Summerween: Scary Summer Movie Festival
You don’t have to wait until October to celebrate the communal spirit of Halloween. If the heat of the summer is becoming a horror show, join us for our first Summerween Film Festival. Cool down with some spine-tingling films that will make you want to grip onto the edge of your seat in the Montalbano Family Theatre. We’re screening everything from kid-friendly skeletons to adult only zombies and secluded country estates that will haunt you long after the lights come back up! Special guest, Doaa Magdy of the Horror in Seconds Film Festival will do a discussion around the film Get Out.
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Schedule
2:00 – 3:30 pm – Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (2008)
Jack Skellington is the King of Halloween. He becomes bored with the same routine every year. He decides to take a walk in the woods. There, he discovers a door leading to Christmastown and decides to spread Christmas joy to the world. When he is back in Halloweentown he shows his friends what Christmas is like, and he suggests doing Christmas this year instead. But things do not go as planned when Oogie Boogie, an evil gambling boogey man, plots to play a game with Santa Claus’ life and creates a nightmare for all the good little boys and girls everywhere. Although Sally attempts to stop him, Jack embarks into the sky on a coffin-like sled pulled by skeletal reindeer.
Rating: PG
Runtime: 76 mins
4:00 – 5:30 pm – Blood Quantum (2020)
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are immune to the zombie plague. Traylor, the tribal sheriff, must protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, apocalyptic refugees, and reserve riff raff from the hordes of walking white corpses.
Rating: 18A
Runtime: 98 mins
6:00 – 8:15 pm – *Get Out (2017)
A young black man meets his white girlfriend’s parents at their estate, only to find out that the situation is much more sinister than it appears.
Rating: 14A
Runtime: 104 mins
*Featuring a special introduction and discussion of the film by Doaa Magdy of the Horror in Seconds Film Festival. Doaa will take a critical look at Jordan Peele’s movie Get Out and the commodification of Black bodies.
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Doaa Magdy is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, decolonial educator, and writer. Her art practice subverts the colonial norms of storytelling and aims at highlighting Black joy within the realms of the physical and digital spaces in film, dance, poetry and digital art. They are the Founder of Vancouver’s First BIPOC Horror Film Festival Horror in Seconds, launched in November 2023.