The Hollywood Theatre’s bimonthly series QUEER HORROR lays 2019 to rest with THE SENTINEL on 35mm! Sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery, Finger Bang Nail Salon, and Lincoln Memorial Park & Funeral Home, this December edition is hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi and opens with an off-the-wall preshow starring Portland drag all-stars as a cabal of legendary pop culture characters!
One of the last great prestige horror films of the 1970s, Michael Winner’s THE SENTINEL (1977) stars Cristina Raines as Alison, a model looking for a New York apartment away from her overbearing boyfriend Michael (Chris Sarandon). When a shady realtor (Ava Gardner) shows her the perfect brownstone, she immediately falls for it and her eccentric new neighbors – including a flamboyant cat-owner (Burgess Meredith) and lesbian ballet dancers (Sylvia Miles & Beverly D’Angelo) – until she realizes the building has a horrifying history, and it might have something to do with the blind priest on the top floor. With a stacked ensemble including Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Walken, Jerry Orbach, José Ferrer, John Carradine, and Deborah Raffin, THE SENTINEL is simultaneously a glitzy time capsule, a gay panic nightmare, and a masterfully made horror classic packed with stars, cats, cakes, and demons aplenty.
Thursday, December 12 at 9:30 PM | $10
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ABOUT QUEER HORROR:
QUEER HORROR is a bimonthly festival of genre works by queer artists, performers, and filmmakers questioning horror’s relation to queerness and what it means to identify with the monster. Maybe it’s the fact that queer people are so often relegated to shadows of otherness that the horror genre is more immediately relatable for us. We grew up with boogeymen. We’ve lived with boogeymen. Goblins and ghosts are a welcome escape from real-life monstrosities.
From the work of James Whale and John Waters to Patricia Highsmith and Clive Barker, horror has deeply impacted queer culture and sensibilities and QUEER HORROR asks why. QUEER HORROR is programmed and hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi and her human avatar Anthony Hudson, with artwork by resident artist Jason Edward Davis. Crawl into the crypt at Queer-Horror.com.