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UPDATE: The contest to win tickets to the Weekend of Horrors Convention is now closed, and we will soon be sending notification to the lucky winners. Thanks to everyone who participated!
This year’s installment of the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors is coming to the Los Angeles Convention Center in April. Hollywood Gothique and Cinefantastique Online are teaming [...]

On Friday, April 3, this spoof of 1950s alien invasion movies is getting a limited release in about thirty theatres nationwide. In the Los Angeles area, it will play at the Mann Chinese 6 in Hollywood and the Playhouse 7 in Pasadena.
Locations:

Mann Chinese 6 – 6801 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood (323) 464-8111
Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 [...]

Location: Arclight Sherman Oaks – 15301 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks
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Description: Part of the Arclight Cinema’s “Share the Experience” series of favorite films selected by the audience. “Story follows the ascent of mankind into the near-future space age through minimalist performances and a strong visual style. ” Screenings at 8:00pm and 11:00pm
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As part of their Film Noir Festival, the American Cinematheque presents this 1949 hard-boiled update on the old Faust story, about an obsessive D.A. (Thomas Mitchell) who would do anything to take down the mob, even if it means accepting help from the Mephisopholean title character (Ray Milland). This film is not available on DVD. [...]

Location: 7165 West Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles
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Description: Sam Raimi’s 1990 combo of comic book superhero and monster movie screens at midnight. It’s not perfect, but it is a real hoot.
Start Time: 23:45
Date: 2009-03-28

Starting in April, the Steve Allen Theatre in Hollywood will present a “Masters of Horror Drive-In” series every Friday night at 8:00pm. A sort of follow-up to last year’s drive-in series (”Humans are Such Easy Prey“), the on-going fest will showcase double bills from filmmakers who worked on episodes on the namesake Showtime, each of whom [...]

Location: Steve Allen Theater at the Center for Inquiry West – 4773 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles California (323) 666-4268
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Description: Two gleeful gorefest combine for a double bill of Eurotrash sleaze. PIECES is about a serial killer assembling a corpse from bits and pieces of his victms. CAT IN THE BRAIN casts director [...]

Title: The ShiningLocation: Art Theatre of Long Beach – 2025 E. 4th Street, Long Beach, CA 90814Link out: Click hereDescription: \”HEEEERRRRRE\’S JOHNNY!!!\” Voted the #1 Scariest Movie of All Time by Entertainment Weekly, Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic comes to The Art! Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Scatman Crothers star.Start Time: 23:45Date: 2009-03-27

Location: Regency Fairfax – 7907 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048
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Description: The 1994 adaptation of J. O’Barr’s graphic novel, directed by Alex Proyas, screens at midnight. Brandon Lee stars as the unfortunate Eric Draven, brought back from the dead to avenge his fiance’s death.
Start Time: 23:45
Date: 2009-03-27

TOKYO! – the fanciful anthology film currenlty finishing up a one-week run at the Nuart Theatre – has apparently been embraced by Los Angeles audiences. The film did so well during its opening weekend in L.A. that it will expand to three other theathres: the Regent Westwood, the Laemmle Sunset 5 (in West Hollywood), and the Laemmle [...]

Location: 7165 West Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles
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Description: Two scary classics from the 1950s (both of which have since been remade) screen on a double bill. The selections were made by actor Sid Haig (THE DEVIL’S REJECTS), who will be picking a few other double bills this month.
Start Date: 2009-03-27
End Date: 2009-03-28

The 2009 edition of Japan Film Festival – Los Angeles will launch with the L.A. premier of the latest anime opus from Mamoru Oshii (GHOST IN THE SHELL). The story involves “Kildren” – ageless fighter pilots, living in adolescence until they die in battle, who were created to fight in an endless war to “entertain” [...]

Location: Arclight Sherman Oaks – 15301 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks
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Description: Part of the Arclight Cinemas “Share the Experience” series, showcasing favorite films selected by the audience. “57 years after the original attack, Ripley and a crew of marines return to the planet to kill the remaining aliens that have slaughtered the colonists [...]

Location: Woodbury University – 7500 Glenoaks Blvd. Burbank, CA 91510-7846 818.767.0888
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Description: A new film – inspired by the Arabian Nights – about a man who must rescue his love from a djinn. Screens in the Fletcher Jones Auditorium as part of the Burbank International Film Festival\’s “Midnight Madness” program, which starts Friday [...]

Location: Woodbury University – 7500 Glenoaks Blvd. Burbank, CA 91510-7846 818.767.0888
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Description: Robert Englund lends name value to this 2007 made-for-tv film about a killer swarm. Screens as part of the Burbank International Film Festival.
Start Time: 20:45
Date: 2009-03-26

This week’s best best is a pair of moody, macabre masterpieces about the darker side of life in Hollywood, one from Billy Wilder, one from David Lynch. I seem to be almost alone in noticing that SUNSET BOULEVARD is essentially a horror film, with Gloria Swanson cast as a figurative vampire, sucking the youth out [...]

Location: Arclight Sherman Oaks – 15301 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks
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Description: Arclight Cinemas presents the “director’s cut” of the 1979 sci-fi classic. “In deep space, the crew of the commercial ship Nostromo – comprised of five men and two women – is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules, halfway through their journey home to [...]

Courtesy of the American Cinematheque: a 25th anniversary screening of the 1984 sci-fi adventure film – one of the pioneering efforts in the use of computer-generated effects.
From the Cinemathque website: “Lance Guest plays a bored teenager who lives in a trailer park but dreams of something more. To pass the time he becomes an expert [...]

Location: 7165 West Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles
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Description: Yearning for the good old days when onscreen action and excitment were derived from death-defying stunt work instead of computerized imagery? Well then, here is an apocalyptic trio of titles guaranteed to make you scream with excitement as loudly as the tired scream on the pavement! [...]

The NoHo Arts centered has extended the run of DRACULA, their “graphic and sexually charged” stage adaptation of the classic play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston – which is kind of the missing link between Bram Stoker’s novel and the Bela Lugosi film version that established the eternal image of vampires on screen. The production, [...]

This triptych of tales set in the titular city of Tokyo suggests an Eastern version of NEW YORK STORIES, but there is a significant difference: in this case, none of the three writer-directors (two French and one Korean) are natives; consequently, their short films emerge less as love letters to the city than as skewed [...]

You might not know it from the advertising art, but this stage production of DRACULA at the NoHo Arts Center is a revamped version of the old play by Hamilton Dean and John L. Balderston – the one that became a hit on Broadway and was adapted into the 1931 film starring Bela Lugosi. Consequently, [...]

 Actress Ayako Fujitani will appear in person at the 7:15pm screening of  TOKYO at the Nuart Theatre on Friday, March 20. Update:  Michel Gondry, who directed Fujitani in the ”Interior Design” episode,  has just confirmed that he will also appear in person at the Nuart on Friday.
Description: This three-part anthology, set in the titular city, opens in [...]