For the second of our 2 Thursday Horror Movies at CoLab we’ll be screening Dario Argento’s 1977 ode to witchcraft, bloodbath Suspiria.

Outside of devoted cult audiences, many Americans have yet to discover the extremely stylish, relentlessly terrifying Italian horror genre, or the films of its talented virtuoso, Dario Argento. Suspiria, part one of a still-uncompleted trilogy (the luminously empty Inferno was the second), is considered his masterpiece by Argento devotees but also doubles as a perfect starting point for those unfamiliar with the director or his genre. The convoluted plot follows an American dancer (Jessica Harper) from her arrival at a European ballet school to her discovery that it’s actually a witches coven; but, really, don’t worry about that too much. Argento makes narrative subservient to technique, preferring instead to assault the senses and nervous system with mood, atmosphere, illusory gore, garish set production, a menacing camera, and perhaps the creepiest score ever created for a movie. It’s essentially a series of effectively unsettling set pieces–a raging storm that Harper should have taken for an omen, and a blind man attacked by his own dog are just two examples–strung together on a skeleton structure. But once you’ve seen it, you’ll never forget it.

The movie will start at 8pm, BYOB.

For the first of our 2 Thursday Horror Movies at CoLab we’ll be screening Roman Polanski’s 1976 psycho-suspense-thriller-chiller The Tenant.

After the triumph of Chinatown, Roman Polanski’s The Tenant marked an unsettling return to the horrifying psychodrama of Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby. As in those previous films, Polanski explores a descent into madness with subtle, deliberate pacing and keen attention to accumulating details. Cannily casting himself in the title role, Polanski plays the mild-mannered occupant of a Parisian flat previously rented by a woman who committed suicide by leaping from her upper-floor balcony. The woman’s leftover belongings and the harsh attitudes of disapproving neighbors (including Melvin Douglas and Shelley Winters) begin to grate on the new tenant’s psyche; his paranoia shifts from simmering anxiety to full-blown psychosis, until fate itself seems to run in a complete, tragically tormenting circle. Polanski masters the material as only he could, and despite some critical drubbing at the time of its release, The Tenant has earned a place among Polanski’s finest films.

The movie will start at 8pm, BYOB.

Totally Wreck Production Institute: IN SCIENCE, THE LION SLEEPS WITH THE LAMB

Opening with Special Performance: Saturday, June 5, 8-11 PM
Show Dates: June 5 – 26, 2010

light lodge show day 2
(originally booked @ cube valley universalist church)

Come out and join us for some awesome bands!!!

how i quit crack 12:00
eternal tapestry 12:45
corporate park 1:30
george quartz 2:15
psychic violence 3:00
survive 3:45
vulgar fashion 4:30
sewn leather 5:15
picture plane 6:00
tearist 6:45
medio mutante 7:30
twisted wires 8:15