SHOCK IT TO ME! Horror Film Festival • October 17th & 18

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SHOCK IT TO ME! returns for a fourth year celebrating classic horror films!

Remember the Bay Area favorite of the 1970s, "Creature Features" and its host, Bob Wilkins? Well, even if you don't, everyone had a late-night horror show in their hometown, long before multiplexes took over and masked slashers replaced Dracula and Frankenstein as our favorite screen monsters. But, we're digging them back up - SHOCK IT TO ME!, San Francisco's annual classic horror film festival, devoted to the Golden Age of Horror Cinema, returns to the historic (and haunted) [url="http://www.castrotheatre.com"]Castro Theatre[/url] for its fourth year with live presentations on stage, celebrity guests, trailers of terror, and a vendors area on the Castro's monstrous mezzanine.

This year, SHOCK IT TO ME! features six sinister films (all presented as double-features): Jack Hill's SPIDER BABY (1964), George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968), Terence Fisher's HORROR OF DRACULA (1958), CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957), NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS (1971) and HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS (1970), on the Castro's gigantic screen - the last gigantic single-screen theater in San Francisco, is the only setting for such a horror film festival devoted to classic cinema. But, SHOCK IT TO ME! isn't just a film festival, it's a bonafide Horror Convention in a theater setting, with guests, special on stage presentations, giveaways and more.

In honor of the upcoming Johnny Depp/Tim Burton remake of the cult '60s series DARK SHADOWS, our special celebrity guests will include the stars of the original series and movies, Kathryn Leigh Scott ("Maggie Evans"), and Lara Parker ("Angelique Bouchard"). Film historian, Darren Gross, will also be on hand to present a look at the extensive restoration for the upcoming DVD release of NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS. Our guests will be in attendance all weekend and will meet and greet with fans and sign autographs up on our monstrous mezzanine. With additional guests to be announced!

Your horrible hosts for this year's SHOCK IT TO ME! are award-winning author and veteran horror host John Stanley (Creature Features) and the beautiful, but deadly, Ms. Monster (The Search for the Next Elvira), who will temp you to try out for our infamous Zombie-Eating Contest for putrid prizes! We will also be giving away a free dead body to a "lucky" member of the audience each night.

SHOCK IT TO ME! is guaranteed to pop the stitches off of a mummy's britches - we've pulled out all of the stops (and a few bloody stakes) to make this the most haunted happening of the Halloween season. SHOCK IT TO ME! is so shocking, that we can't promise you will make it out of the theatre alive!

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