See the Film Presentation on the Making of BANZAI BUCKAROO in the Ballroom, Saturday, March 24, from 6Pm-7Pm
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Mrs. Tom B. (Margaret) Swann Patron See the film presentation on the making of BANZAI BUCKAROO in the Ballroom, Saturday, March 24, from 6pm-7pm. Featuring Blake Mitchell, editor of "Fantastic Films" NOTE: THE SCHEDULE FOR THE VIDEO 1:15-3:00pm ROOM WILL BE POSTED DAILY ON THE THEATRE OF BLOOD (Color) VIDEO ROOM DOOR Great Britain 1973 Directed by Douglas Hickox THUSRDAY, MARCH 22, 1984 With Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Diana Dors, Milo O’Shea, Eric Sykes 9:15-ll:00am ' GUEST VICTIMS: Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Robert Morley, Dennis Price MR. PEABODY AND THE MERMAID USA 1948 Directed by Irving Pichel With William Powell, Ann Blyth, Irene Hervey, Andrea King, Clinton Sundberg VINCENT PRICE You’ve heard about the one that got away ? Well, here’s the story of a man whose catch didn't... and what a catch it was! William Powell HAS is Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian approaching that RESERVED moment of crisis in life that every man faces when he reaches that A SEAT ‘‘moment.” With his wife, Peabody has gone on a kind of "second FOR honeymoon," renting a house on one of the Pacific Islands, YOU enduring the “social" life involving neighbors ranging from boring IN THE to not-so-boring. His life suddenly gets exciting when he finds himself hooking the prize catch of them all; a real live mermaid! A 'THEATRE beautiful young lady, this denizen of the deep captures Peabody’s OF heart and returns his affection. Peabody even takes her home, BLOOD" making a home for her in his swimming pool. Soon his seemingly eccentric behavior causes his wife to suspect another woman. How do you tell your wife that her rival isn’t completely human, yet VINCENT PRICE - DIANA RIGG is not entirely inhuman? And when an attractive neighbor starts to United Artists set her philandering eye upon Peabody, there's nothing more hostile than an angry mermaid. Things move to an unusual ending How many times has an actor felt that he has been ‘murdered’ by in this very different fantasy comedy, with William Powell giving the critics? Well here’s one performer who decides to strike back another of his excellent and engaging performances as the man .. .and kill the critics! Literally! When several of London's most with an unusual sweetheart and Ann Blyth as the mermaid, noted drama critics were dispatched in grisly manner, each handling a difficult part (she doesn’t speak a word of dialogue) with related to a play by Shakespeare, one of the surviving members charming skill. For those with a love of comedy and a helping of of the group suspects that Edward Lionheart, a flamboyant the unusual. Shakespearean tragedian, who committed suicide after being passed over for the London Theater Critic’s Circle award, is still alive and taking insane revenge on those he blames for conspiring against him. ll:15-l:00pm 3:15-5:00pm BURN WITCH BURN Great Britain 1962 TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL Directed by Sidney Hayers Great Britain 1935 With Janet Blair, Peter Wyngarde. Margaret Johnston, Directed by Maurice Elvy Anthony Nicholls, Kathleen Byron With Richard Dix, Leslie Banks, Madge Evans, C. Aubrey Fritz Leiber's classic novel of the occult. CONJURE WIFE, comes Smith, Helen Vinson, Basil Sydney to life in this chilling thriller of witchcraft in our modern world. British-made science-fiction film of the 1930s which boasted, for Norman Taylor, a professor who believes that superstition and that time, a large budget and a top cast of players. American neurosis are inter-connected, finds his lileturned intoa nightmare. engineer Richard Dix battles the elements and human intrigue to Discovering that his wife Tansy is a believer in the presence of bring to completion the most enormous project ever undertaken: magical forces at work. Taylor destroys the various charms that a transatlantic tunnel from America to England...under the sea! Tansy has been using to control the occult forces Sb that Norman’s The dangers, human conflicts, melodrama and intrigue from career can be advanced . as well as protecting him from the those who would either profit from the tunnel or wish to see it fail malignant evil conjured by the wife of one of his colleagues. With are part of this sweeping drama that reaches its peak when part of the charms destroyed, despite Tansy's frantic warnings. Norman the tunnel ruptures under the ocean depths and special, super soon finds himself the target of supernatural evil that threatens to equipment boring through tons of rock and fire. Of special note is destroy him and his wife. Even a stone statueof an eagle becomes the guest appearance of two of