Weekly Film Agenda of the Dead

Need your seasonally-mandated scary-movie fix, but wary of those Grudge 2's and Saw XXVIII's? Bostonist has researched the alternatives, and alternatives to those alternatives.

Thursday 10/26

House of Wax
The BPL schedule doesn't specify which House of Wax, but we'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it's not last year's tepid Paris Hilton vehicle.
Boston Public Library (South Boston Branch, 646 East Broadway), 6 pm, free

For a gentler, lighthearted ghost story, also free and in a libraryish setting, the main branch at Copley Square is showing 1945's Noel Coward adaptation Blithe Spirit at 2 pm.

Saturday 10/28

Halloween Horror Marathon
For twenty bucks, the Coolidge gives you thirteen hours of movies. That comes out to a cost-effective $1.54 per hour.
Coolidge Corner Theatre, midnight until sometime Sunday afternoon, $20

The Coolidge is also running a Hedwig & the Angry Inch singalong, beginning at midnight, $9.50. We suggest attending both, actually: if Hedwig ends by, say, 2 am, you can retire to the horror marathon until the trains are running. At approximately $2.27 per hour of film, that's still a deal.
Non-singers with early bedtimes are urged to see Jean Cocteau's beautifully-composed Beauty & the Beast at the Brattle Theatre, 3:30 & 7:30 pm.

Tuesday 10/31

Faust
Murnau's 1926 silent Goethe/Marlowe mashup presented with a live soundtrack by Cul de Sac (the Boston band for whom the term "post-rock" was allegedly coined).
Regent Theatre (7 Medford St., Arlington), 8 pm, $10

The Coolidge also offers a classic film with a new score performed by a local band: Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde, with Devil Music Ensemble, at 8 pm, $12.

Kwaidan
Evil Dead 2
Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan consists of four intensely stylized Japanese ghost stories: a haunted teacup, a blind monk entertaining the dead, a young Tatsuya Nakadai's marriage to a snow demoness, and a precursor to Ring's long black hair. It's a nightmare doppelganger to Kurosawa's Dreams, with its artsy pace and unnaturally vivid colors. The Brattle pairs this 1964 vintage with some finely-crafted cheese: Bruce Campbell at the height of his awesomeness in the second of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead films. Discounted admission for properly dressed undead demonic hordes.
Kwaidan: Brattle Theatre, 4 & 7 pm, $9 | trailer
Evil Dead 2: Brattle Theatre, 10 pm, $9 (half-price for Deadites) | clip of that scene with the eyeball

Those who wish to dress up as pirates or Lil Kim Jong Il can get free admission (with student ID) to Harvard Fim Archive's screening of Monster on the Campus at 8:30 pm.