Monthly classic horror night 'Fright Night' screens Sam Raimi's 'The Evil Dead' with an introduction by Emily Booth and Kim Foster-Taylor.
The Electric Palace is hosting a Halloween special of Fright Night on Friday 30 October, with Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's The Evil Dead taking centre stage. It's part of the cinema's monthly classic horror night, run by Emily Booth and Kim Foster-Taylor, who open each session with a short introduction of trivia and behind-the-scenes insights. They'll be doing the same here, so you get a bit of context before the film kicks in.
The Evil Dead is a gory, no-budget classic shot on 16mm that earned a place among the original 'video nasties'. Five high schoolers in a woodland cabin accidentally summon demonic forces, and it's widely regarded as the opening salvo of a long cult horror franchise. If you've never seen it, it's the one that put both Raimi and Campbell on the map.
Booth and Foster-Taylor don't just run the night; they also produce and present Kim and Em Vs Evil, a movie podcast where they get under the skin of famous screen villains. That's the same pair who'll be introducing the screening, so the trivia comes from people who spend their spare time talking about horror for a living.
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The screening runs from 7:30pm to 9pm at The Electric Palace, 39A High Street, Hastings, TN34 3ER.
