Hollywood Gothique

The New Year is getting off to a slow start when it comes to fantasy film, mystery movies, horror-thrillers, and sci-fi cinema events in the Los Angeles area. Fortunately, the dry spell comes to an end on Friday, with a midnight screening of ALIEN (1979) and the latest installment of After Dark’s “8 Films to Die For” [...]

The Cinefamily starts the New Year off right with a series of animated films entitled Beyond Anime. Leading off is PAPRIKA, the well received film from directo Satoshi Kon, who first gained American attention with PERFECT BLUE and more recently with MEMORIES and MILLENNIUM ACTRESS. All movies screen at midnights on Fridays at the Silent [...]

Rhona Mithra (most recently seen in DOOMSDAY) will appear to promote her most recent action-horror film, UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS, “a prequel that delves into the centuries old blood feud between the autocratic Vampires…and their one-time slaves the Lycans.” At noon, Ms Mitra will screen clips from the film and possibly sign autographs afterwards.
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This first-time film festival, co-sponsored by Rue Morgue magazine, will be devoted to romantic horror films. Events include a Robert Quarry (Count Yorga) tribute, a SLITHER Q&A panel, a TROMEO AND JULIET cast reunion, a makeup effects panel headed by Vincent Guastini, and a Masters of Horror filmmakers panel. Guests include Adam Green (Hatchet), James [...]

Starting the first week in September, the American Cinematheque will present “Attack of the Giant Screen,” a festival of B-movies at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica and the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Things kick off on November 5 at the Aero, with Tim Burton’s bopic ED WOOD. Actor Marin Landau, who won an Oscar for [...]

This is the second of two horror film festival presented by the American Cinematheque this week (the other, at the Egyptian in Hollywood, is listed here).  The films screening at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica are more tongue-in-cheek, although there will be some hardcore horror during their all-night marathon. Titles include ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET [...]

The American Cinematheque is presenting two Halloween Horror Film Festivals this week, one at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood and one at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Below is listed the scheduled events for the Egyptian Theatre. This includes two double bills of classic horror from Hammer Studios, a dusk-to-dawn horrorthon (including Jodorowsky’s bloody [...]

The headlining guest at the November Comic Con is Eric Roberts, most recently seen as a mob boss in THE DARK KNIGHT. Also seen in HEROES and DR. WHO, Roberts will sign autographs from noon to 3pm. Also in attendance will be actress pamelyn Ferdin, who has been seen in SPACE ACADEMY and the original [...]

The three-day Jules Verne Film Festival includes screenings of FANTASIA 2000, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, FORBIDDEN PLANET, THE WONDERFUL ICE CREAM SUIT, LEGEND OF SPIDER-MAN, SPIDER-MAN, SUPERMAN and SUPERMAN II (THE RICHARD DONNER CUT), 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, THE OMEGA MAN, PLANET OF THE APES and BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES.
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With Halloween rapidly approaching, the New Beverly Cinema has scheduled a slew of fantasy and horror films for your viewing pleasure. The scares kick off with a double dose of demonic discourse tomorrow night: CURSE OF THE DEMON and FAUST, two black-and-white classics that deserve to be seen on the big screen. There is an [...]

The American Cinemathque will be presenting two separate horror film festivals at the end of this month: one at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood andone at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Each will contain an all-night horrorthon, plus some other double bills of classic horror films.
The Egyptian festival will include double bills of HORROR [...]

Screamfest, which takes place every October at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre 6 in Hollywood, is the best of the Los Angeles horror festivals. Over the course of ten days - from October 10 through 19 - they will screen dozens of films, often with the cast and crew in attendance for Q&A sessions afterwards. This year, [...]

Here is the schedule for the month-long series of horror films screening at CineFamily’s Silent Movie Theatre (611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 323-655-2510). All screenings are in October, listed by date. Asterisks indicate recommended screenings.