Please come to the luncheonette on Friday, May 29, for the 20th ARTIST-HORROR program. To mark the occasion we offer an extravaganza of short films from two anthology series of yore, our beloved Thriller, with your host Boris Karloff, and Night Gallery, with your host Rod Serling.
The Mask of Medusa, 1961, 19 min.
Artist Kriss Milo excels at mimesis in the creation of his sculptures. Might his former specialization in ancient Greek archaeology explain why his uncanny works seem a bit too convincing in their aesthetic realism? Let us find out together. Classic animate/inanimate in the classic wax museum. Actually, a stone museum.
Pickman’s Model, 1971, 28 min.
Eliot Pickman is compelled to paint what he sees “in the mind’s eye,” much to the consternation of the more traditional institutions of art dedicated to the academic study of nature. And yet, might his monstrous imagery result from a more concrete source? Let us find out together. Artistic melancholy and the expressive fallacy in an adaption of a story by H.P. Lovecraft.
Last Rites for a Dead Druid, 1972, 23 min.
After his wife Jenny purchases an odd sculpture from an antique shop, Bruce Tarraday reluctantly installs it in his yard, from whence it torments him with nightmares and worse. Can he overcome this negative form of art’s mythic emotional influence? Let us find out together. Artwork-horror, inverted Stendhal Syndrome, and transhistorical incorporation with Bill Bixby from The Incredible Hulk.
Cleary a slate of films that are not to be missed. Come one, come all! Free pizza, free beer. Hangouts will commence at 7:00, the films at 8:00, and the probable resumption of hangouts afterward.