Secret Vault of Torment
Classic horror films on 16mm
Spooky Shorts plus a Secret Feature
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
7:00 PM
Grand Illusion Cinema at Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave. on Capitol Hill
Seattle, WA
Celebrate Elsa Lanchester’s birthday with mad doctors, monsters, and dungeons galore in a secret seance of shivers, all on 16mm film!
You’ll be dragged screaming back to the classic horror era when you dare to enter our cinematic charnel house of gruesome shocks! Boris, Bela, and all the gravest mon-stars will tickle your spine with terror in this cortège of spooky shorts plus a scary 1930s secret feature!
Gasp with sadistic glee at the full-length horrifying tale of a deranged surgeon and supercreep mutilating his captive henchman in a psychotic plot of vengeful lust! Witness the “complete” (ish) Frankenstein saga in less than an hour with abridged digests of the original movies, a corpus delicious stitched together from all the best parts! Plus: 1950s Abbott & Costello TV skits with monsters, and still more 16mm surprises from our crypt!
Your ecstatic exsanguination will have you jumping for jolts at this ghoulish gathering of ‘30s and ‘40s frights! Step inside...the Secret Vault of Torment!
Part of the Grand Illusion Cinema’s series, All Monsters Attack!
“Should click with patrons who go for the bizarre stuff.” The Film Daily
“An orgy of sadism...cruelty for cruelty’s sake.” London Telegraph