Thu 10/28-Sun 10/31
Like many organizations and presenters, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque is going spooky this weekend, with “The Haunted Cinematheque,” featuring five very scary movies from three countries. And, of course, Cinematheque director John Ewing promises, “These are Halloween movies you won’t see at any other local cinema.”
So no Rocky Horror Show. Instead you can catch films like the French/Belgian film Raw from 2016, described as a “grisly, graphic thriller about a young vegetarian woman who develops a craving for meat—and other primal hungers—during her first year at veterinary school.” No, thanks. This vegetarian is staying vegetarian.
The Spike Lee-produced 1995 Tales from the Hood features Clarence Williams III from The Mod Squad as a “scary funeral home director” who “regales three drug dealers with four scary stories relating to issues plaguing African Americans: domestic abuse, police brutality, racism and white supremacy, and gang violence.” See, you don’t have to make up scary things; they actually exist!
Other films include the 1981 French/German film Possession in a restored version, plus two vintage classics: The Seventh Victim from 1943, about devil worshippers in New York City, and Dead of Night from 1945, in which a group of friends share ghost stories at an English country house.
For a full schedule of times and days, and ticket information, go to cia.edu/cinematheque.