This summer, the Dryden Theatre gives you an opportunity to beat the heat with a series of “Summer Chills.” These films are not only set in snowy climes, but will also send a chill down your spine, with ghosts, vampires, aliens, and creepy children. There is an intricate connection between the isolation of the winter months and the fear of being alone, or at least cut off from greater society. Whether it’s an arctic research station (The Thing from Another World, August 22), public housing in in Stockholm (Let the Right One In, August 29), or a decaying English estate (Crimson Peak, July 25), winter can cut you off and make you fend for yourself, no matter what’s haunting you.
Dates and Titles:
July 5: Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, US 2012, 102 min., DCP)
July 11: The Brood (David Cronenberg, Canada 1979, 92 min., DCP)
July 25: Crimson Peak (Guillermo Del Toro, US/Mexico/Canada 2015, 119 min., 35mm)
July 26: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, US/UK 1999, 159 min., 35mm)
August 15: The Blackcoat’s Daughter (Osgood Perkins, Canada/US 2015, 93 min., DCP)
August 22: The Thing from Another World (Howard Hawks, US 1951, 87 min., 35mm)
August 29: Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in, Tomas Alfredson, Sweden/Norway/France 2008, 114 min., 35mm, Swedish with English subtitles)
Events in this Series
Let the Right One In (35mm)
Summer Chills Plagued by school bullies, 12 year old Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) finds a friend and his first crush in Eli (Lina Leandersson), a seemingly young girl who moves into his working-class apartment block.
The Thing from Another World (35mm)
Summer Chills When an unidentified object crashes in the Antarctic, a team of scientists and US Air Force personnel are dispatched to investigate.
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
Summer Chills Director Oz Perkins has made a splash in the last few years with Longlegs and The Monkey. This film, his feature debut, is a chilling exploration of loneliness and isolation. In the cold winter of upstate New York, two girls (Kiernan Shipka and Lucy Boynton) at Catholic boarding school Bramford Academy find themselves left behind as their parents fail to retrieve them for winter break.
Winter Sleepers (35mm)
Summer Chills In scenic Berchtesgaden, two couples who share a villa find their lives intertwined with each other, as well as a local farmer whose daughter has been injured in a car accident.
Eyes Wide Shut (35mm)
The Complete Kubrick | Summer Chills Stanley Kubrick’s final directorial effort was released twelve years after his previous film and four months after his death. Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 Traumnovelle (or Dream Story), Kubrick waited until he had a real-life couple that could commit to his demanding production schedule to make the film.