Halloween of Horrors Mini-Festival

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Thursday October 27th

8.30pm

Pat’s Film Club proudly presents the first in its mini-Festival of Halloween Horrors – Tobe Hooper’s classic POLTERGEIST.
 
Celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year, Hooper and producer Steven Spielberg’s classic chiller still has all it’s original power to thrill. Presented in a beautiful 4k restoration, this film has never looked or sounded better.
 
See it on the bit screen – where it belongs!
 
Strange and creepy happenings beset an average California family, the Freelings — Steve (Craig T. Nelson), Diane (JoBeth Williams), teenaged Dana (Dominique Dunne), eight-year-old Robbie (Oliver Robins), and five-year-old Carol Ann (Heather O’Rourke) — when ghosts commune with them through the television set.
 
Initially friendly and playful, the spirits turn unexpectedly menacing, and, when Carol Ann goes missing, Steve and Diane turn to a parapsychologist and eventually an exorcist for help.

Friday October 28th

8.30pm

Pat’s Film Club proudly presents the second in its mini-Festival of Halloween Horrors – John Carpenter’s classic THE THING starring the always awesome Kurt Russell.
 
Celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year, this incredible mix of jaw-clenching tension and mind-boggling practical effects still has all it’s original power to horrify and amaze.
 
Presented in a beautiful 4k restoration, this film has never looked or sounded better.
 
See it on the bit screen – in a crowd – where it belongs!
 
In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims.
 
A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.

Sunday October 30th

6 pm

Pat’s Film Club proudly presents the third in its mini-Festival of Halloween Horrors – the Exclusive Cornwall Screening of this year’s most jaw-dropping horror film – Carlota Pereida’s extraordinary directorial debut, PIGGY.
 
A brilliant combination of psychological horror, bloody splatter and nuanced drama, this film moves the heart as well as the senses.
 
Sara, an overweight teen in a Spanish village, is constantly tormented by the relentless bullying by her schoolmates.
After a vicious incident at the local swimming lake, Sara witnesses her tormentors being abducted by a passing serial killer.
 
What is she to do?
 
Her decision results in dire, bloody consequences.
 
Programmed as a thematic pair with Brian DePalma’s classic CARRIE (screening directly after), PIGGY is a female-led heartfelt examination of the psychological damage caused by bullying – and the bloody carnage that can result.
 
See it – and you’ll want to talk about it!!!
 
There is a break between PIGGY and Carrie to give us all a chance to talk – book both films and be stimulated by the films and the conversation that follows.

Sunday October 30th

8.30 pm

Pat’s Film Club proudly presents the fourth in its mini-Festival of Halloween Horrors – Brian DePalma’s classic CARRIE starring Sissy Spacek and a very young John Travolta.
 
Programmed to be watched in a double bill with PIGGY showing earlier that evening, CARRIE has lost none of its power over the years since its release.
 
It’s the film that made Brian DePalma a star director, it brought a young Stephen King to the attention of the public and it of course launched Travolta to international fame.
 
Presented in a beautiful 4k restoration, this film has never looked or sounded better.
See it on the bit screen – in a crowd – where it belongs!
 
In this chilling adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother (Piper Laurie) at home.
 
When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross (William Katt), Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.

Halloween

October 31st

6 pm

Pat’s Film Club proudly presents the penultimate film in its mini-Festival of Halloween Horrors – the often-forgotten masterpiece THE HUNGER, starring the extraordinarily appealing (that is, staggeringly sexy) trio of DAVID BOWIE, CATHERINE DENEUVE and SUSAN SARANDON.
 
This is a perfect pairing with the other 80s vampire classic THE LOST BOYS, playing directly afterwards.
 
Directed by Tony Scott (brother of Ridley, and director of hits such as TOP GUN), this is a sensual, seductive, sultry mood-piece about the hunger for both blood and love.
Vampirism is often treated as a metaphor for sex, and this film makes that perfectly clear!
 
Oh! and BAUHAUS performing “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” in the opening scene. You can’t get much cooler or more 80’s than that.
 
See it on the bit screen – in a crowd – where it belongs!
 
John (David Bowie) is the lover of the gorgeous immortal vampire Miriam (Catherine Deneuve), and he’s been led to believe that he’ll live forever, too.
 
When he starts to become ill, he seeks the advice of a specialist (Susan Sarandon) who becomes (ahem!) involved with the mysterious couple….

Halloween

October 31st

8.30 pm

Pat’s Film Club’s HALLOWEEN OF HORRORS climaxes with the all-time favourite vampire classic THE LOST BOYS – a perfect 80s Sexy Vampire pairing with THE HUNGER, which plays immediately before.
 
Teenage brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to a small town in northern California.
 
While the younger Sam meets a pair of kindred spirits in geeky comic-book nerds Edward (Corey Feldman) and Alan (Jamison Newlander), the angst-ridden Michael soon falls for Star (Jami Gertz) — who turns out to be in thrall to David (Kiefer Sutherland), leader of a local gang of vampires.
 
Sam and his new friends must save Michael and Star from the undead.
 
This film HAS to be seen on the BIG SCREEN – it’s a riot.

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