Sound of Music", "West Side Story" and "Star Trek The Motion Picture" as well as horror classics like "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "The Haunting").
As if that weren't enough to get excited about, the Lowe's Jersey's in-house organ has now been fully-restored and will provide live accompaniment to the Lon Chaney 1925 masterpiece "The Phantom of the Opera". And it's Sarabeth's birthday.
Rad.