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Date: October 19 at 7:30pm
Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: As part of their month-long series of “Nightmare City” Halloween screenings (which also includes “A Video Nasties Celebration” and “Universal Horror B-Sides), the Cinefamily screens this 1967 classic from Hammer Films, the company that reinvented [...]

Date: October 9 at 8pm
Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: Comedian Greg Proops records an episode of his podcast before a screening of Dan O’Bannons’s 1985 horror comedy – an alleged sequel to George A. Romero’s 1968 classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. RETURN OF [...]

The Cinefamily put out an announcement yesterday regarding their 2012 Halloween horror festival, named Nightmare City (presumably because it is turning the City of Angels into a City of Nightmares during October). Besides a slew of screenings at the Silent Movie Theatre, Nightmare City includes films and other events at numerous other locations around Los [...]

Date: October 28 at 4pm
Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: The Cinefamily wraps up Nightmare City: Universal Horror B-Sides with a video montage of horror highlights from the many films they could not squeeze into the schedule, followed by a screening of the Spanish-language [...]

Date: October 21 at 2pm
Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: As part of Nightmare City: Universal Horror B-Sides, the Cinefamily presents the 1944 film WEIRD WOMAN on a double bill with another “Inner Santum Mystery,” to-be-named later. Lon Chaney Jr. stars as a college professor [...]

Date: October 20 at 4:45pm
Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Description: As part of “Nightmare City: Universal Horror B-Sides,” a series focusing on lesser known horror films from Universal Studios, The Cinefamily presents this double bill of black-and-white classics. The Raven is the second of several pairings of the [...]

Screenings: October 11 at 7:45pm and 10pm
Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Description: The Cinefamily present a Halloween screening of Carl Theodor Dryer’s 1932 art house horror film Vampyr, accompanied by Steven Severin’s music, performed live. Although Vampyr is not a silent film, it almost was; sound was a [...]

Date: October 10 at 7:30pm
Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Description: The Cinefamily presents a Halloween screening of this black-and-white silent classic, starring the late, great Lon Chaney as an inmate who has taken over the asylum. Predating the work of James Whale (THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN), director Roland [...]

Date: October 13 at 5pm
Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Description: This double bill of black-and-white horror launches Nightmare City: Universal B-Sides, a series of Halloween screenings focusing on lesser known titles from Universal Studios, the company that gave us such famous movies monsters as Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Wolf Man.
The Mummy [...]

As part of its already extensive schedule of 2012 Halloween screenings, the Cinefamily presents “Nightmare City: Universal B-Sides,” a series focusing on some of the lesser known efforts from Universal Studios, the company that gave us such renowned classics as Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Wolf Man – none of which is on view here. Instead, we get a rogues’ gallery of oddball efforts, one-shots, and sequels: The Mummy, House of Frankenstein, and the Spanish-language version of Dracula. Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Date: October 14 at midnight
Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Description: As part of Nightmare City: A Video Nasties Celebration, the Cinefamily screens this exceedingly rare and exceedingly strange melodrama from Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawksi. Essentially a divorce drama starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill, POSSESSION goes way over [...]

Date: October 6 at midnight
Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Description: As part of Nightmare City: A Video Nasties Celebration, the Cinefamily presents a screening of writer-director Dario Argento’s 1980 excursion into dream-like irrational terror. INFERNO (film review) is a sequel of sorts to 1977’s SUSPIRIA; the link is [...]

Dates & Hours: October 1-31, midnights
Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Description: The Cinefamily presents this series devoted to the infamous period in British history – back in the 1980s – when government censors deemed certain films (predominantly though not exclusively horror) unsuitable for release in Great Britain. The [...]