SATANIC PANIC AT THE BRIDGE: House of the Devil + Cookout

Thursday, July 8, 2010 | 8-11pm

Last year, community members assembled for a cookout and the transcendent kitsch of Skatetown USA. Time to do it again with more people, more bonhomie, and a truly frightening movie: The House of the Devil!!

The House of the Devil is a 2009 horror film written, directed, and edited by Ti West, starring Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, and Mary Woronov. It combines elements of both the slasher film and haunted house subgenres while using the “satanic panic” of the 1980s as a central plot element. The film attempts to recreate the style of horror films from the 1970s and 1980s, using similar filming techniques and film technology as those which were used during the era. Unlike other films made in the 1990s and 2000s that attempted to revive the horror genre (for instance, the Scream films), the film does not use satire or irony to convey the story, but plays it straight in order to be as true as possible to the style of the decade’s horror films

In honor of the good faith 80s nostalgia, we will be showing it on VHS (It was the first commercially produced VHS in 6 years!!) People are encouraged to bring grillables, drinks, and their best 80s style.

Reviews of The House of the Devil:

“The film may provide an introduction for some audience members to the Hitchcockian definition of suspense: It’s the anticipation, not the happening, that’s the fun.”
– Roger Ebert

“Ti West’s retro ‘Satan rules!’ thriller The House Of The Devil gets the look and tone of early-’80s horror schlock exactly right.”
– The Onion

“This isn’t just a good throwback satanic thriller – it looks as if it was made during the era of satanist paranoia.”
– San Francisco Chronicle