The Vortex Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror Film Festival starts Saturday in venues across the state. The week includes films, shorts, H.P. Lovecraft walking tours and Lovecraft-inspired film screenings, and a few “Conversation with” events as well. A phantasmagoric symphony of international films blasts its way across the big screen as the Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film …
Horror/sci-fi/mystery hybrid “They Remain” opens Friday at the Cable Car Cinema. Directed by Providence filmmaker Philip Gelatt, who also adapted the screenplay, the movie stars William Jackson Harper of NBC’s ‘The Good Place.’ It won ‘Best Feature Film’ at the Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon, and the lead won ‘Best Actor’ at the Panic …
(8.13) “The problem with your daughter is not her bed.” So says the patronizing psychiatrist to the possessed girl’s distraught mother. (It must be said however that, by the end of this movie, they do need a new bed.) “The Exorcist” is this week’s installment of the downtown Movies on the Block series. It is …
Theoretically you could see all three. Thursday, October 30 @ the Avon Cinema — National Theatre Live presents the Battle of the Sherlocks . . . Danny Boyle’s “Frankenstein.” National Theatre Live’s 2011 broadcast of Frankenstein returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Frankenstein enjoyed a sell-out run at the National …
Providence native and cult horror writer H.P. Lovecraft will be the subject of a special walking tour and film series during the annual Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival. The life and work of Providence’s best-known fantasy and horror author, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, provide the backdrop for this walking tour. Acknowledged genius of occult and …
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The RI International Horror Film Festival starts Monday and runs through Sunday, October 26th. Many events are scheduled in venues around Providence. Monday, Tuesday: free films, 3:30pm, Providence Public Library Thursday: “Thursday Night Spooktacular,” 7pm, Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell Street Friday: 6:30pm, sci-fi double feature/9pm, thrillers, Bell Street Chapel/7:30pm, URI Paff Auditorium “Date Night …
There are screenings all weekend around the state — complete schedule of weekend events, go here — we will highlight some of the local sites in town Friday. These are short films, some very. Event planners add; Please Note: Our films are intended for mature audiences. Children under 14 will not be admitted without an …
(10.14) Join host Carlos Gonzalez in the concert hall at AS220 for an evening of MACABRE, FR3AK, H0RR0R, and W3IRD0 short films. Filmmakers include: Alee Peoples, AT, Caitlin Doughty, Cordey Lopez, Cybele Collins, Jaime Mohr, Matt Underwood, Mike Stoltz, Xander Morro, and more. (Poster by Emily Salvatierra) Free, 9pm to 11:45pm, movies start 9:30pm, Sunday, …
(8.20) To celebrate the man turning 122 years old, Spectacular Optical Film Archive will be screening an original 16mm print of the 1970 film adaptation of The Dunwich Horror starring Sandra Dee and Dean Stockwell. Lovecraft meets hippies in a psychedelic acid-fried B-movie mess! In a role Sandra Dee was born to play — Nancy! …
The Cable Car Cinema celebrates the birthday of horror writer, Rhode Island’s very own, H.P. Lovecraft (August 20, 1890) with a double feature — two nights only (note different times). The main attraction is The Whisperer in Darkness. Loft Cinema had this to say, In The Whisperer in Darkness, based on HP Lovecraft’s classic short …
(3.17) The Arkham Film Society presents Stuart Gordon’s film adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror classic Re-Animator. Re-Animator is about young doctor Herbert West and his quest to revive life via a glowing green serum he has created and is based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. This cult horror classic received a very …
Horror movie at Granoff tonight. The Arkham Film Society will be hosting a screening of a very rare 35mm print of Lucio Fulci’s 1981 horror classic House By The Cemetery. House By The Cemetery — the tale of a New York professor who moves his family to a Boston area house only to find that …
Providence native and cult horror writer H.P. Lovecraft will be the subject of a special walking tour and film series during the annual FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival. (Films will be shown at the Providence Public Library after the tour). The life and work of Providence’s best-known fantasy and horror author, Howard Phillips …
Frank Difficult invites you to an evening of short horror films Wednesday at AS220. Come check out horror films — some made by local filmmakers, some in the public domain. We gettin’ creepy and poppin’ popcorn. Grab a horror themed cocktail from the bar to sip during the show. Features include; Torchlight by Lare Short, …
TONIGHT – January 13th, 7pm at the Rochambeau Library (708 Hope Street in Providence), Providence Community Library will be hosting Mike Howlett, author of “The Weird World of Eerie Publications” (Feral House, 2010). “Eerie Publications’ horror magazines brought blood and bad taste to America’s newsstands from 1965 through 1975. Ultra-gory covers and bottom-of-the-barrel production values …
Weird World of Eerie Publications tonight at Rochambeau Library Read More »
Some say my way of speech and writing are olde fashioned, and that may be true. I have been away many years, deep in study of strange, far away landes. But now I return, dear Providence, to take up again my favorite pursuits, both antiquarian and now also modern. In time, I hope to bend …