The Miskatonic London 2015 pilot semester has now wrapped, but we would like to invite all our graduates (those who were with us for the whole semester) to a screening of The Dead Eyes of London at the fantastic Masonic Temple in Liverpool Street on Saturday 4 July at 1pm (part of the East End Film Festival). This will be followed by a panel discussion on krimi films with Kim Newman, Jim Harper and Alex Fitch, after which the graduates will receive their Miskatonic diplomas from the hands of Kim Newman.
The screening is ticketed for the general public (see details and ticket links for the full day’s programming at the temple below), but Miskatonic graduates have free admission with RSVP. IMPORTANT: Please email us at miskatonic.london[at]gmail.com to reserve your place. It is essential that you reserve your place by FRIDAY 26 JUNE.
Congratulations to the graduates of the first Miskatonic London semester!
Antony Caiger
Ralph Dorey
John Etherington
Brian Graham
Duncan Hopper
Graham Humphreys
Justin Merritt
Tom Oldham
Anthony Page
Bradie Poole
Mat Rowlands
Stephanie Scaife
Matthew Tilt
Justin Woodman
Descend into the eerie confines of a masonic temple for this devilishly unsettling combination of screenings and events: taking you from murder and mayhem into the sinister sinews of the brainwashed and their puppet-masters…
Saturday 4 July
SESSION 1 | Ticket Price: £10 | BUY TICKETS
1 PM | ELECTRIC SHEEP PRESENTS:
The Dead Eyes of London + Talk
Director: Alfred Vohrer | USA | 1961 | 104 min
Nothing is as it looks in this murder mystery lead by a mysterious reverend. Followed by a special talk on krimi cinema hosted by Electric Sheep’s Alex Fitch, who will be joined by author and critic Kim Newman, and author Jim Harper.
Miskatonic Graduation
A ceremony for the graduates of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies – London
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SESSION 2 | Ticket Price: £10 | BUY TICKETS
4 PM | CIGARETTE BURNS PRESENTS:
The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (16MM)
Director: Sergio Martino | Italy | 1971 | 90 min
This deliciously macabre setting paired with a lustrous 16mm projection make this a rare opportunity to sample this devilishly entertaining 70s thriller as a millionaire dies in a mysterious freak accident leaving his widow set to enjoy the rich spoils.
EVENING SESSION | Ticket Price: £25 | BUY TICKETS
8 PM | MACABRE MASONIC MASQUERADE + SCREENING OF JUDEX
Director: Georges Franju | France | 1963 | 98 min
Join us for a macabre night of ballroom play, immersive cinema and murder mystery masquerade featuring a screening of Favraux’s thrilling pulp-hero remake of the 1916 French film serial of the same name.
Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, the Anno Dracula novels and stories, The Quorum, The Original Dr Shade and Other Stories, Life’s Lottery, Back in the USSA (with Eugene Byrne), The Man From the Diogenes Club, Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles and An English Ghost Story under his own name and The Vampire Genevieve and Orgy of the Blood Parasites as Jack Yeovil. His non-fiction books include Nightmare Movies, Ghastly Beyond Belief (with Neil Gaiman), Horror: 100 Best Books (with Stephen Jones), Wild West Movies, The BFI Companion to Horror, Millennium Movies and BFI Classics studies of Cat People, Doctor Who and Quatermass and the Pit. He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire magazines (writing Empire’s popular Video Dungeon column), has written and broadcast widely, and scripted radio and television documentaries. His stories ‘Week Woman’ and ‘Ubermensch’ have been adapted into an episode of the TV series The Hunger and an Australian short film; he has directed and written a tiny film Missing Girl; he co-wrote the West End play The Hallowe’en Sessions. Following his Radio 4 play ‘Cry Babies’, he wrote episodes for Radio 7’s series The Man in Black (‘Phish Phood’) and Glass Eye Pix’ Tales From Beyond the Pale (‘Sarah Minds the Dog’). He scripted (with Maura McHugh) the comic book miniseries Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland (Dark Horse), illustrated by Tyler Crook; it’s a spinoff from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy series. His official web-site is at www.johnnyalucard.com. His forthcoming fiction includes the novels The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange and Angels of Music . He is on Twitter as @AnnoDracula.