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All Monsters Attack! The countdown to Halloween begins in the U District’s favorite nonprofit cinema with this annual series of fright flicks. First up is Jacques Tourneur’s influential 1942 Cat People, where sex is displaced into horrific folklore. Our heroine (Simone Simon) believes that if she sleeps with her husband (Kent Smith), she’ll turn into a panther and eat him. So naturally he sends her to a shrink, but the therapy doesn’t quite go as planned. Tourneur had no stars and a tiny budget for the picture, constraints he ingeniously resolved by almost never showing the dread cat; instead, all the menace is masked yet implied by the shadows. The movie gains its eerie power by almost never revealing its selling point; and that withholding strategy has a long legacy in Hollywood, most famously employed in Jaws. Following titles in the series include I Walked With a Zombie (also by Tourneur), the ‘70s stag movie Sexcula, Little Shop of Horrors (with the young Jack Nicholson), and the excellent Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In. (NR) BRIAN MILLER Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 N.E. 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 $5-$8 Monday, October 20, 2014

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Midnight Adrenaline For a certain kind of filmgoer, one’s primal tastes were formed on balconies with sticky floors and threadbare seats, munching stale popcorn, watching scratchy old prints-colors faded, frames missing, the reels sometimes spliced out of order-of pictures that no snooty critic would call classic. Camp, gore, bad acting, cheesy effects, ludicrous dialogue, unscary monsters, and whopping continuity errors-these are treasured by the connoisseurs of midnight movies. The tradition began with the college film societies and repertory houses frequented by baby boomers in the ‘60s. There was no VHS or cable, so going out late to see a favorite bad movie, an underappreciated good movie, a cult movie, or a just plain weird movie was an event, something you did with friends. (And yes, dope was often smoked in the alleys before the show.) Sadly, for a generation weaned on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the tradition has nearly died in our age of Netflix and streaming. Landmark Theatres tried to entice the midnight-movie crowd to the Egyptian, but attendance was dwindling even before the theater went dark last year. But now SIFF is reviving the tradition, with the added lure of beer and wine, during the first month of the theater’s relaunch. Programming begins tonight with the funny, underrecognized creature-com Slither (2006), with Michael Rooker as a villain who messes with the wrong alien parasite. Saturday brings the tremendously enjoyable Jaws-on-dry-land comedy Tremors (1990), with Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward as desert yokels battling giant, man-eating underground worms. The Friday-Saturday programming continues this month-and beyond, we hope!-with Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn, Cabin in the Woods, Zombie, and the inevitable Rocky Horror Picture Show. (R) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema Egyptian, 801 E. Pine St., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$12 Friday, October 24, 11:55pm – Saturday, October 25, 2014, 12:55am

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Midnight Adrenaline For a certain kind of filmgoer, one’s primal tastes were formed on balconies with sticky floors and threadbare seats, munching stale popcorn, watching scratchy old prints-colors faded, frames missing, the reels sometimes spliced out of order-of pictures that no snooty critic would call classic. Camp, gore, bad acting, cheesy effects, ludicrous dialogue, unscary monsters, and whopping continuity errors-these are treasured by the connoisseurs of midnight movies. The tradition began with the college film societies and repertory houses frequented by baby boomers in the ‘60s. There was no VHS or cable, so going out late to see a favorite bad movie, an underappreciated good movie, a cult movie, or a just plain weird movie was an event, something you did with friends. (And yes, dope was often smoked in the alleys before the show.) Sadly, for a generation weaned on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the tradition has nearly died in our age of Netflix and streaming. Landmark Theatres tried to entice the midnight-movie crowd to the Egyptian, but attendance was dwindling even before the theater went dark last year. But now SIFF is reviving the tradition, with the added lure of beer and wine, during the first month of the theater’s relaunch. Programming begins tonight with the funny, underrecognized creature-com Slither (2006), with Michael Rooker as a villain who messes with the wrong alien parasite. Saturday brings the tremendously enjoyable Jaws-on-dry-land comedy Tremors (1990), with Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward as desert yokels battling giant, man-eating underground worms. The Friday-Saturday programming continues this month-and beyond, we hope!-with Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn, Cabin in the Woods, Zombie, and the inevitable Rocky Horror Picture Show. (R) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema Egyptian, 801 E. Pine St., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$12 Saturday, October 25, 11:55pm – Sunday, October 26, 2014, 12:55am

