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Shoot us an email at \u003ca href=\"mailto:CloseAllTabs@KQED.org\">CloseAllTabs@KQED.org\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow us on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/closealltabspod/\">Instagram\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@closealltabs\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@closealltabs\">TikTok\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Morgan Sung:\u003c/strong> Hi Tabby Cats! Do you have an internet trend, tech subculture or online oddity you’ve been wondering about? Well, now you can ask Close All Tabs to investigate. Go to kqed dot org slash Close All Tabs to submit your question. Okay, let’s get to the show. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a while, movie theaters had been on a downward spiral. Even the biggest names in Hollywood lamented their demise. Back in 2014, Quentin Tarantino warned of the death of cinema — thanks to the shift from analog filmmaking to digital formats. A few years later, NATO, not that one, but actually the National Alliance of Theater Owners, recorded the lowest theater attendance in over two decades, as tickets got more expensive than ever. In 2019, New York Times film critic A.O. Scott questioned whether streaming would kill cinema, which is actually what Cillian Murphy’s character, a video store owner, predicted in the 2007 romcom, \u003cem>Watching the Detectives\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>[Begin clip of \u003c/em>Watching the Detectives\u003cem>]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Neil, what are you gonna do when this place goes tits up? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, I don’t think that’s gonna happen for a few years, you know, not until people can get any movie they want beamed directly into their TV set and I’m dead meat. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>[End clip of \u003c/em>Watching the Detectives\u003cem>]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Morgan Sung:\u003c/strong> And then, a year after that New York Times story came out, the pandemic hit. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of Inside Edition story from YouTube]:\u003c/strong> Box office sales at movie theaters over the weekend plummeted to a 20-year low. Ticket sales were even worse than in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of WPRI story from YouTube]:\u003c/strong> Leadership at Cinemas 8 taking to social media saying the pandemic has made it economically impossible to reopen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Morgan Sung:\u003c/strong> The pandemic shut down cinemas around the world with no real safety net and some theaters never opened up again. Hollywood had poured millions and millions of dollars into blockbusters that couldn’t make it to the big screen. Instead, at the height of lockdown, they skipped theaters and went straight to streaming for viewers to watch from the safety of their homes. I’m talking cinematic masterpieces like \u003cem>Dune\u003c/em>… being watched on an iPad. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But today, movie theater chains like AMC, Regal, and Alamo Drafthouse have bounced back. The movie-going experience is now a gamified, thriving subculture that reveres in-person community. The AMC A-list subscription used to be for nerds, and now it’s the ultimate cinephile flex. A viral Letterboxd review is a status symbol. Film podcasts treat going to the movies like it’s a sport. So, how did we get here? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today we’re diving into the internet’s mission to save cinema and how an iconic Hollywood landmark almost fell to ruin — until a very online Gen Z filmmaker rallied to the public to save it. Get ready. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is Close All Tabs. I’m Morgan Sung, tech journalist and your chronically online friend here to open as many browser tabs as it takes to help you understand how the digital world affects our real lives. Let’s get into it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For today’s deep dive, I’m handing the keyboard over to my friend, Candice Lim. If she sounds familiar, it’s because you’ve definitely heard her on Close All Tabs before. She’s also an internet culture reporter, a film and TV critic, and one of my favorite people to follow on Letterboxd. Candice only converted to the Church of Cinema after the release of \u003cem>Challengers\u003c/em>, the horny tennis love triangle extravaganza starring Zendaya, which Candice saw in theaters five times. And she’s not the only one trying to save the art of movie going. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay. Take it away, Candice. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Thanks Morgan. In the words of Nicole Kidman… \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of Nicole Kidman for AMC from YouTube]:\u003c/strong> We come to this place for magic. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> So let’s open a new tab: the Savior of the Cinerama Dome. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wanna take us to Sunset Boulevard on a recent Saturday morning in Los Angeles. I’m standing in front of this big, white dome made out of 316 interlocking concrete panels. It’s the Cinerama Dome. It’s hard to miss next to a Veggie Grill and a gym, but for something so big in the dead center of Hollywood, this theater complex feels… dead. The lights that once lit the night sky have been off for years. And the building itself is in a state of disrepair. But, it wasn’t always that way. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I liked coming here to see \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/em> in 2014. That was my first time seeing a movie with an intermission, and with over 800 or 1,000 people in the audience. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> This is Ben Steinberg. He’s a cinephile. First off, how many movies have you seen this year? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Oh, uh, probably over 50 maybe? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> I can tell you it’s 113. It was on Letterboxd. I checked it out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Oh, wow. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> He’s a former child actor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> When I was like 13 or 14, I got to do the TV show, \u003cem>Brooklyn Nine-Nine\u003c/em>, for a few seasons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of Brooklyn Nine-Nine from IMDb]:\u003c/strong> But it’s my bar mitzvah. We were going to grind. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> And, he’s an activist. In fact, when it comes to the movie theater revival movement, he’s kind of the activist. For the last five years, Ben has been running a Twitter account called Save Your Cinema. He got started in 2021, when Angeleno’s received a heartbreaking announcement about the very iconic building we are standing right in front of. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of Fox 11 Los Angeles story from YouTube]:\u003c/strong> And we begin with breaking news, and it is very sad news for movie lovers. Pacific Theaters announcing its ArcLight and Pacific Theaters will not reopen after shutting down last year because of the pandemic. This includes the iconic Cinerama Dome in Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> The Dome had been closed in 2020 due to COVID, just like nearly every other theater. Ownership kept promising it would reopen, but it never did, and cinephiles like Ben began to get nervous. To Ben, that announcement in March of 2021 was the nail in the coffin. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> And then after that, they made no further like, press releases or responded to emails. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> To understand the importance of this, I need to tell you a bit about the Cinerama Dome and what it means to the city of LA and film history. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dome was opened back in 1963, and it’s the first and only concrete, geodesic dome in the world. For decades, it was known as the place to watch the latest blockbuster, and the first film they ever screened was \u003cem>It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World\u003c/em>, a Stanley Kramer-directed comedy starring Buster Keaton. Then, it became this marquee place to hold premieres, similar to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre — and The Dome made it fun. They turned into a green ogre for \u003cem>Shrek 2\u003c/em>. They became the moon for the 2018 Neil Armstrong biopic, \u003cem>First Man\u003c/em>. A lot of working filmmakers can remember the most formative movie they’ve watched at The Dome with hopes that one day their film would premiere there too. And beyond the iconic look and blockbuster screenings, this particular theater is important to the history of film as a medium. It’s all about the way movies are shot. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> There’s like two different versions of Cinerama. There’s the original three-strip Cinerama, which uses literally three lenses, like three cameras together. And then later on, they did the 70mm Cinerama, which is \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Without getting too technical, the image 70-millimeter film creates is huge — several times bigger than traditional 35-millimeter. It had to be projected onto a screen that’s large enough to accommodate it. That’s where The Dome comes in. I would describe watching a movie at The Dome as if you were inside The Sphere in Las Vegas. The magnitude of this format, what some call “the great-grandmother of IMAX,” feels magical, especially in the age of vertical video scrolling. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine watching something like Christopher Nolan’s \u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em> at The Dome. It makes you feel like you’re actually on the moon — and you are experiencing this with strangers, all of whom came to this place at this time to share this moment with you. Also, the popcorn is really good. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> They have like this really good chef-driven like popcorn. They had like the- the last one they had was Mexican street popcorn. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Okay, back to the announcement about The Dome’s permanent closure. So, you have this piece of cinema history, an architectural feat, an iconic industry landmark, closing for good. A lot of people were gutted, including and especially Ben. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> From what I was told through a few different sources was that they just didn’t believe in the theatrical exhibition box office, like they didn’t think they could make enough money, and like they’re obviously very business-oriented. So, I was just under the assumption that they didn’t believe in like the theatrical exhibition box office for the future of it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> And every good movie needs a hero, right? Well, for this story, and for a very online group of movie lovers, that hero was Ben. Immediately after the Cinerama Dome’s owners announced it wouldn’t reopen, Ben jumped into action. And even though he might sound mild-mannered, let me tell you: Ben is fearless. And you have to remember the context. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was 2021. We were coming out of lockdown. Theater attendance was returning at a crawl. And if there was one barrier Ben felt he needed to break through — it was the doors of The Dome. So, he got his keyboard warriors together and created a petition called Save the Cinerama Dome. And this petition was trying to get the attention of the owners of The Dome, the Decurion Corporation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> It was addressed to the CEO of the Decurion Corporation, so I was hoping to at least get a response from him. Then it quickly got 30,000 signatures, but we never got any response. They didn’t even acknowledge it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Ben was frustrated, because as far as he could tell, there wasn’t a good reason for The Dome’s permanent closure. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Company that owns it, they never went bankrupt, the parent company, they just decided to shut down the theater. So, just the whole like situation was very mysterious, like they have no website and no phone line, and then I started to look at their other properties that they own, and they own some other historic cinemas that have been abandoned for around 25 years… So I kind of got paranoid that they were planning that for The Dome. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> It’s true. Let’s get into some backstory. Okay, so the Decurion Corporation is owned by the Formans, a billionaire family that owned two major movie chains in California: the Pacific Theater, which started all the way back in 1946, and ArcLight Cinemas, which operated The Dome as well as other beloved LA theaters. But both chains were permanently closed down in 2021, and The Dome, with its peeling walls and overgrown vines, definitely looks like it’s been closed for five years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I was documenting just like the deterioration of it, which was crazy, just seeing like stuff falling off just because it’s been abandoned for so long. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Ben got tired of seeing this beloved theater stand idly by — wasting away as what some have called, “a tax write-off.” He got this crazy idea. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Well, I’ve had the idea for like three years, but I knew that once I did it, it could be like the end of the Save the Cinerama Dome campaign. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> He basically wanted to project a Page Six headline-style photo of the Decurion executives onto The Dome. Once he got the idea, he started a GoFundMe, which raised more than $2,000, and those dollars went toward hiring a projectionist, a security guard, and a little rehearsal… A few days before the stunt. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I got a professional projection engineer to do it. It just said, “Reopen The Dome,” and then just the images of the CEO and the vice president of development. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> He actually pulled it off on a busy Friday night when the sun went down and the projection went up. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I was right between the two big trees and the lampposts, in front of the Los Angeles Film School, but on the sidewalk. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Do you notice people stopping and staring at it? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Yeah, we got a lot of attention like, everyone was looking at the projection and like people in their cars were like, throwing their thumbs up and like, applauding me. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> But according to Ben, the reason his stunt even went viral is because of the cops. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Lasted for like two or three hours and then the police came — the police specifically said the owners like don’t want me to get arrested or citated, they just want me to know they consider it a form of escalation and harassment, but I think it was definitely like the Streisand effect. I think it’s a blessing in disguise that they called the police, because I think if they didn’t it wouldn’t have gone as viral. So, I think it definitely drew attention on them. I just wanted to remind them that like, they owned the Cinerama Dome and the public wanted it to reopen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> So even though the cops said they were not going to arrest Ben, after two hours, he felt like it was time to go home. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> After I posted about it, it went viral and I knew that was going to kick some things in motion. And then like, the next day I saw that the executives for the company started viewing my LinkedIn profile. So that was definitely a good sign. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> So Ben finally got the attention of The Dome’s owners. They were checking out his LinkedIn — then came a public hearing where The Dome’s representative was going to be there. So Ben got a second idea, to flood the zone with his supporters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> She was asked specifically about the Save the Cinerama Dome campaign and like my projection, and she responded saying that the ownership took notice of it and the extreme public interest in wanting The Dome to reopen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> But it was very, We Here For You, from \u003cem>Succession\u003c/em>, because it’s one thing to say we’re noticing interest versus acting on that interest. So Ben decided to give them a self-proclaimed deadline, August 20th, and they had to either announce they were reopening The Dome or find someone to lease the theater. He wasn’t sure if they were going to actually meet that deadline, but for some reason, he felt closer and closer to a victory. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> I think the ArcLight needed someone like him who just wouldn’t back down and wouldn’t take no for an answer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Ezgi Eren is the founder of 11am Saturday, a Substack newsletter she calls a movie restoration project. She interviewed Ben for her Substack back in 2024 before the stunt happened. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> And, you know, he just projected an image onto a building. Like he didn’t break the law. I mean, I don’t know if he technically broke the law, but he didn’t harm anyone. So, if that’s what it took to get the owners to act, that’s good to know. The fact that he raised that awareness in them is amazing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> And after years of back and forth, online petitions, and filmmakers like Edgar Wright, Benny Safdie, and Sean Baker showing support, for the first time in a long time, it looked like moviegoers just might have the chance to see The Dome’s silver screen light up once again. Ben is one of the many people trying to keep movie theaters alive — but his efforts are just the most visible piece… of a movie subculture that has come roaring back after cinemas were pronounced dead only a few years ago. And the driving force behind it? Gen Z. We’ll get into that after the break. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome back. Let’s open a new tab: is the Gen Z Cinephile Movement real? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I’ll put myself on blast, because I’m technically in Gen Z, and I am watching an average of three to five movies per week. But, I wasn’t always this way. I actually used to hate movies. I was more of a TV kid. But in 2024, a movie came out that changed how I valued the movie going experience. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of Challengers from YouTube]:\u003c/strong> Don’t you want to meet Tashi Duncan? You don’t get it, man. You’ve never seen her in person. She’s in another league. You mean her game? No, I mean she’s the hottest woman I’ve ever seen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Challengers\u003c/em>, directed by Luca Guadagnino, stars Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor as three tennis players who sometimes play tennis, but also make out. What got me was the score by the Nine Inch Nails guys. It was electric, and propulsive, and it felt like being in the club — and after many clubless years during the pandemic, I needed that. From that point forward, I became a Letterboxd-er, an AMC A-List member, and a proud solo moviegoer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> I looked around and I didn’t really know many people who still went to the movies, shockingly. It was a couple years ago. And I just felt like the whole experience is dying. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Ezgi Eren, again, founder of 11am Saturday, the movie Substack. While Ezgi admits she is a millennial, she is in a lot of Gen Z majority spaces, and she believes Gen Z is the key to getting butts back into those fuzzy little seats. She says they’re looking to reconnect with real people… And real experiences. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> I think it’s the kind of oversaturation of the internet, the influx of content that people are subjected to every day, and the need to kind of get off the internet and go more into real life spaces again. I see it in like book clubs. I see it in like dinner parties. I think it’s the same reason for people going back to the movie theaters as well. Yeah, it’s great. I love it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> And it’s not just the movies themselves that are attracting these Gen Z attendees. It’s about what’s happening outside of the theater, online, that’s pushing people to keep going back for more. It’s a digitally fueled cultural shift. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, let’s talk about Letterboxd, which is a movie logging app that’s akin to the Goodreads of cinema. It can frankly be a little performative. You start by rating a movie out of five stars. Then you can write a review. Some people take it seriously. Others become trolls. But it’s so communal that your favorite filmmakers and film heads — this is Martin Scorsese, Charli XCX, even Jack Harlow — are logging the same movies you are watching. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, you have things like the Criterion Closet. You may have heard of the Criterion Collection. They have a YouTube video series called Closet Picks, where prominent film lovers like Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Giamatti, and game designer Hideo Kojima pick their favorite highbrow DVDs off library-looking shelves. It’s a smash hit. But the reason why Gen Z congregates around these film-themed internet platforms is because they are actively curating their tastes — using accessible platforms almost as an educational way to upgrade their cinema game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because at the end of the day, when you log a movie or post a review, it’s your green light at the of the dock, a bid for connection. It’s a way to attract like-minded people with similar taste. Because that’s what COVID ripped away from a lot of Gen Z people: organic connection in public spaces. And Letterboxd… is considered a public space. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> Letterboxd and like The Criterion and studios that make movies more catered to Gen Z, like I think those are all kind of partially responsible as well, but it’s almost like they are riding a great wave. I think it was going to happen regardless. But then of course, it does matter that Letterboxd, gameified it. It does matter that theaters are engaging more with their audiences on social media. It has become almost like… a brand — you want to associate yourself with a specific theater more now. I think it’s a combination of all those things. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Fandango, the movie ticket website, did a study this year, saying that Gen Z, who are about 14 to 29 years old right now, is the most active movie-going generation, seeing about seven movies per year. I’ve also seen headlines about Gen Z being the loneliest generation right now. Is there a connection? Here’s Ben again. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I can’t think of like any other third spaces. Like I know AMC Theaters has like a lot of like meetups and like fan clubs where people will just go every week as a group to AMC. 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One of my favorite memories of 2026 was seeing \u003cem>The Odyssey\u003c/em> at the Universal CityWalk AMC in IMAX on 70 millimeter at 2 a.m. And yes, it did screw up my sleep schedule for about five weeks, but I should be getting it back on track just in time to see \u003cem>Dune: Part Three\u003c/em> on opening weekend in IMAX on 70-millimeter, also, at 2 a.m. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Close All Tabs, I’m Candice Lim. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Morgan Sung:\u003c/strong> Thanks again to Candice for taking us on that deep dive. If you’re dying to open more tabs about Ben, the Cinerama Dome, and his quest to save LA’s movie theaters, we’ll have some links in the episode description. You can also find more of Candice’s work there. And stick around after the credits for some bonus content. That’s it for this week. 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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Challengers\u003c/em>, directed by Luca Guadagnino, stars Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor as three tennis players who sometimes play tennis, but also make out. What got me was the score by the Nine Inch Nails guys. It was electric, and propulsive, and it felt like being in the club — and after many clubless years during the pandemic, I needed that. From that point forward, I became a Letterboxd-er, an AMC A-List member, and a proud solo moviegoer. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Ezgi Eren, again, founder of 11am Saturday, the movie Substack. While Ezgi admits she is a millennial, she is in a lot of Gen Z majority spaces, and she believes Gen Z is the key to getting butts back into those fuzzy little seats. She says they’re looking to reconnect with real people… And real experiences. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> And like creating like an online experience to try to like get these people to see the movies. So I think their influence is growing for sure and then like after \u003cem>Obsession\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Backrooms\u003c/em> they’re only going to be stronger. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Have you ever been influenced by maybe like, a Letterboxd or even a film podcast or something you saw on social media that made you like, I don’t know, wanna go see a movie or made you more excited about something coming up? \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> Oh my God, so all the time — all the time. Sometimes it’ll be just like one tweet that I’ll take to heart and go see something. Because I still, I think that’s also the power of these websites is that you can’t really manufacture real interest, right? Like, people don’t spend their hard earned money on things that suck. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> But the big one, the thing that Ben cares most about, is the fact that it’s not always guaranteed that our favorite movie theaters will be there tomorrow. \u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2020, movie theaters were on their last legs. Lockdowns and years of declining interest had forced historic cinemas to shutter, including an LA icon, the Cinerama Dome. But recently a new generation of cinema-lovers has been using social media to revitalize the culture of in person movie-watching. Internet culture reporter Candice Lim explores the rise of the Gen Z cinephile movement, and heads to Hollywood to meet the young filmmaker and activist who is fighting to bring the Cinerama Dome back from the dead.\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guests: \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"candicelim.substack.com\">Candice Lim\u003c/a>, internet culture reporter\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SaveYourCinema\">Ben Steinberg\u003c/a>, filmmaker, actor, and founder of Save Your Cinema\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.11amsaturday.com/\">Ezgi Eren\u003c/a>, founder of \u003cem>11am Saturda\u003c/em>y\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Further Reading/Listening:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://hearinla.substack.com/p/ben-the-man-who-saved-the-cinerama\">Ben, the Man who Saved the Cinerama Dome\u003c/a> — \u003cem>Hear in LA Substack\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-cinerama-dome-benjamin-steinberg-chris-forman-1236556697/\">An Activist Spent Years Pushing for Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome to Reopen. Why Did He Just Stop?\u003c/a> — Gary Baum, \u003cem>The Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/cinerama-dome-advocates-public-pressure-owners-reopen-1235193534/\">Cinerama Dome Advocates Take Rare Chance to Put Public Pressure on Owners to Reopen\u003c/a> — Brian Welk, \u003cem>IndieWire\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.indiewire.com/features/podcast/how-ben-steinberg-saved-cinerama-dome-1235209487/\">How 26-Year-Old Ben Steinberg Saved the Cinerama Dome\u003c/a> — Ryan Lattanzio & Anne Thompson, \u003cem>IndieWire\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2025/film/news/save-cinerama-dome-campaign-reopening-uncertain-1236363487/\">Supporters Rally to Save the Cinerama Dome as Future of Hollywood Theater Complex Remains Uncertain\u003c/a> — Pat Saperstein & Jazz Tangcay, \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1v3lcq2/in_praise_of_ben_steinberg_the_hero_who_stood_up/\">In praise of Ben Steinberg, the hero who stood up and demanded the Cinerama Dome not be just one more derelict, abandoned Hollywood landmark\u003c/a> — \u003cem>Reddit\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want to give us feedback on the show? Shoot us an email at \u003ca href=\"mailto:CloseAllTabs@KQED.org\">CloseAllTabs@KQED.org\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow us on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/closealltabspod/\">Instagram\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@closealltabs\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@closealltabs\">TikTok\u003c/a>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Morgan Sung:\u003c/strong> Hi Tabby Cats! Do you have an internet trend, tech subculture or online oddity you’ve been wondering about? Well, now you can ask Close All Tabs to investigate. Go to kqed dot org slash Close All Tabs to submit your question. Okay, let’s get to the show. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a while, movie theaters had been on a downward spiral. Even the biggest names in Hollywood lamented their demise. Back in 2014, Quentin Tarantino warned of the death of cinema — thanks to the shift from analog filmmaking to digital formats. A few years later, NATO, not that one, but actually the National Alliance of Theater Owners, recorded the lowest theater attendance in over two decades, as tickets got more expensive than ever. In 2019, New York Times film critic A.O. Scott questioned whether streaming would kill cinema, which is actually what Cillian Murphy’s character, a video store owner, predicted in the 2007 romcom, \u003cem>Watching the Detectives\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>[Begin clip of \u003c/em>Watching the Detectives\u003cem>]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Neil, what are you gonna do when this place goes tits up? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, I don’t think that’s gonna happen for a few years, you know, not until people can get any movie they want beamed directly into their TV set and I’m dead meat. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>[End clip of \u003c/em>Watching the Detectives\u003cem>]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Morgan Sung:\u003c/strong> And then, a year after that New York Times story came out, the pandemic hit. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of Inside Edition story from YouTube]:\u003c/strong> Box office sales at movie theaters over the weekend plummeted to a 20-year low. Ticket sales were even worse than in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of WPRI story from YouTube]:\u003c/strong> Leadership at Cinemas 8 taking to social media saying the pandemic has made it economically impossible to reopen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Morgan Sung:\u003c/strong> The pandemic shut down cinemas around the world with no real safety net and some theaters never opened up again. Hollywood had poured millions and millions of dollars into blockbusters that couldn’t make it to the big screen. Instead, at the height of lockdown, they skipped theaters and went straight to streaming for viewers to watch from the safety of their homes. I’m talking cinematic masterpieces like \u003cem>Dune\u003c/em>… being watched on an iPad. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But today, movie theater chains like AMC, Regal, and Alamo Drafthouse have bounced back. The movie-going experience is now a gamified, thriving subculture that reveres in-person community. The AMC A-list subscription used to be for nerds, and now it’s the ultimate cinephile flex. A viral Letterboxd review is a status symbol. Film podcasts treat going to the movies like it’s a sport. So, how did we get here? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today we’re diving into the internet’s mission to save cinema and how an iconic Hollywood landmark almost fell to ruin — until a very online Gen Z filmmaker rallied to the public to save it. Get ready. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is Close All Tabs. I’m Morgan Sung, tech journalist and your chronically online friend here to open as many browser tabs as it takes to help you understand how the digital world affects our real lives. Let’s get into it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For today’s deep dive, I’m handing the keyboard over to my friend, Candice Lim. If she sounds familiar, it’s because you’ve definitely heard her on Close All Tabs before. She’s also an internet culture reporter, a film and TV critic, and one of my favorite people to follow on Letterboxd. Candice only converted to the Church of Cinema after the release of \u003cem>Challengers\u003c/em>, the horny tennis love triangle extravaganza starring Zendaya, which Candice saw in theaters five times. And she’s not the only one trying to save the art of movie going. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay. Take it away, Candice. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Thanks Morgan. In the words of Nicole Kidman… \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of Nicole Kidman for AMC from YouTube]:\u003c/strong> We come to this place for magic. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> So let’s open a new tab: the Savior of the Cinerama Dome. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wanna take us to Sunset Boulevard on a recent Saturday morning in Los Angeles. I’m standing in front of this big, white dome made out of 316 interlocking concrete panels. It’s the Cinerama Dome. It’s hard to miss next to a Veggie Grill and a gym, but for something so big in the dead center of Hollywood, this theater complex feels… dead. The lights that once lit the night sky have been off for years. And the building itself is in a state of disrepair. But, it wasn’t always that way. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I liked coming here to see \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/em> in 2014. That was my first time seeing a movie with an intermission, and with over 800 or 1,000 people in the audience. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> This is Ben Steinberg. He’s a cinephile. First off, how many movies have you seen this year? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Oh, uh, probably over 50 maybe? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> I can tell you it’s 113. It was on Letterboxd. I checked it out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Oh, wow. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> He’s a former child actor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> When I was like 13 or 14, I got to do the TV show, \u003cem>Brooklyn Nine-Nine\u003c/em>, for a few seasons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of Brooklyn Nine-Nine from IMDb]:\u003c/strong> But it’s my bar mitzvah. We were going to grind. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> And, he’s an activist. In fact, when it comes to the movie theater revival movement, he’s kind of the activist. For the last five years, Ben has been running a Twitter account called Save Your Cinema. He got started in 2021, when Angeleno’s received a heartbreaking announcement about the very iconic building we are standing right in front of. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of Fox 11 Los Angeles story from YouTube]:\u003c/strong> And we begin with breaking news, and it is very sad news for movie lovers. Pacific Theaters announcing its ArcLight and Pacific Theaters will not reopen after shutting down last year because of the pandemic. This includes the iconic Cinerama Dome in Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> The Dome had been closed in 2020 due to COVID, just like nearly every other theater. Ownership kept promising it would reopen, but it never did, and cinephiles like Ben began to get nervous. To Ben, that announcement in March of 2021 was the nail in the coffin. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> And then after that, they made no further like, press releases or responded to emails. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> To understand the importance of this, I need to tell you a bit about the Cinerama Dome and what it means to the city of LA and film history. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dome was opened back in 1963, and it’s the first and only concrete, geodesic dome in the world. For decades, it was known as the place to watch the latest blockbuster, and the first film they ever screened was \u003cem>It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World\u003c/em>, a Stanley Kramer-directed comedy starring Buster Keaton. Then, it became this marquee place to hold premieres, similar to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre — and The Dome made it fun. They turned into a green ogre for \u003cem>Shrek 2\u003c/em>. They became the moon for the 2018 Neil Armstrong biopic, \u003cem>First Man\u003c/em>. A lot of working filmmakers can remember the most formative movie they’ve watched at The Dome with hopes that one day their film would premiere there too. And beyond the iconic look and blockbuster screenings, this particular theater is important to the history of film as a medium. It’s all about the way movies are shot. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> There’s like two different versions of Cinerama. There’s the original three-strip Cinerama, which uses literally three lenses, like three cameras together. And then later on, they did the 70mm Cinerama, which is \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Without getting too technical, the image 70-millimeter film creates is huge — several times bigger than traditional 35-millimeter. It had to be projected onto a screen that’s large enough to accommodate it. That’s where The Dome comes in. I would describe watching a movie at The Dome as if you were inside The Sphere in Las Vegas. The magnitude of this format, what some call “the great-grandmother of IMAX,” feels magical, especially in the age of vertical video scrolling. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine watching something like Christopher Nolan’s \u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em> at The Dome. It makes you feel like you’re actually on the moon — and you are experiencing this with strangers, all of whom came to this place at this time to share this moment with you. Also, the popcorn is really good. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> They have like this really good chef-driven like popcorn. They had like the- the last one they had was Mexican street popcorn. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Okay, back to the announcement about The Dome’s permanent closure. So, you have this piece of cinema history, an architectural feat, an iconic industry landmark, closing for good. A lot of people were gutted, including and especially Ben. