Sunset Boulevard at Nuart

By Steve Biodrowski • November 5, 2009

Conventional wisdom pegs this classic 1950 Oscar-winning classic as a drama; however, horror fans need not look hard to see that it is laced with Gothic acoutrements: Gloria Swanson plays a former silent film star, secluded in her brooding mansion (substituting for Castle Dracula), who is a figurative if not literal vampire, sucking the life out of a young, down on his luck screenwriter played by William Holden, who winds up in her lair when his car breaks down while he is evading creditors. There are no obvious scares, but SUNSET BOULEVARD remains a somber, disturbing work with all the atmosphere of a true horror film.

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd, West Los Angeles 90025
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Date: January 08, 2010 at midnight

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Steve Biodrowski

Steve Biodrowski owns and operates Hollywood Gothique. Since graduating from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema, Steve has worked as a film critic, script analyst, journalist, and interviewer. As a film journalist, his work has appeared in Movieline, Premiere, Le Cinephage (in France) and The Dark Side (in England). He served as the West Coast Editor of Cinefantastique magazine in the 1990s, then worked as the Vice President of Editorial Content at Fandom.com and, more recently, as the Executive Editor at Cinescape Online. He is currently the Managing Editor of Cinefantastique Online, the website incarnation of Cinefantastique magazine.

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