This weekend (Friday, March 24th to Sunday, March 26th, 2023) at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, it’s RetroGothic!
WHAT IS THE RETROGOTHIC FILM SERIES?
Gothic horror movies are adult fairy tales. Young women appear at ancestral castles and fall in love with the dark, brooding masters of the estate. Or flee in terror while wearing flowing dresses. One window is always lit by candlelight against stormy midnight skies. There is murder, confinement, revenge, and ancient curses. Dark secrets pile up at alarming rates. The blood of resilient gothic heroes and heroines is ignited while saving their souls from Satan, or Vincent Price. Â
The heyday of the gothic horror pictures spanned the 1950s through the 1970s, with Hammer Film Productions and American International Pictures’ gloriously gothic takes on classic monster stories that starred Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and other British stars of the day. Even Edgar Allen Poe gets involved. In short, RetroGothic is the counterpart to our beloved Splatterflix Film Series, but this one is for those who prefer their horror movies to involve polite vampires in velvet capes.
Featuring:
Mario Bava's Black Sunday: Uncut Version (1960)
Jacques Tourneur's Curse of the Demon (1957)
Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Freddie Frances' Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1969)
Roger Corman's The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)
Terence Fisher's Horror of Dracula (1958)
John Gilling's The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Val Guest's The Quatermass Xperiment, aka The Creeping Unknown (1955)
Douglas Hickox's Theater of Blood (1973)
Movie tickets are $10.00 each, or you can get a 10-pack for $80. Â Check here for schedule.
“Along with the City of Durham, we have made major investments in the Carolina Theatre for the comfort and safety of our guests during our closure,” says Randy McKay, the Carolina Theatre’s President & CEO. “That includes tens of thousands of dollars in new state of the art HVAC upgrades from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) that remove biohazards, pollen, and other contaminants to make our air as pure — and sometimes purer — than outdoor air.”  The theater has also earned a Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation for its cleaning practices to ensure that guests have a safe and enjoyable experience.  “Together, these cleaning practices and advanced air filtration make the Carolina Theatre one of the safest spaces to attend a film or live event in the region,” says McKay.  [source]
Carolina Theatre of Durham 309 W. Morgan St., Durham, NC http://www.carolinatheatre.org/