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> From what I was told through a few different sources was that they just didn’t believe in the theatrical exhibition box office, like they didn’t think they could make enough money, and like they’re obviously very business-oriented. So, I was just under the assumption that they didn’t believe in like the theatrical exhibition box office for the future of it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> And every good movie needs a hero, right? Well, for this story, and for a very online group of movie lovers, that hero was Ben. Immediately after the Cinerama Dome’s owners announced it wouldn’t reopen, Ben jumped into action. And even though he might sound mild-mannered, let me tell you: Ben is fearless. And you have to remember the context. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was 2021. We were coming out of lockdown. Theater attendance was returning at a crawl. And if there was one barrier Ben felt he needed to break through — it was the doors of The Dome. So, he got his keyboard warriors together and created a petition called Save the Cinerama Dome. And this petition was trying to get the attention of the owners of The Dome, the Decurion Corporation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> It was addressed to the CEO of the Decurion Corporation, so I was hoping to at least get a response from him. Then it quickly got 30,000 signatures, but we never got any response. They didn’t even acknowledge it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Ben was frustrated, because as far as he could tell, there wasn’t a good reason for The Dome’s permanent closure. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Company that owns it, they never went bankrupt, the parent company, they just decided to shut down the theater. So, just the whole like situation was very mysterious, like they have no website and no phone line, and then I started to look at their other properties that they own, and they own some other historic cinemas that have been abandoned for around 25 years… So I kind of got paranoid that they were planning that for The Dome. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> It’s true. Let’s get into some backstory. Okay, so the Decurion Corporation is owned by the Formans, a billionaire family that owned two major movie chains in California: the Pacific Theater, which started all the way back in 1946, and ArcLight Cinemas, which operated The Dome as well as other beloved LA theaters. But both chains were permanently closed down in 2021, and The Dome, with its peeling walls and overgrown vines, definitely looks like it’s been closed for five years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I was documenting just like the deterioration of it, which was crazy, just seeing like stuff falling off just because it’s been abandoned for so long. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Ben got tired of seeing this beloved theater stand idly by — wasting away as what some have called, “a tax write-off.” He got this crazy idea. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Well, I’ve had the idea for like three years, but I knew that once I did it, it could be like the end of the Save the Cinerama Dome campaign. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> He basically wanted to project a Page Six headline-style photo of the Decurion executives onto The Dome. Once he got the idea, he started a GoFundMe, which raised more than $2,000, and those dollars went toward hiring a projectionist, a security guard, and a little rehearsal… A few days before the stunt. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I got a professional projection engineer to do it. It just said, “Reopen The Dome,” and then just the images of the CEO and the vice president of development. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> He actually pulled it off on a busy Friday night when the sun went down and the projection went up. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I was right between the two big trees and the lampposts, in front of the Los Angeles Film School, but on the sidewalk. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Do you notice people stopping and staring at it? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Yeah, we got a lot of attention like, everyone was looking at the projection and like people in their cars were like, throwing their thumbs up and like, applauding me. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> But according to Ben, the reason his stunt even went viral is because of the cops. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Lasted for like two or three hours and then the police came — the police specifically said the owners like don’t want me to get arrested or citated, they just want me to know they consider it a form of escalation and harassment, but I think it was definitely like the Streisand effect. I think it’s a blessing in disguise that they called the police, because I think if they didn’t it wouldn’t have gone as viral. So, I think it definitely drew attention on them. I just wanted to remind them that like, they owned the Cinerama Dome and the public wanted it to reopen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> So even though the cops said they were not going to arrest Ben, after two hours, he felt like it was time to go home. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> After I posted about it, it went viral and I knew that was going to kick some things in motion. And then like, the next day I saw that the executives for the company started viewing my LinkedIn profile. So that was definitely a good sign. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> So Ben finally got the attention of The Dome’s owners. They were checking out his LinkedIn — then came a public hearing where The Dome’s representative was going to be there. So Ben got a second idea, to flood the zone with his supporters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> She was asked specifically about the Save the Cinerama Dome campaign and like my projection, and she responded saying that the ownership took notice of it and the extreme public interest in wanting The Dome to reopen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> But it was very, We Here For You, from \u003cem>Succession\u003c/em>, because it’s one thing to say we’re noticing interest versus acting on that interest. So Ben decided to give them a self-proclaimed deadline, August 20th, and they had to either announce they were reopening The Dome or find someone to lease the theater. He wasn’t sure if they were going to actually meet that deadline, but for some reason, he felt closer and closer to a victory. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> I think the ArcLight needed someone like him who just wouldn’t back down and wouldn’t take no for an answer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Ezgi Eren is the founder of 11am Saturday, a Substack newsletter she calls a movie restoration project. She interviewed Ben for her Substack back in 2024 before the stunt happened. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> And, you know, he just projected an image onto a building. Like he didn’t break the law. I mean, I don’t know if he technically broke the law, but he didn’t harm anyone. So, if that’s what it took to get the owners to act, that’s good to know. The fact that he raised that awareness in them is amazing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> And after years of back and forth, online petitions, and filmmakers like Edgar Wright, Benny Safdie, and Sean Baker showing support, for the first time in a long time, it looked like moviegoers just might have the chance to see The Dome’s silver screen light up once again. Ben is one of the many people trying to keep movie theaters alive — but his efforts are just the most visible piece… of a movie subculture that has come roaring back after cinemas were pronounced dead only a few years ago. And the driving force behind it? Gen Z. We’ll get into that after the break. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome back. Let’s open a new tab: is the Gen Z Cinephile Movement real? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I’ll put myself on blast, because I’m technically in Gen Z, and I am watching an average of three to five movies per week. But, I wasn’t always this way. I actually used to hate movies. I was more of a TV kid. But in 2024, a movie came out that changed how I valued the movie going experience. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of Challengers from YouTube]:\u003c/strong> Don’t you want to meet Tashi Duncan? You don’t get it, man. You’ve never seen her in person. She’s in another league. You mean her game? No, I mean she’s the hottest woman I’ve ever seen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Challengers\u003c/em>, directed by Luca Guadagnino, stars Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor as three tennis players who sometimes play tennis, but also make out. What got me was the score by the Nine Inch Nails guys. It was electric, and propulsive, and it felt like being in the club — and after many clubless years during the pandemic, I needed that. From that point forward, I became a Letterboxd-er, an AMC A-List member, and a proud solo moviegoer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> I looked around and I didn’t really know many people who still went to the movies, shockingly. It was a couple years ago. And I just felt like the whole experience is dying. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Ezgi Eren, again, founder of 11am Saturday, the movie Substack. While Ezgi admits she is a millennial, she is in a lot of Gen Z majority spaces, and she believes Gen Z is the key to getting butts back into those fuzzy little seats. She says they’re looking to reconnect with real people… And real experiences. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> I think it’s the kind of oversaturation of the internet, the influx of content that people are subjected to every day, and the need to kind of get off the internet and go more into real life spaces again. I see it in like book clubs. I see it in like dinner parties. I think it’s the same reason for people going back to the movie theaters as well. Yeah, it’s great. I love it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> And it’s not just the movies themselves that are attracting these Gen Z attendees. It’s about what’s happening outside of the theater, online, that’s pushing people to keep going back for more. It’s a digitally fueled cultural shift. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, let’s talk about Letterboxd, which is a movie logging app that’s akin to the Goodreads of cinema. It can frankly be a little performative. You start by rating a movie out of five stars. Then you can write a review. Some people take it seriously. Others become trolls. But it’s so communal that your favorite filmmakers and film heads — this is Martin Scorsese, Charli XCX, even Jack Harlow — are logging the same movies you are watching. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, you have things like the Criterion Closet. You may have heard of the Criterion Collection. They have a YouTube video series called Closet Picks, where prominent film lovers like Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Giamatti, and game designer Hideo Kojima pick their favorite highbrow DVDs off library-looking shelves. It’s a smash hit. But the reason why Gen Z congregates around these film-themed internet platforms is because they are actively curating their tastes — using accessible platforms almost as an educational way to upgrade their cinema game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because at the end of the day, when you log a movie or post a review, it’s your green light at the of the dock, a bid for connection. It’s a way to attract like-minded people with similar taste. Because that’s what COVID ripped away from a lot of Gen Z people: organic connection in public spaces. And Letterboxd… is considered a public space. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> Letterboxd and like The Criterion and studios that make movies more catered to Gen Z, like I think those are all kind of partially responsible as well, but it’s almost like they are riding a great wave. I think it was going to happen regardless. But then of course, it does matter that Letterboxd, gameified it. It does matter that theaters are engaging more with their audiences on social media. It has become almost like… a brand — you want to associate yourself with a specific theater more now. I think it’s a combination of all those things. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Fandango, the movie ticket website, did a study this year, saying that Gen Z, who are about 14 to 29 years old right now, is the most active movie-going generation, seeing about seven movies per year. I’ve also seen headlines about Gen Z being the loneliest generation right now. Is there a connection? Here’s Ben again. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I can’t think of like any other third spaces. Like I know AMC Theaters has like a lot of like meetups and like fan clubs where people will just go every week as a group to AMC. So, I think that’s a big thing, I mean like at least for me personally, if I’m doing something social, I’d rather like go to a movie than something else. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Ezgi says that even though the intersection of chronically online Gen Z-ers and cinephiles is probably pretty small, it’s a subgroup with growing influence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> I will say like they’re not big enough to kind of maybe like influence a whole performance of a movie. Like I don’t think everyone who saw \u003cem>Obsession\u003c/em> and made it such a success is- does fit in that category. But I do think they have a big influence on marketing campaigns now for sure. I mean, you see it in like press tours, you see it and how, even like, studios with lower budgets, like they’re doing everything to kind of keep up with the content-ification of movies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Mm-hmm. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> And like creating like an online experience to try to like get these people to see the movies. So I think their influence is growing for sure and then like after \u003cem>Obsession\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Backrooms\u003c/em> they’re only going to be stronger. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Have you ever been influenced by maybe like, a Letterboxd or even a film podcast or something you saw on social media that made you like, I don’t know, wanna go see a movie or made you more excited about something coming up? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> Oh my God, so all the time — all the time. Sometimes it’ll be just like one tweet that I’ll take to heart and go see something. Because I still, I think that’s also the power of these websites is that you can’t really manufacture real interest, right? Like, people don’t spend their hard earned money on things that suck. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> And even though you’re listening to three people who love going to the movies, there are things about theater culture that still suck. You need good movies and good moviegoing experiences to capitalize on this wave of interest and keep people coming back. But there’s the perennial problem of bad theater etiquette. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> You will come across people either on their phone taking pictures of the screen or just talking to their friends or just being like unruly in general. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Then there’s the fierce competition of booking movie tickets. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> The event-izing of the ticket process is very annoying and- and I say that as someone who managed to get tickets to \u003cem>Dune\u003c/em>. It’s still not a good process and it could almost turn into like a deterrent for people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> But the big one, the thing that Ben cares most about, is the fact that it’s not always guaranteed that our favorite movie theaters will be there tomorrow. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> The Regency Theaters Calabasas — it actually literally just got demolished like six months ago and then also the Regancy Theaters in Agoura Hills, which also got demolished just a few months ago, and then also the AMC Promenade 16 which is now demolished. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> It seems like movie going and the sport of it is being threatened left and right, but… by who? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let’s open a new tab: who’s the big bad of the movie theater revival movement? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, if Ben is our unlikely hero, the face of Gen Z’s push for cinema revival, then who are they up against? Who’s the Joker to Ben’s Batman? When I asked, Ben was hesitant to call anyone out by name, even though he did project the heads of the Decurion Corporation onto a dome. Ezgi was a little more direct. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I’m curious, who do you think are kind of… the enemies or gatekeepers of movie theater preservation. Is it like Netflix? Is it studios? Is it a third thing? Is it billionaires, you know? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> As for billionaires, I mean… How much time do we have? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> I wanted to talk about one story that I would say was maybe the most controversial last year, which was Netflix threatening or about to acquire Warner Brothers. Could you maybe explain why that acquisition freaked people out and why were people worried? Why were you worried? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> Yes, Netflix tried to purchase Warner Brothers — and Netflix, as we know, is a primarily direct-to-streaming service. Now, typically, their window of showing a movie in a theater is super, super short, so if you don’t see it in theaters in that period, you can only watch it on Netflix. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, obviously, that’s terrible news for a studio like Warner Brothers who… put out like some of our favorite movies that we want to experience in theaters. Especially, you know, they had such a good year with \u003cem>One Battle After Another\u003c/em>. They have \u003cem>Dune\u003c/em> coming out. People just don’t want those to be contained to a television screen. So that was the panic. And I believe they’re still panic there because they are now being sold to Paramount, but we’ll see, we’ll how that goes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> At the time of this taping, Paramount has officially completed their acquisition of Warner Brothers, and they have now become one giant conglomerate named Skydance. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of like acquisitions, I mean, this summer Letterboxd apparently is also possibly going up for sale. A lot of people have put their hats into the ring, but Netflix is one of them. Are you worried at all about Letterboxd, for example, possibly being acquired? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> I’m very worried about that, yes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Yeah. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> And it seems inevitable. I just don’t know who can buy it that wouldn’t ruin it, you know? It’s not a perfect app right now, but it still feels very much like, belonging to the people… that the idea of like any major corporation owning it, it’s so easy to change it in a way that kind of ruins the movie culture, which is already kind of fragile. That’s not even like getting to the fact that they will probably sell all that data and use it to train AI and all that. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> So now we’re identifying a few big bads in the water, who are threatening two separate issues. We have people like the Forman family and their Decurion Corporation who are responsible for closing physical spaces to watch movies. Then, you have media giants, like Netflix, prioritizing streaming over theatrical releases and threatening the actual content that goes into those physical spaces. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, on at least one of those fronts, there’s good news if you’re a movie lover. Because Ben’s projection stunt, the public hearing, the Twitter updates from Save Your Cinema — it all worked. On July 22nd, two months after he lit up the dome with images of the Decurion top brass, Ben woke up to some great news. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>[Clip of KTLA 5 story from YouTube]:\u003c/strong> One of Hollywood’s most iconic theaters could be making a comeback. Deadline broke the news that Sony Entertainment could be planning to resurrect the world-famous Cinerama Dome and ArcLight Hollywood Cinema. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> So, finally, after five years, The Dome is saved, and Angeleno’s cannot be happier. Alamo Drafthouse, which is owned by Sony Pictures, will reopen the theater in 2028. And per a Sony Pictures spokesperson, renovations have already started — from the marquee lights coming back on, to The Dome’s first power washing in years. So the question isn’t so much, will the Cinerama Dome be saved? But instead, will people go back? If Gen Z has anything to say about it, the answer is certainly. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I kind of feel like if I just didn’t do any of this, The Dome would kind of just still be sitting closed with them telling people it’s gonna reopen next year, like they always did. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> And Ben isn’t done being a local hero. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I raised attention about the Laemmle Theaters in North Hollywood, and luckily they got that theater saved from being demolished and turned into apartments. And then, also saving the Laemmle Theaters in Pasadena and getting Landmark to take over the lease, we did a petition for that, and then I’ve just been sharing other people’s campaigns and now like it’s gone international, so I’m trying to save the, I think it’s pronounced Pallas Cinema in Greece. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Do you see yourself as the Spider-Man of movie theaters where it’s like you’re chilling until someone calls you and is like, “Hi, we need to open a theater,” and you’re just like that guy. How do you feel about being almost the person they send the Batman signal for? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ben Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I think it’s amazing. It’s definitely very cool that they reach out to me and hopefully I can like be even more involved with other theaters or like one specific theater company. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Even if you’re not a chronically online Gen Z cinephile trying to post an opening weekend review on Letterboxd, going to the movies is still a classic American luxury. It’s the thing you do with your cousins from out of town. It’s what some people do on Christmas when they have nowhere else to go. And sometimes, you just wanna come to this place for magic. So yes, for a few of us, movie theaters are still worth the investment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> I went to see Spider-Man and — kind of accidentally on day one, I wasn’t planning on it. And I feel like everyone was dressed up in some variation of like red and blue. And I was like, “Wait, I forgot that people used to do this.” Like, I forgot that this was a thing, because it’s been so long. And you know what? Like, that was also such a respectful audience that had great theater etiquette because people actually cared about seeing the movies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> And Ezgi’s right. One of my favorite memories of 2026 was seeing \u003cem>The Odyssey\u003c/em> at the Universal CityWalk AMC in IMAX on 70 millimeter at 2 a.m. And yes, it did screw up my sleep schedule for about five weeks, but I should be getting it back on track just in time to see \u003cem>Dune: Part Three\u003c/em> on opening weekend in IMAX on 70-millimeter, also, at 2 a.m. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Close All Tabs, I’m Candice Lim. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Morgan Sung:\u003c/strong> Thanks again to Candice for taking us on that deep dive. If you’re dying to open more tabs about Ben, the Cinerama Dome, and his quest to save LA’s movie theaters, we’ll have some links in the episode description. You can also find more of Candice’s work there. And stick around after the credits for some bonus content. That’s it for this week. I have a movie to catch, so let’s close all these tabs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Close All Tabs is a production of KQED Studios and is hosted by me, Morgan Sung. This episode was reported by Candice Lim. It was produced by Maya Cueva and edited by Chris Egusa, who also composed our theme song and credits music. The Close All Tabs team also includes Chris Hambrick and audio engineer Brendan Willard. Our intern is Lauren Yoon. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additional music by APM. Audience engagement support from Maha Sanad. Jen Chien is executive director of podcasts, and Ethan Toven-Lindsey is our Editor-in-Chief. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco Northern California Local. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This episode’s keyboard sounds were submitted by Alex Tran and recorded on his white Epomaker Hi75 keyboard with Fogruaden red samurai keycaps and gateron milky yellow pro v2 switches. Thanks for listening. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> I was gonna say now imagine if there’s a cafe that’s also a theater and you can just spend the whole day there. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> You’ve been stomping this ground for a little bit and I- honestly you need to pull a Ben Steinberg. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> I know. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Save your stump town mama, like I would sign that petition… I really would because you’re right which is that like I’m going to the Nordstrom E bar And then I’m going to Americana. Let’s combine forces. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ezgi Eren:\u003c/strong> Let’s figure this out. Like let’s — Community Goods inside an AMC. Imagine the lines. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Candice Lim:\u003c/strong> Oh my God. \u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don’t want to go out partying on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/halloween\">Halloween\u003c/a> — but also have no desire to sit at home punting candy at trick-or-treaters all night? Here’s a suggestion for Saturday: Go hide in a movie theater instead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There’s an impressive selection of appropriately spooky films playing at the Bay Area’s repertory movie theaters on Oct. 31 this year, not just on Halloween Night itself but during the daytime — including some family-friendly fare, too.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep reading for all the movies playing this Saturday to mark the culmination of Spooky Season. Happy Halloween, Bay Area!\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#Halloween\">All the horror movies screening on Halloween night\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Daytime movie screenings on Oct. 31\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=497329~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">\u003cstrong>“Coco”\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, Oct. 31, 10 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Coco-still-c5523d12.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Coco-still-c5523d12.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Coco-still-c5523d12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Coco-still-c5523d12-1536x1028.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A scene from Pixar’s “Coco.” (Courtesy of Pixar)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/great-pumpkin-sat\">\u003cstrong>“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!”\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 Star Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, Oct. 31, 12:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don’t want to go out partying on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/halloween\">Halloween\u003c/a> — but also have no desire to sit at home punting candy at trick-or-treaters all night? Here’s a suggestion for Saturday: Go hide in a movie theater instead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There’s an impressive selection of appropriately spooky films playing at the Bay Area’s repertory movie theaters on Oct. 31 this year, not just on Halloween Night itself but during the daytime — including some family-friendly fare, too.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep reading for all the movies playing this Saturday to mark the culmination of Spooky Season. 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\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>National Theatre Live: “Frankenstein”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=159732~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">Screening 1 (Jonny Lee Miller as creature)\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 31, 5 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=159731~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">Screening 2 (Benedict Cumberbatch as creature)\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in National Theatre Live’s “Frankenstein.”\u003cbr> (Courtesy of National Theatre Live)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-halloween-2026\">\u003cstrong>“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (with live performance by Bawdy Caste)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/hausu-house/?date=2026-10-31\">\u003cstrong>“Hausu” (House)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, Oct. 31, 7:10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/the-blair-witch-project//#showtimes\">\u003cstrong>“The Blair Witch Project”\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, Oct. 31,7:45 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/the-shining-sat\">\u003cstrong>“The Shining”\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 Star Theater, San Francisco \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, Oct. 31, 8:45 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/the-exorcist-50th-anniversary/?date=2026-10-31#/movie/the-exorcist-50th-anniversary/\">\u003cstrong>“The Exorcist”\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, Oct. 31, 9:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/trick-or-treat-1986?showSeats=true&sessionId=83042&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-31\">\u003cstrong>“Trick or Treat” (1986)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, Oct. 31, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=267968~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">\u003cstrong>“The Rocky Horror Picture Show”\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, Oct. 31, 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>For those of us who love horror \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/movies\">movies\u003c/a>, the run-up to October can be one big exercise in anticipation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But when the so-called Spooky Season actually hits, keeping track of all the spooky screenings happening in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> — and there are a \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>of them — can get cumbersome. Or worse, you only learn about them after they’ve passed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>So like a Final Girl with a Google Doc, I’m taking a stand — and have drawn together this list of all the horror and horror-adjacent movie screenings I can find at independent theaters around the Bay Area this October, for your browsing and purchasing pleasure. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>From movie marathons, film festivals and screenings with drag shows to Halloween classics from the 1970s and ’80s, screenings on Oct. 31 itself and scary-ish movies that might be suitable for older children — they’re all below (all 100+ of them), and I’ll keep adding more as I find them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This list focuses on repertory screenings of older movies happening around the Bay Area this month, so I haven’t included new horror releases like “Resident Evil” and “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.” But if you’re a true horrorhead, you’ll have seen those already. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lastly, lots of these screenings are selling out already, so snag your tickets early to avoid missing out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#live-performances\">Screenings with live performances\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#spooky-movies\">Spooky movies that could work for kids\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#halloween-itself\">Movies screening on Halloween itself\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#horror-canon\">The ’70s and ’80s horror canon\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pre-1955\">Where to watch pre-1955 horror in October\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#on-a-boat\">Scary movies on a boat (seriously)\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Horror marathons and film festivals\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lots on offer this year, and I’m especially intrigued by the International Vampire Film Festival at the historic — and maybe definitely haunted? — Balboa Theater, with vamp flicks from around the world spanning the decades.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1449\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/International-Vampire-Fest.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102218\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/International-Vampire-Fest.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/International-Vampire-Fest-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/International-Vampire-Fest-1536x1113.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The lineup for the Balboa Theater’s 2026 International Vampire Film Festival. (Courtesy of Balboa Theater)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/spookfest-2026/\">Spookfest film festival\u003c/a> \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“A night of homegrown short films and Halloweeny spookiness” — plus a costume contest.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">“Dismember the Alamo” movie marathons\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/dismember-the-alamo-2026-new-mission?cinemaId=0801&sessionId=82717&date=2026-10-10\">Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 10, 3 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/dismember-the-alamo-2026-valley-fair\">Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair, Santa Clara\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Prepare for at least four blood-soaked films” at these Alamo movie marathons, with the final lineup kept secret until the day of the screening.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/international-vampire-film-fest\">International Vampire Film Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 17, starts 11:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A seven-movie lineup, presented by the Super Shangri-La Show\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/dance-thrill-fest-vi/\">Dance Thrill Fest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Short dance film works by Bay Area artists exploring themes of horror, thrill, comedy and everything in between.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"live-performances\">Spooky screenings with live performances\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These events would be a particularly fun way to get into the Halloween mood with any friends that \u003c/em>aren’t \u003cem>necessarily horror obsessives. The Roxie’s screening of \u003c/em>“The Craft” \u003cem>with live drag (and a happy hour beforehand) looks especially fun, and the SFJAZZ \u003c/em>“Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” \u003cem>showing at Grace Cathedral\u003c/em> \u003cem>with live organ accompaniment would be wildly atmospheric for the night before Halloween.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/teen-witch-october-21\">“Teen Witch” (with live drag) \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Presented as part of the Girlie Movie Club, with drag by Dot Comme \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://youtu.be/npxhdRMYHy0?si=ZnOekYfDGVFT7wf0\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/live-music-nosferatu\">“Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” with a live score by Dallas Acid & Paz Lenchantin\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>4 Star Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 23, 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Presented by folkYEAH! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/?post_type=wp_theatre_prod&p=32681\">“The Craft” (with live drag)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Roxie, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 27, 9:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Drag show by Mary Vice, preceded by a happy hour at Dalva at 8 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/26-27/dr-jekyll-mr-hyde-dorothy-papadakos/\">“Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” (1920) with live organ accompaniment\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Grace Cathedral\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 30, 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Presented by SFJAZZ: Composer and organist Dorothy Papadakos accompanies the silent film classic starring John Barrymore on Grace Cathedral’s historic 7,500-pipe organ.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-halloween-2026\">“Rocky Horror Picture Show” (with live performance by Bawdy Caste)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A screening \u003c/em>accompanied \u003cem>by a live performance (\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://bawdycaste.com/participation-guide\">\u003cem>read more on that actually works\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A truly uncategorizable one-off event\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"985\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Scream-1996.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102219\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Scream-1996.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Scream-1996-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Scream-1996-1536x756.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Drew Barrymore in “Scream” (1996). (Courtesy of Dimension Films)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://center.vbotickets.com/event/Woodsboro_high_class_of_96_reunion/205281\">Woodsboro High Class of ’96 Reunion (with screening of “Scream”)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yes: For $350, you can sleep over in the building that acted as the location for Woodsboro High School in Wes Craven’s 1996 classic Scream, to celebrate the movie’s 30th anniversary this year. Organizers say a) you won’t be allowed out of the building once you’re locked in for the night, b) you shouldn’t plan on \u003c/em>actually \u003cem>sleeping and c) they won’t be doing this again, ever. Read the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://view.monday.com/18431229972-3ddd51bf3104836f30871fb7f1e7b43e?r=use1\">\u003cem>overnighter FAQ\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> if you’re tempted.