Ross Fright Fest
Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 03:00pm
Ross Fright Fest
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
331 North 13th Street
Ross Fright Fest returns in 2024 with a month of classic, campy, thrilling, surreal, and unsettling horror films New this year are family-friendly options, a 3D double feature on Halloween, and two live performances by the Anvil Orchestra!
Schedule:
3:00 pm: THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Family FriendlyWhen long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years in the Bermuda Triangle, the Addams family plans a celebration to wake the dead But Fester’s unusually “normal” behavior raises suspicions that things are not what they seem Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, and Christina Ricci star in this dark comedy classic from director Barry Sonnenfeld 1991 | 99 min | Rated PG-13 for comic violence, dark themes, & suggestive content Suitable for children 13+
5:10 pm: CHESS OF THE WIND
Screened just once in 1976 before it was banned and lost for decades, this rediscovered jewel of Iranian cinema is one of the most astonishing works of the country’s prerevolutionary New Wave A hypnotically stylized murder mystery awash in atmosphere, CHESS OF THE WIND unfolds in an ornate, candlelit mansion where a web of greed, violence, and betrayal ensnares the heirs to a family fortune 1976 | d Mohammad Reza | 93 min | Not Rated | Farsi with English subtitles
7:10 pm: CRIMSON PEAK
After marrying the charming and seductive Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), young heiress Edith (Mia Wasikowska) is swept away to a remote gothic mansion haunted by dark secrets and ghostly visions 2015 | d Guillermo Del Toro | 120 min | Rated R for bloody violence, some sexual content & brief strong language
