Suspiria Screening at Flashback Weekend

Okay Argento fans, now is your chance to see Suspiria on the big screen like you’ve never seen it before. On Friday night, Aug. 4th, at 10:30pm at the AMC Rosemont 18 (formally Muvico), they will be screening the new 4K restoration of this Argento classic on the big screen, thanks to Synapse Films. We all know the incredible work that Synapse has done on their previous releases, so you know that this version, “beautifully restored from an original fully uncut and uncensored 35mm Italian camera negative, presented with the original 4.0 discrete sound mix not heard since the original theatrical release in 1977”, it is going to be just jaw-dropping amazing to witness.

Soundtrack Review: Wish Upon

Wish Upon
Released by Lakeshore Records, 2017
25 Tracks with a Total Running time of 42 min.
Music by tomandandy

When four notes of a score hook you in, showing just what kind of music you’re in for, the composer has done something right. There are a ton of scores out there that while are good and fill out the background while the movie is playing, a good and creepy score will grab you right away, burrowing its way into your psyche. The four notes that I mentioned are used throughout the entire score, but it is that one chilling part that gets you.

Mystery Photo 7-24

Sorry for the late posting, but its Monday, so that has to mean a new Mystery Photo, right? Before we get to this week’s, let us go over our last one. It was from the 1981 slasher flick Graduation Day. How could you go wrong with a movie starring Christopher George? Congrats to the following that sent in the correct answer: Hoby Abernathy and Robert Freese. Well done, guys!

Okay, so here is this week’s photo for you to take a ponder on. Just remember not to post your answers here, but instead put them in an email to us at jon@kitleyskrypt.com.

Good Luck!

Support the Drive-In…Eat THEIR Food!

We recently came across this photo on Facebook and it prompted me to take a few minutes to try and help get this point out there to a few more people, and try to help explain why this is a very important message. Regular visitors to the Krypt know my love for the Drive-In Theaters, especially when they have their all night horror movie marathons! Trust me, one does not drive hundreds and hundreds of miles to watch movies outside out of boredom. There is just something about the drive-in and the experience of the whole thing. I keep using the term “experience” because it really is. From sitting in your car (or out in front of it on lawn chairs), to the atmosphere, the food, the people, everything about it adds up to a great night, and one that takes you back to a different era. Maybe it was because I grew up going to these as a teenager that it reminds me of those times when I visit them today.

The Real Director of Poltergeist is…

The reports are flooding the internet from an interview stating that Steven Spielberg was actually the real director of the 1982 film Poltergeist.

And to that, we can only comment with….Well, duh! Seriously…was there ever any doubt?

Martin Landau – Rest in Peace

Really don’t like it when these are so close together. Really makes one feel their mortality. As I write this up, I’m listening to the soundtrack from Creepshow, still trying to get over the loss of George Romero. But Martin Landau might not have made the impact in the horror genre like Romero, he definitely made his mark in a few titles. As an actor though, he was simply just amazing to watch. Landau passed away yesterday at the age of 89, due to “unexpected complications”, and the acting world loses one of the best.

I first recall Landau from both Mission Impossible and Space 1999, but never knew him as the actor, Martin Landau. He was just “that guy from that TV show”. But in 1984, a film started at the theater I was working at that was a collection of clips from different horror movies. The film was Terror in the Aisles, and it featured a few scenes from a movie called Alone in the Dark (1982), that starred Landau, as the demented character “Preacher”. In those brief clips, he gave us one of the most frightening performances that gave me chills. So much so that it immediately made me want to find that movie to see the whole thing. Around that time, he had also appeared in terror titles like Without Warning (1980) and The Being (1983). But it was his performance as the aging Bela Lugosi that won him an Oscar in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood (1994).

Just looking through his filmography, you can see all the different and wonderful characters that he created over the years. A real consummate actor, always making the audience believe in his character.  So no matter what role he was playing, you know it was going to be worth the watch.

Our thoughts go out to the friends and family during this difficult time. He will be missed, but never forgotten.

Mystery Photo 7-17

Welcome to Monday. Not been a good weekend for us horror fans, so let us just get to the photo. Last week’s pic was from Hammer’s The Gorgon (1964). Not one of their classics, but a damn good cast and a lot of fun. Kudos to the following that sent in the correct answer: Hoby Abernathy, Aaron Christensen, Bill Harrison, Troy Howarth, Doug Lamoreux, Gary Miller, Michael Shields, and Will Wilson. Well done!

Now to this week’s photo. There are some Mondays that this is kind of how I feel when trying to get out of bed! Take a look and see if you can identify this piece of cinema. As always, please remember not to post your answers here, but send them to us in an email to jon@kitleyskrypt.com. Good Luck!