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"spooky-movies\">Some family-friendly (and \u003cem>friendlier\u003c/em>) spooky movies \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your child’s mileage will vary on \u003c/em>how \u003cem>spooky they can handle, naturally. You could also check out the Roxie’s Floating Features screenings of “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/floating-features-jaws-2/\">\u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>” and “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/floating-features-hocus-pocus-2/\">\u003cem>Hocus Pocus\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,” although those $50 boat screenings, while super fun, will get spendier with a family. I’m purposefully not including the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission’s screening of “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/terror-tuesday-poltergeist-1982-on-35mm\">\u003cem>Poltergeist” (1982)\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> here because I firmly believe that many adults misremember this one as “a fun kids’ movie” and forget just how genuinely frightening it gets. But hey, if you’re secure in the knowledge that \u003c/em>your \u003cem>young horrorheads are unflappable, have at it!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRX7PPqbKaQ\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/beetlejuice?sessionId=82934&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-05\">“Beetlejuice”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Monday, Oct. 5, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">“Clue”\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/clue-october-10\">Saturday, Oct. 10, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/clue-october-11\">Sunday, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m. \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/sundown-cinema/\">“Sundown Cinema: Beetlejuice”\u003c/a>(free outdoor screening)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Crane Cove Park, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 16, “just after sunset” (which \u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco?month=10&year=2026\">should be 6:30 p.m.\u003c/a> that night)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=571047~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Casper”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Saturday, Oct. 17, 2 p.m. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Sunday, Oct. 18, 9:30 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Monday, Oct. 19, 6 p.m. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.voguemovies.com/calendar-of-events/the-nightmare-before-christmas-october-20\">“The Nightmare Before Christmas”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Vogue Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 20, 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/scooby-doo-animation-ko/?date=2026-10-22\">“Scooby-Doo”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 22, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/events/thrill-o-ween-20261024/\">“E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial”\u003c/a> (free outdoor screening)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thrive City Thrill-o-ween at Chase Center\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 24, event starts at 12 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://rialtocinemas.com/coming-soon-cer/\">“Little Shop of Horrors”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rialto Cinemas Cerrito, El Cerrito\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 29, 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Daytime movie screenings on Oct. 31 \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What’s better than a daytime horror movie? A daytime horror movie on Halloween itself, surely.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1346\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Halloween-1978.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102223\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Halloween-1978.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Halloween-1978-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Halloween-1978-1536x1034.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Actor Tony Moran as masked killer Michael Myers in 1978’s “Halloween.” (Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/47559-phantom-of-the-opera-1943/?date=2026-10-31\">“Phantom of the Opera” (1943)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/seance/\">“Seance”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/scream-halloween\">“Scream” (1996)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 2 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://sonomacommunitycenter.org/about-us/scream/#tickets\">“Scream” (1996)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma (the movie location for Woodsboro High)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 2 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/dance-thrill-fest-vi/\">Dance Thrill Fest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/new-people-the-snake-girl-and-the-silver-haired-witch/\">“The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New People Theater, Japantown, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 4:45 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/halloween-1978?showSeats=true&sessionId=82960&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-31\">“Halloween” (1978)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco: Saturday, Oct. 31, 3:45 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair, Santa Clara: Saturday, Oct. 31, 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse, Mountain View: Saturday, Oct. 31, 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"halloween-itself\">Movies screening on Halloween night itself\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>While there’s a paucity of midnight movies on the night of Oct. 31 itself (I’ll keep looking out to update this list if I see more), this remains the #1 way to avoid trick-or-treaters: Hide all night in a movie theater. The Lark’s National Theatre Live screening of “Frankenstein” — with your pick of who plays the monster — would certainly be a \u003c/em>very \u003cem>classy way to spend the night.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in National Theatre Live’s “Frankenstein.”\u003cbr> (Courtesy of National Theatre Live)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/beetlejuice/?date=2026-10-31\">“Beetlejuice”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">National Theatre Live: “Frankenstein”\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=159732~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">Screening 1 (Jonny Lee Miller as creature)\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 31, 5 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=159731~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">Screening 2 (Benedict Cumberbatch as creature)\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-halloween-2026\">“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (with live performance by Bawdy Caste)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/hausu-house/?date=2026-10-31\">“Hausu” (House)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 7:10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/the-exorcist-50th-anniversary/?date=2026-10-31#/movie/the-exorcist-50th-anniversary/\">“The Exorcist”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 9:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/trick-or-treat-1986?showSeats=true&sessionId=83042&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-31\">“Trick or Treat” (1986)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=267968~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“The Rocky Horror Picture Show”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"horror-canon\">The ’70s and ’80s horror classics\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>It doesn’t feel like Halloween without watching “Halloween” (1978). But there are lots of other great John Carpenter picks on offer this year around the Bay, too — if you’ve never checked out his oft-overlooked “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/3533-prince-of-darkness/?date=2026-10-21\">\u003cem>Prince of Darkness\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,” I strongly advise the Opera Plaza’s screening.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55Wt1cr71Q\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/nightbreed-october-3\">“Nightbreed”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/new-people-hausu/\">“Hausu”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New People Theater, Japantown, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Friday, Oct. 2, 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 3, 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://truewestfilmcenter.org/show/the-exorcist-wicked-wednesdays/\">“The Exorcist”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>True West Film Center, Healdsburg\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/9434-halloween-1978/?date=2026-10-07\">“Halloween” (1978)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/the-shining/?date=2026-10-08\">“The Shining”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 8, 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">“Suspiria” (1977)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Vogue Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.voguemovies.com/calendar-of-events/suspiria-october-7\">Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.voguemovies.com/calendar-of-events/suspiria-october-8\">Thursday, Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/hellraiser?showSeats=true&sessionId=83038&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-09\">“Hellraiser”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/the-thing/?date=2026-10-10\">“The Thing” (1982)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 10, 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974?showSeats=true&cinemaId=0802&sessionId=21340&srsltid=AU7gw4UUodnralIoJOX0CA7A2r11eS5zmSrZ2ser79aEkpC_CZJv2xS0\">“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco: Monday, Oct. 12, 6:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair, Santa Clara: Monday, Oct. 12, 7 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse, Mountain View: Monday, Oct. 12, 7 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/they-live/?date=2026-10-16\">“They Live”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 16, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/hellbound-hellraiser-ii?showSeats=true&sessionId=83039&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-16\">“Hellraiser II: Hellbound”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 16, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/re-animator/?date=2026-10-17\">“Re-Animator”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 17, 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-october-18\">“A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sunday, Oct. 18, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/3533-prince-of-darkness/?date=2026-10-21\">“Prince of Darkness”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/nightmare-on-elm-street/?date=2026-10-23\">“A Nightmare on Elm St (1984)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 23, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=571050~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Return of the Living Dead”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 23, 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=571050~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Re-Animator”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 23, 10:40 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/they-live-october-25\">“They Live”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sunday, Oct. 25, 5:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9VqUzdEQsk\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=577419~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Monday, Oct. 26, 6:30 p.m\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Tuesday, Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=512152~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“The Thing” (1982)\u003c/a> (double bill with “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Monday, Oct. 26, 8:45 p.m. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Tuesday, Oct. 27, 8:45 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/terror-tuesday-poltergeist-1982-on-35mm\">“Poltergeist” (1982)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 27, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/night-of-the-living-dead-october-27\">“Night of the Living Dead”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Tuesday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Wednesday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/the-exorcist-october-29\">“The Exorcist”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=571053~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Evil Dead II”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Wednesday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Thursday, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=571054~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Army of Darkness\u003c/a>” (double bill with “Evil Dead II”)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Wednesday, Oct. 28, 9 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Thursday, Oct. 29, 9 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/1048-the-thing-1982/?date=2026-10-28\">“The Thing” (1982)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=267968~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“The Rocky Horror Picture Show”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 30, 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The 1990s and 2000s horror bangers\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lots to enjoy here, and especially nice to see 1997 thrill ride “Event Horizon”’s slide into respectability with not one but two screenings around town. “Cabin in the Woods” always plays great with a crowd, too. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Event-Horizon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102226\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Event-Horizon.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Event-Horizon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Event-Horizon-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, and Jeremy Isaacs in 1997’s “Event Horizon.”\u003cbr> (Courtesy of Paramount)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/137973-the-cabin-in-the-woods/?date=2026-10-02\">“The Cabin in the Woods”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Theater, Piedmont\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 2, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/the-craft-light-up-crafting-matinee/?date=2026-10-03\">“The Craft”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 3, 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/terror-tuesday-the-silence-of-the-lambs-35mm?showSeats=true\">“The Silence of the Lambs”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 6, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/47101-the-descent/?date=2026-10-09\">“The Descent”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Theater, Piedmont\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 9, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/the-faculty-october-9\">“The Faculty”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/event-horizon-october-14\">“Event Horizon”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct., 14, 7:30 p.m. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/12978-village-of-the-damned-1995/?date=2026-10-14\">“Village of the Damned” (1995)\u003c/a> \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/176961-tucker-and-dale-vs-evil/?date=2026-10-16\">“Tucker and Dale vs. Evil”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Theater, Piedmont\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 16, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">“The Craft”\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/the-craft?showSeats=true&sessionId=21342&cinemaId=0802&date=2026-10-17\">Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair, Santa Clara\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 17, 12:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/the-craft?showSeats=true&sessionId=21342&cinemaId=0802&date=2026-10-17\">Alamo Drafthouse, Mountain View\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 17, 12:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/17491-event-horizon/?date=2026-10-23\">“Event Horizon”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Theater, Piedmont\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 23, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/scream-october-30\">“Scream” (1996)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/1000043539-cabin-fever-4k-directors-cut/?date=2026-10-30\">“Cabin Fever”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Theater, Piedmont\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 30, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some less-expected spooky season fare\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I especially recommend checking out one of Queer Film Theory 101’s “Daughters of Darkness” screenings, and the intriguing-looking \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/series/beautiful-nightmares/\">\u003cem>Beautiful Nightmares\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> series of Japanese horror at the New People Theater. If you’re trying to organize a mixed hang that includes friends that aren’t super into gnarly horror, the New Parkway’s screenings of “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Get Out” — as well as “Ed Wood” at the Vogue — would also be safe bets.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/black-swan/\">“Black Swan”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 1, 6:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/perfect-blue/\">“Perfect Blue”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 1, 8:50 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.voguemovies.com/calendar-of-events/ed-wood-october-1\">“Ed Wood” \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Vogue Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/special-event-ninja-scroll-subtitled-4k?showSeats=true&sessionId=18544&cinemaId=0803&date=2026-10-04\">“Ninja Scroll”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse, Mountain View\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sun, Oct. 4, 7 p.m. and Wed, Oct. 7, 7:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/what-we-do-in-the-shadows/?date=2026-10-09\">“What We Do in the Shadows”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 9, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/new-people-never-after-dark/\">“Never After Dark”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New People Theater, Japantown, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Friday, Oct. 9, 8:20 p.m. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Saturday, Oct. 10, 6:00 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Sunday, Oct. 11, 4:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/longlegs-october-13\">“Longlegs”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/liquid-sky/?date=2026-10-15#/movie/liquid-sky/\">“Liquid Sky”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 15, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/possession-co-presented-by-womb-house-books-feminist-horror/?date=2026-10-15\">“Possession” \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 15, 6:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=579475~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Ninja Scroll” \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Friday, Oct. 16, 8 p.m. (English dub)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Sunday, Oct. 18, 6:30 p.m. (Japanese with English subtitles)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/new-people-jigoku/\">“Jigoku”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New People Theater, Japantown, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Friday, Oct. 16, 6:15 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Saturday, Oct. 17, 6 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Sunday, Oct. 18, 3 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/mad-god-october-19\">“Mad God”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Monday, Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/terror-tuesday-the-curse-of-the-werewolf-1961-2?showSeats=true&sessionId=82955&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-20\">“Curse of the Werewolf”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 20, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Curse-of-the-Werewolf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102224\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Curse-of-the-Werewolf.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Curse-of-the-Werewolf-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Curse-of-the-Werewolf-1536x942.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Oliver Reed in 1961’s “Curse of the Werewolf.”\u003cbr> (Courtesy of Universal)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/sad-girl-cinema-club-a-tale-of-two-sisters?showSeats=true&sessionId=82956&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-21\">“A Tale of Two Sisters”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/it-follows/?date=2026-10-24\">“It Follows” \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca 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screenings\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Landmark Opera Plaza is really showing up in particular this year with the classics — and a daytime horror movie is just so much fun at this time of year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Dr-Jekyll-and-Mr-Hyde.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102225\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Dr-Jekyll-and-Mr-Hyde.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Dr-Jekyll-and-Mr-Hyde-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Dr-Jekyll-and-Mr-Hyde-1536x931.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fredric March in 1931’s “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.”\u003cbr> (Courtesy of 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href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/nosferatu-1922/?date=2026-10-18\">“Nosferatu” (1922)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sunday, Oct. 18, 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1931/\">“Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” (1931)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 20, 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/5144-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-1954/?date=2026-10-24\">“Creature From the Black Lagoon” (1954)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 24, 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/47559-phantom-of-the-opera-1943/?date=2026-10-31\">“Phantom of the Opera” 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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>From movie marathons, film festivals and screenings with drag shows to Halloween classics from the 1970s and ’80s, screenings on Oct. 31 itself and scary-ish movies that might be suitable for older children — they’re all below (all 100+ of them), and I’ll keep adding more as I find them.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>For those of us who love horror \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/movies\">movies\u003c/a>, the run-up to October can be one big exercise in anticipation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But when the so-called Spooky Season actually hits, keeping track of all the spooky screenings happening in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> — and there are a \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>of them — can get cumbersome. Or worse, you only learn about them after they’ve passed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>So like a Final Girl with a Google Doc, I’m taking a stand — and have drawn together this list of all the horror and horror-adjacent movie screenings I can find at independent theaters around the Bay Area this October, for your browsing and purchasing pleasure. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>From movie marathons, film festivals and screenings with drag shows to Halloween classics from the 1970s and ’80s, screenings on Oct. 31 itself and scary-ish movies that might be suitable for older children — they’re all below (all 100+ of them), and I’ll keep adding more as I find them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This list focuses on repertory screenings of older movies happening around the Bay Area this month, so I haven’t included new horror releases like “Resident Evil” and “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.” But if you’re a true horrorhead, you’ll have seen those already. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lastly, lots of these screenings are selling out already, so snag your tickets early to avoid missing out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#live-performances\">Screenings with live performances\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#spooky-movies\">Spooky movies that could work for kids\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#halloween-itself\">Movies screening on Halloween itself\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#horror-canon\">The ’70s and ’80s horror canon\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pre-1955\">Where to watch pre-1955 horror in October\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#on-a-boat\">Scary movies on a boat (seriously)\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Horror marathons and film festivals\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lots on offer this year, and I’m especially intrigued by the International Vampire Film Festival at the historic — and maybe definitely haunted? — Balboa Theater, with vamp flicks from around the world spanning the decades.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1449\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/International-Vampire-Fest.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102218\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/International-Vampire-Fest.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/International-Vampire-Fest-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/International-Vampire-Fest-1536x1113.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The lineup for the Balboa Theater’s 2026 International Vampire Film Festival. (Courtesy of Balboa Theater)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/spookfest-2026/\">Spookfest film festival\u003c/a> \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“A night of homegrown short films and Halloweeny spookiness” — plus a costume contest.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">“Dismember the Alamo” movie marathons\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/dismember-the-alamo-2026-new-mission?cinemaId=0801&sessionId=82717&date=2026-10-10\">Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 10, 3 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/dismember-the-alamo-2026-valley-fair\">Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair, Santa Clara\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Prepare for at least four blood-soaked films” at these Alamo movie marathons, with the final lineup kept secret until the day of the screening.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/international-vampire-film-fest\">International Vampire Film Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 17, starts 11:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A seven-movie lineup, presented by the Super Shangri-La Show\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/dance-thrill-fest-vi/\">Dance Thrill Fest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Short dance film works by Bay Area artists exploring themes of horror, thrill, comedy and everything in between.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"live-performances\">Spooky screenings with live performances\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These events would be a particularly fun way to get into the Halloween mood with any friends that \u003c/em>aren’t \u003cem>necessarily horror obsessives. The Roxie’s screening of \u003c/em>“The Craft” \u003cem>with live drag (and a happy hour beforehand) looks especially fun, and the SFJAZZ \u003c/em>“Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” \u003cem>showing at Grace Cathedral\u003c/em> \u003cem>with live organ accompaniment would be wildly atmospheric for the night before Halloween.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/teen-witch-october-21\">“Teen Witch” (with live drag) \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Presented as part of the Girlie Movie Club, with drag by Dot Comme \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/npxhdRMYHy0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/npxhdRMYHy0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/live-music-nosferatu\">“Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” with a live score by Dallas Acid & Paz Lenchantin\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>4 Star Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 23, 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Presented by folkYEAH! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/?post_type=wp_theatre_prod&p=32681\">“The Craft” (with live drag)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Roxie, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 27, 9:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Drag show by Mary Vice, preceded by a happy hour at Dalva at 8 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/26-27/dr-jekyll-mr-hyde-dorothy-papadakos/\">“Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” (1920) with live organ accompaniment\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Grace Cathedral\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 30, 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Presented by SFJAZZ: Composer and organist Dorothy Papadakos accompanies the silent film classic starring John Barrymore on Grace Cathedral’s historic 7,500-pipe organ.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-halloween-2026\">“Rocky Horror Picture Show” (with live performance by Bawdy Caste)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A screening \u003c/em>accompanied \u003cem>by a live performance (\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://bawdycaste.com/participation-guide\">\u003cem>read more on that actually works\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A truly uncategorizable one-off event\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"985\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Scream-1996.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102219\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Scream-1996.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Scream-1996-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Scream-1996-1536x756.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Drew Barrymore in “Scream” (1996). 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Read the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://view.monday.com/18431229972-3ddd51bf3104836f30871fb7f1e7b43e?r=use1\">\u003cem>overnighter FAQ\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> if you’re tempted.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"spooky-movies\">Some family-friendly (and \u003cem>friendlier\u003c/em>) spooky movies \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your child’s mileage will vary on \u003c/em>how \u003cem>spooky they can handle, naturally. You could also check out the Roxie’s Floating Features screenings of “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/floating-features-jaws-2/\">\u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>” and “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/floating-features-hocus-pocus-2/\">\u003cem>Hocus Pocus\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,” although those $50 boat screenings, while super fun, will get spendier with a family. I’m purposefully not including the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission’s screening of “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/terror-tuesday-poltergeist-1982-on-35mm\">\u003cem>Poltergeist” (1982)\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> here because I firmly believe that many adults misremember this one as “a fun kids’ movie” and forget just how genuinely frightening it gets. But hey, if you’re secure in the knowledge that \u003c/em>your \u003cem>young horrorheads are unflappable, have at it!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/kRX7PPqbKaQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kRX7PPqbKaQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/beetlejuice?sessionId=82934&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-05\">“Beetlejuice”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Monday, Oct. 5, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">“Clue”\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/clue-october-10\">Saturday, Oct. 10, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/clue-october-11\">Sunday, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m. \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/sundown-cinema/\">“Sundown Cinema: Beetlejuice”\u003c/a>(free outdoor screening)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Crane Cove Park, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 16, “just after sunset” (which \u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco?month=10&year=2026\">should be 6:30 p.m.\u003c/a> that night)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=571047~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Casper”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Saturday, Oct. 17, 2 p.m. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Sunday, Oct. 18, 9:30 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Monday, Oct. 19, 6 p.m. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.voguemovies.com/calendar-of-events/the-nightmare-before-christmas-october-20\">“The Nightmare Before Christmas”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Vogue Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 20, 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/scooby-doo-animation-ko/?date=2026-10-22\">“Scooby-Doo”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 22, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/events/thrill-o-ween-20261024/\">“E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial”\u003c/a> (free outdoor screening)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thrive City Thrill-o-ween at Chase Center\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 24, event starts at 12 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://rialtocinemas.com/coming-soon-cer/\">“Little Shop of Horrors”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rialto Cinemas Cerrito, El Cerrito\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 29, 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Daytime movie screenings on Oct. 31 \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What’s better than a daytime horror movie? A daytime horror movie on Halloween itself, surely.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1346\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Halloween-1978.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102223\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Halloween-1978.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Halloween-1978-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Halloween-1978-1536x1034.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Actor Tony Moran as masked killer Michael Myers in 1978’s “Halloween.” (Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/47559-phantom-of-the-opera-1943/?date=2026-10-31\">“Phantom of the Opera” (1943)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/seance/\">“Seance”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/scream-halloween\">“Scream” (1996)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 2 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://sonomacommunitycenter.org/about-us/scream/#tickets\">“Scream” (1996)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma (the movie location for Woodsboro High)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 2 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/dance-thrill-fest-vi/\">Dance Thrill Fest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/new-people-the-snake-girl-and-the-silver-haired-witch/\">“The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New People Theater, Japantown, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 4:45 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/halloween-1978?showSeats=true&sessionId=82960&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-31\">“Halloween” (1978)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco: Saturday, Oct. 31, 3:45 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair, Santa Clara: Saturday, Oct. 31, 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse, Mountain View: Saturday, Oct. 31, 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"halloween-itself\">Movies screening on Halloween night itself\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>While there’s a paucity of midnight movies on the night of Oct. 31 itself (I’ll keep looking out to update this list if I see more), this remains the #1 way to avoid trick-or-treaters: Hide all night in a movie theater. The Lark’s National Theatre Live screening of “Frankenstein” — with your pick of who plays the monster — would certainly be a \u003c/em>very \u003cem>classy way to spend the night.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Frankenstein-NTL-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in National Theatre Live’s “Frankenstein.”\u003cbr> (Courtesy of National Theatre Live)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/beetlejuice/?date=2026-10-31\">“Beetlejuice”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">National Theatre Live: “Frankenstein”\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=159732~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">Screening 1 (Jonny Lee Miller as creature)\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 31, 5 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=159731~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">Screening 2 (Benedict Cumberbatch as creature)\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-halloween-2026\">“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (with live performance by Bawdy Caste)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/hausu-house/?date=2026-10-31\">“Hausu” (House)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 7:10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/the-exorcist-50th-anniversary/?date=2026-10-31#/movie/the-exorcist-50th-anniversary/\">“The Exorcist”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 9:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/trick-or-treat-1986?showSeats=true&sessionId=83042&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-31\">“Trick or Treat” (1986)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=267968~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“The Rocky Horror Picture Show”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"horror-canon\">The ’70s and ’80s horror classics\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>It doesn’t feel like Halloween without watching “Halloween” (1978). But there are lots of other great John Carpenter picks on offer this year around the Bay, too — if you’ve never checked out his oft-overlooked “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/3533-prince-of-darkness/?date=2026-10-21\">\u003cem>Prince of Darkness\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,” I strongly advise the Opera Plaza’s screening.