Screen Gems Presents: Things That Go Bump in the Night

Screen Gems presents Things That Go Bump in the Night – a month-long film series celebrating monster movies through the decades.

Frankenstein, 1931
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October 4  |  Wednesday  |  5:30PM – 7:30PM
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Boris Karloff stars as the screen’s most memorable monster in what many consider to be the greatest horror film ever made.

Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster (Karloff) out of lifeless body parts. It’s director James Whale’s adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel blended with Karloff’s compassionate portrayal of a creature groping for identity that makes Frankenstein a masterpiece not only of the genre, but for all time.

 

The Blob, 1958
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October 4  |  Wednesday  |  5:30PM – 7:30PM
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One of the most memorable of the giant monster films of the ’50s, this sci-fi classic concerns a shapeless, flesh dissolving mass that emerges from a fallen meteor and grows larger with each victim it absorbs. At first scoffed at by the police, teenage hero Steve Andrews “Steve McQueen, in his first lead role) and his girlfriend, Jane Martin, enlist their drag-racing buddies to alert the town to the danger, before being trapped in a diner that is completely enveloped by the Blob in the film’s spectacular climax. Featuring a hit theme song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, “Beware the Blob” and special effects that are still impressive today, The Blob rocketed McQueen to stardom and was later remade in 1988.

 

Night of the Living Dead, 1968
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October 18  |  Wednesday  |  5:30PM – 7:30PM
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A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour. The pragmatic Ben (Duane Jones) does his best to control the situation, but when the reanimated bodies surround the house, the other survivors begin to panic. As any semblance of order within the group begins to dissipate, the zombies start to find ways inside — and one by one, the living humans become the prey of the deceased ones.

 

Alien, 1979
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October 25  |  Wednesday  |  5:30PM – 7:30PM
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When the crew of the space-tug Nostromo answers a distress signal from a desolate planet, the members discover a deadly life form that breeds within a human host. And so the horror begins. Sigourney Weaver stars as Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in on of the most suspenseful and powerful science fiction and horror films of all time.