Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood

Thu, Jul 26

9:30 pm Music

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)!

A Live Sound Cinema presentation featuring a live score by Long Distance Poison.

Director: Christopher Speeth Run Time: 74 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1973

Starring: Janine Carazo, Jerome Dempsey, Daniel Dietrich

The Norris family get jobs working at a seedy old carnival as a cover for searching for their missing son who disappeared after visiting said carnival. Eccentric manager Mr. Blood turns out to be a vampire while the evil owner Malatesta rules over a gaggle of ghastly ghouls who watch silent movies when they aren’t feasting on human flesh.

Long Distance Poison is the Brooklyn based experimental electronics project of Nathan Cearley and Erica Bradbury. Through a developed process that uses generative systems, pseudo randomness, improvisation, layering, spectral modulation, drone and noise, LDP creates music that opens up to the mystery. They have performed at the Ende Tymes Festival, the Basilica Hudson 24-Hour Drone Festival, The Wassaic Project, the MOMA PS1 NY Art Book Fair, the Voice of the Valley Noise Festival, Printed Matter and Pioneer Works. Their new release, Knock Magh, is out now on Hausu Mountain.

Drawing on the gritty psychedelia of MALATESTA’S CARNIVAL OF BLOOD, LDP will use modular synthesizers and analog keyboards to blur the line between nightmare and hallucination to create a dream world soundscape for the film’s darkly surreal narrative.