Seattle is a great place to be a horror movie fan, not only because you’re in good company, but also because we have terrific small and art-house theaters showing a wondrous variety of everything frightening. Whether you’re jonesing for a critically acclaimed new release like Parasite or looking to revisit a fun, friendly classic like Hocus Pocus or hoping to get deeply, artsily disturbed by Possession, we’ve got you covered. (You may notice that half of these come from the Beacon. That’s because the Beacon is the best thing since sliced fle—bread, we mean sliced bread—and the theater shows a staggering number of movies per month.) Check out more spooky events on our Halloween calendar, and find more movie times here.
The Beacon
Anime Sunrise: The Curse of Kazuo Umezu/Mermaid Forrest
Anime and horror collide! The Beacon is doing a double bill of two creepy OVAs (original video animation), The Curse of Kazuo Umezu and Mermaid Forest, as part of their ongoing Anime Sunrise series. Inspired by the works of horror mangaka Kazuo Umezu and Rumiko Takahashi, these unstreamable vintage tapes are tough, if not impossible, to find. A rare tape doesn’t equal a good tape (trash can be rare), but Mermaid Forest is dark, puzzling, weird—and fueled by mermaid blood. Hot, scaly, mermaid blood! It includes scenes of slaughtered merfolk, a doctor who cuts off people’s hands, twinks cursed with immortality, a demon dog who kills anyone who crosses his murderous master… Excellent Halloween fodder. I doubt you’ll be able to see either of these in a theater again. CHASE BURNS
Sun Oct 20
