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Spook Show with Zabrecky: Bride of Frankenstein

Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!

Director: James Whale Run Time: 95 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 1935

Starring: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson

Prepare to be haunted, hypnotized, and maybe a little hysterical. For one night only, the delightfully deranged Spook Show with Zabrecky takes over Nitehawk Prospect Park, blending vintage spook show vibes, surreal stage magic, and a screening of the 1935 gothic horror masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein.

Zabrecky; part magician, part absurdist, part ghost of vaudeville past, is a seven-time Magic Castle award-winner and a bona fide cult figure in the world of theatrical séances and experimental magic. Think: David Lynch meets Harry Houdini by way of Steven Wright.

This midnight mash-up mixes mind-bending illusions, dark comedy, and audience interaction with the iconic black-and-white beauty of James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein, a film as weird and wonderful as Zabrecky himself.

A multidisciplinary force, Zabrecky has left his eerie fingerprints across indie film and TV, with scene-stealing turns in A Ghost Story, A Desert, Lost River and on series like Strange Angel, Fallout and GLOW. He’s also a musician, because of course he is.

If you like your magic strange, your horror classic, and your horror movies full of left-field spectacle, this is the one to crawl out of your crypt for.

And for those wondering what exactly a Spook Show is: from the 1930s through the 1960s, macabre themed magic shows, presented together with horror films, played in movie theaters at midnight throughout the United States. They were known as Spook Shows. Today they are nearly forgotten.

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