Evangeline Lilly, left, is the Wasp and Paul Rudd, right, is Ant-Man in Marvel Studios' "Ant-Man and the Wasp." Paul Rudd, left, is Scott Lang, a.k.a Ant-Man, and Evangeline Lilly, right, is Hope van Dyne, a.k.a. The Wasp, in Marvel's "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
Tickets are on sale now for the Terror-Fi Film Festival, which returns to Wellington this Halloween to celebrate the very best horror, thriller and sci-fi films from around the world. The festival runs from 31 October to 4 November at The Roxy.
Eighth Grade hits upon the usual points we would expect from a film of this nature - mean girls, dreamy boys, and nerds of all stripes - but the movie is stripped of practically all artifice. Photographed in a manner that offers the actors no opportunities for reprieve or retreat, this is a raw and realistic movie, and viewers will be clenching their teeth each time they anticipate the worst for poor, withdrawn Kayla and breathing a sigh of relief every time something fortuitous breaks her way.
'Malevolence 3,' a horror movie by Stevan Mena, was shot in the Lehigh Valley. It is now out on VOD and Blu-Ray.
For the last decade, the Arizona Curriculum Theater has presented Edgar Allan Poe's work in a unique format, from the perspective of his characters housed inside a 19th-century insane asylum. This year, Poefest, the organization's largest fundraiser and celebration of Poe, will commemorate its 10th anniversary with performances at the Hotel San Carlos, Don Bluth Front Row Theatre and Rosson House until the end of October.
When I got the go-ahead to write a couple of Halloween themed stories for October, my head went to the obvious: movie reviews, haunted house reviews, costume ideas, etc. So, originally, this was going to be a review of Halloween Horror Nights, which I attended last Friday.
After being trolled by Fox News, the Halloween actress ends up echoing Reagan when it comes to waiting periods and assault-weapon bans. Does anyone else remember the 1990s, when conservatives and Republicans such as Sen. Bob Dole would attack Hollywood for making violent movies that he claimed caused violence in the real world? He also was happy to criticize movies he admitted he hadn't watched.
Screenings of silent horror films near Halloween with live accompaniment on a pipe organ, just as in the 1920s, have become popular in recent years, including in downtown Los Angeles at Disney Hall . Claremont and Pomona are both getting into the spooky act this year.
The Carolina Theatre in Durham is hosting the SplatterFlix Festival, a marathon of 16 vintage horror films, Oct. 12-14. The lineup includes: George A. Romero's "Creepshow" , Michele Soavi's "Cemetary Man" , Richard Fleischer's "Amityville 3-D" , Romano Scavolini's "Nightmare" , Enrique Lopez Eguiluz's "Frankenstein's Bloody Terror" , Tom Holland's "Child's Play" , John McNaughton's "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" , Charles Band's "Parasite" , Don Coscarelli's "Bubba Ho-Tep" , Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part III" , Robert Hiltzik's "Sleepaway Camp" , Charles Martin Smith's "Trick or Treak" , George Romero's "Day of the Dead" , Mark Herrier's "Popcorn" , Kenny Ortega's "Hocus Pocus" , and Mary Lambert's "Pet Sematary" .