The latter is mostly contemporary fright films, but includes Terence Fisher’s THE GORGON (1964) in 35mm and a Halloween Day screening of FRANKENSTEIN (1931) with free admission and complimentary popcorn (my favorite flavor). The Film Society of Lincoln Center scores twice this week, first with a brief Hitchcock retrospective featuring FRENZY (1972) and the rarely screened I CONFESS (1953) in 35mm, then with the ninth installment of their Scary Movies series. (Non-horror standout in this series include MISS SADIE THOMPSON with a heart-breaking Rita Hayworth and the 3-D noir MAN IN THE DARK with Edmond O’Brien.) If you like your thrills in three dimensions, Film Forum’s Classic 3-D series kicks off Friday with recent digital restorations of HOUSE OF WAX (1953), DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954) and CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954), plus rarities like Three Stooges shorts in 3-D. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922) on Friday night alone, including two in a 100-year-old cathedral with pipe organ accompaniment. And there are four(!) opportunities to see F.W.
There’s also a rare 35mm presentation of Tod Browning’s THE UNKNOWN (1927) on Halloween night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, featuring an armless Lon Chaney and Steve Sterner at the piano (fully armed).
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If you prefer your spooks silent, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925) screens Sunday evening in an actual 1930 movie palace – the former Loews 175th Street Theater in Washington Heights – accompanied by Ben Model with an introduction by New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick and a live performance by cast members of the Broadway musical version. Halloween is the best time of the year to be a classic film fan. And it’s even better if you live (or are un-dead) in New York City, where more than sixty screenings of horror and suspense films released before 2001 will unspool between now and Sunday – some in historic venues and many in 35mm (a medium that’s rising from the grave, thanks in part to the revival circuit).
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