Denver’s authority on contemporary film, Walter Chaw, hosts a collection of scary movies that showcases what the world is coming to in cinematic horror. These classic, or soon-to-be classics will give you lots to think about and Chaw guides after-film discussion, so you won’t have to hurry home to a darkened house! Check Walter Chaw’s current film reviews at filmfreakcentral.net. |
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Sweden: Let the Right One In (2008)
Tuesday, October 20, 6-9 p.m.
Central Library, Level B2 Conference Center
Directed by Tomas Alfredson. Starring Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson.
“Vampires are the new zombies. Bloodsuckers are hot, baby. Stick your neck out for this Swedish horror show. It's a winner, full of mirth and malice, plus a young romance you'll never see on the Disney Channel.” - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. 115 minutes. Rated R. |
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Germany: Nosferatu (1922)
Tuesday, October 27, 6-9 p.m.
Central Library, Level B2 Conference Center
Directed by F.W. Murnau. Starring Max Schreck.
“To watch F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu is to see the vampire movie before it had really seen itself. Here is the story of Dracula before it was buried alive in clichés, jokes, TV skits, cartoons and more than 30 other films. This film is in awe of its material. It seems to really believe in vampires.” - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times. 84 minutes. Unrated.
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Spain: Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Tuesday, November 3, 6-9 p.m.
Central Library, Level B2 Conference Center
Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Ivana Baquero.
“There's plenty of blood – both literal and figurative – coursing through the veins of Pan's Labyrinth, a richly imagined and exquisitely violent fantasy from writer-director Guillermo del Toro. A fairy tale not even remotely intended for children, this entrancing magical-realist drama concocts a sinister spin on Alice in Wonderland against the war-torn backdrop of 1940s Spain…” - Justin Chang, Variety.com. 114 minutes. Rated R. |
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South Korea: The Host (2006)
Tuesday, November 10, 6-9 p.m.
Central Library, Level B2 Conference Center
Directed by Joon-ho Bong. Starring Kang-ho Song.
“On almost every level, there's never quite been a monster movie like The Host. Egregiously subverting its own genre while still delivering shocks at a pure genre level, and marbled with straight-faced character humor that constantly throws the viewer off balance, this much-hyped big-budgeter about a huge mutant tadpole that emerges from Seoul's Han River is a bold gamble headed to instant cult status.” - Derek Elley, Variety.com. 119 minutes. Rated R.
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USA: Cloverfield (2008)
Tuesday, November 17, 6-9 p.m.
Central Library, Level B2 Conference Center
Directed by Matt Reeves. Produced by J.J. Abrams. Starring Michael Stahl-David, Lizzy Caplan, T.J. Miller.
“There's no explanation of the mayhem in Cloverfield beyond that a monster has attacked and that the recoil its rampage spawns inevitably resembles memories of our collective scarring by 9/11. All that it does, really, is clarify that when people at Ground Zero referred to the falling of the WTC as "just like in a movie," it didn't point to a divorce from reality but to an inability, utterly, to conceive of anything so epoch-shaking as possible outside the prism of our precious, silver-graven images.” - Walter Chaw, filmfreakcentral.net. 85 minutes. Rated PG-13.
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