Film at Lincoln Center is getting ready to celebrate Halloween a little early. Sponsored by MUBI, the theater is bringing back their Scary Movies program for a truly haunted thirteen edition next month, featuring sixteen unique films that “offers moviegoers the cathartic treat of experiencing world-class suspense, gore, and terror of all stripes on the big screen, while celebrating cinema’s boundless capacity to probe the creepiest corners of the human psyche.”
The series opens with Alexander Ullom’s It Ends, followed by the Texas Chain Saw Massacre documentary Chain Reactions, featuring familiar faces like Stephen King, Karyn Kusama, and more. Also featured is a canine double feature including 1989’s Baxter and this year’s Good Boy, as well as films like Squealers, A Yard of Jackals, Row, Rabbit Trap, A Grand Mockery, The Wailing, The Home, and more.
Scary Movies XIII’s closing night will feature two films celebrating the tenth anniversary of everybody’s favorite horror streamer, Shudder: Bryan Bertino’s The Dark and the Wicked, and a 4K restoration of Daughters of Darkness, both selected by The Boulet Brothers, who will present the latter with a video introduction.
“Scary times call for scary movies,” said Madeline Whittle, Programmer at Film at Lincoln Center. “Given the innumerable existential crises that define our current cultural and political moment, it's no surprise that recent years have seen a resurgence of enthusiasm for art that shows us how to wrestle with fear, violence, and evil not as lofty philosophical abstractions, but via embodiment, emotion, and ambiance.
Few art forms can rival film's capacity not only to unsettle, frighten, and horrify, but also to reflect those feelings back to us, inviting us to better understand our own fear by participating in somebody else's. The filmmakers featured in this year's lineup have created work that brilliantly explodes the darkness, wrangling light, sound, and motion to terrifying, transcendent effect.”
Tickets for Film at Lincoln Center’s Scary Movies XIII program go on sale on July 16 at 13 p.m. ET, with early access for members on July 15 at 12 p.m. ET. For more information on the full lineup, and to purchase single tickets and all access passes, you can check out their website.
