Monster Double Feature, plus John Landis Book Signing
Egyptian Theatre, at N Las Palmas Ave (6712 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028)
- Full Price:
- $11.00
- Our Price:
- $5.50*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for Island of Lost Souls and Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde have expired.
The last date listed for Island of Lost Souls and Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde was Thursday October 6, 2011 / 7:30pm.
Currently at Egyptian Theatre:
Dance Craze: Documentary Resurrects the British Ska Scene
- Full Price:
- $11.00
- Our Price:
- $5.50
In the late '70s, a wave of young British musicians who had grown up listening to Jamaican music combined influences of that ska, reggae and rocksteady music with the punk and new wave sounds that were taking over the music scene at the time. The result was 2 Tone, a music genre that represented the second wave of ska and became a hit in dance clubs. Dance Craze is a live concert documentary that captures the best of the genre, lighting up the screen with songs like "Nite Klub," "One Step Beyond," "Too Much Pressure" and "Mirror in the Bathroom" performed by The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The (English) Beat, Bad Manners and others as they whip audiences into a sweat across the U.K. Stick around after the film for a discussion with cinematographer Joe Dunton. Learn More
More Information About Island of Lost Souls and Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
Description
Double Feature: New Digital Restoration of the Uncut Theatrical Version! Pre-Code Horror
Island of Lost Souls, 1932, Universal, 70 min.
Director Erle C. Kenton adapted H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau into one of the classic Pre-Code horror shockers. Originally released by Paramount to compete with Universal’s monster menagerie, ironically Universal now owns the rights. Seaman Richard Arlen is marooned on vivisectionist Charles Laughton’s private isle, where he has developed a race of subhumans from various wild animals in his House of Pain. An old-school chiller that remains scary to this day. Bela Lugosi is the ringleader of the beast-men. With Kathleen Burke as Lota, the Panther Woman.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1931, Warner Bros., 97 min.
Although it’s not as nuanced as the later Spencer Tracy version, many people prefer this Pre-Code shocker. Fredric March won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance, going way over the top with facial tics and bestial mannerisms in his Hyde persona, coming off like an urbane, simian werewolf with the gift of speech. Miriam Hopkins is the unfortunate barmaid Ivy, and Rose Hobart is Muriel, Dr. Jekyll’s devoted fiancée. Director Rouben Mamoulian and cinematographer Karl Struss make revolutionary use of the camera, doing things way ahead of their time in movement, point of view and editing, endowing many sequences with a fluid feel in what is essentially a set-bound piece. The characters of Muriel (Beatrix in the Tracy version) and her father did not appear in Stevenson’s original story, but were invented later by playwright T.R. Sullivan in an 1887 stage adaptation.
John Landis will introduce the double feature. Landis will sign copies of his book Monsters in the Movies at 6:30pm in the Egyptian lobby.
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