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/r55Wt1cr71Q'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/r55Wt1cr71Q'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/nightbreed-october-3\">“Nightbreed”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/new-people-hausu/\">“Hausu”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New People Theater, Japantown, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Friday, Oct. 2, 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 3, 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://truewestfilmcenter.org/show/the-exorcist-wicked-wednesdays/\">“The Exorcist”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>True West Film Center, Healdsburg\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/9434-halloween-1978/?date=2026-10-07\">“Halloween” (1978)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/the-shining/?date=2026-10-08\">“The Shining”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 8, 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">“Suspiria” (1977)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Vogue Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.voguemovies.com/calendar-of-events/suspiria-october-7\">Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.voguemovies.com/calendar-of-events/suspiria-october-8\">Thursday, Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/hellraiser?showSeats=true&sessionId=83038&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-09\">“Hellraiser”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/the-thing/?date=2026-10-10\">“The Thing” (1982)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 10, 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974?showSeats=true&cinemaId=0802&sessionId=21340&srsltid=AU7gw4UUodnralIoJOX0CA7A2r11eS5zmSrZ2ser79aEkpC_CZJv2xS0\">“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco: Monday, Oct. 12, 6:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair, Santa Clara: Monday, Oct. 12, 7 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse, Mountain View: Monday, Oct. 12, 7 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/they-live/?date=2026-10-16\">“They Live”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 16, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/hellbound-hellraiser-ii?showSeats=true&sessionId=83039&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-16\">“Hellraiser II: Hellbound”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 16, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/re-animator/?date=2026-10-17\">“Re-Animator”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 17, 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-october-18\">“A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sunday, Oct. 18, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/3533-prince-of-darkness/?date=2026-10-21\">“Prince of Darkness”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/nightmare-on-elm-street/?date=2026-10-23\">“A Nightmare on Elm St (1984)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 23, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=571050~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Return of the Living Dead”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 23, 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=571050~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Re-Animator”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 23, 10:40 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/they-live-october-25\">“They Live”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sunday, Oct. 25, 5:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/q9VqUzdEQsk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/q9VqUzdEQsk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=577419~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Monday, Oct. 26, 6:30 p.m\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Tuesday, Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=512152~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“The Thing” (1982)\u003c/a> (double bill with “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Monday, Oct. 26, 8:45 p.m. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Tuesday, Oct. 27, 8:45 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/terror-tuesday-poltergeist-1982-on-35mm\">“Poltergeist” (1982)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 27, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/night-of-the-living-dead-october-27\">“Night of the Living Dead”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Tuesday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Wednesday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/the-exorcist-october-29\">“The Exorcist”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=571053~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Evil Dead II”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Wednesday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Thursday, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=571054~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Army of Darkness\u003c/a>” (double bill with “Evil Dead II”)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Wednesday, Oct. 28, 9 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Thursday, Oct. 29, 9 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/1048-the-thing-1982/?date=2026-10-28\">“The Thing” (1982)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=267968~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“The Rocky Horror Picture Show”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 30, 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The 1990s and 2000s horror bangers\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lots to enjoy here, and especially nice to see 1997 thrill ride “Event Horizon”’s slide into respectability with not one but two screenings around town. “Cabin in the Woods” always plays great with a crowd, too. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Event-Horizon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102226\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Event-Horizon.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Event-Horizon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Event-Horizon-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, and Jeremy Isaacs in 1997’s “Event Horizon.”\u003cbr> (Courtesy of Paramount)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/137973-the-cabin-in-the-woods/?date=2026-10-02\">“The Cabin in the Woods”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Theater, Piedmont\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 2, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/the-craft-light-up-crafting-matinee/?date=2026-10-03\">“The Craft”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 3, 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/terror-tuesday-the-silence-of-the-lambs-35mm?showSeats=true\">“The Silence of the Lambs”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 6, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/47101-the-descent/?date=2026-10-09\">“The Descent”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Theater, Piedmont\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 9, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/the-faculty-october-9\">“The Faculty”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/event-horizon-october-14\">“Event Horizon”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct., 14, 7:30 p.m. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/12978-village-of-the-damned-1995/?date=2026-10-14\">“Village of the Damned” (1995)\u003c/a> \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/176961-tucker-and-dale-vs-evil/?date=2026-10-16\">“Tucker and Dale vs. Evil”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Theater, Piedmont\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 16, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">“The Craft”\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/the-craft?showSeats=true&sessionId=21342&cinemaId=0802&date=2026-10-17\">Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair, Santa Clara\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 17, 12:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/the-craft?showSeats=true&sessionId=21342&cinemaId=0802&date=2026-10-17\">Alamo Drafthouse, Mountain View\u003c/a>: Saturday, Oct. 17, 12:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/17491-event-horizon/?date=2026-10-23\">“Event Horizon”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Theater, Piedmont\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 23, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/scream-october-30\">“Scream” (1996)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/1000043539-cabin-fever-4k-directors-cut/?date=2026-10-30\">“Cabin Fever”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Theater, Piedmont\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 30, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some less-expected spooky season fare\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I especially recommend checking out one of Queer Film Theory 101’s “Daughters of Darkness” screenings, and the intriguing-looking \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/series/beautiful-nightmares/\">\u003cem>Beautiful Nightmares\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> series of Japanese horror at the New People Theater. If you’re trying to organize a mixed hang that includes friends that aren’t super into gnarly horror, the New Parkway’s screenings of “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Get Out” — as well as “Ed Wood” at the Vogue — would also be safe bets.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/black-swan/\">“Black Swan”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 1, 6:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/perfect-blue/\">“Perfect Blue”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 1, 8:50 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.voguemovies.com/calendar-of-events/ed-wood-october-1\">“Ed Wood” \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Vogue Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/special-event-ninja-scroll-subtitled-4k?showSeats=true&sessionId=18544&cinemaId=0803&date=2026-10-04\">“Ninja Scroll”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse, Mountain View\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sun, Oct. 4, 7 p.m. and Wed, Oct. 7, 7:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/what-we-do-in-the-shadows/?date=2026-10-09\">“What We Do in the Shadows”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 9, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/new-people-never-after-dark/\">“Never After Dark”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New People Theater, Japantown, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Friday, Oct. 9, 8:20 p.m. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Saturday, Oct. 10, 6:00 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Sunday, Oct. 11, 4:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/longlegs-october-13\">“Longlegs”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/liquid-sky/?date=2026-10-15#/movie/liquid-sky/\">“Liquid Sky”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 15, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/possession-co-presented-by-womb-house-books-feminist-horror/?date=2026-10-15\">“Possession” \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 15, 6:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=579475~93654fc6-c14e-40a7-812a-d5d2baa619e8&\">“Ninja Scroll” \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lark Theater, Larkspur\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Friday, Oct. 16, 8 p.m. (English dub)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Sunday, Oct. 18, 6:30 p.m. (Japanese with English subtitles)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/new-people-jigoku/\">“Jigoku”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New People Theater, Japantown, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Friday, Oct. 16, 6:15 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Saturday, Oct. 17, 6 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Sunday, Oct. 18, 3 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/mad-god-october-19\">“Mad God”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Monday, Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/terror-tuesday-the-curse-of-the-werewolf-1961-2?showSeats=true&sessionId=82955&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-20\">“Curse of the Werewolf”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 20, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Curse-of-the-Werewolf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102224\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Curse-of-the-Werewolf.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Curse-of-the-Werewolf-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Curse-of-the-Werewolf-1536x942.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Oliver Reed in 1961’s “Curse of the Werewolf.”\u003cbr> (Courtesy of Universal)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/sad-girl-cinema-club-a-tale-of-two-sisters?showSeats=true&sessionId=82956&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-21\">“A Tale of Two Sisters”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/it-follows/?date=2026-10-24\">“It Follows” \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night/?date=2026-10-25#/movie/a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night/\">“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sunday, Oct. 25, 6:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/frankenhooker-october-25\">“Frankenhooker”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sunday, Oct. 25, 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/queer-film-theory-101-daughters-of-darkness?showSeats=true&sessionId=82959&cinemaId=0801&date=2026-10-26\">“Daughters of Darkness”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco: Monday, Oct. 26, 7 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alamo Valley Fair, Santa Clara: Monday, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alamo Mountain View, Monday, Oct. 26, 7 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.balboamovies.com/calendar-of-events/night-of-the-creeps-october-28\">“Night of the Creeps”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Balboa Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/get-out/?date=2026-10-29\">“Get Out”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thursday, Oct. 29, 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/let-the-right-one-in-subtitled/?date=2026-10-30\">“Let the Right One In”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 30, 10:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"pre-1955\">Classic (i.e., “pre-1955”) horror movie screenings\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Landmark Opera Plaza is really showing up in particular this year with the classics — and a daytime horror movie is just so much fun at this time of year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Dr-Jekyll-and-Mr-Hyde.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102225\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Dr-Jekyll-and-Mr-Hyde.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Dr-Jekyll-and-Mr-Hyde-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Dr-Jekyll-and-Mr-Hyde-1536x931.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fredric March in 1931’s “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.”\u003cbr> (Courtesy of Paramount)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/1729-dracula-1931/?date=2026-10-03\">“Dracula” (1931)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 3, 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/6038-frankenstein-1931/?date=2026-10-10\">“Frankenstein” (1931)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 10, 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/631-the-mummy-1932/?date=2026-10-17\">“The Mummy” (1932)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 17, 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://thenewparkway.com/movie/nosferatu-1922/?date=2026-10-18\">“Nosferatu” (1922)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>New Parkway, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sunday, Oct. 18, 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1931/\">“Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” (1931)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roxie Theater, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuesday, Oct. 20, 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/5144-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-1954/?date=2026-10-24\">“Creature From the Black Lagoon” (1954)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 24, 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/47559-phantom-of-the-opera-1943/?date=2026-10-31\">“Phantom of the Opera” (1943)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Landmark Opera Plaza, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Saturday, Oct. 31, 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"on-a-boat\">Lastly, scary movies on a boat\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tickets to the Roxie Theater’s Floating Features series are resolutely Not Cheap at $50, but for that you get a top-deck ride on an impressively quiet boat around San Francisco Bay for the duration of the movie, popcorn and hot chocolate — as well as the screening itself. If it starts majorly raining, you’ll be moved below deck where the screen is smaller but you’ll be much warmer (and drier.) Spooky screenings extend into November, so you can keep the party going.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Floating-Features.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12102221\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Floating-Features.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Floating-Features-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/Floating-Features-1536x962.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A screening at the Roxie Theater’s “Floating Features” series. (Courtesy of Roxie Theater)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/floating-features-jaws-2/\">Floating Features: “Jaws”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 2, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/floating-features-the-game/\">Floating Features: “The Game”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 16, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/floating-features-hocus-pocus-2/\">Floating Features: “Hocus Pocus”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 23, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/floating-features-us/\">Floating Features: “Us”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/floating-features-pacific-heights/\">Floating Features: “Pacific Heights”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Nov. 6, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/floating-features-friday-the-13th/\">Floating Features: “Friday the 13th”\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As longtime locals and film obsessives, we’ll admit our bias up front: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> puts on a masterclass in horror atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alongside the postcard views is a landscape engineered for suspense. Thick fog strips visibility to zero without warning. Hilly terrain turns every curve into a blind leap. And hanging over it all is the eerie geography of being at the edge of the continent — on the precipice of the deep, freezing Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s why we put together this list of our favorite scary movies filmed in the Bay Area. Spend spooky season with local thrills you may not know. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m9c0gBgh6c\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cem>The Fog\u003c/em> (1980)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080749/\">\u003cstrong>IMDB\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>Local legend tells of a ship lured onto the rocks of Antonio Bay being enveloped by a supernatural cloud as it sank; the myth says that when this mysterious fog returns, the victims will rise up from the depths seeking vengeance.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it: \u003c/strong>Peep scenic North Bay locations like Stinson Beach and Point Reyes in this oft-overlooked John Carpenter film made on the heels of his smash hit, Halloween. In the film, the Point Reyes Lighthouse was chosen as the headquarters of K.A.B. radio, a central location in the film. It happens to be one of the windiest and foggiest places in North America — so the ambiance for this horror film was ready-made. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a cozy classic as well,” KQED’s Carly Severn said. “It’s just so evocative of the fall to me. I always regarded this movie as an oddball curio, but now it’s become one of my very favorite horror movies.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Plus, we love to see our eternal weather pattern cast in a spooky light.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Fog has gotten too cute,” said Peter Hartlaub, culture critic with the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>. “There’s Karl the Fog. We’re wearing all these little foggy T-shirts. Fog should be horrifying. Bring horrifying fog back.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9VqUzdEQsk\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cem>Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/em> (1978)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/\">\u003cstrong>IMDB\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> When strange seeds drift to Earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city’s residents one body at a time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> If you want a horror film with a strong sense of San Francisco, this one is tough to beat. “One of the best uses of locations,” Hartlaub said. “City Hall is involved. The waterfront’s involved. The Civic Center. The Painted Ladies.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nearly every scene feels like San Francisco — even the interior shots. Plus, the old-school special effects are straight up \u003cem>creepy\u003c/em> in a way CGI just can’t touch. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’ve watched it probably 10 times. I think it’s one of the best San Francisco films, maybe the most underrated,” Hartlaub said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCxR7dlavwg\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cem>The Birds\u003c/em> (1963) \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%20birds\">\u003cstrong>IMDB\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>A wealthy San Francisco socialite follows a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn toward the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> Look, it just doesn’t get more “classic Bay Area horror film” than \u003cem>The Birds\u003c/em>. Alfred Hitchcock is one of cinema’s greatest, and he delivers in this nature-strikes-back film. The movie starts in Union Square in downtown San Francisco, but spends most of its time in the North Bay.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tippi Hedren’s costumes are just a star in this because she’s wearing the same green blazer and green pencil skirt,” Hartlaub said. “She falls for a guy, follows him out to Bodega Bay with a bird and then the rest of the birds in the world turn on them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrqsdlgqCw\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cem>The Lost Boys\u003c/em> (1987)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093437/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%20lost%20boys\">\u003cstrong>IMDB\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>When a recently divorced mother and her two teenage boys move to a coastal town to stay with her father, it doesn’t take long for the brothers to realize the area is a haven for something much more sinister than party-going surfers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it: \u003c/strong>Santa Cruz may technically be beyond the nine-county Bay Area, but spiritually it feels the part. The Santa Cruz Boardwalk and surrounding area are core to the film and help underscore the film’s 1980s teenage nostalgia. Atlantis Fantasyworld Comic Book Shop plays a central role, too. Every once in a while they’ll show it on the beach in Santa Cruz, which is absolutely the most primo way to watch it.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“I feel like the torture of being young forever is the horror in this film. The torture of being a teenager forever, the torture not fitting in in a new town,” Hartlaub said. “There’s cliques, there’s peer pressure, there’s Chinese food that turns into maggots.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Chilling!\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNncHPl1UXg\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cem>Zodiac\u003c/em> (2007)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443706/?ref_=fn_t_1\">\u003cstrong>IMDB\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it: \u003c/strong>It’s not just one of the best scary movies set in the Bay Area; we’d argue it’s one of the best Bay Area movies, period. It should be on anybody’s watch list who has moved to San Francisco because it’s based on a true story — so you’ll learn some local history too!\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the film, you’ll spot familiar sites like Original Joe’s, San Francisco City Hall, Lake Berryessa and ACT Theatre. \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> newsroom scenes were shot on a soundstage in Hollywood, but the set is so darn close to reality, we’ll count it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“How the movie manages the passage of time is so interesting,” Severn said. “Because that’s the whole point, that time keeps slipping away from these people that are investigating the Zodiac murders.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Though decades have passed since the real-life murders took place, \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> still has a reporter assigned to updates on the Zodiac killer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>It’s not their full-time job, but the Zodiac is always somebody’s job,” Hartlaub said. “It was [reporter] Kevin Fagan’s for decades, and he thinks that this thing could get solved. I mean, as DNA technology gets better, the tips keep coming in … it’s not over.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JidGAt7zXT0\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cem>Pacific Heights \u003c/em>(1990)\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100318/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_2_nm_0_in_0_q_pacific%20heights\">\u003cstrong>IMDB\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>Drake and Patty purchase a San Francisco Victorian hoping to fund their future through rental income. Their stability collapses when Carter Hayes occupies the studio, weaponizing tenant laws to drain their finances and sanity.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it: \u003c/strong>OK, this film should have been called “Potrero Hill” because that’s where it was nearly entirely filmed. “And it dares to suggest that the real monster is tenant rights laws,” Hartlaub said. But we’ll overlook both those details because there are so many other things to love about this film.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Director John Schlesinger clearly drew inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock’s \u003cem>The Birds\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Vertigo\u003c/em> because there are callbacks throughout the film — including casting Melanie Griffith, the daughter of \u003cem>The Birds’\u003c/em> star Tippi Hedren. And Hedren makes a brief wordless cameo herself.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Much like David Fincher’s \u003cem>The Game\u003c/em>, it takes place right before the city really shifted from the old money to the tech money,” Hartlaub said. “So you get this slice of the city that kind of isn’t totally there anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmINBAFhveM\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cem>Burnt Offerings\u003c/em> (1976)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074258/?ref_=fn_t_1\">\u003cstrong>IMDB\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it: \u003c/strong>It was filmed in and around the Dunsmuir House in the Oakland Hills, a large neoclassical mansion that dates back to 1899. The house is a gem of real estate in the Bay Area in many ways, though it has fallen into disrepair in recent decades. \u003ca href=\"https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/restore-the-dunsmuir-hellman-historic-estate-protect-oaklands-most-storied-mansion\">Grassroots efforts are underway\u003c/a> to try to urge the City of Oakland to take action.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Burnt Offerings is a scary house movie, but not in the haunted sense you might expect. There are no ghosts, creaking doors or jump scares. This film is all about the sinister way the people who live inside the house start acting.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“In the first five or 10 minutes, they set up that this family loves each other; they banter with each other,” Severn said. “And then seeing how the house starts to affect them. It just kind of gets under your skin.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This one also has an awesome cast, including Oliver Reed and Bette Davis in her final role. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cem>Contagion \u003c/em>(2011) \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/\">\u003cstrong>IMDB\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it: \u003c/strong>San Francisco features heavily in this thriller that had us all wondering during the COVID-19 pandemic: “Did they know this was coming?” Locals will spot scenes set in North Beach, outside Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and inside Candlestick Park (RIP!). \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This recommendation came from Bay Curious listener Kai Ando, who had this to say about it: “Because I watched it during the COVID pandemic and because it was set in the Bay … I think it stuck with me pretty deeply and even afterwards.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Did we leave out one of your favorites? Let us know by emailing \u003ca href=\"mailto:baycurious@kqed.org\">baycurious@kqed.org\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode transcript\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>If you’ve been following Bay Curious over the years, you may have detected by now that Halloween is my favorite holiday, and it’s not even close. I think part of my obsession is the changing of the season, of course, from the go-go-go of summer to the, you know, cup of tea vibes we get in early fall. And I feel like during trick-or-treating, the streets of our neighborhoods come alive like no other time of year, all packed with excited kids, adults laughing with each other. And teenagers in the shadows doing whatever it is teenagers do. And of course, the costumes. Now I love an elaborate something that takes weeks of planning, multiple trips to the craft store and several late nights to come together. But to get into the spirit this year, I am feeling called to the couch. It’s been a busy summer and I’m ready to just sit and chill a little bit and watch some scary movies. As is my inclination, perhaps obsession, I figure I may as well make them Bay Area scary movies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>So as I was creating my watch list, I decided to call my two most trusted friends when it comes to all things Bay Area film and ask them, “What should we be watching this spooky season?” So here to offer their top recommendations are Carly Severn, KQED’s senior editor of Audience News. Hey, Carly.\u003cbr> \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>Hello Olivia, the calls are coming from inside the house.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Ahhh, they are. Spoiler alert, we’re all sitting around one table. And Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle’s Culture Critic. Welcome, Peter.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>I am so glad to be back with you all.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Yay! I’m glad you’re saying ‘glad to be back’ because this is getting the gang back together because a few years ago, this same trio, we made an episode around Christmas time with your recommendations for Bay Area movies at the request of a listener, but today we’re back with a spooky twist on the theme and I couldn’t be more excited.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>Oh we’re like the killer that just won’t die. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Before we get into your recs, I want to establish your credentials as people who know scary things. So I’ve got a quick list of warm up questions, and I’m looking for quick and punchy answers here. Are you ready?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>Ready.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>I’m ready.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>All right, Carly, starting with you. Best Halloween candy?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> Mini Twix or Mini Snickers, no question.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Mini?\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> I love a little fun size because then you can eat 5,000 of them.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Wonderful. Peter, favorite Halloween candy?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Fun-size Heath bar. And here’s the thing, the people giving away the full-size candy bar often are so wealthy you have to walk way up the path and you’re getting less candy overall so hot tip the fun size is OK.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right, what about worst Halloween candy? What do you get and you just groan? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>What’s that corn thing?\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Candy corn?\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Candy corn, yeah. Horrible. Get it off the planet.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Oh my God, I love candy corn. I’m sorry. This recording is over.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>I’ll see myself out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>This is like black licorice. This is a very, very controversial one. I’m going with those black and orange wrapped up little peanut butter toffee things that always end up in the bottom of your kid’s Halloween bag after you’ve stolen all of the rest of their candy.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> It’s interesting that toffee shows up in both your favorite and least favorite candies though.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>Yes, there’s good and bad toffee.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right, what about the place in the Bay Area you would be most afraid to spend the night by yourself?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>I had to think about this, because I think there’s some haunted hotel rooms, but I think I’d kind of be into that in a sort of 1408 way. So I decided Golden Gate Park, because the lighting there is not good, and what if I cannot find my way out?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> OK, so you’re afraid of getting lost?\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>I am.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Peter, what about you? I’m afraid of heights, so the top of Sutro Tower, which in addition to being super scary from a heights point of view, has a haunted elevator going up. I’ve been on it. It’s … we don’t wanna talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right, and what about … oh, this is my favorite question actually, the favorite costume you’ve ever worn. I’m going to Peter first for this one.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> I made a Gandalf costume for my son that had a light up staff and I loved it so much that I altered it and wore it myself two years later.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Nice. How old was he at the time?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>He was seven and didn’t know who Gandalf was. This was strictly performative parenting, but I did have him slamming it on the ground and saying, ‘you shall not pass.’ Really entertaining.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> The parental equivalent of making your kid wear the Ramones t-shirt.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Very much so, yeah.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I feel personally attacked by that. Carly, what about you?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> I made a really good Shelley Duvall from The Shining, but I think a couple of years previous I was Pris, the Daryl Hannah robot character from Blade Runner, and I looked fine, I’m just going to say.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Not to humble brag but\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> No, no, it’s a long time and you can boast about yourself if it’s a long time ago. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>What do you think makes the Bay Area such a good background for a horror film?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> I think there are two things that elevate the Bay Area over a lot of other cities. The climate and the topography. And with climate, the fog, what is scarier than that? What could come through the fog? Constantly changing unpredictable weather I think is scarier than being in Los Angeles and oh, it’s 70 degrees again. Topography, you’re going over the hill. What’s gonna be over that hill? It’s kind of, there’s this living element to … Exploring a city and not knowing what’s going to be around the next curve, not knowing what’s gonna be over the next hill and I think those two things sort of like become characters in some of these films that we’re going to discuss today.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>Completely agree. And I think a lot about this patch of the West Coast as well, that it can have that end of the line feeling. You have gone as far west as you can and now there is just a great expanse of nothing, the Pacific Ocean. There’s also a history as well. The Golden State literally built on wealth accumulated during the gold rush. And you always wonder, like, what’s behind that? Too good to be true. What are the real stories behind that, what are the darker hidden histories behind that? And that’s something that- I think a lot of Bay Area-set horror movies, either directly or indirectly, are also wrestling.