Film
The Dead Of Summer
Fridays and Saturdays at 10:00 - July 4 - August 16
Curated by Keith Garcia, Programming Manager, Denver Film Society
In 1968, young filmmaker George A. Romero made a movie that cast such an impression that we're still picking at its delicious bones. His film Night Of The Living Dead introduced the world to the zombie, a figure brought back from the dead to eat the living and, well...walk around. For seven horrifying weeks the Denver Film Society takes a bite out of four classic films that broke loose from Romero's inspiration and three Denver Premieres that are injecting some fresh blood into the Zombie genre, keeping it alive and well.
So put on your graveyard best, grab a shovel and pack yourself a lovely moonlight picnic basket of bloody marys and lady fingers and meet us at the Starz FilmCenter for THE DEAD OF SUMMER!
Purchase a Limited-Edition Hand Silkscreened DEAD OF SUMMER Commemorative Poster designed and hand signed by the artist Jay Vollmar! CLICK HERE!
Films in Program...
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USA
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2008
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101 min.
Director:
Lloyd Kaufman
ENDS Thursday, July 10
What if Night Of The Living Dead and Fast Food Nation were ground together in the same gory meat grinder? Find out in this awesomely disgusting--and disgustingly awesome--satire from director Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger). When a fast food chain builds a restaurant...
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Italy
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1979
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81 min.
Director:
Lucio Fulci
Friday, July 11 & Saturday July 12 at 10:00pm!
Brand New 35mm Print!
After a New York harbor patrolman is murdered at the hands of a flesh-hungry ghoul aboard what was believed to be an abandoned yacht, the daughter of the ship's missing owner teams up with a newspaper reporter named for a ...
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USA
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1985
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91 min.
Director:
Dan O'Bannon
Friday, July 18 & Saturday, July 19 at 10:00pm!
Do you wanna party? The freshly risen undead certainly do in this horror-comedy that finds two employees of a medical supply company unwittingly releasing several zombies from cylinders in which they have been trapped for many years. The nasty ...
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USA
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2008
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95 min.
Friday, July 25 & Saturday, July 26 at 10:00pm!
Digital presentation - Denver Premiere!
Directed by Gregg Bishop - Distributed by Lionsgate/ Ghosthouse Underground
The Breakfast Club meets
Night Of The Living Dead in a film that's destined to become the next cult class...
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USA
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1986
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88 min.
Director:
Fred Dekker
Friday, August 1 & Saturday, August 2 at 10:00pm!
35mm presentation - In this horror/comedy two college students, Chris and J.C., try to fulfill their fraternity initiation by stealing a dead body. Unfortunately, when they do so they unwittingly release "the creeps" -- large, slimy, w...
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USA
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1993
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85 min.
Director:
Bob Balaban
Friday, August 8 & Saturday, August 9 at 10:00pm!
35mm presentation - Inventing a genre all its own, the Zom-Rom-Com (Zombie-Romance-Comedy), Bob Balaban's
My Boyfriend's Back takes an interesting stab at the concept of eternal love.
Johnny Dingle isn't going to let anything s...
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Germany
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2008
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95 min.
Director:
Bruce La Bruce
MUST END Thursday, February 5
Digital presentation - Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis. He wanders the streets of the city, never sleeping, until one day he auditions for a zombie film. The director, revolutionary Medea Yarn, is convinced that Otto...
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