It Gets Dark Fast Here: A Seattle Horror Meetup

From SIFF.Net:

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Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) is a witch living a happy life in her insular Greenwich Village community—she has friends, a favorite spooky social club, and a successful business selling enchanted wares from across the globe. But she harbors a secret longing for human emotion and love, the one thing she can’t enjoy as a witch. Her brother Nicky (Jack Lemmon) has no such desires and lives his life as a playful warlock, eager to ensnare their new neighbor Shep (Jimmy Stewart) for Gillian when she takes an interest in him. Although framed as a lighthearted romance, Gillian’s story reflects her search for a deeper connection to human empathy. In achieving her goal, she also gains some of the things that go along with it--loneliness and regret. Anyone who has longed to make a leap from their own comfort zone will root for Gillian and be charmed all the way to the final scene. —Megan McNelis

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Let's get a drink and a bite to eat afterwards. :)

Note: I WILL be late to this talk, because I'm coming from the Egyptian and seeing "Bell, Book & Candle." But hopefully not TOO late.

From SIFF.Net:

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Whether you think of Him as the embodiment of all evil, a folkloric trickster, or an abstract concept of the world’s ills, Satan, in all of his guises, exists. Well, in the movies, at least. The Devil has been a fixture on screens across the world since the very beginnings of Cinema. From Georges Méliès early fantasias to New Hollywood and the blockbuster era, Satan appears with a Biblical regularity. But portrayals of the Devil vary greatly. Is He the enemy of God and all Mankind? Or a more personal demon who comically tempts the protagonist with worldly riches and desire?

SIFF Programmer Dan Doody explores the variety of representations of the Devil in film, as well as the tropes and themes that accompany these portrayals, from the genesis of cinema to our modern apocalyptic blockbusters.

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Afterwards let's get a drink and a bite to eat. :)

From SIFF.Net:

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After John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 screened at the Milan Film Festival, producers Irwin Yablans and Moustapha Akkad approached the director to helm a low budget exploitation flick to be entitled The Babysitter Murders. Carpenter and his then partner Debra Hill ran with the idea: writing the script in 10 days, retitling the film to reflect its setting on the spookiest day of the year, and, with the help of a spray painted Captain Kirk mask, crafted one the most relentlessly frightening films of all time. And while not the first slasher film, John Carpenter’s Halloween firmly established the sub-genre as a popular, and lucrative, box office draw; Michael Myers blazed a trail followed by Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Ghostface.

Join facilitator and SIFF Programmer Dan Doody for a scene-by-scene—or should that be a slash-by-slash—breakdown of the night he came home!

## ABOUT CINEMA DISSECTION

Cinema Dissection affords film lovers an exciting opportunity to dig deeper into the films that they love. Inspired by Roger Ebert's annual Cinema Interruptus in Boulder, CO, attendees will participate with a facilitator in a six-hour scene-by-scene, and sometimes shot-by-shot, deconstruction of the featured film. While the facilitator will certainly share their thoughts, anyone in the audience may call out "Stop" and either ask a question of the group or make an observation around a certain shot or moment in the film.


## About the Instructor:

A Seattle-area native, Dan Doody received a degree in English from Western Washington University, and began working for the Seattle International Film Festival in 1999. He programs both features and short films for the festival, serving on the WTF! committee and as the festival's lead coordinator for its Oscar® qualifying ShortsFest section. He is an enthusiast of the gothic in both film and literature, the pagan-haunted pastorals found in English ghost stories, and the seedy streets of film noir. He could quite happily live in a crumbling castle so long as it was within walking distance of a neon-lit diner on a rain-slicked city boulevard.

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Afterwards we can grab a drink and a bite to eat. :)

From TheBeacon.Film:

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Even now this landscape is assembling. The hills darken. The oxen sleep in their blue yoke, the fields having been picked clean, the sheaves bound evenly and piled at the roadside among cinquefoil, as the toothed moon rises: This is the barrenness of harvest or pestilence. And the wife leaning out the window with her hand extended, as in payment, and the seeds distinct, gold, calling, “Come here. Come here, little one.” And the soul creeps out of the tree.

Samhain is here again and it’s time for mischief. THE BEACON HALLOWEEN SPECIAL is back with an all-new lineup of chilling short-form cinema and television’s most all-hallowed creepy episodes. Join us for a moonlit cavalcade of spookies, ghoulies, occult rituals and candy-mad children as we set the jack-o-lanterns ablaze. It’s a video mega-mix, our original cauldron blend, brewed up specially for 2024 to fill you with nostalgia, fond memories of autumns past and overwhelming, unimaginable terror.

Trick? Or Treat?

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Let's go for a drink and a bite to eat after. :)