Moving Image to Screen Trio of Films for Horror Father's Day, 6/21

In honor of Father's Day, Museum of the Moving Image will present a trio of horror movies featuring scary dads on the big screen in the Sumner M. Redstone Theater. On Sunday, June 21, Horror Father's Day will include Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum as a murderous preacher; Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face, about a mad doctor obsessed with fixing his disfigured daughter; and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, featuring a terrifying Jack Nicholson in a Freudian drama set in a haunted mountain resort. All films will be presented in 35mm. (See below for descriptions and schedule.)

Earlier this spring, on May 10, the Museum offered the companion series Horror Mother's Day, with Psycho, Rosemary's Baby, and The Brood.

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SCHEDULE AND DESCRIPTIONS FOR 'HORROR FATHER'S DAY,' JUNE 21, 2015:
Screenings take place in the Sumner M. Redstone Theater, at Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria. Tickets for each screening are $12 adults / $9 seniors and students / free for Museum members at the Film Lover level and above. Tickets include same-day admission to the Museum's galleries. Find event information and order tickets online at movingimage.us.

Sunday, June 21
2:00 p.m.
The Night of the Hunter
Dir. Charles Laughton. 1955, 92 mins. 35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation. With Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish. Acting legend Charles Laughton's sole screen directorial credit is perhaps cinema's most remarkable one-off. Creepy preacher Harry Powell (a never-more-menacing Mitchum) offers naive widow Willa Harper (Winters) a fresh start, but her kids rightly worry his intentions are less than pure.

4:30 p.m.
Eyes Without a Face
Dir. Georges Franju. 1960, 88 mins. 35mm. With Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Edith Scob. Working in his secluded French chateau, a brilliant but mad doctor tries radical plastic surgery to restore his beautiful daughter's face, which was disfigured by a car accident that he caused. This "classic example of the poetry of terror" (Dave Kehr) is at once horrifying and filled with stunningly beautiful images.

6:30 p.m.
The Shining
Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1980, 144 mins. 35mm. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd. "Here's Johnny!" All work and no play makes Jack a monstrous dad in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's tale of a caretaker driven mad in a cavernous hotel during an isolated Colorado winter. A visionary child is pitted against a murderous father, as the primal Freudian drama is played out in a haunted hotel.

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