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Oddball Films and guest curator Lynn Cursaro present Monster Mash-up featuring Winter of the Witch. The classic creatures of Universal horror and the cackling brides of Satan are the focus of this year’s Halloween spectacle. Everyone’s favorite monster appears in highlights of both the spare Son of Frankenstein (1939) and the broadly comic Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). Doom of Dracula (1944) features an elegantly turned out Boris Karloff as the Count’s protector. Some people can find a teachable moment in any holiday, as the cheese-heavy Halloween Safety (1969) attests. Georges Méliès’s pioneering cinema of mayhem is the perfect vehicle for a pair of hellzapoppin’ otherworldly shenanigans: The Inn Where No Man Rests and The Witch’s Revenge, (both 1903) Witchcraft’s time-tested power is pitted against Woody Woodpecker's madcap cartoon mojo in Witch Crafty (1955). The devil gets his due in appropriately fleshy style in Betty Dolan`s endearingly strange mid-century burlesque in Satan-Tease. And of course, Hermione Gingold is back in Winter of the Witch (1969) as a mischievous old dear who is nonetheless eager to share the delicious secret of happiness. More is stewing in the Oddball cauldron, so be there! And as always, complimentary home-baked treats appropriate to the season for all!
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 8:00PM.
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00, Limited Seating, RSVP to: 415-558-8117 or RSVP@oddballfilm.com