The Oats Park Arts Center is presenting a vampiric theme for its Spring Film Series, starting with Friday night’s The Hunger.
The Box Office, Arts Bar and galleries open at 6 p.m., and the movie begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $7 for members or for a three-movie special, $18. Nonmembers are $10 for $27 for the three movies. Tickets are available at the box office Friday night or call the Churchill Arts Council at 775-423-1440.
The Hunger (1983), Friday, Feb. 11 – The exquisitely beautiful Catherine Deneuve plays Miriam, a centuries-old vampire capable of bestowing the gift of immortality on her lovers – namely her current partner John (David Bowie).
When John awakens one morning to discover telltale signs of aging, it is revealed that his own sustained youth is not permanent. In a panic, John visits the clinic of scientist Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon), who has recently published a book on reversing the aging process. With John consigned by Miriam to a box in the attic with her legions of undead lovers, Sarah is seduced into a steamy lesbian tryst.
From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Friday, Feb. 18 – In this action-horror flick from director Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino, Tarantino stars with George Clooney as a pair of sadistic brothers. After a string of robberies, the siblings head to Mexico to live the good life. To get over the border, they kidnap a widowed preacher (Harvey Keitel) and his two children (Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu). Once in Mexico they visit a trucker bar where the brothers are supposed to meet a local thug. They soon realize that they’re not in a typical bar, as the entire place begins to teem with vicious, blood-sucking vampires.
Let the Right One In (2008), Friday, Feb. 25 – A 12-year-old boy befriends a mysterious young girl whose appearance in town suspiciously coincides with a horrifying series of murders in director Tomas Alfredson’s film. Oskar is a young boy who can’t seem to shake off the local bullies, but all of that begins to change when a new neighbor moves in next door. After striking up a friendship with his eccentric neighbor, Oskar realizes that she is the vampire responsible for the recent rash of deaths around town. Despite the danger, however, Oskar’s friendship with the girl ultimately takes precedence over his fear of her.