the screen's finest actors of that an instrument of nightmare as the eerie aura of Fritz Lieiber's novel time, George Arliss and Walter Huston, as the Prime Minister of envelops you in the chilling atmosphere of this well-made tale of England and the President of the United States, respectively. An terror that just might leave you with a few doubts as to whether or engrossing, unusual and entertaining science-fiction adventure, not witchcraft does exist. once thought to be lost. atmosphere of the Victorian era (yet tied with modern times as well) and brought to life by excellent performances, especially by THE WIZARD'S APPRENTICE 1930 Robert Stephens as the over-enthusiastic inventor whose Produced by William Cameron Menzies. An unusual early sound discovery proves to be a curse rather than a blessing. trick film based on Dukas' The Sorceror's Apprentice and very similar to Walt Disney's version in Fantasia in respect to the 7: 15-8:45pm water-carrying brooms. The film is very German in style and JUDEX (French w/English subtitles) students will no doubt cite a German as the producer if they France 1964 are not shown the main titles. (Artcinema) Directed by Georges Franju With Channing Pollock, Francine Berge, Edith Scob, Sylva Koscina, Michel Vitold In 1914, French audiences thrilled to the serial-like adventures of arch-criminal Fantomas, an underworld organization known as Les Vampires...and a cloaked hero/avenger known simply as Judex (or 'Judge') who, in the best lone avenger tradition, worked outside the law to right wrongs or bring the guilty to justice. Created by Louis Feuillade, Judex, now a part of film history in France, became the central character in filmmaker George Franju’s homage to the simpler times when villains were the blackest of black and heroes always protected the oppressed and relentlessly hunted the guilty. Collaborating with Feuillade's grandson, Jacques Champreaux, Franju has created a new version of the Judex saga that avoids the stigma of ‘camp’ laughter, containing enveloping atmosphere and a sense of wonder, the result of which the FILM DAILY called “a strange, poetic mixture of black humor, fantasy deeds of derring-do GEORGE Me'ue's' "TRIP TO THE MOON" (1902) that are almost choreographic...one that discriminating patrons will want to see.” (in the realm of illusion and plot TRIP TO THE MOON - 1902 - Sound and Silent twists) are all vital elements in a film that, in his review for FILMS GEORGE MELIES, a successful magician in Paris, witnessed AND FILMING, Raymond Durgnat called “...an elegy for our the first exhibition of films in 1895 and enthusiastically started moral childhood when we believed in a ‘soot and whitewash’ taking pictures himself. He hit upon stop motion photography world, of gentle heroines in white, of scowling villainesses in and began producing films in a studio. These films ranged from black, and of the ultimate, however impossible, triumph of simple illusions to ambitious fairy-tale spectacles such as 'Trip good — because otherwise our souls would have dissolved in pain”. Real-life magician Channing Pollock is the avenging to the Moon” Judex, managing to indulge in his specialty at a couple of points in MACABRE MINI-SHORTS (Silent) the film. A French film classic that remains in a class all its own, From 1898 to 1905 we see nine short films of horror by George inviting the viewer to shed the cynicism of 'practicality' and enter Melies and Thomas Edison. The situation suspense dramas a world where costumed heroes glided through the night and include a play with skeletons through the use of marionettes virtue always emerged triumphant. and early trick photography, a capital punishment hanging and the actual electrocution of an elephant. A very rare film by 8: 50-9:50pm DOUBLE FEATURE two innovators in the field of cinema. VOODOO MAN 1944 Directed by William Beaudine With Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco 5:15-7:00pm A mad doctor attempts to restore his zombie-wife back to life thru voodoo. THE ASPHYX (Color) Great Britain 1972 9: 55-11:00pm DEVIL BAT 1942 Directed by Peter Newbrook With Robert Stephens, Robert Powell, Jane Lapotaire, Alex Directed by Jean Yarborough Scott With Bela Lugosi, Dave O’Brien What would you do if you found the secret of immortality? A Seeking revenge on members of a company that cheated him, a scientist-inventor of the Victorian era finds himself in such a mad scientist creates giant, blood thirsty bats who kill at the scent situation when, through a bizarre and tragic set of circumstances, of a certain perfume. he discovers that at the moment of death, the human body is invaded by an "Asphyx,” a being described in Greek mythology as 11 : 10-12:20am the spirit of death that appears in time of danger in ordertoescape its own agony by possessing those about to die.