Scanners and Altered States Double Feature Tonight at Retrofantasma!

If you’re one of those poor lost souls living under the delusion that horror is dead – then you’re in desperate need of a horror recharge boost – so head over to the Carolina Theatre tonight in Durham as Jim and the gang at Retrofantasma celebrate the world of horror with two cult classics – Scanners and Altered States. Nothing recharges one’s horror batteries better than a double dose of 35mm madness so what are you waiting for? You get to see both movies for the low low price of $8! Grab your girlfriend, buy your tickets, and load up on beer and popcorn and settle in for a great night at the movies – courtesy of Retrofantasma!

Here’s what Jim had to say:
Incredibly, Scanners has never screened at Retrofantasma. Over the years, we’ve screened almost every other Cronenberg film (with the exception of 1988’s Dead Ringers; no prints available), but Scanners proved to be the Cronenberg film fans have most loudly been screaming for. As a double feature, I considered John Carpenter’s They Live. For sheer audacity, I even thought about 1983’s 10 to Midnight, that awesome Charles Bronson nude-slasher flick. In the end, Cronenberg’s head-exploding masterpiece needed something even nuttier to play against. Nuttier, that’s the word I needed to hear. I immediately thought of Ken Russell. For years, I had searched for prints of 1971’s The Devils, 1987’s Gothic and 1988’s Lair of the White Worm, but come up empty. At last, I had found the perfect place to program Russell’s Altered States, the most loopy, headache-inducing, psychedelic mindfuck I’ve seen since 2001: A Space Odyssey, another film which has apes. If you’ve never seen Altered States, prepare yourself.

Scanners

Altered States