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music transition\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>So let’s get onto the main business for today, your scary movie recommendations. Now, I had each of you come with three recommendations, and then we also have one from a Bay Curious listener who responded to a call out. So let us delay no longer and get to it. Peter, I’m gonna start with you. What is the first movie you would recommend?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. So The Birds is a 1963 film starring Tippi Hedren as a little bit of a socialite, starts in Union Square at a Union Square pet shop. I’m trying to figure out where it was. I think it’s where the Disney store is now. Tippi Hedren’s costumes are just a star in this because she’s wearing the same green blazer and green kind of pencil skirt, falls for a guy, follows him out to Bodega Bay with a bird and then the rest of the birds in the world turn on them, quickly turns into a horror film.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Birds clip:\u003c/strong> I want you to go as quietly as possible. Do not make a sound until I tell you to run. Then run as quickly as you can. Now does everybody understand? Yes, sir. All right, John, you lead the way.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>Where everyone from school children to people in a diner are trying to survive this attack of all the birds in the world.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>All right, Carly, what is your first recommendation? My first recommendation is The Fog by John Carpenter, which is about a town on the Northern California coast that is about to celebrate its 100th anniversary. And 100 years ago, something happened off the waters of this town that the town would rather forget, and the sins of the past come back to haunt them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Fog clip: \u003c/strong>Where’s the fog now? Well, it should be right outside my door now. Well, there’s something different about this fog. Dan, stay away from the door!\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> I always kind of regarded this movie as like a kind of oddball curio, but now it’s become one of my very favorite horror movies. It’s absolutely in the yearly rotation. This movie was made on the heels of Halloween, like John Carpenter’s Halloween, so that was a huge success and just was a bit of a whoop when it came out. Everyone was just like, well, scary fog, what’s going on? It is set in the fictional California coastal town of Antonio Bay, but that is actually the Stinson Beach, Point Reyes area. So there is so much wonderful local photography, places that you can just go to and be like, yes, one-to-one, I match that with the fog. The lighthouse is probably the one that everyone thinks about automatically. It’s called Spivey Point in the movie, but that’s actually the Point Reyes lighthouse. And there’s also incredible shots of Point Reyes station in Olayma. And there was a point I love in the movie when there’s just been a big scare in a morgue. And night starts to fall and you’re like, oh no, it’s all gonna kick off. And as kind of a bridge into the nightfall, there are these gorgeous dusky shots of like that part of the coastline, there’s like forests, it’s just incredible.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> And horrifying. I’m always shocked that this movie isn’t mentioned more among carpenters, oeuvres, among horror movies. It’s scary, and it’s local.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> It’s so scary and it’s a cozy classic as well, it’s just so evocative of the fall to me and ugh.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Fog has gotten too cute. We’ve got Carl the Fog, we’re like wearing all these little foggy t-shirts. Fog should be horrifying. Bring horrifying fog back.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> What a movie, everyone should see it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>And who doesn’t want to watch fog while you’re curled up under a blanket? Ok, The Fog. Going on the list. Peter, you have another offering for us.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Yeah, The Lost Boys, 1987.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Lost Boys clip: \u003c/strong>You’ll never grow old, Michael. And you’ll never die. Be one of us.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Joel Schumacher, who really got started with his 80s movies, with St. Elmo’s Fire, two bad Batman movies, and right in between, he kind of reinvented the vampire film to make it kind of a Peter Pan thing, really focused on teenage angst. We’ve got Kiefer Sutherland, we’ve got both Corey’s, Haim and Feldman, and they’re in Santa Cruz. They’re in a small town. New kids in town realize that this town might have some vampires in them, bond with some dorky vampire hunters. Go to the beach boardwalk, go to Atlantis Fantasy World, the comic book store. And I feel like the torture of being young forever is the horror in this film. The torture of a teenager forever, the torture not fitting in in a new town. There’s cliques, there’s peer pressure … Um, there’s a Chinese food that turns into maggots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lost Boys clip: \u003c/strong>Guess first, how about those maggots?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>You Jamie Gertz is the love interest. Just a completely 80s, over the top, fantastic to watch with as many people as possible. Every once in a while, they’ll show it on the beach in Santa Cruz. I think that’s the best time to do it. But I just love this film, and it has aged in this way that Joel Schumacher was an adult in the 80s. He wasn’t a kid, but he really, really seemed to love that teen culture because he really captured it well. And it’s like going back to a place I wasn’t sure I wanted to go back to, but, uh, enjoyable film.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> Great music. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Excellent music. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>I love it. It’s got that like, the kids have got to take on the vampires because no one else will DNA with Fright Night as well, which is nice.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So you can pick your monster and the era. Birds in the 60s. Fog in the 70s/80s era. Or Vampires in the 1980s… \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>What about the 90s? We got a movie recommendation from a listener slash KQED colleague that fits the bill … Let’s hear it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabe Meline:\u003c/strong> Hey, it’s Gabe Meline, senior editor of Arts and Culture at KQED. Let’s talk about Scream, the classic high school slasher movie that’s a meta-commentary on every other horror movie before it. Scream was filmed in the North Bay. Healdsburg, Sonoma, Tomales, and what I like about it, also filmed in my hometown of Santa Rosa. In fact, in the end credits, you will see a curious note. It reads, no thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board. That’s because director Wes Craven originally had an agreement to shoot the high school scenes at Santa Rosa High School. That is, until pearl-clutching parents caught word that a horror movie was being filmed at their kid’s school, and they got the ear of the school board, who called for a delay in filming. Wes Cravin threatened to, quote, sue their asses, a quote that appeared on the front page of the local paper, and he went out to Sonoma to film the high-school scenes at the Sonoma Community Center. 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Just to recap, we talked about The Birds, The Fog, Lost Boys, Scream, Contagion, Burnt Offerings, Pacific Heights, Zodiac and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. You’ve got 5 weeks until Halloween, how many can you see? Peter Hartlob, Culture Critic with the San Francisco Chronicle. What’s the best way that people can kind of keep up with what you’re doing?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Subscribe to The Chronicle or whatever station or publication that you love, but I’m in The Chronicle all the time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Carly Severn, senior editor of audience news here at KQED. What about you? You got some spooky stuff going on?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> We do. Our desk does explainers and guides. You can see it all at KQED.org slash explainers. And while we do a lot of serious stuff, we also like to have fun too. 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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>If you’ve been following Bay Curious over the years, you may have detected by now that Halloween is my favorite holiday, and it’s not even close. I think part of my obsession is the changing of the season, of course, from the go-go-go of summer to the, you know, cup of tea vibes we get in early fall. And I feel like during trick-or-treating, the streets of our neighborhoods come alive like no other time of year, all packed with excited kids, adults laughing with each other. And teenagers in the shadows doing whatever it is teenagers do. And of course, the costumes. Now I love an elaborate something that takes weeks of planning, multiple trips to the craft store and several late nights to come together. But to get into the spirit this year, I am feeling called to the couch. It’s been a busy summer and I’m ready to just sit and chill a little bit and watch some scary movies. As is my inclination, perhaps obsession, I figure I may as well make them Bay Area scary movies. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kai Ando: \u003c/strong>2011’s Contagion it’s the movie I think a lot of us saw during the COVID pandemic because of the eerie similarities that the plot had with the reality that we were all living in during\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Filmed in the Chronicle newsroom and speaking of hazmat suits, the desk, Benny Evangelista’s desk was specifically chosen because it was so messy, which is very much, usually in journalism movies I get angry because everybody’s desks are too clean, but they leaned into it. Our newsroom is as messy as those streets when the garbage stops getting collected. Great film.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>Contagion, good movie, it’s Stephen Soderbergh, right?\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> My next movie I want to recommend is called Burnt Offerings, which is 1976, and it is filmed in and around the Dunsmuir House in the Oakland Hills, which a big old neoclassical, this sprawling mansion and grounds that was built in I think 1899. And this movie’s great. I’d seen it once, I re-watched it for this and I think it’s genuinely great now. It’s got this killer cast, it’s got Oliver Reed, it has got Karen Black, Bette Davis in I believe her last ever movie role. It is one of those lovely family moves into a clearly quite scary house and stuff starts happening to them. And it’s so upsetting because they set up the family so well in the first five or ten minutes that this family loves each other, they banter with each other. And then seeing what happens and how the house starts to affect them is, it’s, yeah, it just kind of gets under your skin.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>It’s not a haunted house movie, there’s no possessions, there is no, did you hear that sound? A lot of it is filmed in the daylight. It’s all about the effect that the house has on this family and what it starts making them do and the location itself. It was featured in another classic 1980s horror movie, Phantasm. It’s so evocative the fact that it’s really dilapidated as part of the point when they arrive and the house starts to kind of regenerate themselves as it’s feeding off literally you know the fresh blood of the family. If you haven’t seen it, really check it out. It’s pretty great. Oliver Reed is one big ham sandwich, which is how I like my Oliver Reed. Bette Davis is great and really sparky and what happens to her character is again quite genuinely upsetting. Yeah, this movie rules. Everyone should see it.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Pacific Heights, 1990 movie, which I like to call Petrero Hill because not a single frame of it is filmed in Pacific Heights. It’s actually the house in Pacific Heights is about three blocks from where we’re sitting in Potrero Hill. 1990 film that dares to suggest that the real monster is tenant rights laws. Matthew Modine and Melanie Griffith are moving into what looks like a fixer upper Victorian in Pacific Heights, a lot of things wrong with that, $750,000 and they’re going to rent a studio and a one bedroom and just try to make the narrow margins of home ownership and San Francisco work. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>Michael Keaton pulls up in a Porsche and just seals himself in a room and just becomes the tenant from hell, cockroaches are involved, multiple identities are involved and Michael Keaton is so good in this. We’ve got to remember this is right after Batman. This is in his Mr. Mom era. He was not doing these, you know villainous roles and kind of what sort of a B movie and he is so good in this. He is so evil. He’s done things like this since, but at the time this was a real shock. And John Schlesinger is the director. He directed Midnight Cowboy Marathon Man. He’s kind of slumming it in this film, but you get the feeling he just wanted to do a Hitchcock film and it feels a little bit like a lost B movie Hitchcock film in all the best ways.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Thank you both so much. This has been such a fun morning and I can’t wait to watch some of these films. \u003c/p>\n",
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The Santa Cruz Boardwalk and surrounding area are core to the film and help underscore the film’s 1980s teenage nostalgia. Atlantis Fantasyworld Comic Book Shop plays a central role, too. Every once in a while they’ll show it on the beach in Santa Cruz, which is absolutely the most primo way to watch it.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“I feel like the torture of being young forever is the horror in this film. 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It should be on anybody’s watch list who has moved to San Francisco because it’s based on a true story — so you’ll learn some local history too!\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the film, you’ll spot familiar sites like Original Joe’s, San Francisco City Hall, Lake Berryessa and ACT Theatre. \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> newsroom scenes were shot on a soundstage in Hollywood, but the set is so darn close to reality, we’ll count it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“How the movie manages the passage of time is so interesting,” Severn said. “Because that’s the whole point, that time keeps slipping away from these people that are investigating the Zodiac murders.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Though decades have passed since the real-life murders took place, \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> still has a reporter assigned to updates on the Zodiac killer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>It’s not their full-time job, but the Zodiac is always somebody’s job,” Hartlaub said. “It was [reporter] Kevin Fagan’s for decades, and he thinks that this thing could get solved. I mean, as DNA technology gets better, the tips keep coming in … it’s not over.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/JidGAt7zXT0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/JidGAt7zXT0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cem>Pacific Heights \u003c/em>(1990)\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100318/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_2_nm_0_in_0_q_pacific%20heights\">\u003cstrong>IMDB\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>Drake and Patty purchase a San Francisco Victorian hoping to fund their future through rental income. Their stability collapses when Carter Hayes occupies the studio, weaponizing tenant laws to drain their finances and sanity.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it: \u003c/strong>OK, this film should have been called “Potrero Hill” because that’s where it was nearly entirely filmed. “And it dares to suggest that the real monster is tenant rights laws,” Hartlaub said. But we’ll overlook both those details because there are so many other things to love about this film.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Director John Schlesinger clearly drew inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock’s \u003cem>The Birds\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Vertigo\u003c/em> because there are callbacks throughout the film — including casting Melanie Griffith, the daughter of \u003cem>The Birds’\u003c/em> star Tippi Hedren. And Hedren makes a brief wordless cameo herself.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Much like David Fincher’s \u003cem>The Game\u003c/em>, it takes place right before the city really shifted from the old money to the tech money,” Hartlaub said. “So you get this slice of the city that kind of isn’t totally there anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/dmINBAFhveM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/dmINBAFhveM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cem>Burnt Offerings\u003c/em> (1976)\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074258/?ref_=fn_t_1\">\u003cstrong>IMDB\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it: \u003c/strong>It was filmed in and around the Dunsmuir House in the Oakland Hills, a large neoclassical mansion that dates back to 1899. The house is a gem of real estate in the Bay Area in many ways, though it has fallen into disrepair in recent decades. \u003ca href=\"https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/restore-the-dunsmuir-hellman-historic-estate-protect-oaklands-most-storied-mansion\">Grassroots efforts are underway\u003c/a> to try to urge the City of Oakland to take action.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Burnt Offerings is a scary house movie, but not in the haunted sense you might expect. There are no ghosts, creaking doors or jump scares. This film is all about the sinister way the people who live inside the house start acting.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“In the first five or 10 minutes, they set up that this family loves each other; they banter with each other,” Severn said. “And then seeing how the house starts to affect them. It just kind of gets under your skin.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This one also has an awesome cast, including Oliver Reed and Bette Davis in her final role. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4sYSyuuLk5g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4sYSyuuLk5g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cem>Contagion \u003c/em>(2011) \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/\">\u003cstrong>IMDB\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it: \u003c/strong>San Francisco features heavily in this thriller that had us all wondering during the COVID-19 pandemic: “Did they know this was coming?” Locals will spot scenes set in North Beach, outside Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and inside Candlestick Park (RIP!). \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This recommendation came from Bay Curious listener Kai Ando, who had this to say about it: “Because I watched it during the COVID pandemic and because it was set in the Bay … I think it stuck with me pretty deeply and even afterwards.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Did we leave out one of your favorites? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode transcript\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>If you’ve been following Bay Curious over the years, you may have detected by now that Halloween is my favorite holiday, and it’s not even close. I think part of my obsession is the changing of the season, of course, from the go-go-go of summer to the, you know, cup of tea vibes we get in early fall. And I feel like during trick-or-treating, the streets of our neighborhoods come alive like no other time of year, all packed with excited kids, adults laughing with each other. And teenagers in the shadows doing whatever it is teenagers do. And of course, the costumes. Now I love an elaborate something that takes weeks of planning, multiple trips to the craft store and several late nights to come together. But to get into the spirit this year, I am feeling called to the couch. It’s been a busy summer and I’m ready to just sit and chill a little bit and watch some scary movies. As is my inclination, perhaps obsession, I figure I may as well make them Bay Area scary movies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>So as I was creating my watch list, I decided to call my two most trusted friends when it comes to all things Bay Area film and ask them, “What should we be watching this spooky season?” So here to offer their top recommendations are Carly Severn, KQED’s senior editor of Audience News. Hey, Carly.\u003cbr> \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>Hello Olivia, the calls are coming from inside the house.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Ahhh, they are. Spoiler alert, we’re all sitting around one table. And Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle’s Culture Critic. Welcome, Peter.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>I am so glad to be back with you all.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Yay! I’m glad you’re saying ‘glad to be back’ because this is getting the gang back together because a few years ago, this same trio, we made an episode around Christmas time with your recommendations for Bay Area movies at the request of a listener, but today we’re back with a spooky twist on the theme and I couldn’t be more excited.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>Oh we’re like the killer that just won’t die. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Before we get into your recs, I want to establish your credentials as people who know scary things. So I’ve got a quick list of warm up questions, and I’m looking for quick and punchy answers here. Are you ready?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>Ready.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>I’m ready.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>All right, Carly, starting with you. Best Halloween candy?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> Mini Twix or Mini Snickers, no question.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Mini?\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> I love a little fun size because then you can eat 5,000 of them.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Wonderful. Peter, favorite Halloween candy?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Fun-size Heath bar. And here’s the thing, the people giving away the full-size candy bar often are so wealthy you have to walk way up the path and you’re getting less candy overall so hot tip the fun size is OK.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right, what about worst Halloween candy? What do you get and you just groan? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>What’s that corn thing?\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Candy corn?\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Candy corn, yeah. Horrible. Get it off the planet.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Oh my God, I love candy corn. I’m sorry. This recording is over.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>I’ll see myself out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>This is like black licorice. This is a very, very controversial one. I’m going with those black and orange wrapped up little peanut butter toffee things that always end up in the bottom of your kid’s Halloween bag after you’ve stolen all of the rest of their candy.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> It’s interesting that toffee shows up in both your favorite and least favorite candies though.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>Yes, there’s good and bad toffee.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right, what about the place in the Bay Area you would be most afraid to spend the night by yourself?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>I had to think about this, because I think there’s some haunted hotel rooms, but I think I’d kind of be into that in a sort of 1408 way. So I decided Golden Gate Park, because the lighting there is not good, and what if I cannot find my way out?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> OK, so you’re afraid of getting lost?\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>I am.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Peter, what about you? I’m afraid of heights, so the top of Sutro Tower, which in addition to being super scary from a heights point of view, has a haunted elevator going up. I’ve been on it. It’s … we don’t wanna talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right, and what about … oh, this is my favorite question actually, the favorite costume you’ve ever worn. I’m going to Peter first for this one.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> I made a Gandalf costume for my son that had a light up staff and I loved it so much that I altered it and wore it myself two years later.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Nice. How old was he at the time?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>He was seven and didn’t know who Gandalf was. This was strictly performative parenting, but I did have him slamming it on the ground and saying, ‘you shall not pass.’ Really entertaining.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> The parental equivalent of making your kid wear the Ramones t-shirt.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Very much so, yeah.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I feel personally attacked by that. Carly, what about you?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> I made a really good Shelley Duvall from The Shining, but I think a couple of years previous I was Pris, the Daryl Hannah robot character from Blade Runner, and I looked fine, I’m just going to say.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Not to humble brag but\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> No, no, it’s a long time and you can boast about yourself if it’s a long time ago. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>What do you think makes the Bay Area such a good background for a horror film?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> I think there are two things that elevate the Bay Area over a lot of other cities. The climate and the topography. And with climate, the fog, what is scarier than that? What could come through the fog? Constantly changing unpredictable weather I think is scarier than being in Los Angeles and oh, it’s 70 degrees again. Topography, you’re going over the hill. What’s gonna be over that hill? It’s kind of, there’s this living element to … Exploring a city and not knowing what’s going to be around the next curve, not knowing what’s gonna be over the next hill and I think those two things sort of like become characters in some of these films that we’re going to discuss today.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>Completely agree. And I think a lot about this patch of the West Coast as well, that it can have that end of the line feeling. You have gone as far west as you can and now there is just a great expanse of nothing, the Pacific Ocean. There’s also a history as well. The Golden State literally built on wealth accumulated during the gold rush. And you always wonder, like, what’s behind that? Too good to be true. What are the real stories behind that, what are the darker hidden histories behind that? And that’s something that- I think a lot of Bay Area-set horror movies, either directly or indirectly, are also wrestling.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music transition\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>So let’s get onto the main business for today, your scary movie recommendations. Now, I had each of you come with three recommendations, and then we also have one from a Bay Curious listener who responded to a call out. So let us delay no longer and get to it. Peter, I’m gonna start with you. What is the first movie you would recommend?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. So The Birds is a 1963 film starring Tippi Hedren as a little bit of a socialite, starts in Union Square at a Union Square pet shop. I’m trying to figure out where it was. I think it’s where the Disney store is now. Tippi Hedren’s costumes are just a star in this because she’s wearing the same green blazer and green kind of pencil skirt, falls for a guy, follows him out to Bodega Bay with a bird and then the rest of the birds in the world turn on them, quickly turns into a horror film.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Birds clip:\u003c/strong> I want you to go as quietly as possible. Do not make a sound until I tell you to run. Then run as quickly as you can. Now does everybody understand? Yes, sir. All right, John, you lead the way.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>Where everyone from school children to people in a diner are trying to survive this attack of all the birds in the world.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>All right, Carly, what is your first recommendation? My first recommendation is The Fog by John Carpenter, which is about a town on the Northern California coast that is about to celebrate its 100th anniversary. And 100 years ago, something happened off the waters of this town that the town would rather forget, and the sins of the past come back to haunt them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Fog clip: \u003c/strong>Where’s the fog now? Well, it should be right outside my door now. Well, there’s something different about this fog. Dan, stay away from the door!\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> I always kind of regarded this movie as like a kind of oddball curio, but now it’s become one of my very favorite horror movies. It’s absolutely in the yearly rotation. This movie was made on the heels of Halloween, like John Carpenter’s Halloween, so that was a huge success and just was a bit of a whoop when it came out. Everyone was just like, well, scary fog, what’s going on? It is set in the fictional California coastal town of Antonio Bay, but that is actually the Stinson Beach, Point Reyes area. So there is so much wonderful local photography, places that you can just go to and be like, yes, one-to-one, I match that with the fog. The lighthouse is probably the one that everyone thinks about automatically. It’s called Spivey Point in the movie, but that’s actually the Point Reyes lighthouse. And there’s also incredible shots of Point Reyes station in Olayma. And there was a point I love in the movie when there’s just been a big scare in a morgue. And night starts to fall and you’re like, oh no, it’s all gonna kick off. And as kind of a bridge into the nightfall, there are these gorgeous dusky shots of like that part of the coastline, there’s like forests, it’s just incredible.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> And horrifying. I’m always shocked that this movie isn’t mentioned more among carpenters, oeuvres, among horror movies. It’s scary, and it’s local.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> It’s so scary and it’s a cozy classic as well, it’s just so evocative of the fall to me and ugh.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Fog has gotten too cute. We’ve got Carl the Fog, we’re like wearing all these little foggy t-shirts. Fog should be horrifying. Bring horrifying fog back.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> What a movie, everyone should see it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>And who doesn’t want to watch fog while you’re curled up under a blanket? Ok, The Fog. Going on the list. Peter, you have another offering for us.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Yeah, The Lost Boys, 1987.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Lost Boys clip: \u003c/strong>You’ll never grow old, Michael. And you’ll never die. Be one of us.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Joel Schumacher, who really got started with his 80s movies, with St. Elmo’s Fire, two bad Batman movies, and right in between, he kind of reinvented the vampire film to make it kind of a Peter Pan thing, really focused on teenage angst. We’ve got Kiefer Sutherland, we’ve got both Corey’s, Haim and Feldman, and they’re in Santa Cruz. They’re in a small town. New kids in town realize that this town might have some vampires in them, bond with some dorky vampire hunters. Go to the beach boardwalk, go to Atlantis Fantasy World, the comic book store. And I feel like the torture of being young forever is the horror in this film. The torture of a teenager forever, the torture not fitting in in a new town. There’s cliques, there’s peer pressure … Um, there’s a Chinese food that turns into maggots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lost Boys clip: \u003c/strong>Guess first, how about those maggots?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>You Jamie Gertz is the love interest. Just a completely 80s, over the top, fantastic to watch with as many people as possible. Every once in a while, they’ll show it on the beach in Santa Cruz. I think that’s the best time to do it. But I just love this film, and it has aged in this way that Joel Schumacher was an adult in the 80s. He wasn’t a kid, but he really, really seemed to love that teen culture because he really captured it well. And it’s like going back to a place I wasn’t sure I wanted to go back to, but, uh, enjoyable film.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> Great music. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Excellent music. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>I love it. It’s got that like, the kids have got to take on the vampires because no one else will DNA with Fright Night as well, which is nice.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So you can pick your monster and the era. Birds in the 60s. Fog in the 70s/80s era. Or Vampires in the 1980s… \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>What about the 90s? We got a movie recommendation from a listener slash KQED colleague that fits the bill … Let’s hear it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabe Meline:\u003c/strong> Hey, it’s Gabe Meline, senior editor of Arts and Culture at KQED. Let’s talk about Scream, the classic high school slasher movie that’s a meta-commentary on every other horror movie before it. Scream was filmed in the North Bay. Healdsburg, Sonoma, Tomales, and what I like about it, also filmed in my hometown of Santa Rosa. In fact, in the end credits, you will see a curious note. It reads, no thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board. That’s because director Wes Craven originally had an agreement to shoot the high school scenes at Santa Rosa High School. That is, until pearl-clutching parents caught word that a horror movie was being filmed at their kid’s school, and they got the ear of the school board, who called for a delay in filming. Wes Cravin threatened to, quote, sue their asses, a quote that appeared on the front page of the local paper, and he went out to Sonoma to film the high-school scenes at the Sonoma Community Center. Every time that credit comes up, students from Santa Rosa High School always roll their eyes and laugh to themselves about what could have been.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We will be back in just a minute with more recommendations from Carly Severn and Peter Hartlaub, but first a brief intermission. Stay with us. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>We’re back talking scary Bay Area movies. One listener, Kai Ando from Foster City, had this recommendation for us… \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kai Ando: \u003c/strong>2011’s Contagion it’s the movie I think a lot of us saw during the COVID pandemic because of the eerie similarities that the plot had with the reality that we were all living in during\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contagion Clip: \u003c/strong>pandemic. The average person touches their face three to five times every waking minute. In between, we’re touching doorknobs, water fountains, and each other.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kai Ando: \u003c/strong>Jude Law’s character lives in San Francisco as a conspiracy theorist, I believe, who spreads misinformation and panic. I specifically remember his character walking around this trashed barren landscape of a San Francisco street in full hazmat suits.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Peter, Carly, any thoughts on Contagion?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Filmed in the Chronicle newsroom and speaking of hazmat suits, the desk, Benny Evangelista’s desk was specifically chosen because it was so messy, which is very much, usually in journalism movies I get angry because everybody’s desks are too clean, but they leaned into it. Our newsroom is as messy as those streets when the garbage stops getting collected. Great film.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>Contagion, good movie, it’s Stephen Soderbergh, right?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>Stephen Soderbergh, you have to have an experienced director, and spoiler for a 2011 movie, kill Gwyneth Paltrow off in like the first 12 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> That’s their psycho moment as well, where it’s like, oh, you thought Gwyneth was going to be in this movie? Guess again.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I guess again.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We just need to hear it for the publicity.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> My next movie I want to recommend is called Burnt Offerings, which is 1976, and it is filmed in and around the Dunsmuir House in the Oakland Hills, which a big old neoclassical, this sprawling mansion and grounds that was built in I think 1899. And this movie’s great. I’d seen it once, I re-watched it for this and I think it’s genuinely great now. It’s got this killer cast, it’s got Oliver Reed, it has got Karen Black, Bette Davis in I believe her last ever movie role. It is one of those lovely family moves into a clearly quite scary house and stuff starts happening to them. And it’s so upsetting because they set up the family so well in the first five or ten minutes that this family loves each other, they banter with each other. And then seeing what happens and how the house starts to affect them is, it’s, yeah, it just kind of gets under your skin.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> There’s this iconic scene in the house’s pool … where Oliver Reed is playing with his son, but it keeps getting rougher and rougher until he’s basically drowning him. Meanwhile his aunt, Bette Davis’ character, is anxiously watching from land, not quite sure how to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Burnt Offerings clip: \u003c/strong>All right now, you two. That’s quite enough.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>It’s not a haunted house movie, there’s no possessions, there is no, did you hear that sound? A lot of it is filmed in the daylight. It’s all about the effect that the house has on this family and what it starts making them do and the location itself. It was featured in another classic 1980s horror movie, Phantasm. It’s so evocative the fact that it’s really dilapidated as part of the point when they arrive and the house starts to kind of regenerate themselves as it’s feeding off literally you know the fresh blood of the family. If you haven’t seen it, really check it out. It’s pretty great. Oliver Reed is one big ham sandwich, which is how I like my Oliver Reed. Bette Davis is great and really sparky and what happens to her character is again quite genuinely upsetting. Yeah, this movie rules. Everyone should see it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>I should mention here Bay Curious has done an episode on the Dunsmuir House — worth a listen if you want to learn more. Unfortunately right now the house is closed to the public because, quite honestly, it’s in rough shape.