Halloween Spook Show Spectacular

Halloween Spook Show Spectacular poster - Oct. 30, 2009

Carnivorous Cartoons, Shocking Shorts, Asphyxiating Animation, Terrifying Trailers, Putrescent Previews…and Real Live Mayhem!

Do you dare to witness the ultimate onslaught of MONSTER MAYHEM as the Grand Illusion Cinema is overrun with creeps, spooks, ghouls, and fiends?

Join us on our journey into the strange, dark world of the SUPERNATURAL as we try to make contact with the other side and invite the diabolical denizens of the spectral realms into our theater.

You will see a GHOST! But you may not SURVIVE! Be there on October 30th and behold as the phantoms take over the screen for a night of the most unbelievably SHOCKING, THRILLING, and AMAZING fright films ever to scream their way into your rapidly melting mind.

Can you survive the GRAND ILLUSION SPOOK-SHOW SPECTACULAR? See if you have what it takes!!

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Trailer by Mark Palm.

The Films

Part 1

  • The Skeleton Dance (1929, Disney) – cartoon
  • The Red Spectre (El Espectro Rojo) (1904, Sigmundo de Chamon) – tinted and hand-colored trick film
  • The Tell Tale Heart (1953, Ted Parmalee) – cartoon, narrated by James Mason

Part 2

  • The Scariest Film Ever Made
  • Betty Boop’s Halloween Party (1933, Dave Fleischer) – cartoon
  • Phony Croneys (1942) – extended excerpt from the 2-reeler comedy with El Brendel, Tom Kennedy, and Dudley Dickerson
  • The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber) – art film

Part 3

  • The Merry Frolics of Satan (1905, Georges Méliès) – tinted trick film
  • Night on Bald Mountain (1933, Alexandre Alexeieff & Claire Parker) – early pinscreen animation
  • Bimbo’s Initiation (1930, Dave Fleischer)

Part 4 (in 3D)

  • Third Dimensional Murder (aka Murder in 3D, 1941, George Sidney) – a Pete Smith Novelty
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954, Jack Arnold) – digest version
Alexandre Alexeieff & Claire Parker