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Date: Oct. 15, 2024
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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The Neville Public Museum is proud to bring UW-GB professor Zack Kruse back to the museum for its second season of the horror film series “Nightmares at the Neville.” Nightmares at the Neville showcases three classic horror films with discussions led by Kruse, who is a scholar of comics, film, and American literature.
General Admission $7
Member Admission $5
Student Admission $3
Popcorn and soda will be available for purchase prior to each film’s showing.
Theatre doors open at 5:30pm.
The Bride of the Monster (1955)
Bela Lugosi stars in one of Ed Wood's most painful and endearing B-movie debacles. Cardboard sets, Tor Johnson, Cold War paranoia, and a Lugosi performance that outpaces the "script" make Bride of the Monster a classic in trash cinema—the production of which was made legend in Tim Burton's Ed Wood (1994) biopic. In the film, two stranded hunters seek refuge in an abandoned and haunted house, where the current owner, Dr. Eric Vornoff (Lugosi), refuses to provide them hospitality. As the hunters attempt to force their way into the house, they accidentally release a giant octopus, which is then sent to kill them. Sure, we've seen it before! But have we seen it with a Swedish professional wrestler playing a mute laboratory assistant named Lobo or the untimely demise of a scientist at the hands of an atomically-powered mutant octopus? NO! Bride of the Monster isn't winning awards, but it's been wrapping its tentacles around the hearts of horror kids and cinephiles for seventy years. Find out what happens when a passionate weirdo gets together with a gang of goofballs and changes the world through movies.
More About Zack Kruse
Zack Kruse is the author of the Eisner-nominated Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity (University of Mississippi Press, 2021), recognized as one of the best books on comics in 2021 by The Comics Journal. He is a scholar of comics, film, and American literature, publishing broadly in each of these areas. As a comics creator, his strip, Mystery Solved!, appeared in Skeptical Inquirer Magazine. He was the founder and sole operator of the Appleseed Comics and Art Convention in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he is the former marketing director for the largest comics retailer in the U.S. His voice can be heard on numerous comics and academic podcasts, as well as his weekly music program, The Mutant Graveyard. He is currently working on multiple film, comics, and academic projects. He never sleeps. He says he will never die.