Silver Screams

People go to horror movies to enjoy the mayhem on screen without ever experiencing any real danger. That makes Lamberto Bava’s splatter classic Demons, which features a group of horror devotees whose trip to the movies becomes an all-too-real fight for survival, the perfect cautionary tale. “It’s a fun little...

By Cory Casciato

January 23, 2014

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People go to horror movies to enjoy the mayhem on screen without ever experiencing any real danger. That makes Lamberto Bava’s splatter classic Demons, which features a group of horror devotees whose trip to the movies becomes an all-too-real fight for survival, the perfect cautionary tale.

“It’s a fun little horror film that takes place in a really grand movie theater,” explains Keith Garcia, creative manager for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. “All of the old fantasies I used to have about horror films and doing them in movie theaters comes to complete fruition.”

The film marks the debut of Channel Z, Garcia’s new cult-film series that picks up where his excellent Watching Hour series at the Sie FilmCenter left off. Along with co-programmer Theresa Mercado, Garcia plans to use Channel Z to bring lesser-known but still fantastic underground films to a wider audience. “These are really great films that I don’t think a lot of people have really seen, or they are favorites of people, just not big enough to gather true cult status,” he says.

See Demons at 10 p.m. tonight at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 7301 South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton. For tickets, $11, and additional info, visit drafthouse.com/denver/littleton.
Last Saturday of every month, 10 p.m.; First Saturday of every month, 10 p.m. Starts: Jan. 25. Continues through April 5, 2014

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