1) Nancy Floyd leads DIY Tuesday’s Build a Popsicle Stick House at Welch Gallery.
2) Dead Man plays the Earl.
3) Georgia WAND hosts Jay Bookman and the Rev. Joseph Lowery for the Real State of the Union.
4) Splatter Cinema brings Zombie to the Plaza Theatre.
5) A Cappella Books sponsors a Ballroom Book Bash for Futureproof author N. Frank Daniels.
(Image by Nancy Floyd)
1) Hairspray opens at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
2) The creators of the Silver Scream Spook Show and Atlanta Horrorfest host Splatter Cinema at the Plaza Theatre, with a screening of Street Trash.
3) Bernie Schein discusses If Holden Caulfield Were in My Classroom at the Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.
4) Helen Kim and Robert Henry perform at Kennesaw State University.
5) Vickie Robin discusses Your Money or Your Life at Wordsmiths Books.
(Photo © 2006 Phil Martin)
Tonight at 9:30 p.m. The Plaza Theatre’s monthly Splatter Cinema screening decks the halls with gouts of blood. (Fa la la la la, la la la la.) The moviehouse presents the notorious Yuletide-themed slasher film Silent Night, Deadly Night from 1984, which features a crazed killer who dresses up like Santa Claus and uses such murder weapons as Christmas tree lights and reindeer antlers (as well as the less seasonal fire-axe). It’s one of the most controversial and thoroughly condemned horror films of the 1980s, but it spite of that (or more likely, because of it), Silent Night, Deadly Night has a devoted cult following. Here’s a quickie trailer:
Based on director Peter Jackson’s third film, Dead-Alive, you’d never imagine that New Zealand’s famed filmmaker would become one of the world’s most successful and honored screen artists, thanks to his Lord of the Rings trilogy. Originally titled Braindead but renamed Dead-Alive for North America, the “splatstick” horror-comedy depicts a shy young man who discovers that his domineering mother has turned into a zombie thanks to the bite of a Sumatran rat-monkey. Wikipedia alleges Dead-Alive to be “the goriest movie ever made and it currently holds the world-record for the most fake blood used in a single movie.” The Plaza Theatre presents Dead-Alive at 9:30 p.m. on Tue., Oct. 14 as part of “Splatter Cinema,” so expect the most splattery entry yet in the monthly film festival. This trailer has a sense of humor:
By accident, coincidence or the hand of occult forces beyond human understanding, the Plaza Theatre is presenting two films this week based on the works of pioneering American horror author H.P. Lovecraft. Tonight, Sep. 9, the monthly gorefest Splatter Cinema presents director Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator, a frequently hilarious adaptation of Lovecraft’s story, “Herbert West: Re-Animator.” Replete with dark comedy, grisly make-up effects and a soundtrack reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Re-Animator is also worth seeing just for the transcendently twitchy performance by Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Herbert West, an obnoxious young scientist who discovers the means to return the spark of life to the recently deceased. Here’s the trailer from 1985:
