Thursday, October 26, 2023
7:00pm PT
FREE online presentation
A lecture-discussion hosted by film critic Robert Horton
The arrival of the latest Exorcist movie has us thinking about Satan's starring role in movie history. We'll take a Halloween-timed tour, illustrated with clips, through depictions of the Dark One as the demonic rascal in the Exorcist and Conjuring series, the proud papa of Rosemary's Baby and The Omen, and antihero to worshippers in cult movies like The Devil Rides Out and The Seventh Victim. Carve out the pentagrams and sniff the brimstone, because we'll conjure up an unlikely movie star and wonder why Beelzebub's appeal seems more seductive than ever.
NOTE: This presentation will be recorded.
The "Programmer-Historian in Residence" at Scarecrow Video, Robert Horton is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and host of the radio program "The Music and the Movies." His books include a critical study of Frankenstein. He has been a Fulbright Specialist, a Smithsonian Journeys speaker, and he is a member of the Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau for 2021-2025.
This talk is part of our Silver Screeners program and is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
