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Vincent Price Double Feature! House on Haunted Hill (1959) with The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Oct
5
8:00 PM20:00

Vincent Price Double Feature! House on Haunted Hill (1959) with The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Sat. Oct. 5 

Tickets - $6 

Doors – 7:00 PM 

Organ Overture – 7:30 PM 

First Film – 8:00 PM 

Second Film – 9:45 PM (approximately) 

The Masque of the Red Death (First Film) 

1hr 23min | NR | Horror/Drama | USA 

House on Haunted Hill (Second Film) 

1hr 15min | NR | Horror/Mystery | USA

 

 

Behold! The poetic grandeur of not one but two classic Vincent Price performances, his singular visage projected in all its emotive glory on our big screen!  

The master of villainy and heroically huge theatricality, Price’s imposing frame has long loomed large amongst the pantheon of horror icons. His turn towards the genre began in the 1950s with the likes of William Castle’s camp classic, House on Haunted Hill, now one of Price’s best-known pictures. He soon found steady employment with director Roger Corman in a string of low-budget and high-style Gothic horror flicks adapted (loosely) from Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of the macabre. This collaboration ended in 1964 with two films, including the psychedelically tinged fantasia of depravity, The Masque of the Red Death.  

Experience the joy of vintage terror, filtered through the sonorous voice and unmatched enunciation of a master thespian, with nearly three hours of horror at the Senate. It's a spooky season miracle! 

 

 

 

The Senate Theater and The Detroit Theater Organ Society is supported by The Michigan Arts and Culture Council and The National Endowment for the Arts. 

Parking is available in our gated lot, on Gilbert, and Michigan Avenue

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Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Sep
7
8:00 PM20:00

Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)

Doors – 7:00 PM 

Organ Overture – 7:30 PM 

Film – 8:00 PM 

Tickets - $6 

1hr 33min | PG | Comedy/Musical | USA 

 

 

We all know rock music is dangerous, but did you know it might just blow up your children’s school? 

 

That’s according to the cult teen movie classic, Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, a delightful alchemy of sneering punk rock attitude, goofball energy, and campy performances! 

 

Produced by Roger “King of the B-movie" Corman, this tongue-in-cheek comedy follows the exploits of a plucky teenage troublemaker Riff Randall as she attempts to meet her idols and hopefully kickstart a nascent songwriting career. It was originally conceived as Disco High, an update of the rock ‘n’ roll exploitation films Corman and others made in the 1960s. That concept was soon abandoned, however, as the script veered deep into screwball antics and back towards rock music, eventually leading to the hiring of (then unknown) punk rock legends The Ramones.  

 

The result lands somewhere between Grease and Animal House, with a soundtrack featuring a heavy dose of The Ramones, alongside the likes of Brian Eno, The Velvet Underground, and Detroit’s own MC5. 

 

See you there. Don’t be a square. 

 

 

 

 

 

The Senate Theater and The Detroit Theater Organ Society is supported by The Michigan Arts and Culture Council and The National Endowment for the Arts. 

Parking is available in our gated lot, on Gilbert, and Michigan Avenue

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