ARTIST-HORROR XIII: Hallowe’en Extravaganza
Three short segments from Amicus horror anthology films
Friday, October 31, 7:00 pm
From The House That Dripped Blood (1971): “Waxworks” Something uncanny keeps drawing two men back to view a sculpture of Salome at a wax museum, where they eventually learn from where the sculptor sources his John the Baptist heads. Animate/inanimate in the locus classicus of artist-horror. Peter Cushing!
From The Vault of Horror (1973): “Drawn & Quartered” The artist Moore discovers that anything he paints can be destroyed by destroying the painted image itself. Reality/representation, artwork-horror, and corrupt artworld shenanigans. Tom Baker of Dr. Who fame!
From Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965): “Disembodied Hand” Painter Eric Lindor exacts revenge upon the pompous art writer Franklyn Marsh from beyond the grave. Artist vs. critic on the problem of abstraction and the problem of violent retribution. Micah Gaugh vs. Christopher Lee!
Hangouts at 7, films at 8, free pizza, free beer.