Come make music with the children of the night as Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS screens Tod Browning iconic DRACULA.

Books: Dracula  t-shirt giveaways courtesy of Out of Print and frighteningly fun giveaways courtesy of Universal Monsters Universe and Royal Collectibles!
Booze: An bloody inspired cocktail is in the works

Bram Stoker’s seminal horror novel Dracula has seen countless adaptations on the big screen yet none are quite as memorable as Tod Browning’s eternal classic, Dracula. Although a loose adaptation of the book, the film has shaped our idea of who or what a vampire and this is no doubt due to Bela Lugosi’s brilliant turn as Count Dracula. In it he hypnotizes a British soldier named Renfield into being his mindless slave as he travels to London and takes up in an old castle. As vampires do, he starts sucking the blood of young women until one catches his fancy. Unfortunately for her, she’s the daughter of the prominent doctor and vampire hunter Van Helsing!

Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS celebrates the 50th anniversary of Truman Capote’s novel with a screening of IN COLD BLOOD.

Books: In Cold Blood  t-shirt giveaways courtesy of Out of Print
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When the Herbert Clutter family was murdered in their small farming community of Kansas, American author Truman Capote and fellow writer Harper Lee, went to investigate. The result of Capote’s interviews with the residents, investigators, and those charged with the crime was the publication of the non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood, in 1966. The film adaptation the following here shows the two ex-convicts Perry Smith and Richard “Dick” Hickock as they hatch a plan to rob the Clutters. When they discover there is no money in the house they kill the entire family in a fight of rage and flee. While on the run, they face not only the realities of their terrible crime but also their own earthly impermanence.

Part of Nitehawk’s fall CRIME series.

The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival comes to Williamsburg with a lineup of six new short comedy films from such exotic places as Mexico, Canada, and… Brooklyn!

Filmmakers will be in attendance and the screening will be followed by an after-party in Lo-Res where the audience and filmmakers can mingle.

The Iron Mule is New York’s only monthly short comedy film series, screening narrative, documentary, animated and experimental comedies from around the world. In their 14+ years they have presented more than 1,100 films, including early work from many celebrated filmmakers and comedians such as Stephen Colbert, Seth Macfarlane, Lena Dunham and Aziz Ansari.

Each screening features a guest judge from the world of film, comedy, television, or the New York art scene. Hosts Jay Stern and Victor Varnado interview attending filmmakers during the show, and each screening is followed by an after-party. In addition, Iron Mule produces the “Wanna Be a Star” contest, in which an audience member is chosen to star in a new film directed by an Iron Mule filmmaker to be shown at the following month’s screening.

EMMA INSPIRED
Emma, a recent college grad, is a little behind, but she’s gonna figure it out eventually. written by Jamie Rice and Nicole Machon, directed by Nicole Machon 

A sociopathic preacher stalks innocent farm children in Charles Laughton’s THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER.
A 35mm presentation.

Bringing Davis Grubb’s novel to the big screen, actor Charles Laughton made his only directorial feature with The Night of the Hunter. All shadows and light, the film is a beautiful juxtaposition of love and hate, quiet moment with bursts of violence, and at its most fundamental, a representation of the struggle between good and evil. And evil enters into the world of a desperate family in the form of the religious fanatic with sociopathic tendencies Harry Powell (played to eerie perfection by Robert Mitchum). A serial murderer who marries for money and then kills his brides, he marries a gullible widow (Shelley Winters) for the $10,000 her deceased husband stole. His plan gets complicated when neither of her two children will disclose the whereabouts of the fortune, they head up river to escape the preacher…but he’s always close behind.

Part of Nitehawk’s fall CRIME series.

The perfect murder goes a little insane in Clouzet’s LES DIABOLIQUES.

In this classic of French suspense, the cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, becomes the target of a murder plot hatched by an unlikely duo — his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women, brought together by their mutual hatred for the man, pull off the crime but become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle’s corpse mysteriously disappears.

Part of Nitehawk’s fall CRIME series.

A family is stalked by a sadistic criminal in the original CAPE FEAR.

TCM writes that “In the annals of screen psychopaths, there are few who can top Robert Mitchum’s Max Cady in the 1962 version of Cape Fear” and they’re right. After an eight-year prison sentence for rape, Cady one of the lawyers who sent him away. When Max finds Sam and his family, he begins a terrifying stalking spree, intending to ruin Sam’s life. Desperate to protect his wife and daughter, Sam makes every effort to send Max back to jail. But when his attempts fail, Sam realizes that he must take matters into his own hands if he wants to rid his life of Max for good.

Part of Nitehawk’s fall CRIME series.

Film’s a killer in Michael Powell’s PEEPING TOM.
A 35mm presentation.

Now revered as a British new wave classic, Michael Powell’s career-ending Peeping Tom fetishizes film, the camera, and screening room in what Martin Scorsese has called indulging in the audience’s “morbid urge to gaze.” The film shows Mark Lewis, a socially awkward young man who works in the film industry by day and takes racy films of women at night. But the camera he uses is also an instrument for murder and for recording those murders. His disturbing secret and reason behind his murderous actions are revealed, and healed, when he befriends his neighbor Helen.

Part of Nitehawk’s fall CRIME series.

Cult classic revenge at its sexiest: POINT BLANK.
A 35mm presentation.

John Boorman’s Point Blank is a streamlined, sexy, and slick “give me back my money” crime film. Walter is a ruthless crook betrayed by his partner who leaves him for dead on Alcatraz Island. He survives and returns a couple of years later to get revenge with only one thing in mind: retrieving the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him. Point Blank is essential crime film viewing.

Part of Nitehawk’s fall CRIME series.

Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a screening of BREAKING A MONSTER.

Q&A with director Luke Meyer, and Unlocking The Truth band members Jarad Dawkins and Malcom Brickhouse.

Breaking a Monster begins as the band members of Unlocking The Truth are all in 7th grade, spending their weekends playing metal music in Times Square – often to substantial crowds. They take on a 70-year-old industry veteran manager. With his guidance they are soon on their way to a $1.8M record deal with Sony Music.

Anything feels possible, and the eyes of the world are upon them. The boys are coming of age, not only as they become professional musicians, but also as they transcend childhood and step into adulthood. The sudden breakout of any band, let alone one of pre-teens, is an extremely narrow and specific period in time – Breaking a Monster is the story of this rapid transformation.

Comedian Kevin Maher and filmmaker Matthew Glasson present an obsessive look at shark movies from Jaws to Sharknado and dozens of films in-between. The hosts revisit early Shark cinema, Jaws rip-offs, sanctioned sequels, CGI monsters, and a hit TV show that literally jumped the shark.

Kevin and Matt have presented on Sharksploition in Boston, Brooklyn and Martha’s Vineyard at JAWSFEST.

With special guests:

• Filmmaker Ryan Arey (“Rick Pulsar: Galactic Knight of Space Justice”)
• Blogger/Podcaster Emily Intravia (DeadlyDollsHouse.Com & The Feminine Critique)
• Comedian Kevin Harrington (Boston’s GEEK WEEK)