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> When I saw the beginning of the movie, when it looks so dilapidated, that’s kind of like where it’s going now, unfortunately. I think a lot of people are sounding the alarm in the local community about this place being allowed to slip into disrepair.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right. Peter, what do you have next for us?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Pacific Heights, 1990 movie, which I like to call Petrero Hill because not a single frame of it is filmed in Pacific Heights. It’s actually the house in Pacific Heights is about three blocks from where we’re sitting in Potrero Hill. 1990 film that dares to suggest that the real monster is tenant rights laws. Matthew Modine and Melanie Griffith are moving into what looks like a fixer upper Victorian in Pacific Heights, a lot of things wrong with that, $750,000 and they’re going to rent a studio and a one bedroom and just try to make the narrow margins of home ownership and San Francisco work. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Terrifying \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>Terrifying. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Yeah my spine is tingling \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>Michael Keaton pulls up in a Porsche and just seals himself in a room and just becomes the tenant from hell, cockroaches are involved, multiple identities are involved and Michael Keaton is so good in this. We’ve got to remember this is right after Batman. This is in his Mr. Mom era. He was not doing these, you know villainous roles and kind of what sort of a B movie and he is so good in this. He is so evil. He’s done things like this since, but at the time this was a real shock. And John Schlesinger is the director. He directed Midnight Cowboy Marathon Man. He’s kind of slumming it in this film, but you get the feeling he just wanted to do a Hitchcock film and it feels a little bit like a lost B movie Hitchcock film in all the best ways.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> Do you think casting Melanie Griffith is a nod to that since Tippi Hedren is her mom?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Oh, yes. And Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith’s mother, has a short cameo in this film that I’m not even sure if it’s credited, but she’s in it very, very briefly. So, no, very clearly this director was a big Hitchcock fan and probably a big The Birds and Vertigo fan because there’s feelings throughout.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> Peter, I’m so glad you brought Pacific Heights because we don’t talk about Pacific Heights enough as a society. It’s such a relic of a specific time. Michael Keaton is my guy. One of my very first crushes, I think, as Batman. And yeah, this movie is just really fun and like very San Francisco centric.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Much like the game, David Fincher’s The Game, it takes place right before the city really shifted from kind of the old money to the tech money. So you get this slice of the city that kind of isn’t totally there anymore.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right, Carly, well onto your third and final recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> OK, so I know we discussed this movie on our previous movie podcast. I just have to bring it again. It’s Zodiac. I think it’s the scariest movie ever set and filmed in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. It is based on the true story of the still unsolved Zodiac murders in the 60s and 70s. This movie is just fantastic. I could watch it I think every year for the rest of my life. It was David Fincher. Well, Lake Berryessa scene, which recreates one of the murders, it is one of the very few scenes I just am unable to watch. I will always go and do something else. I will walk away from the screen and go and make like a cup of tea or use the bathroom. I physically cannot watch that scene. And I love my horror movies and that one just gets under my skin. It is too upsetting. And it’s all in broad daylight as well. Just a real example of broad daylight horror. Yeah, and just all these other little locations sprinkled throughout. There’s Geary outside, I think it’s the Tony Rembey Theater, ACT Theater, where the Zodiac Killer hails the cab that he then gets into that takes him to the intersection of Washington and Cherry Streets where another murder takes place. But I got to say my favorite location for this movie is not actually real. It is the gorgeous CGI rendering, the time lapse of the Transamerica pyramid being built to the sound of Marvin Gaye’s inner city blues.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/strong>It’s such a great scene. The visual effects are seamless there. Yeah, I mean, you listen to a song on the Zodiac soundtrack and it brings you back there. That’s a special, special kind of soundtrack.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn: \u003c/strong>How that movie just manages the passage of time as well. Because that’s the whole point, that time keeps slipping away from these people that are investigating the Zodiac murders and eventually just, they run out of time. It’s too late. The chief suspect is dead. Yeah, what a movie. If you haven’t seen Zodiac, just come watch it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>And any update on the Zodiac killer?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> I know you guys are still working on it, right? So we have a Zodiac beat writer. It’s not their full-time job, but the Zodiac is always somebody’s job. It was Kevin Fagan’s for decades, and then now it’s been passed on to a couple other people. Kevin thinks that this thing could get solved. I mean, as DNA technology gets better, the tips keep coming in, of course. It’s not over. And people, when they did tours of the 901 Mission Chronicle site, would always say, I wanna see the Zodiac stuff. And my answer was always, it’s an active case. All of the stuff that the Zodiac sent is still at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. This case is not solved. So, yeah, amazing piece of our history that continues.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> OK, so we did say at the top you each could bring three, but there was one more that just can’t be left out. Initially we thought we’d leave it out because we talked about it before, but it just can’t be helped… \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Yeah and this would be number one on the list if we hadn’t talked about it before. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is just so stellar. One of the best uses of locations in San Francisco. Terrifying. City Hall is involved. The waterfront’s involved. The Civic Center. Painted Ladies, but you don’t even know that they are the Painted Ladies. It’s one of the ones on the end just a very terrifying film of the city getting taken over, but are you paranoid or is it really happening? And I’ve watched it probably 10 times. I think it’s one of the best San Francisco films, maybe the most underrated.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Well, and I love that all these recommendations, because they are set in the Bay Area, to me that makes them more real, more believable somehow, because you’re not just watching something that takes place in an abstract city that you’ve maybe never been to, or you don’t even know what it is, maybe it doesn’t even have a name, but when you’re seeing these places on film that you recognize that you’re been to somehow it makes everything else that’s painted on top of those backgrounds feel more real which is scary.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> Super special to watch as well there’s just something about that like tactility which as a viewer let your brain just goes it just feels great\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>These are some fantastic recommendations I cannot wait to tuck in and watch them. Just to recap, we talked about The Birds, The Fog, Lost Boys, Scream, Contagion, Burnt Offerings, Pacific Heights, Zodiac and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. You’ve got 5 weeks until Halloween, how many can you see? Peter Hartlob, Culture Critic with the San Francisco Chronicle. What’s the best way that people can kind of keep up with what you’re doing?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Subscribe to The Chronicle or whatever station or publication that you love, but I’m in The Chronicle all the time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Carly Severn, senior editor of audience news here at KQED. What about you? You got some spooky stuff going on?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> We do. Our desk does explainers and guides. You can see it all at KQED.org slash explainers. And while we do a lot of serious stuff, we also like to have fun too. So we have a lot of spooky season explainers, and guides coming up, including a guide to the North Bay’s historic cemeteries that you can replicate the tour, a guide to immersive experiences around the Bay Area. And for all you history nerds, we have a guide to the Spooky Feeling History Tours you can embark on too.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Thank you both so much. This has been such a fun morning and I can’t wait to watch some of these films. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Severn:\u003c/strong> Thanks, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/strong> Thank you for having us. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is produced by, and me, Olivia Allen-Price. We get extra support from, and everyone on team KQED. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local. I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a spooky one.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article originally published in 2020. It has been lightly updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Ben Kaiser asked for our favorite movies that are filmed and set in San Francisco. While we don’t normally take on subjective questions, we figured with cozy season upon us, it was a great time to cuddle up on the sofa with some classics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4565381532&light=true\" width=\"100%\" we asked peter hartlaub san francisco chronicle culture critic and host carly severn kqed senior editor of audience news resident movie obsessive to share their top picks on a recent bay curious podcast episode. they shared the movies would be most likely sit down watch over holidays not necessarily critically acclaimed films. our some favorites too>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOhoIBkOYf0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092007/\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> “To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> This charming, lighthearted movie makes the Bay Area look undeniably fun. One KQED fan said the film was “influential in shaping how I think about the environment and is the Star Trek movie with the most heart in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Inside Out (2015)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRUAzGQ3nSY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> “After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions — Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness — conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> Pixar has dropped Bay Area references in several animated films over the years, but “Inside Out” takes it to the next level. The film takes place in the Bay Area, and features rich and detailed imagery from around the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Zodiac (2007)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNncHPl1UXg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443706/\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> “In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “Second only to Alfred Hitchcock, director David Fincher has a great sensibility for San Francisco,” says Peter Hartlaub. “This film absolutely captures a place in time. The music choices, the visual cues, the production design. Nothing’s wasted. I was a little kid, and I remember hearing about the Zodiac killer, and this movie brought that back so well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0FnJDhY9-0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4353250/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> One of the few films on our list that is a commentary on the Bay Area, and how gentrification has decimated once vibrant Black neighborhoods. The cinematography will absolutely take your breath away. Pause the movie at any point and you might be inspired to hang the still image on your wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Basic Instinct (1992)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f96x3UpoaQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103772/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “The plot is ludicrous … but it’s a romp. It’s a riot. It also looks way better than it needs to, and it sounds way better than it needs to,” says Carly Severn. “I love the way it uses San Francisco. It goes for all the classic shots — there’s North Beach, there’s Telegraph Hill.” You’ll also find lots of gorgeous helicopter shots in this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Always Be My Maybe (2019)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHBcWHY9lN4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7374948/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Everyone assumed Sasha and Marcus would wind up together except for Sasha and Marcus. Reconnecting after 15 years, the two start to wonder — maybe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “It makes San Francisco look really cool, but it also makes San Francisco look normal. A lot of it is set in the Outer Richmond,” says Carly Severn. “As a resident of the Bay Area there’s such a pleasure in looking at the screen and saying, ‘Oh, I know that! That’s cool!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_0dlmSq7I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>: \u003c/strong>When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “I think this is the most underrated San Francisco movie,” says Peter Hartlaub. “A lot of directors come in and they love San Francisco, but they shoot from the same seven places — Telegraph Hill, the Golden Gate Bridge, The Palace of Fine Arts. Director Philip Kaufman shot in places I think he always wanted to shoot — the Tenderloin is a huge character in the movie. Civic Center. Obscure places like Pier 70.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Vertigo (1958)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jvQwwHQNY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> If you’re going to watch one movie set in San Francisco, a lot of critics would argue it should be this Alfred Hitchcock classic. The plot is woven into the location in a way that few movies can rival. And if you’re wanting to really *see* the city — this film is a hit parade of gorgeous locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>So I Married an Axe Murderer! (1993)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yto08I_IiAg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108174/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A San Francisco poet who fears commitment suspects his girlfriend may have a knack for killing off her significant others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> One KQED fan says it “captures something of the SF that I grew up in” and another calls this film “a love letter to SF.” It highlights many of the city’s most famous sights — like the Golden Gate Bridge to the Palace of Fine Arts and Alcatraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Bullitt (1968)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsvD806qNM8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062765/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> Do we need to say much more than “epic car chase scenes on San Francisco hills?” This film features tons of on-location filming, so you’ll get a big taste of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3euGQ7-brs4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107614/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>: \u003c/strong>After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> We couldn’t leave this film off the list. After all, it features one of the Bay Area’s most beloved celebrities, Robin Williams. After his death, the house featured in this film at 2640 Steiner St. became a pop-up memorial. You’ll spot everything from ordinary streets to iconic San Francisco locations throughout the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>The Rock (1996)\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DWu_dT0Phc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> Much of the film was shot on in and around Alcatraz, a tall order given the production crew had to do it all while tour groups milled around the site of the former federal penitentiary. Other locations in the film include the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco City Hall and Pier 39.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These 12 films are still just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to great movies filmed in the Bay Area. Other audience favorites include: Chan Is Missing, The Conversation, Blindspotting, Sorry to Bother You, The Princess Diaries, Parrots of Telegraph Hill and La Mission. Find even more suggestions on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KQED/status/1336822068541734912\">this X thread\u003c/a>, and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQED/posts/10157640695916191\">KQED’s Facebook page. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone, I’m Olivia Allen Price and this is Bay Curious. Let’s go!\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My name is Ben Kaiser and believe it or not I live in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben visited San Francisco for the first time four years ago. And as soon as he got here, he felt a connection.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It sort of seemed like I had been there before or that I belonged there. And I just absolutely fell in love with it. And I’ve been back in four years, probably nine or ten times.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s a lot of flights between Atlanta and SFO. Now, when Ben can’t be here, he’s found a way to visit without leaving his living room.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because I don’t live in San Francisco, I want to be connected to it as much as I possibly can. And one of the ways is watching movies shot there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anything that can transport him here, even if only for a few hours. Ben’s seen a lot already, but he wants more, so he came to Bay Curious.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I asked what were some of the movies set in San Francisco that were actually shot in San Francisco, and which ones are your favorites or your recommendations?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now we don’t often delve into subjective matters here on the show, but hey, it’s the holidays, cozy season is here, and we thought maybe we could all use some solid movie recommendations. Today’s episode will sound a little bit different from what you usually hear on Bay Curious. We’ve got a panel of local cultural experts here to convince Ben and you how you should spend some time devouring the Bay Area in all its cinematic glory. This episode first aired in 2020 and has been lightly revised for you today. So throw some popcorn in the microwave, cozy up on your couch, and press play. All right, I have to start out this episode with a confession. I, Olivia Allen Price, am really bad at movies, like possibly the last person that you would want on your trivia team during the movie round. So I called in some much needed backup on this one. Here to help me out today is Peter Hartlaub. He was born and raised in the Bay Area. He’s a cultural critic with the San Francisco Chronicle, and he writes the total SF newsletter. Welcome, Peter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so much for having me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah. Also, I’ve got Carly Severn here. She’s a senior editor here at KQED and a Bay Curious Reporter, who you are probably familiar with. She’s also a former co-host of The Cooler Podcast and one of KQED’s resident movie obsessives. Hey Carly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey, Olivia. Hey, Peter. Lovely to be here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So before we get into recommendations, I’m curious, what do you guys think makes San Francisco a good spot to shoot a film?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Internationally recognizable landmarks, Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, the topography. You can get up on a hill and see those landmarks. You can have a chase scene and get a little air. But I think the biggest thing is the weather. And it’s sort of the secret ingredient because it allows a director to convey mood. And then the city sort of becomes the mood of the director. You have the fog coming in, you have the sun coming in, subtle shifts. You can’t do that in Atlanta. You can’t do it in Houston. You can’t even really do that in LA. And I think that’s a big reason why San Francisco ends up being, you know, a top pick if you’re a director and you want to shoot like a thriller or an action film, something like that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would agree with all of that and I must kind of confess I do have a similar cinematic relationship with San Francisco as listener Ben does. I grew up watching San Francisco on screen as a kid in the middle of nowhere in England and it just seemed like the coolest place in the world to me. So I get it. I get his quest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, despite all these things, all these sort of great attributes that make, you know, San Francisco a great place to shoot, you still don’t see it in films as often as, you know, in New York or in LA or maybe even in Atlanta, even though you don’t necessarily know you’re in Atlanta when you are in Atlanta. A lot of sh movies are shot there. Why do you all think that is?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s expensive to get a hotel here, much less a bunch of hotels if you’ve got a lot of people coming. People are all crammed in together. And if you’re gonna shoot Sister Act in Noe Valley, or if you’re gonna shoot a car chase scene going through Russian Hill, the neighbors are gonna notice. And I think San Francisco, more than some of those other cities, because it’s sort of compact like that, makes it harder to film. Expensive and compact.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I think logistically you have all of these issues, but I do think there’s this thematic problem with San Francisco, it’s so in your face. It is it does end up being a character. If you want to just have like any town USA to set your story in, like San Francisco is not the place to come. It really isn’t, because you’ll end up having to do all of this narrative work bending over backwards to kind of explain why it’s a San Francisco story. That’s my take anyway.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I do want to get on to answering Ben’s question and get to some of your San Francisco movie recommendations, but I thought we’d actually start with his because he has seen a lot of movies and he has his own thoughts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vertigo’s probably my all time favorite movie in the fact that it’s shot in San Francisco. But, you know, a lot of the real common ones, you know, I I’m not embarrassed to say the other night I watched The Rock and enjoyed The Rock. But you know, Mrs. Doubtfire, Milk, The Room, those are just, you know, some of the ones that I enjoy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it sounds like he’s definitely seen some of the classics, which I know we aren’t necessarily gonna talk as much about today in your lists, right?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vertigo, The Conversation, the Hitchcock films, the Coppola films. If I’m teaching a film class about San Francisco, they’re gonna be right in there. If I’m turning on my TV right now ’cause I just need to chill and escape a little bit, I’ve got a whole different set of films that I’m gonna pick, my favorite films, and that’s what I’m gonna pick today.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A hundred percent cosign. And may I just say to Ben that he never has to be embarrassed about watching the rock. There is nothing to be embarrassed about there.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s totally cool to just love the rock and shout it from the rooftops.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, so I asked each of you guys to bring your top three recommendations. And what we’re gonna do is go through all of those and then let Ben decide who has been the most convincing and which movie he is going to watch next. So let’s dive in, Carly. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us know what is your number three pick and why.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carly Severn: First of all, I want to kind of set up my thinking here. I wanted to pay homage to the classic TLC album Crazy Sexy Cool with three picks that make San Francisco look either crazy, sexy, or cool. And so I’m gonna start with cool. It is Always Be My Maybe. It is the 2019 Netflix movie directed by Nahnatchka Khan . It’s got Ali Wong as a celebrity chef, and she returns home to San Francisco, where she grew up, and she reconnects with her childhood boyfriend, Randall Park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Always Be My Maybe\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:07:18] \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I love this movie so much. It makes San Francisco look really cool, but it also makes it look really normal. And it’s not the kind of parade of Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park Ad nauseum. Like a lot of it’s set in the outer Richmond, like the farmers market that they go to. It’s not some bougie little farmer’s market. It’s the like the civic center farmers market. So as a resident of the Bay Area, there’s such a pleasure in in kind of doing that thing where you’re looking at the screen going like, Oh, I know that. That’s really cool. I should admit that so much of it is filmed in San Francisco at these amazing locations that are like super normal and super lived in. But Vancouver, of course it’s always Vancouver. Vancouver actually doubles for a lot of the San Francisco locations. Particularly Goodluck Dim sum, which is where Ali Wong it’s one of her favorite restaurants in San Francisco. She’s it’s on Clements Street. She says it’s where she grew up eating. She really wanted that set there, but they had to double the interior in Vancouver. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Always Be My Maybe \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She thought that the restaurant would really love the fact that she had given them the shout-out, and it turns out they they kind of didn’t care. She put on Instagram that she had gone to the restaurant, and this is her caption. So the picture is of her waiting in line at this place that she’s just made super famous in a movie. And she’s like, Me, hello, I’m Ali Wong. The dim sum scene in my movie Always Be My Maybe is based on this very place where I grew up eating. Good luck, dim sum staff. We don’t give a bleep. We have no idea who you are. Get in line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh I love that. Tough being famous in San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There’s a lot of little things in there that are San Francisco too. Ali Wong got Dan the Automator to do the score and also write the music for the greatest San Francisco band in a movie, Hello Peril, which do three songs in the movie, including the closing credits. My only complaint, and Carly mentioned it, and I don’t want to start like negative ad campaigns here, but we’re winning Ben’s vote, and there’s only one vote. They did the exterior on Clement Street, and they’re walking down what’s supposed to be Clement Street, and it is so not Clements Street. It is so Vancouver. I love the movie, but as a location, San Francisco location movie, I find it to be kind of hit and miss.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, well let’s get on to your number three then, mister Hartlob. What do you got?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mine is \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I think it’s the most underrated San Francisco movie. Shot, it came out in 1978, a Philip Kaufman movie. He’s a San Francisco resident to this day. And it was a remake of a 1950s movie about alien pods that come in, they’re replacing the human race slowly, and you can’t fall asleep. And it’s there’s just a lot of intrigue and it’s a thriller and it’s horror. I love it as a San Francisco movie because a lot of directors come in and they love San Francisco, but they shoot from the same seven places. You know, Telegraph Hill, Golden Gate Bridge, Palace of Fine Arts. Philip Kaufman shot in places that I think he always wanted to shoot, that that really add to the movie. The tenderloin is a huge, huge character in the movie. Civic Center. There’s a couple of really cool shots there. Obscure places like Pier 70. Right here, we have Donald Sutherland in a very famous scene where he is revealing himself to be one of the pod people by screeching. The screech is a pig squeal, I believe played backwards. And he’s pointing, he’s pointing at you on the other side of the screen. He’s in the civic center, pointing at you. Great San Francisco movie, great horror movie, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I loved this movie. I actually was ashamed to say that I hadn’t seen it before I started prepping to have this conversation with you guys. And it starts off, you know, like a little bit cheesy, and I was like, oh god, what has Peter chosen? I couldn’t have been more wrong. It is such a great movie. I I could not agree ever with more with everything he said about the way it uses San Francisco, and particularly like a lot of like civic buildings around Civic Center, and just like a lot of it set at the the Department of Public Health, which I always like it when those guys are the good guys in the movie.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, I haven’t seen this movie yet. It’s now gonna be on my list, I will say, but I am I love the idea that there’s a movie that that really highlights some of the lesser used locations around San Francisco. Because I think there is, you know, a divide between how tourists experience the city and how people who live in the city experience the city. Let’s move on to your number two picks, making our way up the list. Carly, what do you have?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I did say I was gonna do Crazy Sexy Cool, and we’re now into the sexy phase of this pick. It is 1992’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basic Instinct\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And I thought long and hard before choosing this one because, you know, many parts of it haven’t aged well, let’s be honest. But it is a prime example of the 90s erotic thriller. It is made by Paul Verhoven, and the plot is ludicrous. Michael Douglas is the shady San Francisco detective. He’s investigating this bombshell crime novelist, Sharon Stone, who definitely, maybe almost certainly, killed one of her boyfriends. It’s a romp, it’s a riot, it wants to be a Hitchcock noir very, very badly. So it looks way better than it needs to, and it sounds way better than it needs to. I tried long and hard to find a safe for Bay Curious clip from this movie and failed miserably. So let’s just listen to a little bit of the trailer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Basic Instinct \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love the way it uses San Francisco. It goes for all the classic shots, like, you know, there’s North Beach, there’s Telegraph Hill. One thing I should note is that San Francisco wasn’t always thrilled about being the kind of poster child for this movie. Sharon Stone’s character is bisexual and setting a movie with an LGBTQ woman who has a lot of sex and kills the people that she sleeps with in San Francisco in 1992 at a time when AIDS was still so prevalent and claiming so many lives. Like that’s a definite choice. And this isn’t just like 2020 hindsight. The movie was picketed at the time by LGBTQ groups for being kind of prejudice in its representation of that community. So I do feel like I should flag that. A lot of that animosity, I feel like, has gone away over time, but it’s definitely something to note. Also, I think the reason people don’t like this movie is that they take it quite seriously. And I think if you look at Paul Behoven’s back catalog, like Starship Troopers, like Total Recall, like Showgirls, I think he has a sense of humor about what he’s doing. So I think that this movie should be taken as a time capsule and with a hefty fistful of salt.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love this film. I think it’s a great pick. I think it’s underrated. There are more helicopter shots in this movie of San Francisco, of someone driving a car around a windy road. His embracing San Francisco, making love to San Francisco with his camera budget was off the charts. So I think it’s a great pick. I really like this movie a lot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Definitely one that makes San Francisco look sexy, Carly. Don’t you agree?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, okay, so this is where I genuinely want you guys’ opinion, because I have spent the best part of a week thinking about this question. Is San Francisco a sexy city? And I was trying to think of cities that are like off the charts sexy, you’re right. New Orleans sprang to mind. But then I’m thinking, is it just about like sweating? Is it just like the weather? Is is is that all sexiness is to me.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I gotta say, the the weather is it. You don’t sweat in San Francisco. LA sexy city. New Orleans sexy city. Miami. Miami Vice sexy city. Streets of San Francisco is not a sexy TV show.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m gonna have to disagree with you guys and you are the cultural critics here, so your your opinion has more weight than mine, but I don’t know, I see fog and I wanna cuddle. That’s my take.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I don’t know.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think Peter and I are of the same mind here where we’re just like It’s step one, guys.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s a cuddly city. I don’t know if it’s a sexy city.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I cuddle my dog. All right.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right. Well let’s get into Peter, what’s your number two pick?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My number two is\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Zodiac\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It is a David Fincher film. He shot \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Game\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> first and then \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zodiac\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in San Francisco. And second to Hitchcock, I think he’s the one who really is a great sensibility for San Francisco. It is shot also in the San Francisco Chronicle Newsroom. They shot in our publisher’s office, I believe, outside, and they used our lobby and elevator. The story goes that David Fincher came up to our newsroom, walked inside, said an expletive and said this is too much of a mess, walked outside and they recreated our newsroom pillar for pillar. You cannot tell the difference in Los Angeles. But absolutely, absolutely captures a place in time. The music choices, the visual cues, the production design, nothing’s wasted. And honestly, even though they didn’t shoot in the Chronicle Newsroom, the newsroom banter is pitch perfect. Here’s a little bit of it right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Vertigo \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that’s the way we talk. That’s the way we talk to each other. It’s all like a David Fincher or Aaron Sorkin drama.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Vertigo\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No, this is this is a great film, and the plot is almost secondary in this film, a killer from the 70s and 80s who they never caught, and I’m giving away the ending, but the ending isn’t the important thing. The important thing is the mood, the city, what it felt like to be in the 1970s and be scared. I was a little kid. I remember hearing about the Zodiac Killer, and this movie brought that back so well. My favorite shot in the film, it is a visual effects shot of them in sped up time building the Transamerica Pyramid, and again, just David Fincher using every little arrow in his quiver to capture that mood of San Francisco at a particular time. It’s a fantastic location movie.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I think it’s the only one on this list that is based on a true story unless there’s something I need to know about \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think that’s true. And and and you know, there there’s a little bit of myth in there, but he he’s stuck a lot closer than a lot of other people do to the facts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will say as somebody who was not living in the Bay Area at the time of Zodiac, I found \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zodiac\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be really helpful just to kind of I guess get a sense of what it was like to be here during that time, like you experienced, Peter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, and people remember and if people weren’t around, they know the myth. When when people come to the chronicle and ask for a tour, the two things they want to see are Herb Kane’s typewriter and the Zodiac Files. Can you show us the Zodiac files?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, let’s get on to your top choices. These are top of your list. Let’s let’s hear it, Carly. What do you got?