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Watch out for mirrors!
We don't know if it's like this everywhere, but in Salem CANDYMAN seems like the most eagerly awaited film of the summer. Finally, CANDYMAN is right ahead of you. Or maybe he's right behind you. Have you been speaking into any mirrors lately?
If CANDYMAN doesn't scare you enough, THE NIGHT HOUSE is here to terrorize for another week. FREE GUY is also back again if you need to cleanse your palate with lighter fare. And for something completely different, this week's Night Light presentation, TETSUO, THE IRON MAN, is one of the strangest movies you'll ever encounter.
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy and his partner, gallery director Brianna Cartwright, move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition. A chance encounter with a Cabrini-Green old-timer exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny. Trailer
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth (Rebecca Hall) is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. She tries as best she can to keep it together – but then nightmares come. Disturbing visions of a presence in the house calling to her, beckoning her with a ghostly allure. Against the advice of her friends, she begins digging into her husband’s belongings, yearning for answers. What she finds are secrets both strange and disturbing – a mystery she’s determined to unravel.
In Twentieth Century Fox’s epic adventure-comedy “Free Guy,” a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story…one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way…before it is too late. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Taika Waititi, “Free Guy” is directed by Shawn Levy from a story by Matt Lieberman and a screenplay by Lieberman and Zak Penn.
TETSUO, THE IRON MAN
One screening only, Friday, August 2, 10 p.m.
A timeless tale of an ordinary man who comes under the malicious influence of an undead metal fetishist. So low-budget that its principal cast was also its crew, Tsukamoto’s deep-underground classic steals fire from ERASERHEAD’s electro-mechanical wellspring and sinks it deep into VIDEODROME’s “new flesh,” planting alongside it the debased eroticism of J.G. Ballard’s Crash. A must-see for all cyberpunk freaks.
