Paging Sandy Petersen…

Updated on August 24, 2011 By Ken Begg 16 Comments

Imagine it, a typical art cinema on Chicago’s Northside. Quiet, beautiful, tranquil, and known for showing the same on screen…. except for one 24 hour period every October.

Noon, Saturday October 15th until Noon, Sunday October 16th— experience Horror on the big screen.

Featuring:
Burn Witch Burn
Hour of the Wolf
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Gates of Hell
The Vampire Lovers
Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things
The Sentinel
From Dusk ‘Til Dawn
AND MORE!

Plus Vendor tables, prizes, and Charity auctions for Vital Bridges —- Vital Bridges’ mission is to help people throughout metropolitan Chicago impacted by HIV and AIDS to improve their health and build self-sufficiency by providing food, nutrition, housing, case management and prevention services.

Special Guests to be announced soon, but one confirmed guest will be HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS, “The Godfather of Gore” and director of such sick scarefests as “2,000 Maniacs”, “The Wizard of Gore” and “Blood Feast!”

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  • Ericb

    OT: Hey if anyone or their offspring are getting married here is engagement photo concept that some here might find interesting:

    http://www.amandarynda.com/2011/08/zombie-engagement-photos/

  • Reed

    What happened to Sandy’s Wizard of Gore review? I can’t find it any more.

  • Reed

    My mistake, I found it under “T”.

  • The Rev.

    Ericb: Holy crap, that is awesome. I wish I’d thought of it.

    I’d love to be there for that. Although I fear I might snap and attack Mr. Lewis, screaming, “WHITE MILK CHOCOLATE MILK YOU BASTARD GRRRRARRRRGHG!!!”

  • Rock Baker

    I wouldn’t mind seeing The Vampire Lovers on a big screen. I’m always amazed when I see that flick, because of how good it is. A thousand times better than it has any right to be!

  • Ericb

    I don’t know, whenever I watch the Vampire Lovers I just can’t suspend my disbelief enough to accept Ingrid Pitt as a teenager.

  • But if she WAS a teenager, you would have never wanted to grow up.

  • Mr. Rational

    All the cool stuff seems to happen in Chicago, grumble grumble…

  • zombiewhacker

    The (bleep)?! H.G. Lewis is still alive?!!

    The Sentinel is noteworthy mainly for its extraordinary supporting cast, perhaps the greatest ever assembled for a single horror film.

    Too bad the movie sucks.

    I’m also tickled to see Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things on the list. Still can’t decide whether this is a good bad movie or a bad good movie. Great horror climax though.

  • My major problem with CHildren Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things is that the main character has the mannerisms, appearance, and voice of a particularly weird and obnoxious acquaintance of mine when I lived back in California. I used to see this guy at every roleplaying convention and I suspect he considered himself my friend (I was always polite, which was probably rare in his circle.) I remember when he took up Satanism in a (failed) attempt to impress girls.

  • zombiewhacker

    OMG… Sandy… is that you?

    j/k

  • Petoht

    Zombie, Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things is neither. It is, in fact, a spectacularly awesome bad movie. I enjoyed the hell out of it, even more than Black Christmas (le gasp).

  • sandra

    Hour of the Wolf ? That sounds like an Igmar Bergman movie. In fact, wasn’t it on Monster Chiller Horro Theatre once ?

  • Hour of the Wolf IS a Bergman film, although apparently it’s a horror film as well. The Magician is also pretty close at times to being a horror film.

  • zombiewhacker

    Ken, if you’re still reading this, what would be special guests would you like to see at the Fest?

  • Oh, definitely Cullen Blaine, the guy who made ROTOR. Sadly, although the film was made in Dallas, I think Mr. Blaine might be living in California these days.