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Please note: Parking this weekend is limited to Nitrate Picture Show attendees, museum visitors, and guests of two scheduled weddings. Thank you for your cooperation. Additionally, there will be no Landscape Tour on Sunday, June 7. 

 

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Monday, August 10, 2015, 1:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre

Presented free to seniors (62+) on Monday afternoons through October. Beginning this March, our senior matinee screenings are fully incorporated into our regular film calendar. Cinematic classics from the George Eastman House collection will be presented in 35mm, the way they were originally screened and were meant to be seen. This series is made possible in part by the Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation and the Monroe County Office for the Aging.

An unorthodox mix of coffins, comedy, and makeup that may just be the last word in gruesomeness, this gorgeous early two-strip Technicolor treatise in hyper-weirdness concerns an insane wax modeler bent on murder and mayhem. The creepy cast features Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, and Glenda Farrell as the wisecracking sob sister.