Tonight’s film: Ravenous. For Theresa Mercado, there’s never a bad time for horror movies. While most people were planning backyard barbecues, she was launching her Cruel Summer horror film series. Now, as the weather turns cold, it’s time to launch Cruel Winter with the Stephen King/David Cronenberg collaboration The Dead…
Steampunk, that oddball literary and art movement that injects elements of science fiction and the fantastic into the Victorian era, continues to evolve as it ages. Once easily — if not entirely accurately — pigeonholed as ray guns and airships in Olde England, the genre is expanding its scope both…
In just a few days, The Walking Dead will close up shop for another season. The finale airs March 31, and whether you’re watching at home alone or attending one of the watching parties (like Not Quite Dead Sundays at Jake’s Food and Spirits), it will be the last last…
When the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’s Tough Guy Cinema presentation of RoboCop hits on Monday, April 8 fans of the film are in for a treat. Not only do they get to see the finest dystopian sci-fi action film ever made on the big screen — complete with live, in-theater pyrotechnics!…
The Amityville Horror is the best-known haunting in American history, spawning multiple films, countless books and speculation to this day about what really happened more than thirty years ago. At this point, it seems like there couldn’t be any angle on the story that hasn’t been beaten to death –…
The Stanley Hotel, the historic and supposedly haunted lodge in Estes Park that inspired Stephen King’s The Shining, has always embraced its association with the chilling story, even if it wasn’t actually used as the set for the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film of the same name. So there’s no creepier…
Denver film fans can officially start their love affair with the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema today when the theater kicks things off with its grand-opening event, An Evening With Pam Grier. It’s a great way to introduce the Drafthouse brand to local cinemaphiles, infusing the chain’s embrace of genre film and…
Dedicated fans and curious cinephiles alike don’t have much longer to wait — the Denver area’s own Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is opening in a matter of days. The storied theater chain officially kicks things off Monday, March 25, with a grand-opening event honoring Pam Grier, who grew up in Denver;…
More than twenty years after the story broke, America’s fascination with cannibal sex killer Jeffrey Dahmer lingers on. In The Jeffrey Dahmer Files, a new documentary on the case playing tonight and tomorrow at the Sie FilmCenter for the Denver Film Society’s Watching Hour, three of the people closest to…
At The ABCs of Death, in its final night at the Sie FilmCenter, you’re going to get the equivalent of horror tapas — one short, punchy tale for each letter of the alphabet, each delivered by a current or rising star in the genre. It’s a tasty appetizer that can…
No matter how well-regarded a classic film, there are always modern film buffs who have never taken the time to watch it. The Vintage Theatre is looking to change that with its monthly Vintage Classic Movie series, during which it will screen acknowledged but sometimes unappreciated masterpieces. “I think one…
What would it be like to live next door to one of history’s most notorious serial killers? That’s just one of the questions answered in The Jeffrey Dahmer Files, a documentary that goes directly to sources with the most insight on the Milwaukee murderer. Testimonials from his next-door neighbor, the…
At The ABCs of Death, showing now at the Sie FilmCenter, you’re going to get the equivalent of horror tapas — one short, punchy tale for each letter of the alphabet, each delivered by a current or rising star in the genre. It’s a tasty appetizer that can serve as…
At The ABCs of Death, showing now at the Sie FilmCenter, you’re going to get the equivalent of horror tapas — one short, punchy tale for each letter of the alphabet, each delivered by a current or rising star in the genre. It’s a tasty appetizer that can serve as…
When you to to The ABCs of Death, showing now at the Sie FilmCenter, you’re going to get the equivalent of horror tapas — one short, punchy tale for each letter of the alphabet, each delivered by a current or rising star in the genre. It’s a tasty appetizer that…
At The ABCs of Death, opening today at the Sie FilmCenter, you’re going to get the equivalent of horror tapas — one short, punchy tale for each letter of the alphabet, each delivered by a current or rising star in the genre. It’s a tasty appetizer that can serve as…
Death comes in many forms, so it seems like naming one form for each letter of the alphabet would be child’s play. Or, in the case of The ABCs of Death, an excuse to gather 26 rising stars of the horror genre and give each of them five minutes and…
It might seem like zombies and fashion would mix about as well as oil and water, but that’s just because you haven’t thought about it nearly as much as Summer Jackson. Her annual March of the Zombies fashion extravaganza is kicking off its fifth year, and the combination of high…
The ’90s don’t get a lot of cinematic respect. Apart from a handful of acknowledged classics, film fans tend to overlook work from the rest of the decade. And that’s a shame, because while the ’90s might not be on the radar for a lot of cinemaphiles, there are plenty…
Think back: What was the first art object you ever owned? For many of us, it may have been the ubiquitous lunchbox, where pop culture, art and design intersected the PB&J. This is the thought behind Paileontology: Vintage Lunchbox Art, which opens tonight at Blue Dot Studio. “Television transformed the…
Colorado’s place as part of the Old West drives the Wildlife Experience’s Whiskey and a Western program, which pairs classic Westerns with whiskey and food. Of course, your own Western roots don’t need to be nearly as deep to appreciate the film, especially when the selection is Blazing Saddles, the…
Some bands want to rock your face off. Some want to make you swoon with emotion. And still others are just looking to scare you half to death. Genessier, the new project featuring Ryan Policky of A Shoreline Dream and Eddie Breidenbach of the Omens, fits in that last category…
