Stab Satanic Sunday: The Night of the Hunter
Cultplex50 Red Bank
Sun 25 Oct · 13:00
About this event
Here at CULTPLEX we've long regarded movie-going as a religious experience and the cinema as a sacred temple of worship. Week in, week out people don their best to celebrate the gods of cinema on the big screen as they intended us to. We could never quite put a name on this but recently one of our religion's patron saints Greta Gerwig talked of the Movie Church she assembled before her most recent sermon Barbie, to prepare her disciples for telling her next great story. We are excited to bring our own MOVIE CHURCH as a regular monthly slot at the cinema (on Sundays, of course). Here you will find a celebration of the very best sermons to be committed to film, that typify the power of movies and deserve to be worshipped at the altar of big screen cinema. Expect introductory words from our clergy, a church raffle for film prizes and a truly holy cinematic experience. This Halloween, Movie Church turns satanic... The Night of the Hunter —incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic—also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish and writer James Agee—is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil. All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the film start time is as advertised above. Content Warnings: intense psychological dread, the severe endangerment and terrorization of young children, religious extremism. Runtime: 93 minutes Director: Charles Laughton Country: U.S.A Year: 1955 Film
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