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Community Room, 3rd floor

Join us once a month for a more grown up, sophisticated film selection than the more general super-hero fare eating us all alive this past decade! Or maybe just something wild and fun!

This month’s screening: Bride of Frankenstein (1935, 75 minutes, dir. James Whale) and The Black Cat (1934, 66 minutes, dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)

The night begins with a stone cold classic, Bride of Frankenstein, one of the greatest sequels in the history of cinema! Picking up directly where the last film left off, the Monster (an iconic Boris Karloff) is now on the run as his creator (a manic Colin Clive) is visited by an evil old mentor and falls back into the whole “creating life” business. Highlighted by a dark sense of humor, the movie delivers the exact chills and thrills one goes to classic horror for!

Following it up is a lesser seen Universal horror film from the same era, The Black Cat. The first and last film directed at a major studio by Edgar G. Ulmer (the poet laureate of Poverty Row), it features a rare “heroic” performance from Bela Lugosi and a completely sinister Boris Karloff. The film focuses on a newlywed American couple honeymooning in Europe that get sucked into a demented blood feud between Lugosi and Karloff in the latter’s ultra modern mansion. No decrepit castles here! The Black Cat serves up some of the most chilling images of its era and never fails to shock and delight!

This is an after-hours program for adults.

Bring your own food and drink (no alcohol) and/or enjoy some of our provided refreshments and snacks.

The library doors lock at 7 PM so we are required to stay on the third floor after closing time. If you need to leave early, approach Joe and he will escort you downstairs to the exit.

See you at the movies!