We present an astonishingly diverse collection
of cinematic musings on the touches of evil. Click on the Titles
to get more information about the film and the panel which follows each
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Nightmare on Elm Street
written & directed by
Wes Craven
The first, seminal film in one of the most
successful genre franchises, it introduces us to Freddy Krueger and forces
us to face our relationships with our own demons.
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rated R = No one under 17 admitted
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Wes
Craven's New Nightmare
written & directed by
Wes Craven
The final film of the Freddy Krueger series
serves as a self reflexive examination of our dreams, our fears, and and
our fascination with horror films. Craven and the actors from
the series appear as themselves, running from the Freddy phenomenon.
A precursor to Craven's satirical, self aware "Scream" series. Film
rated R = No one under 17 admitted
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The
Manchurian Candidate (1962) B/W 126 min
Screenplay by George Axelrod,
based on the novel by Richard Condon
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Chilling, cynical, foreboding and macabre,
this pseudo-documentary thriller was suppressed from movie theatres after
its first run. A heart-stopping chase through paranoia and political conspiracy,
"The Manchurian Candidate" earned Angela Lansbury an Oscar nomination for
her portrayal of the most evil mother ever put on screen.
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Menace
II Society (1993) 97 min.
written by Allen & Albert
Hughes, Tyger Williams
directed by Allen & Albert
Hughes
An aggressive look at the traps and temptations
facing inner city youth. Gritty, heartbreaking and at times hilarious,
this groundbreaking film goes beyond its docudrama setting in the L.A.
hood to explore the roots of gangsta violence among its fatherless homeboys.
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M(1931)
B/W, German with Englisg sub-titles, 99 mins.
screenplay
by Paul Falkenberg, Adolf Jansen, Fritz Lang, Karl Vash, Thea von Harbou,
based on an article by Egon Jacobson
directed
by Fritz Lang
A truly frightening film about a child murderer,
"M" focuses on the victims, their shattered families and the mood of terror
that leads a city into a brutal lynch-mob mentality. With its striking
and innovative use of sound and highly Expressionistic visuals, "M" remains
a landmark treatment of a horrifying kind of addiction.
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Vampyr(1932)
B/W, French with English sub-titles, 75 mins.
written by Carl Theodor Dreyer,
Christen Jul, based on the novel "In a Glass Darkly." by Sheridan Le Fanu
directed by Carl Theodor
Dreyer
One of the first horror films to use sound,
"Vampyr" is a mesmerizing dream that becomes a nightmare as an encounter
with a vampire leads one man into disorientation and the edge of death.
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Fargo(1996)
98 mins.
written by Joel & Ethan
Coen
directed by Joel Coen
A darkly comic exploration of the worst killing
rampage ever to bloody the white driven landscape of the northern plains.
The bad choices of an oddball group of characters snowball into kidnapping
and mass-murder, until they finally meet their match in the simple goodness
of a pregnant policewoman. Film
rated R = No one under 17 admitted
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Rosemary's
Baby (1968) 136 min.
screenplay by Roman Polanski,
based on the novel byIra Levin
directed by Roman Polanski
Delving into the presence of evil surrounding
us in the alienated, every-day city environment, this film is considered
the greatest horror film ever made. Meticulous and terrifying, it
gets its power not from effects but from the gradual erosion of all that
we assume to be our reality and safety. Film
rated R = No one under 17 admitted
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Apocalypse
Now Redux (1979-2001) 173 mins.
screenplay by John Milius
and Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph
Conrad
narration written by Michael
Herr
directed by Francis Ford
Coppola
A new, extended cut of the famed film allows
for even more contemplation of the "madness" that accompanies absolute
power. A rare opportunity to consider what kind of "horror" looms
within our hearts of darkness. The New York Times calls this 2001
edition "a refurbished masterpiece."
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Throne
of Blood (Kumonosu jo) (1957) B/W, Japanese
with English sub-titles, 108 mins.
screenplay by Shinobu Hashimoto,
Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosowa, Hideo Oguni, based on the play "MacBeth"
by William Shakespeare
directed by Akira Kurosowa
Absolutely brilliant from the beginning to
the astounding finale, many critics consider this the best retelling of
"MacBeth" ever put on film. Lost in an symbolic, endless forest,
a feudal Japanese lord meets a phantom witch who predicts that he will
become emperor. At his wife's insistence, he goes about ensuring
the prophecy through ambitious plotting and betrayal.
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The
Night of the Hunter (1955) B/W, 93
mins.
screenplay by James Agee,
Charles Laughton (uncredited), based on the novel by Davis Grubb
directed by Charles Laughton
Using inventive, stylized, and timeless images
as visual poetry, this disturbing film blends both a pastoral setting with
fanatical characters to create what Laughton called, "a nightmarish sort
of Mother Goose tale." It accentuates the contrasting, elemental
dualities of heaven and earth, male and female, light and dark, good and
evil.
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