CANDYMAN & HELLRAISER III
(35mm Double Feature)
Friday, June 8th
at 10pm
$18 Members | $22 Public
Retro Picture Show presents
CANDYMAN and HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH, both screening on 35mm!
CANDYMAN (1992)
U.S. | 99 mins | Dir. Bernard Rose | 35mm
Stand in front of the mirror, turn off the light, and
chant the word "Candyman" five times. Then he'll appear behind you...
if you believe.
A children's ghost story comes to terrifying life in
this gut-wrenching thriller about a graduate student whose research into modern
folklore summons the spirit of the dead. Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) laughs
when she interviews college freshmen about their superstitions. But when she
hears about Candyman, a slave spirit with a hook hand who is said to haunt
Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project. She thinks she has a new
twist for this thesis. Braving the gang-ridden territory to visit the site of a
brutal murder, Helen arrogantly assumes Candyman can't really exist... until he
appears, igniting a string of terrifying, tragic slayings. But the police don't
believe in monsters, and they charge Helen with the grisly crimes. And only one
person can set her free, Candyman.
HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH (1992)
U.S. | 97 mins | Dir. Anthony Hickox | 35mm
Some call him the Black Prince of Hell. Some call him
the Angel of Suffering. To horror fans everywhere, he's Pinhead (Doug Bradley),
the urbane, spike-faced minion of evil with a bloodlust for human souls. Now
Pinhead's back in the most diabolical Hellraiser of them all - Hellraiser III:
Hell on Earth!
TV reporter Joey Summerskill (Terry Farrell, Back to
School) is on assignment at a local hospital when a bloodied teenage boy is
rushed into the emergency room. As Joey watches, the writhing boy is literally
torn apart by chains impaling his body. Fleeing the carnage, Joey follows the
victim's girlfriend to a downtown nightclub, the Boiler Room. In the apartment
above the Boiler Room rests the owner's newly purchased sculpture: a pillar
etched with distorted figures and faces. Among the frozen images is Pinhead.
Tonight, he shall be released.