The Colonial Theatre » First Friday Fright Night

The Fly

Kirsten — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:02:43 +0000

A brilliant young scientist, Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), is working on a matter transport device. Willingly, Brundle transports himself in the machine. Unbeknown to him a common household fly flew into the machine right before teleportation. Brundle emerges anew but the fly is nowhere to be seen. The horror begins as Brundle�s humanity falls away, literally. Goldblum�s transformation is a true wonder in make up and special effects. However, if you look past the make-up in �The Fly� there might be something else. The fear (of transformation/ infection) becomes all too real as Brundle�s girlfriend (Genna Davis) feels as if she may have something horrific inside her too. This remake of the 1958 classic is not for the weak of heart. Rest assured this is a night of true horror. (Bob Trate)

“David Cronenberg’s The Fly is that absolute rarity of the ’80s: a film that is at once a pure, personal expression and a superbly successful commercial enterprise.” [Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug 1986]

House of 1000 Corpses

Kirsten — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:20:27 +0000

“Picture this: the year is 1987 and you just walked into a West Coast Video on a Friday night� with some friends looking for something unknown and crazy. Something that will simultaneously creep you out, disturb you, and make you wonder if the director was actually insane. House of 1000 Corpses is that movie. Made in the new millennium but more bizarre than anything that is in the modern horror canon.� Equal parts horror, exploitation, and bizarre; the Colonial Theater presents, for you,� Rob Zombie’s first film. In his veins flows the blood of horror from the silent 20s through the insane 80s. And he wants to bleed for you. Welcome to his nightmare.” (Apartment 1014 Films)

Cronos

Kirsten — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:04:05 +0000

“Cronos is a very stylish and sophisticated Mexican variation on some age-old themes. With the very names of his principal characters (Jesus Gris and Angel de la Guardia), Guillermo del Toro, the writer and director, signals the mordant playfulness of his film. Not every vampire has a granddaughter named Aurora, either.

In terms of its essential subject matter, Cronos has not discovered much that’s new under (or out of) the sun. But this film’s reflective, even stately style elevates it from the ranks of ordinary stake-through-the-heart vampire dramaturgy, turning it into something much more exotic. Suffused with clever ambiguities and staged with unexpected grace,� Cronos finds its originality in unlikely ways. This must be the only vampire film in which an impeccably dressed, white-haired gentleman has ever felt compelled to lie down and lick a bathroom floor.” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times)

Click here to continue reading Maslin’s review.

Cronos will be shown on DVD.