STAKE LAND sets the stakes high as opening film at Lincoln Center horrorfest
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater
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October 27-31
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Lincoln Center’s fourth annual Halloween week mini-festival of horror begins tonight with the New York premiere of Jim Mickle’s vampire flick, STAKE LAND, with Mickle, screenwriter Nick Damici, and stars Connor Paolo and Kelly McGillis in person at the Walter Reade Theater. The fourteen-film series continues with a mix of old classics and new cult faves, from Brian DePalma’s CARRIE (1976), Clive Barker’s first HELLRAISER (1987), and the suspenseful 1945 British omnibus DEAD OF NIGHT to the New York premieres of Sean Byrnes’s THE LOVED ONES, Christopher Smith’s BLACK DEATH, and James Rabbitts’s THE CLINIC in addition to the world premiere of Fouad Benhammou’s VILLAGE OF SHADOWS. And you’ll find plenty of other cool creepiness in DR. TERROR’S HOUSE OF HORRORS (Freddie Francis, 1965), MESSIAH OF EVIL (Willard Huyck, 1973), and, of course, THE CREEPING FLESH (Freddie Francis, 1973). And one of our all-time faves will be screened Wednesday and Thursday, John Hough’s eerie 1973 frightfest THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE, with the great Roddy McDowall and Clive Revill and written by the master himself, Richard Matheson.