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The Phantom of the Opera This is a special one-off Halloween-themed edition of the popular Silent Movie Mondays series, with organist Jim Riggs accompanying the famous 1925 silent, starring Lon Chaney Sr. as the lonely, misunderstood, disfigured ghoul who haunts the Paris Opera. Based on the prewar serial novel by Gaston Leroux, the big-budget Universal Studios adaptation was a lavish horror spectacle, full of crowd scenes, fire, collapsing walls, falling chandeliers, thwarted passion, and fright makeup. The success of the movie-remade several times-helped make Universal the leading purveyor of monster and fright movies for the next three decades. This film and The Hunchback of Notre Dame also cemented Chaney’s iconic status during the silent era (and later created a career for his son in talkies). Tonight, filmgoers are encouraged to wear c ostumes for the occasion, which can be commemorated at a photo booth in the lobby. Trader Joe’s will supply the seasonal snacks. BRIAN MILLER The Paramount, 911 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101 $10 Monday, October 27, 2014, 7 – 8pm

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Midnight Adrenaline For a certain kind of filmgoer, one’s primal tastes were formed on balconies with sticky floors and threadbare seats, munching stale popcorn, watching scratchy old prints-colors faded, frames missing, the reels sometimes spliced out of order-of pictures that no snooty critic would call classic. Camp, gore, bad acting, cheesy effects, ludicrous dialogue, unscary monsters, and whopping continuity errors-these are treasured by the connoisseurs of midnight movies. The tradition began with the college film societies and repertory houses frequented by baby boomers in the ‘60s. There was no VHS or cable, so going out late to see a favorite bad movie, an underappreciated good movie, a cult movie, or a just plain weird movie was an event, something you did with friends. (And yes, dope was often smoked in the alleys before the show.) Sadly, for a generation weaned on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the tradition has nearly died in our age of Netflix and streaming. Landmark Theatres tried to entice the midnight-movie crowd to the Egyptian, but attendance was dwindling even before the theater went dark last year. But now SIFF is reviving the tradition, with the added lure of beer and wine, during the first month of the theater’s relaunch. Programming begins tonight with the funny, underrecognized creature-com Slither (2006), with Michael Rooker as a villain who messes with the wrong alien parasite. Saturday brings the tremendously enjoyable Jaws-on-dry-land comedy Tremors (1990), with Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward as desert yokels battling giant, man-eating underground worms. The Friday-Saturday programming continues this month-and beyond, we hope!-with Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn, Cabin in the Woods, Zombie, and the inevitable Rocky Horror Picture Show. (R) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema Egyptian, 801 E. Pine St., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$12 Friday, October 31, 11:55pm – Saturday, November 1, 2014, 12:55am

Hip-Hop History Month Screening: Breakin’ Commemorate the 30th anniversary of the classic film Breakin’ at this screening with cast member Boogaloo Shrimp in attendance! EMP Museum, 325 Fifth Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 $12 Saturday, November 1, 2014, 1 – 4pm

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Midnight Adrenaline For a certain kind of filmgoer, one’s primal tastes were formed on balconies with sticky floors and threadbare seats, munching stale popcorn, watching scratchy old prints-colors faded, frames missing, the reels sometimes spliced out of order-of pictures that no snooty critic would call classic. Camp, gore, bad acting, cheesy effects, ludicrous dialogue, unscary monsters, and whopping continuity errors-these are treasured by the connoisseurs of midnight movies. The tradition began with the college film societies and repertory houses frequented by baby boomers in the ‘60s. There was no VHS or cable, so going out late to see a favorite bad movie, an underappreciated good movie, a cult movie, or a just plain weird movie was an event, something you did with friends. (And yes, dope was often smoked in the alleys before the show.) Sadly, for a generation weaned on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the tradition has nearly died in our age of Netflix and streaming. Landmark Theatres tried to entice the midnight-movie crowd to the Egyptian, but attendance was dwindling even before the theater went dark last year. But now SIFF is reviving the tradition, with the added lure of beer and wine, during the first month of the theater’s relaunch. Programming begins tonight with the funny, underrecognized creature-com Slither (2006), with Michael Rooker as a villain who messes with the wrong alien parasite. Saturday brings the tremendously enjoyable Jaws-on-dry-land comedy Tremors (1990), with Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward as desert yokels battling giant, man-eating underground worms. The Friday-Saturday programming continues this month-and beyond, we hope!-with Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn, Cabin in the Woods, Zombie, and the inevitable Rocky Horror Picture Show. (R) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema Egyptian, 801 E. Pine St., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$12 Saturday, November 1, 11:55pm – Sunday, November 2, 2014, 12:55am

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