2025 Schedule
Saturday, October 4th, 2025 - 7PM
outdoor screening
While studying the fabled “blood addiction” of the ancient African civilization of Myrthia, Doctor Hess Green’s (Duane Jones of Night of the Living Dead fame) nutty research assistant (writer/director Bill Gunn) stabs him with a cursed ceremonial knife. Pretty soon, Green acquires a taste for claret, and finds he cannot die. Not too much of a problem at first, since he lives alone in a lavish estate with few neighbors to peep his new predilection. That is until the arrival of Ganja, a mysterious and calculating woman who can’t help peeking behind doors and in cellars. Bill Gunn’s poetic vampire tale is a personal and ambitiously avant-garde vision that is also steeped in gothic tradition. Hallucinatory, spiritual, heady, and utterly unique.
Saturday, October 11th, 2025 - 7PM
outdoor screening
Jacques Tourneur’s slight little zombie flick is a clinic in eerie atmosphere. A young Canadian nurse (Frances Dee) travels to a small Caribbean island to care for the catatonic wife of a wealthy sugar plantation owner. She finds more than nice weather and a cushy job, however, when she winds up in the middle of a family squabble and a Vodou curse. Minimal in the extreme and overloaded with unearthly creepiness, I Walked With a Zombie is pure movie magic.
Saturday, October 18th, 2025 - 7PM
outdoor screening
Two telepathic siblings are adopted into separate families - Dora (Sarah Smuts-Kennedy) winds up in a comfortable suburban home while Jack (Alexis Arquette) lands in a cartoonishly nasty shack rife with mental and physical abuse. Their psychic link eventually draws them back together, and they embark on a journey of revenge and reckoning. No synopsis can fully communicate the majestic insanity of this beautiful movie. Jack Be Nimble must be seen to be believed.
Saturday, October 25th, 2025 - 7PM
outdoor screening
Blitzkrieging through the entire history of Europe’s persecution of “witches” up to 1922, Benjamin Christensen’s “essay film” sports a nonstop parade of some of the most nightmarish images in the history of the movies. Ostensibly a work of scholarship, Haxan wrenches more feeling and fright out of its subject matter than just about any dramatic movie that came before or after. Both an iconoclastic work of mad genius and as strong an indictment of the “Enlightenment” as cinema has ever seen, Haxan is a genre unto itself.