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, guys, I’m reaching the climax of my crazy sexy cool plan, which I think paid off. My number one pick, it’s Crazy San Francisco. It’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Trek 4\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 1986. It is directed by Mr. Spark himself, Leonard Nimoy. I almost find it hard to talk about this film kind of critically because I love it so much. Just to quickly tell you about the plot, it picks up where 1984’s Search for Spark, Star Trek III left off. So the Earth of the Future is being menaced by a big alien probe. Only Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise can save the planet by time traveling back to 1980s San Francisco to bring back two Wales to talk to the alien probe and get it to leave Earth alone. You have to go with it. That’s the plot, and I can’t change that, okay? It’s not the best Star Trek movie. That’s The Wrath of Khan. That’s just undisputable. But it is the best Star Trek movie set in San Francisco with Wales, which is to say, it is the only one of that. Where do I start with how wonderful this movie is? People think I’m joking when I say that it’s the reason I moved to San Francisco, and I’m like 5% joking about that. But the other 95% is really serious. Growing up with this movie and watching San Francisco just look so fun, so warm, so crazy, so inviting. Like I wanted to be a part of that. It is totally joyous. Ben, if you’re listening and you haven’t seen Star Trek 4, don’t worry. You don’t need to watch any of the other Star Trek movies. It stands alone, it’s kind of perfect in that sense. The pleasures of watching like the quite serious crew of the Enterprise traverse San Francisco and just have a ball doing it. It’s just great. So I really wanted to play you one of the most iconic scenes, which is Kirk and Spock on a Muni bus that is traveling over the Golden Gate Bridge. Mr. Spock has to take out a young punk on the bus and get him to stop playing his music. And then this happens.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Star Trek 4\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The gag there, of course, being that Jacqueline Cezanne and Harold Robbins. Oh, I had to look up Harold Robbins, by the way. Like, they are not the giants of literature, but it’s just hilarious to think that the people of the future have deemed them to be so. I know of no movie that is like warmer and and sweeter than Star Trek Four. So, Ben, pick me, pick Star Trek Four. The choice is easy. Come on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, I don’t even wanna argue against you, and I’m gonna pick a number one, but I love this film so much. It is just a lovely movie, funny movie, finds all kinds of different ways to explore San Francisco and make it part of the gag, but in a in a funny, warm way. It’s one of the greats, one of the classics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, and up there with one of the greats must be your number one choice, Peter. What do you have for your number one?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2015 Pixar film Inside Out. It takes place inside the brain of tween girl coming of age, Riley. And then also outside in San Francisco, Riley has moved from I believe Minnesota to San Francisco, and she’s horrified. And what the Pixar people did with animation is so fantastic. They take San Francisco and make it like 10 to 15% more. The streets are a little narrower, parking’s a little harder, street signs are a little more incomprehensible. Fantastic, fantastic use of San Francisco. It’s more of a character in the movie than any of their other movies. They had always kind of flirted around with the Bay Area and maybe dropped San Pablo Avenue and the Incredibles. This one, they really talk about San Francisco. And you don’t see that often. You see a lot of mainstream films set in San Francisco, and San Francisco is a backdrop and it’s almost like a prop. Very few films are a commentary on the city. Last black man in San Francisco, Medicine for Melancholy, and Inside Out. Inside Out is poking fun of the city. It is completely honest. If you live here, you totally get it. If you’re not from here, you’re gonna get some of the humor, including taking just an absolute, absolute dagger stab at our Pizza.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Inside Out\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honestly, the first time I saw this film, I didn’t love it. I liked it a lot. I’m glad I didn’t review it because I think I would have given it less than the highest rating. Upon rewatch, there’s so many little things that come out. You learn more things, and the San Francisco parts become clearer and clearer. I just think it’s a fantastic film, and it’s a fantastic San Francisco location film.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well I think Ben is gonna have a really hard time deciding between all of those very compelling pitches for for movies he should be watching this weekend. Peter Hartlob, Bay Area native, culture critic with the SF Chronicle, co-host of Total SF podcast. Thank you so much. Is there anywhere that listeners can connect with you further?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subscribe to the Total SF newsletter, that’s where I explore the Bay Area and pass on all my favorite finds, the best hikes to take, the best tourist traps to visit, where I’m finding the best papusas to eat, and read my work at sfchronicle.com.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awesome. And Carly, you are my longtime pop culture, I don’t know, guru. You’ve you’ve really helped me with questions over the years. So thank you for coming on the show. Where can people connect with you?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, you can find my work for Bay Curious in the podcast feed, including my two part series on the Donner Party in the archives, since we’re now feeling the wintry vibes here in the bay. You can also visit kqbd.org slash explainers to see what me and my team are up to every day in the KQED newsroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alright, well thanks to you both. Big thanks to Ben for asking this week’s question.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carly and Peter, I appreciate your suggestions for which San Francisco movie I should watch next. Full disclosure, three of them I’ve already seen. Those are: Always Be My Maybe, Basic Instinct and Zodiac, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. So it comes down to the other three, but I’m torn between Inside Out and Star Trek Four. But in the end, my vote is going to go to Star Trek Four. I’ve never seen a Star Trek movie, but it seems to be such a beloved film, and Carly campaigned it very, very well. So tonight, that’s what I’ll be watching.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is our last episode of the year, and I wanted to offer a warm thanks to you, our listeners, for your inspiring questions and your steadfast support. If you’re not yet a member of KQED, join us now by making a year-end donation. Details at kqed.org/slash donate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay Curious is made at KQED in San Francisco by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen Price. Additional Engineering by Jim Bennett. We get extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethan Tovin Lindsay and everyone on Team KQED. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California local. I hope you have a wonderful holiday. I’ll see ya in twenty twenty six.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The film takes place in the Bay Area, and features rich and detailed imagery from around the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Zodiac (2007)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yNncHPl1UXg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yNncHPl1UXg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443706/\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> “In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “Second only to Alfred Hitchcock, director David Fincher has a great sensibility for San Francisco,” says Peter Hartlaub. “This film absolutely captures a place in time. The music choices, the visual cues, the production design. Nothing’s wasted. I was a little kid, and I remember hearing about the Zodiac killer, and this movie brought that back so well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/C0FnJDhY9-0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/C0FnJDhY9-0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4353250/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> One of the few films on our list that is a commentary on the Bay Area, and how gentrification has decimated once vibrant Black neighborhoods. The cinematography will absolutely take your breath away. Pause the movie at any point and you might be inspired to hang the still image on your wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Basic Instinct (1992)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4f96x3UpoaQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4f96x3UpoaQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103772/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “The plot is ludicrous … but it’s a romp. It’s a riot. It also looks way better than it needs to, and it sounds way better than it needs to,” says Carly Severn. “I love the way it uses San Francisco. It goes for all the classic shots — there’s North Beach, there’s Telegraph Hill.” You’ll also find lots of gorgeous helicopter shots in this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Always Be My Maybe (2019)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/iHBcWHY9lN4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/iHBcWHY9lN4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7374948/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Everyone assumed Sasha and Marcus would wind up together except for Sasha and Marcus. Reconnecting after 15 years, the two start to wonder — maybe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “It makes San Francisco look really cool, but it also makes San Francisco look normal. A lot of it is set in the Outer Richmond,” says Carly Severn. “As a resident of the Bay Area there’s such a pleasure in looking at the screen and saying, ‘Oh, I know that! That’s cool!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vc_0dlmSq7I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vc_0dlmSq7I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>: \u003c/strong>When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> “I think this is the most underrated San Francisco movie,” says Peter Hartlaub. “A lot of directors come in and they love San Francisco, but they shoot from the same seven places — Telegraph Hill, the Golden Gate Bridge, The Palace of Fine Arts. Director Philip Kaufman shot in places I think he always wanted to shoot — the Tenderloin is a huge character in the movie. Civic Center. Obscure places like Pier 70.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>Vertigo (1958)\u003c/h1>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Z5jvQwwHQNY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Z5jvQwwHQNY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot summary from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDB\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why we love it:\u003c/strong> If you’re going to watch one movie set in San Francisco, a lot of critics would argue it should be this Alfred Hitchcock classic. The plot is woven into the location in a way that few movies can rival. And if you’re wanting to really *see* the city — this film is a hit parade of gorgeous locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>So I Married an Axe Murderer! 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After all, it features one of the Bay Area’s most beloved celebrities, Robin Williams. After his death, the house featured in this film at 2640 Steiner St. became a pop-up memorial. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone, I’m Olivia Allen Price and this is Bay Curious. Let’s go!\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My name is Ben Kaiser and believe it or not I live in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben visited San Francisco for the first time four years ago. And as soon as he got here, he felt a connection.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It sort of seemed like I had been there before or that I belonged there. And I just absolutely fell in love with it. And I’ve been back in four years, probably nine or ten times.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s a lot of flights between Atlanta and SFO. Now, when Ben can’t be here, he’s found a way to visit without leaving his living room.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because I don’t live in San Francisco, I want to be connected to it as much as I possibly can. And one of the ways is watching movies shot there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anything that can transport him here, even if only for a few hours. Ben’s seen a lot already, but he wants more, so he came to Bay Curious.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I asked what were some of the movies set in San Francisco that were actually shot in San Francisco, and which ones are your favorites or your recommendations?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now we don’t often delve into subjective matters here on the show, but hey, it’s the holidays, cozy season is here, and we thought maybe we could all use some solid movie recommendations. Today’s episode will sound a little bit different from what you usually hear on Bay Curious. We’ve got a panel of local cultural experts here to convince Ben and you how you should spend some time devouring the Bay Area in all its cinematic glory. This episode first aired in 2020 and has been lightly revised for you today. So throw some popcorn in the microwave, cozy up on your couch, and press play. All right, I have to start out this episode with a confession. I, Olivia Allen Price, am really bad at movies, like possibly the last person that you would want on your trivia team during the movie round. So I called in some much needed backup on this one. Here to help me out today is Peter Hartlaub. He was born and raised in the Bay Area. He’s a cultural critic with the San Francisco Chronicle, and he writes the total SF newsletter. Welcome, Peter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so much for having me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah. Also, I’ve got Carly Severn here. She’s a senior editor here at KQED and a Bay Curious Reporter, who you are probably familiar with. She’s also a former co-host of The Cooler Podcast and one of KQED’s resident movie obsessives. Hey Carly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey, Olivia. Hey, Peter. Lovely to be here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So before we get into recommendations, I’m curious, what do you guys think makes San Francisco a good spot to shoot a film?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Internationally recognizable landmarks, Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, the topography. You can get up on a hill and see those landmarks. You can have a chase scene and get a little air. But I think the biggest thing is the weather. And it’s sort of the secret ingredient because it allows a director to convey mood. And then the city sort of becomes the mood of the director. You have the fog coming in, you have the sun coming in, subtle shifts. You can’t do that in Atlanta. You can’t do it in Houston. You can’t even really do that in LA. And I think that’s a big reason why San Francisco ends up being, you know, a top pick if you’re a director and you want to shoot like a thriller or an action film, something like that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would agree with all of that and I must kind of confess I do have a similar cinematic relationship with San Francisco as listener Ben does. I grew up watching San Francisco on screen as a kid in the middle of nowhere in England and it just seemed like the coolest place in the world to me. So I get it. I get his quest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, despite all these things, all these sort of great attributes that make, you know, San Francisco a great place to shoot, you still don’t see it in films as often as, you know, in New York or in LA or maybe even in Atlanta, even though you don’t necessarily know you’re in Atlanta when you are in Atlanta. A lot of sh movies are shot there. Why do you all think that is?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s expensive to get a hotel here, much less a bunch of hotels if you’ve got a lot of people coming. People are all crammed in together. And if you’re gonna shoot Sister Act in Noe Valley, or if you’re gonna shoot a car chase scene going through Russian Hill, the neighbors are gonna notice. And I think San Francisco, more than some of those other cities, because it’s sort of compact like that, makes it harder to film. Expensive and compact.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I think logistically you have all of these issues, but I do think there’s this thematic problem with San Francisco, it’s so in your face. It is it does end up being a character. If you want to just have like any town USA to set your story in, like San Francisco is not the place to come. It really isn’t, because you’ll end up having to do all of this narrative work bending over backwards to kind of explain why it’s a San Francisco story. That’s my take anyway.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I do want to get on to answering Ben’s question and get to some of your San Francisco movie recommendations, but I thought we’d actually start with his because he has seen a lot of movies and he has his own thoughts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vertigo’s probably my all time favorite movie in the fact that it’s shot in San Francisco. But, you know, a lot of the real common ones, you know, I I’m not embarrassed to say the other night I watched The Rock and enjoyed The Rock. But you know, Mrs. Doubtfire, Milk, The Room, those are just, you know, some of the ones that I enjoy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it sounds like he’s definitely seen some of the classics, which I know we aren’t necessarily gonna talk as much about today in your lists, right?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vertigo, The Conversation, the Hitchcock films, the Coppola films. If I’m teaching a film class about San Francisco, they’re gonna be right in there. If I’m turning on my TV right now ’cause I just need to chill and escape a little bit, I’ve got a whole different set of films that I’m gonna pick, my favorite films, and that’s what I’m gonna pick today.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A hundred percent cosign. And may I just say to Ben that he never has to be embarrassed about watching the rock. There is nothing to be embarrassed about there.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s totally cool to just love the rock and shout it from the rooftops.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, so I asked each of you guys to bring your top three recommendations. And what we’re gonna do is go through all of those and then let Ben decide who has been the most convincing and which movie he is going to watch next. So let’s dive in, Carly. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us know what is your number three pick and why.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carly Severn: First of all, I want to kind of set up my thinking here. I wanted to pay homage to the classic TLC album Crazy Sexy Cool with three picks that make San Francisco look either crazy, sexy, or cool. And so I’m gonna start with cool. It is Always Be My Maybe. It is the 2019 Netflix movie directed by Nahnatchka Khan . It’s got Ali Wong as a celebrity chef, and she returns home to San Francisco, where she grew up, and she reconnects with her childhood boyfriend, Randall Park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Always Be My Maybe\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:07:18] \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I love this movie so much. It makes San Francisco look really cool, but it also makes it look really normal. And it’s not the kind of parade of Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park Ad nauseum. Like a lot of it’s set in the outer Richmond, like the farmers market that they go to. It’s not some bougie little farmer’s market. It’s the like the civic center farmers market. So as a resident of the Bay Area, there’s such a pleasure in in kind of doing that thing where you’re looking at the screen going like, Oh, I know that. That’s really cool. I should admit that so much of it is filmed in San Francisco at these amazing locations that are like super normal and super lived in. But Vancouver, of course it’s always Vancouver. Vancouver actually doubles for a lot of the San Francisco locations. Particularly Goodluck Dim sum, which is where Ali Wong it’s one of her favorite restaurants in San Francisco. She’s it’s on Clements Street. She says it’s where she grew up eating. She really wanted that set there, but they had to double the interior in Vancouver. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Always Be My Maybe \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She thought that the restaurant would really love the fact that she had given them the shout-out, and it turns out they they kind of didn’t care. She put on Instagram that she had gone to the restaurant, and this is her caption. So the picture is of her waiting in line at this place that she’s just made super famous in a movie. And she’s like, Me, hello, I’m Ali Wong. The dim sum scene in my movie Always Be My Maybe is based on this very place where I grew up eating. Good luck, dim sum staff. We don’t give a bleep. We have no idea who you are. Get in line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh I love that. Tough being famous in San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There’s a lot of little things in there that are San Francisco too. Ali Wong got Dan the Automator to do the score and also write the music for the greatest San Francisco band in a movie, Hello Peril, which do three songs in the movie, including the closing credits. My only complaint, and Carly mentioned it, and I don’t want to start like negative ad campaigns here, but we’re winning Ben’s vote, and there’s only one vote. They did the exterior on Clement Street, and they’re walking down what’s supposed to be Clement Street, and it is so not Clements Street. It is so Vancouver. I love the movie, but as a location, San Francisco location movie, I find it to be kind of hit and miss.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, well let’s get on to your number three then, mister Hartlob. What do you got?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mine is \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I think it’s the most underrated San Francisco movie. Shot, it came out in 1978, a Philip Kaufman movie. He’s a San Francisco resident to this day. And it was a remake of a 1950s movie about alien pods that come in, they’re replacing the human race slowly, and you can’t fall asleep. And it’s there’s just a lot of intrigue and it’s a thriller and it’s horror. I love it as a San Francisco movie because a lot of directors come in and they love San Francisco, but they shoot from the same seven places. You know, Telegraph Hill, Golden Gate Bridge, Palace of Fine Arts. Philip Kaufman shot in places that I think he always wanted to shoot, that that really add to the movie. The tenderloin is a huge, huge character in the movie. Civic Center. There’s a couple of really cool shots there. Obscure places like Pier 70. Right here, we have Donald Sutherland in a very famous scene where he is revealing himself to be one of the pod people by screeching. The screech is a pig squeal, I believe played backwards. And he’s pointing, he’s pointing at you on the other side of the screen. He’s in the civic center, pointing at you. Great San Francisco movie, great horror movie, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I loved this movie. I actually was ashamed to say that I hadn’t seen it before I started prepping to have this conversation with you guys. And it starts off, you know, like a little bit cheesy, and I was like, oh god, what has Peter chosen? I couldn’t have been more wrong. It is such a great movie. I I could not agree ever with more with everything he said about the way it uses San Francisco, and particularly like a lot of like civic buildings around Civic Center, and just like a lot of it set at the the Department of Public Health, which I always like it when those guys are the good guys in the movie.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, I haven’t seen this movie yet. It’s now gonna be on my list, I will say, but I am I love the idea that there’s a movie that that really highlights some of the lesser used locations around San Francisco. Because I think there is, you know, a divide between how tourists experience the city and how people who live in the city experience the city. Let’s move on to your number two picks, making our way up the list. Carly, what do you have?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I did say I was gonna do Crazy Sexy Cool, and we’re now into the sexy phase of this pick. It is 1992’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basic Instinct\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And I thought long and hard before choosing this one because, you know, many parts of it haven’t aged well, let’s be honest. But it is a prime example of the 90s erotic thriller. It is made by Paul Verhoven, and the plot is ludicrous. Michael Douglas is the shady San Francisco detective. He’s investigating this bombshell crime novelist, Sharon Stone, who definitely, maybe almost certainly, killed one of her boyfriends. It’s a romp, it’s a riot, it wants to be a Hitchcock noir very, very badly. So it looks way better than it needs to, and it sounds way better than it needs to. I tried long and hard to find a safe for Bay Curious clip from this movie and failed miserably. So let’s just listen to a little bit of the trailer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Basic Instinct \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love the way it uses San Francisco. It goes for all the classic shots, like, you know, there’s North Beach, there’s Telegraph Hill. One thing I should note is that San Francisco wasn’t always thrilled about being the kind of poster child for this movie. Sharon Stone’s character is bisexual and setting a movie with an LGBTQ woman who has a lot of sex and kills the people that she sleeps with in San Francisco in 1992 at a time when AIDS was still so prevalent and claiming so many lives. Like that’s a definite choice. And this isn’t just like 2020 hindsight. The movie was picketed at the time by LGBTQ groups for being kind of prejudice in its representation of that community. So I do feel like I should flag that. A lot of that animosity, I feel like, has gone away over time, but it’s definitely something to note. Also, I think the reason people don’t like this movie is that they take it quite seriously. And I think if you look at Paul Behoven’s back catalog, like Starship Troopers, like Total Recall, like Showgirls, I think he has a sense of humor about what he’s doing. So I think that this movie should be taken as a time capsule and with a hefty fistful of salt.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love this film. I think it’s a great pick. I think it’s underrated. There are more helicopter shots in this movie of San Francisco, of someone driving a car around a windy road. His embracing San Francisco, making love to San Francisco with his camera budget was off the charts. So I think it’s a great pick. I really like this movie a lot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Definitely one that makes San Francisco look sexy, Carly. Don’t you agree?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, okay, so this is where I genuinely want you guys’ opinion, because I have spent the best part of a week thinking about this question. Is San Francisco a sexy city? And I was trying to think of cities that are like off the charts sexy, you’re right. New Orleans sprang to mind. But then I’m thinking, is it just about like sweating? Is it just like the weather? Is is is that all sexiness is to me.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I gotta say, the the weather is it. You don’t sweat in San Francisco. LA sexy city. New Orleans sexy city. Miami. Miami Vice sexy city. Streets of San Francisco is not a sexy TV show.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m gonna have to disagree with you guys and you are the cultural critics here, so your your opinion has more weight than mine, but I don’t know, I see fog and I wanna cuddle. That’s my take.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I don’t know.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think Peter and I are of the same mind here where we’re just like It’s step one, guys.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s a cuddly city. I don’t know if it’s a sexy city.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I cuddle my dog. All right.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right. Well let’s get into Peter, what’s your number two pick?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My number two is\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Zodiac\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It is a David Fincher film. He shot \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Game\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> first and then \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zodiac\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in San Francisco. And second to Hitchcock, I think he’s the one who really is a great sensibility for San Francisco. It is shot also in the San Francisco Chronicle Newsroom. They shot in our publisher’s office, I believe, outside, and they used our lobby and elevator. The story goes that David Fincher came up to our newsroom, walked inside, said an expletive and said this is too much of a mess, walked outside and they recreated our newsroom pillar for pillar. You cannot tell the difference in Los Angeles. But absolutely, absolutely captures a place in time. The music choices, the visual cues, the production design, nothing’s wasted. And honestly, even though they didn’t shoot in the Chronicle Newsroom, the newsroom banter is pitch perfect. Here’s a little bit of it right now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Vertigo \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that’s the way we talk. That’s the way we talk to each other. It’s all like a David Fincher or Aaron Sorkin drama.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Vertigo\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No, this is this is a great film, and the plot is almost secondary in this film, a killer from the 70s and 80s who they never caught, and I’m giving away the ending, but the ending isn’t the important thing. The important thing is the mood, the city, what it felt like to be in the 1970s and be scared. I was a little kid. I remember hearing about the Zodiac Killer, and this movie brought that back so well. My favorite shot in the film, it is a visual effects shot of them in sped up time building the Transamerica Pyramid, and again, just David Fincher using every little arrow in his quiver to capture that mood of San Francisco at a particular time. It’s a fantastic location movie.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I think it’s the only one on this list that is based on a true story unless there’s something I need to know about \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think that’s true. And and and you know, there there’s a little bit of myth in there, but he he’s stuck a lot closer than a lot of other people do to the facts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will say as somebody who was not living in the Bay Area at the time of Zodiac, I found \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zodiac\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be really helpful just to kind of I guess get a sense of what it was like to be here during that time, like you experienced, Peter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, and people remember and if people weren’t around, they know the myth. When when people come to the chronicle and ask for a tour, the two things they want to see are Herb Kane’s typewriter and the Zodiac Files. Can you show us the Zodiac files?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, let’s get on to your top choices. These are top of your list. Let’s let’s hear it, Carly. What do you got?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, guys, I’m reaching the climax of my crazy sexy cool plan, which I think paid off. My number one pick, it’s Crazy San Francisco. It’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Trek 4\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 1986. It is directed by Mr. Spark himself, Leonard Nimoy. I almost find it hard to talk about this film kind of critically because I love it so much. Just to quickly tell you about the plot, it picks up where 1984’s Search for Spark, Star Trek III left off. So the Earth of the Future is being menaced by a big alien probe. Only Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise can save the planet by time traveling back to 1980s San Francisco to bring back two Wales to talk to the alien probe and get it to leave Earth alone. You have to go with it. That’s the plot, and I can’t change that, okay? It’s not the best Star Trek movie. That’s The Wrath of Khan. That’s just undisputable. But it is the best Star Trek movie set in San Francisco with Wales, which is to say, it is the only one of that. Where do I start with how wonderful this movie is? People think I’m joking when I say that it’s the reason I moved to San Francisco, and I’m like 5% joking about that. But the other 95% is really serious. Growing up with this movie and watching San Francisco just look so fun, so warm, so crazy, so inviting. Like I wanted to be a part of that. It is totally joyous. Ben, if you’re listening and you haven’t seen Star Trek 4, don’t worry. You don’t need to watch any of the other Star Trek movies. It stands alone, it’s kind of perfect in that sense. The pleasures of watching like the quite serious crew of the Enterprise traverse San Francisco and just have a ball doing it. It’s just great. So I really wanted to play you one of the most iconic scenes, which is Kirk and Spock on a Muni bus that is traveling over the Golden Gate Bridge. Mr. Spock has to take out a young punk on the bus and get him to stop playing his music. And then this happens.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Star Trek 4\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The gag there, of course, being that Jacqueline Cezanne and Harold Robbins. Oh, I had to look up Harold Robbins, by the way. Like, they are not the giants of literature, but it’s just hilarious to think that the people of the future have deemed them to be so. I know of no movie that is like warmer and and sweeter than Star Trek Four. So, Ben, pick me, pick Star Trek Four. The choice is easy. Come on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, I don’t even wanna argue against you, and I’m gonna pick a number one, but I love this film so much. It is just a lovely movie, funny movie, finds all kinds of different ways to explore San Francisco and make it part of the gag, but in a in a funny, warm way. It’s one of the greats, one of the classics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, and up there with one of the greats must be your number one choice, Peter. What do you have for your number one?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2015 Pixar film Inside Out. It takes place inside the brain of tween girl coming of age, Riley. And then also outside in San Francisco, Riley has moved from I believe Minnesota to San Francisco, and she’s horrified. And what the Pixar people did with animation is so fantastic. They take San Francisco and make it like 10 to 15% more. The streets are a little narrower, parking’s a little harder, street signs are a little more incomprehensible. Fantastic, fantastic use of San Francisco. It’s more of a character in the movie than any of their other movies. They had always kind of flirted around with the Bay Area and maybe dropped San Pablo Avenue and the Incredibles. This one, they really talk about San Francisco. And you don’t see that often. You see a lot of mainstream films set in San Francisco, and San Francisco is a backdrop and it’s almost like a prop. Very few films are a commentary on the city. Last black man in San Francisco, Medicine for Melancholy, and Inside Out. Inside Out is poking fun of the city. It is completely honest. If you live here, you totally get it. If you’re not from here, you’re gonna get some of the humor, including taking just an absolute, absolute dagger stab at our Pizza.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clip from Inside Out\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honestly, the first time I saw this film, I didn’t love it. I liked it a lot. I’m glad I didn’t review it because I think I would have given it less than the highest rating. Upon rewatch, there’s so many little things that come out. You learn more things, and the San Francisco parts become clearer and clearer. I just think it’s a fantastic film, and it’s a fantastic San Francisco location film.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well I think Ben is gonna have a really hard time deciding between all of those very compelling pitches for for movies he should be watching this weekend. Peter Hartlob, Bay Area native, culture critic with the SF Chronicle, co-host of Total SF podcast. Thank you so much. Is there anywhere that listeners can connect with you further?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Hartlaub:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subscribe to the Total SF newsletter, that’s where I explore the Bay Area and pass on all my favorite finds, the best hikes to take, the best tourist traps to visit, where I’m finding the best papusas to eat, and read my work at sfchronicle.com.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awesome. And Carly, you are my longtime pop culture, I don’t know, guru. You’ve you’ve really helped me with questions over the years. So thank you for coming on the show. Where can people connect with you?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, you can find my work for Bay Curious in the podcast feed, including my two part series on the Donner Party in the archives, since we’re now feeling the wintry vibes here in the bay. You can also visit kqbd.org slash explainers to see what me and my team are up to every day in the KQED newsroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alright, well thanks to you both. Big thanks to Ben for asking this week’s question.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Kaiser:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carly and Peter, I appreciate your suggestions for which San Francisco movie I should watch next. Full disclosure, three of them I’ve already seen. Those are: Always Be My Maybe, Basic Instinct and Zodiac, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. So it comes down to the other three, but I’m torn between Inside Out and Star Trek Four. But in the end, my vote is going to go to Star Trek Four. I’ve never seen a Star Trek movie, but it seems to be such a beloved film, and Carly campaigned it very, very well. So tonight, that’s what I’ll be watching.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is our last episode of the year, and I wanted to offer a warm thanks to you, our listeners, for your inspiring questions and your steadfast support. If you’re not yet a member of KQED, join us now by making a year-end donation. Details at kqed.org/slash donate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay Curious is made at KQED in San Francisco by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen Price. Additional Engineering by Jim Bennett. We get extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethan Tovin Lindsay and everyone on Team KQED. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California local. I hope you have a wonderful holiday. I’ll see ya in twenty twenty six.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"title": "Long Live ‘Twilight’: Bay Area Fans Memorialize The Messy, Beautiful Legacy of Vampire Romance",
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"headTitle": "Long Live ‘Twilight’: Bay Area Fans Memorialize The Messy, Beautiful Legacy of Vampire Romance | KQED",
