Sat 12/21 @ midnight
Tired of the relentless holiday cheer and all that ho ho hoing? Come to the Capitol Theatre in Gordon Square for a showing of the seminal 1974 horror Film Black Christmas.
While many of its elements are familiar — the girls in a house (in this case a sorority house) being harassed by a mysterious threatening caller, the police discovering that the calls come from INSIDE THE HOUSE, the girls being picked off one by one as they run toward, not away, from danger — they were new when the film was original made. It’s considered enough of a classic that it’s been remade twice with a new remake hitting the multiplexes this week.
But the Capitol will screen the original, which was produced and directed by Bob Clark, who would go on to produce and direct some very different films: the 1981 teen sex comedy Porky’s and, of all things, Cleveland’s favorite holiday movie, 1983’s A Christmas Story, in which no one is murdered.
Tickets are $6.
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