Something wicked this way comes to the Garden Theatre this October. The moviehouse will conjure a program of films to mark the spookiest time of the year. No matter if you’re horror-curious or a bona fide fiend of the macabre, these tales of terror and the fantastic are sure to cast a spell over you.
The Garden’s programmers have mixed into the cinematic cauldron the screwball comedy “I Married a Witch” with Veronica Lake as an immortal sorceress, Wednesday, October 9, at 7 p.m.; a new restoration of Tim Burton’s eerie “Sleepy Hollow,” Thursday, October 10, at 7 p.m.; the musical comedy “Little Shop of Horrors” on Thursday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m. preceded by a carnivorous plant presentation; “Munch: Love, Ghosts and Lady Vampires,” a documentary on Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, on Sunday, October 20, at 1:30 p.m.; and the David Bowie vampire flick “The Hunger” as part of the Garden’s Fashion in Film series on Wednesday, October 23, at 7:30 p.m.
For the littlest boils and ghouls, the October $5 Family Matinee title is the animated creature feature, “Hotel Transylvania,” on Saturday, October 12, at 10 a.m.
The Garden’s Retrograde series will offer two films this October: the teen-vampire phenomenon “Twilight” on Friday, October 11 at 9:45 p.m. and the parody comic book film, “The People’s Joker,” on Friday, October 18, at 9:45 p.m.
Moving from screen to stage, National Theatre Live offers a 2011 London production of “Frankenstein” featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as “The Creature” and Jonny Lee Miller as Victor Frankenstein on Sunday, October 13, at 1 p.m. and again on Tuesday, October 22, at 7 p.m.
The end of the month will see the return of Not So Silent Cinema providing live accompaniment to F.W. Murnau’s iconic “Nosferatu” on Wednesday, October 30, at 7:30 p.m.; and on Halloween night the theater will present Dario Argento’s Giallo masterpiece, “Suspiria,” also at 7:30 p.m.
The Garden Theatre is located at 160 Nassau Street. Tickets are available at the box office or online at princetongardentheatre.org/specials.
