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One Final Theatrical Screening on ‘Trick ‘r Treat’ in New York
New York readers get our your credit cards because you have one final chance to see Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat in a theater before it’s absorbed into your Blu-ray/DVD collection (David Cronenberg style) forever. The screening will take place this Wednesday, October 21, at the Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theater (165 W 65st, NY, NY). Get your tickets to the 8:30 showing by clicking here. More details below.
“Warm-up for Halloween with the New York theatrical premiere of Michael Dougherty’s grab bag of All Hallows goodies. His anthology of masterfully interwoven fright tales features a couple who make the fatal mistake of defying Halloween tradition, a school principal (Dylan Baker) with a nasty secret, teenagers who dare to confront an urban legend involving the death of a busload of kids, a group of girls (including True Blood’s Anna Paquin) who are stalked by a mysterious vampire, and a recluse (Brian Cox) haunted by a pint-sized trick-or-treater with a creepy sack head. Vampires, werewolves, zombies, serial killers, and other creatures of the night are all on parade. Post-screening Q&A with writer/director Michael Dougherty. Happy Halloween!”
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.