Popcorn & Candy is DCist’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting frightening movies playing around town in the coming week.
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD
Saturday afternoon you can double your “things” for a single admission in Silver Spring. Dick Dysel, aka television host Count Gore De Vol, is back at the AFI this weekend for a double bill of Howard Hawks’ 1951 creature thriller The Thing from Another World (in a 35mm print) with a DCP of John Carpenter’s 1982 remake The Thing. Longtime area movie critic Arch Campbell will be on hand to co-host the event, which features games, prizes, and other thrills. The AFI Silver’s Halloween programming also includes screenings of the 1922 silent classic Nosferatu (October 28 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.) with live musical accompaniment by the Silent Orchestra, aka Carlos Garza and Rich O’Meara; and an almost-midnight screening of Shaun of the Dead (11:55 p.m. on October 29).
Watch the trailers for The Thing from Another World and The Thing
The Thing from Another World and The Thing screen Saturday, October 29 at 5 p.m. at the AFI Silver.
Kathleen Hughes in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
THE WASHINGTON PSYCHOTRONIC FILM SOCIETY
The Washington Psychotronic Film Society, which got some love from The Washington City Paper this week, runs its annual Horrorpalooza program of short films, trailers, clips, AND music videos for what is guaranteed to be an entertaining and frightening Halloween.
Monday, October 31 at 8 p.m. downstairs at Smoke and Barrel
B.C. Butcher (Troma)
THE WATHA T. DANIEL NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY
Sunday afternoon the Shaw branch of the D.C. Public Library screens a free Horror-Camp double feature. Low-budget horror producers Troma Entertainment present the prehistoric slasher movie B. C. Butcher, made by director Kansas Bowling when she was just 17. The emerging filmmaker insisted that her debut feature be shot on 16mm film stock, just like her beloved Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Shown with director Pat Bishow’s 1987 mad scientist thriller The Soultangler. The Library asks that due to the PG-13 nature of the films, that you don’t bring your pre-teens.
Watch the trailers for B.C. Butcher and The Soultangler
Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016, 1 p.m. at the Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Neighborhood Library, 1630 7th St. NW. Free.
Janet Leigh in PSYCHOD.C.’s newest independent movie house hosts a Slasher Costume Party Friday night and returns to movie programming this weekend with two titles from the master of macabre, Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho (October 29 at 8 p.m.) and The Birds (October 30 at 8:00 p.m.). Space is very limited, so purchase tickets in advance.
Watch the trailers for Psycho and The Birds.
Suns Cinema is at 3117 Mt. Pleasant St. NW
Peter Lorre in M
In conjunction with the Goethe-Institut, the Heurich House opens up its Victorian doors for a screening of Fritz Lang’s 1931 classic M, starring Peter Lorre. After the screening, attendees can tour all three floors of the Brewmaster’s Castle. For more haunted options of a non-cinematic variety, see our roundup of area ghost tours here.
Heurich Halloween, presented in partnership with the Goethe-Institut, takes place Friday, October 28 at 6 p.m. with a film screening at 6:30 p.m. and a tour to follow. $20. Buy tickets here.
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Also at the movies this week, Park Chan-wook’s lurid 19th century period drama The Handmaiden; and the black gay coming-of-age drama Moonlight. We’ll have full reviews tomorrow.
