The Watching Hour

Hey Denver, what's your favorite scary movie? Before you head up to watch SCREAM at Film on the Rocks tomorrow night, read my latest Watching Hour column about why it's as great and enduring as its final girl Sidney Prescott.

Twenty Years Later, Scream Remains the Slasher Genre's Great Last Gasp Twenty years ago, director Wes Craven and writer Kevin Williamson took us to the small California town of Woodsboro, where a horror-movie-obsessed masked killer was stalking and killing a group of teens who grew up watching slasher-film greats. This week, that film, Scream, celebrates its twentieth…

It's been a while, Constant Watchers, but the passing of Prince brought out the need to remind everyone of a Watching Hour title someone needs to program ASAP. http://www.westword.com/arts/princes-music-comes-back-to-life-in-spike-lees-girl-6-7877619

Prince's Music Comes Back to Life In Spike Lee's Girl 6 It’s been two weeks (or a little over eleven hours and fourteen days as “Nothing Compares 2 U” lovingly time stamps) since we lost our sweet Prince, and many of us have worn out our DVDs and VHS copies of Purple Rain. That film, though based on Prince’s life, was written...

This Saturday night at the Sie FilmCenter, Theresa Mercado's Scream Screen returns with WHEN ANIMALS ATTACK! a 4-film series reminding us that all of God's creatures can have the Devil in them from time to time. Things kick off with George Romero's delicious MONKEY SHINES at 9:30pm and DJ Tanner (ie: Keith Garcia) playing crazy animal themed music before in the lobby starting at 8:30. Free collectible buttons for the first 50 viewers through the door! Tix here: http://www.denverfilm.org/filmcenter/detail.aspx?id=28110&FID=86

Dear sweet ol' Madonna is 55 years old today and in honor of that, the 30th anniversary of her first album release AND the "season finale" of The Watching Hour wherein Keith Garcia says goodbye and packs up the Watching Hour for a hibernation and reinvention, just like Madge!) we will be presenting DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (on 35mm!) tonight and Saturday at 10pm at the Sie Film Center. C-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c'mon!
Tickets here: http://www.denverfilm.org/filmcenter/detail.aspx?id=23363&FID=73

Tonight and Saturday at 10pm at the Sie Film Center don't miss one of the most fun horror comedies to hit the screen! It's GRABBERS, the tale of an island village besieged by blood thirsty aliens who hate alcohol so the town decides the only way to stay alive...is to get totally wasted. So grab a beer at Henderson's Lounge and keep the beasts at bay!

Tickets here! ---->>> http://www.denverfilm.org/filmcenter/detail.aspx?id=25737