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"content": "\u003cp>The date was Nov. 10, 2008. Barack Obama had just become America’s first Black president. A new artist named Lady Gaga had released her debut album\u003cem>. \u003c/em>The U.S. was just one month from an official recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, the city’s Stonestown Galleria mall was brimming with the anxious energy of \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/11/10/twilight-star-robert-pattinson-sparks-pandemonium-at-stonestown-galleria-in-s-f/\">three thousand fans\u003c/a> of the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book series by Stephenie Meyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd had gathered to meet the actor playing the lead in a brand-new movie adaptation: Robert Pattinson. But only the first few hundred would be able to actually meet the aloof British actor — who wasn’t yet a star \u003cem>— \u003c/em>in the mall’s relatively tiny Hot Topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2008/11/10/bloodsuckers-trample-kids-at-twilight-signing/\">As TMZ reported\u003c/a>, mayhem ensued as attendees began pushing forward, hoping to be the lucky first few. In what ABC 7 described as \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/archive/7108032/\">“near rioting,” \u003c/a>the crowd collided, with fans being trampled and one girl reportedly breaking her nose. The event was promptly canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Entertainment outlet TMZ reported on the Stonestown Galleria ‘Twilight’ fan incident in 2008. \u003ccite>(Screenshot via TMZ.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember seeing the girl on the news, ‘I love ‘\u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>’ so much,’ blood coming out of her nostrils,” Pattinson — who has admittedly owned up \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/film/news/robert-pattinson-lied-interview-clown-death-explosion-1236234848/\">to lying in press interviews out of boredom\u003c/a> — told \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/robert-pattinson-recalls-stonestown-mall-riot-and-getting-weird-in-lighthouse\">SFGATE in 2019\u003c/a>. “It was spectacular, you couldn’t have paid for better promotion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throwing caution to the wind, Stonestown Galleria dared to hold another \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>meet-and-greet the following year to celebrate the release of the sequel, \u003cem>New Moon\u003c/em>, featuring two members of the supporting cast. Relying on \u003ca href=\"https://abc7chicago.com/archive/7108032/\">extra security\u003c/a>, the mall avoided a repeat of the 2008 crush.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#ahostofTwilightthemedeventslocally\">\u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>-themed events around the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the fans in attendance, 16-year-old Kathalina Lopez of Richmond, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/twilight-stars-thrill-hundreds-in-s-f-3281369.php\">SFGate\u003c/a> that \u003cem>she \u003c/em>heard the girl who got hurt in 2008 got to meet Pattinson that day after all. “I want to get trampled now,” Lopez said wistfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057472\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newest installment of the “Twilight” movie series comes out later this month. And one of the stars, Kellan Lutz, signed an autograph in the parking lot of the Stonestown Mall in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. \u003ccite>(\tSan Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Contributor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This October will mark 20 years since Meyer’s first \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book was published, spawning three more novels and launching the wildly popular film franchise starring Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. In honor of the anniversary, \u003ca href=\"#thefilmswillreturntotheaters\"> the films will return to theaters, accompanied by\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"#ahostofTwilightthemedeventslocally\"> a host of \u003cem>Twilight-\u003c/em>themed events locally that include\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/twilight-in-concert-san-jose-california-09-26-2025/event/1C0062B0B14A5BA2\"> a San Jose screening on Friday, accompanied by a live orchestra.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here in the Bay Area, affection for the vampire romance saga — and the meaning fans drew from it — never truly died.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Twenty years of \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The initial fandom sparked by Meyer’s books — following shy teen Bella Swan as she falls in love with brooding fellow student Edward, who is in fact a century-old vampire — went supernova in 2008 with the release of the first film adaptation, \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>.[aside postID=arts_13981344 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/Bullitt-at-Presidio-Sundown-Cinema_6.14.2024_Marlene-Sanchez_-_19.png']Directed by Catherine Hardwicke of rebellious-\u003ca href=\"https://girlsontopstees.com/en-us/blogs/read-me/we-owe-our-girlhood-to-catherine-hardwicke?srsltid=AfmBOooCke_bhQWQDwLyYYj05Go5kGnPAknUBhoOLxlCf-YMH0O3IZJA\">girlhood blueprint \u003cem>Thirteen\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the movie’s mix of longing, emo-meets-goth-meets-Livejournal-entry \u003ca href=\"https://www.instyle.com/twilight-bella-swan-fall-fashion-trend-tiktok-8719317\">aesthetics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@letterboxd/video/7534776041483635998\">2000s aquamarine filters \u003c/a>immediately found its audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years that followed, four more sequels from three different (male) directors ensued through 2012, bringing plots that expanded beyond supernatural high school romance into European vampire cabals and werewolf battles. The saga also ignited \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/70143860\">a paranormal\u003c/a> romance trend and launched the careers of Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, whose doomed \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/kristen-stewart-robert-pattinson-relationship-timeline-7503049\">real-life romance\u003c/a> only fueled fans’ feverish interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight years later, the films’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/twilight-renaissance\">popular resurgence\u003c/a> arrived during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic — and boosted hugely by the availability of all five movies on streaming platforms when most of the United States was under stay-at-home orders. As my San Francisco friend Jenny George notes, suddenly, many more people could relate to the scene in \u003cem>New Moon\u003c/em>, where a forlorn Bella sits statue-still in her room as the months and seasons pass by her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/twilightreborn/status/1366175454042931203\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of how [depression] goes sometimes,” George, who recalls streaming the movies back-to-back during lockdown. “I thought it was a pretty astute way to show how empty she was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media during this period had evolved into something very different from the 2010s landscape the movies were first born into, with Twitter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F8jotfjccyjv11.jpg\">Tumblr\u003c/a>, Reddit and \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@roppongi52/video/7540858691138931981\">TikTok \u003c/a>generating and spreading \u003ca href=\"https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThqxr0gbZ2RR871ex22ujpShKu0_Px4_ILpg&s\">memes \u003c/a>like wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/mushypeagirl/status/1241092850844082182\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the movies – achingly sincere and embracing the rollercoaster of emotions that come with being a teenager in love – were a goldmine for social media content: Edward declaring, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHse6q92lb0\">“This is the skin of a killer, Bella.”\u003c/a> A vampires-play-baseball scene soundtracked to Muse’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbMLXZsJ1P8\">“Supermassive Blackhole”\u003c/a>. An uncanny CGI \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgI_oMMIU0E\">vampire-human hybrid baby\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@caiticlare89/video/7302233520729115935\" data-video-id=\"7302233520729115935\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@caiticlare89\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@caiticlare89?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@caiticlare89\u003c/a> Mask off \u003ca title=\"titussburgess\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/titussburgess?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#titussburgess\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"tituss\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/tituss?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#tituss\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilight\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilight?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilight\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilightsaga\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilightsaga?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilightsaga\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilighttiktok\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilighttiktok?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilighttiktok\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"renesmee\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/renesmee?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#renesmee\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bellaswan\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bellaswan?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#bellaswan\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"edwardcullen\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/edwardcullen?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#edwardcullen\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"jacobblack\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/jacobblack?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#jacobblack\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Bleak Salvation\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7302233522868161310?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – Bleak Salvation\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>saga was seen as something of a camp masterpiece. \u003ca href=\"https://buggirl200.com/blogs/news/a-t-shirt-shop-for-the-semi-ironic-twilight-fan\">Semi-ironic\u003c/a> merchandise sold out online. Rowdy drag screenings took over venues like San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/twilight-2008/\">Roxie Theater\u003c/a>. Even \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMJaXuRe/\">Pattinson, a famous hater of his own franchise,\u003c/a> gave credit to \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/robert-pattinson-interview-twilight-soundtracks-8505754/\">its excellent soundtrack\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> fan Sophie Kim, an assistant producer at KQED, noted that fans who were too young when the movies first came out are now selling old \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> items on resale app Depop “like it’s Balenciaga.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Instagram post from Olivia Rodrigo displaying an Edward and Bella-themed purse. \u003ccite>(Olivia Rodrigo/Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Vicky Chung, who grew up watching the movies in Sunnyvale theaters, has the books on her desk and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bexterhexter/video/7530218141532622102\">“Where the hell have you been loca?”\u003c/a> mug in hand, proudly: because people just \u003cem>get it\u003c/em> now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no point in feeling a little guilty about my guilty pleasure,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Reclaiming \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the movies making billions of dollars upon release, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2008/11/10/bloodsuckers-trample-kids-at-twilight-signing/\">contemporary coverage\u003c/a> of moments like the 2008 Stonestown Galleria incident exemplifies how the mostly young, mostly female “Twihard” fandom was originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.flowjournal.org/2009/12/rabid-obsessed-and-frenzied-understanding-twilight-fangirls-and-the-gendered-politics-of-fandom-melissa-click-university-of-missouri/\">mocked or derided\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrying signs that read \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/jul/29/comic-con-2009-revenge-nerds\">“\u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> has RUINED Comic-Con,” \u003c/a>male comic book fans protested the Twihards at the annual San Diego fandom convention — unaware that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/cjsocrayzee/status/1943795663227302259?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">Pattinson would cross over into their fandom \u003c/a>to become \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman_(film)\">their Batman \u003c/a>within a mere 13 years. And KQED’s Kim, who grew up in Orange County, recalled that growing up, for every girl reading the book in her school cafeteria to look “really mysterious,” there was a teenage boy mocking her interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@netflixlat/video/7351273567100734726\" data-video-id=\"7351273567100734726\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@netflixlat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@netflixlat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@netflixlat\u003c/a> Esta escena es icónica en cualquier idioma 🐺 \u003ca title=\"crepusculo\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/crepusculo?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Crepusculo\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"lunanueva\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lunanueva?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LunaNueva\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"crepusculolunanueva\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/crepusculolunanueva?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CrepusculoLunaNueva\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilight\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilight?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Twilight\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilightnewmoon\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilightnewmoon?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TwilightNewMoon\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"jacob\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/jacob?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Jacob\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"jacobblack\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/jacobblack?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#JacobBlack\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bella\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bella?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bella\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bellaswan\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bellaswan?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BellaSwan\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"loca\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/loca?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Loca\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"wherehaveyoubeenloca\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/wherehaveyoubeenloca?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WhereHaveYouBeenLoca\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"meme\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/meme?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Meme\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"idiomas\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/idiomas?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Idiomas\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"tiktokmehizover\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/tiktokmehizover?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TikTokMeHizoVer\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"peliculas\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/peliculas?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Peliculas\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"netflix\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/netflix?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Netflix\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"parati\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/parati?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ParaTi\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ Dónde rayos te has metido loca. Crepúsculo. - Netflix Latinoamérica\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/D%C3%B3nde-rayos-te-has-metido-loca-Crep%C3%BAsculo-7351273603133917958?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ Dónde rayos te has metido loca. Crepúsculo. – Netflix Latinoamérica\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the intervening years, culture enjoyed by young women and their mothers became (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O06tMbIKh0\">something) less of a popular punching bag\u003c/a>. 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221483930/girl-economy-taylor-swift-beyonce-barbie-2023\">was even declared\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/article/2023-girl-trends-barbie\">some outlets\u003c/a> as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4l5yHdpT-b/\">‘Year of The Girl,’\u003c/a> in recognition of the phenomenal cultural — and economic — impact of \u003cem>Barbie,\u003c/em> along with high-grossing stadium tours from Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. The \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>saga was, Kim said, “just too ahead of its time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage-1536x992.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eden Crowhurst growing up in Livermore, right, Twilight memorabilia from KQED’s Vicky Chung, left. \u003ccite>(Darren Tu/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Twilight’\u003c/em>s popular reclamation has also been driven in large part by recognition of its queer credentials. Actor Stewart, who came out as queer in 2017, told \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/film/features/kristen-stewart-coming-out-twilight-gay-sundance-sex-scenes-1235867627/\">\u003cem>Variety\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that “it’s such a gay movie,” and that its themes of dangerous desire are “a very Gothic, gay inclination that I love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daly City artist and \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>fan Amie Sarazan agrees wholeheartedly, calling the series “a foundational work of bisexual panic.” For Sarazan, the saga is “at once, this pop cultural juggernaut and also this bizarre indie movie that shouldn’t be as weird as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Instagram post from buggirl200brand of a Twilight-themed shirt.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sarazan, a costume designer for stars like Trixie Mattel and Peaches Christ, watches the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>movies on a loop while sewing for their drag clientele. And for their birthday last year, they convinced Bay Area collective \u003ca href=\"https://mediameltdown.tv/\">Media Meltdown\u003c/a> to turn the retro 4-Star Theater in San Francisco’s Richmond District into an adoring \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>drag tribute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the party, performer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cheetahbiscotti/?hl=en\">Cheetah Biscotti\u003c/a> strutted down the aisle, ripping off their shirt like the scorned werewolf Jacob Black. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/piranha_psychotronica/?hl=en\">Piranha Psychotronica\u003c/a> touched Sarazan’s hand and read their mind – mimicking the saga’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZrvflNZPCM\">unhinged villain Aro \u003c/a>portrayed by Martin Sheen – as \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>erotica blared in the background. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kafka.drag/?hl=en\">Kafka X\u003c/a> bit Sarazan’s neck, making them “forever 39.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarazan was even dressed as Vampire Bella herself in a dark navy blue dress with tinted sunglasses to mimic blood-red eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12057509 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image from Amie Sarazan’s ‘Twilight’-themed birthday photoshoot. Photo provided by Nicole Fraser-Herron.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Afterward, Sarazan cued up that night’s screening: the fourth installment of the saga, \u003cem>Breaking Dawn: Part 1. \u003c/em>They recall being “in full delight” watching their friends scream during the film’s wilder moments, including a pregnant Bella receiving an emergency C-section from her vampire husband using his teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because my experience in a female body has been one of body horror,” they said, “I like to inflict that on my friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Twilight’ as text\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Twenty years after the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book series was released into the world, the novels and the movies they spawned have also become the focus of academic study — opening up the thornier aspects of the saga to critical appraisal from fans and students alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent graduate Eden Crowhurst, who taught a student class on the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>saga at UC Berkeley, said she was compelled to create this course after seeing franchises deemed more “acceptable for boys to read” be the center of other classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowhurst, whose appreciation for the saga was cultivated by her \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>-loving family, wanted to prove that a series with a mostly female fanbase could be discussed in an academic sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, for many, \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>is a truly \u003ca href=\"https://womensenews.org/2025/06/watching-twilight-in-a-post-roe-america-hits-differently/\">loaded text\u003c/a>, with a lot to dissect even after all of these years, she said — everything from innocence and love to sex and chastity, interwoven with themes from Meyer’s own Mormon faith. There’s also an upholding of whiteness – especially among vampires, who are described as incredibly pale and beautiful – and the depictions of an indigenous tribe that Meyer “Christianizes” in “every sense of the word,” Crowhurst said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@dantehotsauce/video/7420595982489947422\" data-video-id=\"7420595982489947422\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@dantehotsauce\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@dantehotsauce?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dantehotsauce\u003c/a> i cant escape mormonism \u003ca title=\"twilight\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilight?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilight\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilightsaga\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilightsaga?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilightsaga\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ Originalton - moetdaddy\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/Originalton-7317970034784422689?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ Originalton – moetdaddy\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting the “perfect bad media” aspect of \u003cem>Twilight’s \u003c/em>resurgence, Crowhurst stresses the escapism inherent in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O06tMbIKh0\">much-derided romance genre\u003c/a> of which the series is a part, despite its horror trappings. It’s no accident that the series found true popularity during the 2008 recession, she said — with hero Edward providing a fantasy of protecting Bella physically and financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Romance is the one place where women can really be like, ‘No, this is what I want,'” Crowhurst said. “And \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>is kind of the blueprint for these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crowhurst wants her fellow students to critically engage with \u003cem>Twilight’\u003c/em>s myriad contradictions, too. “It’s such a weird book series because again, it toes the line,” she said. “The reception can be feminist, but also the content is very conservative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ultimately, for Crowhurst, this complexity holds true for the saga’s legacy itself. “People take \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>nowadays more seriously — and less seriously,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How you can observe 20 years of \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Internalize the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>vibe\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, listen to Sarazan: Washington-set \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>is not a “Halloween movie” but \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjGLNDuhTc0\">“a rainy season movie”\u003c/a> — and the Bay has \u003cem>plenty \u003c/em>of gloomy,\u003cem> “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-XUZgrCCjzo\">\u003cem>hoa-hoa-hoa-hoa\u003c/em>\u003c/a>” brooding spots here if you want to observe the 20th anniversary properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049568/best-bay-area-hikes-for-cold-gloomy-weather\">round-up of spaces\u003c/a> perfect for overcast days, including Tomales Bay in Point Reyes and the eucalyptus groves in El Granada. Just be sure to bring your \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/ASVP-Shop-Original-Twilight-Filter/dp/B0CDNMYZM7\">\u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>filter lens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"thefilmswillreturntotheaters\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Attend a \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> movie screening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To mark the 20th anniversary of the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book series’ publication, studio Lionsgate is \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/reel/1185872683714959\">bringing\u003c/a> the entire \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>series back to theaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major chains across the Bay Area are showing each movie in \u003cem>The Twilight Saga\u003c/em>, mostly from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Francisco screenings: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/amc-metreon-16-aanem/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">AMC Metreon 16\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>East Bay screenings:\u003c/em> AMC Bay Street 16 in Emeryville; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-hilltop-16-aaqal/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-11-02\">Cinemark Century Hilltop 16\u003c/a> in Richmond; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-bayfair-mall-16-aapic/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-11-02\">Cinemark Century Bayfair Mall 16\u003c/a> in San Leandro; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-at-hayward-aavac/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Hayward; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-walnut-creek-14-and-xd-aarar/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Walnut Creek 14\u003c/a> in Walnut Creek; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-downtown-pleasant-hill-16-and-xd-aaqam/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Downtown Pleasant Hill 16\u003c/a> in Pleasant Hill; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-union-landing-25-and-xd-aanay/theater-page?format=all\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Union City; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC NewPark 12\u003c/a> in Newark; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Brentwood 14\u003c/a> in Brentwood; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/regal-hacienda-crossings-screenx-imax-and-rpx-aaopk/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Regal Hacienda Crossings\u003c/a> in Dublin; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-vallejo-14-aapis/theater-page?format=all\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Vallejo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>North Bay screenings: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/regal-edwards-fairfield-and-imax-aandk/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Regal Edwards\u003c/a> in Fairfield; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-great-mall-20-xd-and-screenx-aapcg/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Great Mall\u003c/a> in Milpitas; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-napa-valley-and-xd-aawtt/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Napa\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>South Bay screenings: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-daly-city-20-xd-and-imax-aaqlt/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Daly City 20\u003c/a> in Daly City; \u003ca href=\"https://www.cinemark.com/theatres/ca-san-mateo/cinemark-century-san-mateo-12\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in San Mateo; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinepolis-luxury-cinemas-san-mateo-aayrv/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas\u003c/a> in San Mateo; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-redwood-downtown-20-and-xd-aaubf/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Redwood City; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Mercado 20\u003c/a> in Santa Clara; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-mountain-view-16-aacfx/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Mountain View; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-at-pacific-commons-and-xd-aawqb/theater-page?format=all\">Cinemark Century at Pacific Commons\u003c/a> in Fremont; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Saratoga 14\u003c/a> in San Jose; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Eastridge 15\u003c/a> in San Jose\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’d like to host your own screening, be prepared to pay around $4 for an online rental: the movies have \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/twilight-leaving-netflix-where-watch-163000433.html\">recently been pulled from Netflix\u003c/a>. But according to KQED Education’s own Janelle Kim, this could be a great opportunity for a drinking game. Her suggestions include: a shot every time a vampire sparkles, or when Kristen Stewart has a dramatic Acting Moment (screaming Jacob’s name, scoffing, etc.) Try not to pass out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"ahostofTwilightthemedeventslocally\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Go to a \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> concert or party\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Twilight in Concert\u003c/em>, with live orchestra accompaniment, has a San Jose stop on Sept. 26. Tickets range from \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/twilight-in-concert-san-jose-california-09-26-2025/event/1C0062B0B14A5BA2\">$59 to $253\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNEzBPIJFnr/\">The Midway\u003c/a> in San Francisco is holding a \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>rave on Oct. 18. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2008/11/10/bloodsuckers-trample-kids-at-twilight-signing/\">As TMZ reported\u003c/a>, mayhem ensued as attendees began pushing forward, hoping to be the lucky first few. In what ABC 7 described as \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/archive/7108032/\">“near rioting,” \u003c/a>the crowd collided, with fans being trampled and one girl reportedly breaking her nose. The event was promptly canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Entertainment outlet TMZ reported on the Stonestown Galleria ‘Twilight’ fan incident in 2008. \u003ccite>(Screenshot via TMZ.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember seeing the girl on the news, ‘I love ‘\u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>’ so much,’ blood coming out of her nostrils,” Pattinson — who has admittedly owned up \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/film/news/robert-pattinson-lied-interview-clown-death-explosion-1236234848/\">to lying in press interviews out of boredom\u003c/a> — told \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/robert-pattinson-recalls-stonestown-mall-riot-and-getting-weird-in-lighthouse\">SFGATE in 2019\u003c/a>. “It was spectacular, you couldn’t have paid for better promotion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throwing caution to the wind, Stonestown Galleria dared to hold another \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>meet-and-greet the following year to celebrate the release of the sequel, \u003cem>New Moon\u003c/em>, featuring two members of the supporting cast. Relying on \u003ca href=\"https://abc7chicago.com/archive/7108032/\">extra security\u003c/a>, the mall avoided a repeat of the 2008 crush.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#ahostofTwilightthemedeventslocally\">\u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>-themed events around the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the fans in attendance, 16-year-old Kathalina Lopez of Richmond, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/twilight-stars-thrill-hundreds-in-s-f-3281369.php\">SFGate\u003c/a> that \u003cem>she \u003c/em>heard the girl who got hurt in 2008 got to meet Pattinson that day after all. “I want to get trampled now,” Lopez said wistfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057472\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newest installment of the “Twilight” movie series comes out later this month. And one of the stars, Kellan Lutz, signed an autograph in the parking lot of the Stonestown Mall in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. \u003ccite>(\tSan Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Contributor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This October will mark 20 years since Meyer’s first \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book was published, spawning three more novels and launching the wildly popular film franchise starring Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. In honor of the anniversary, \u003ca href=\"#thefilmswillreturntotheaters\"> the films will return to theaters, accompanied by\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"#ahostofTwilightthemedeventslocally\"> a host of \u003cem>Twilight-\u003c/em>themed events locally that include\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/twilight-in-concert-san-jose-california-09-26-2025/event/1C0062B0B14A5BA2\"> a San Jose screening on Friday, accompanied by a live orchestra.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here in the Bay Area, affection for the vampire romance saga — and the meaning fans drew from it — never truly died.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Twenty years of \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The initial fandom sparked by Meyer’s books — following shy teen Bella Swan as she falls in love with brooding fellow student Edward, who is in fact a century-old vampire — went supernova in 2008 with the release of the first film adaptation, \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>saga was seen as something of a camp masterpiece. \u003ca href=\"https://buggirl200.com/blogs/news/a-t-shirt-shop-for-the-semi-ironic-twilight-fan\">Semi-ironic\u003c/a> merchandise sold out online. Rowdy drag screenings took over venues like San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/twilight-2008/\">Roxie Theater\u003c/a>. Even \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMJaXuRe/\">Pattinson, a famous hater of his own franchise,\u003c/a> gave credit to \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/robert-pattinson-interview-twilight-soundtracks-8505754/\">its excellent soundtrack\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> fan Sophie Kim, an assistant producer at KQED, noted that fans who were too young when the movies first came out are now selling old \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> items on resale app Depop “like it’s Balenciaga.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Instagram post from Olivia Rodrigo displaying an Edward and Bella-themed purse. \u003ccite>(Olivia Rodrigo/Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Vicky Chung, who grew up watching the movies in Sunnyvale theaters, has the books on her desk and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bexterhexter/video/7530218141532622102\">“Where the hell have you been loca?”\u003c/a> mug in hand, proudly: because people just \u003cem>get it\u003c/em> now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no point in feeling a little guilty about my guilty pleasure,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Reclaiming \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the movies making billions of dollars upon release, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2008/11/10/bloodsuckers-trample-kids-at-twilight-signing/\">contemporary coverage\u003c/a> of moments like the 2008 Stonestown Galleria incident exemplifies how the mostly young, mostly female “Twihard” fandom was originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.flowjournal.org/2009/12/rabid-obsessed-and-frenzied-understanding-twilight-fangirls-and-the-gendered-politics-of-fandom-melissa-click-university-of-missouri/\">mocked or derided\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrying signs that read \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/jul/29/comic-con-2009-revenge-nerds\">“\u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> has RUINED Comic-Con,” \u003c/a>male comic book fans protested the Twihards at the annual San Diego fandom convention — unaware that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/cjsocrayzee/status/1943795663227302259?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">Pattinson would cross over into their fandom \u003c/a>to become \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman_(film)\">their Batman \u003c/a>within a mere 13 years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the intervening years, culture enjoyed by young women and their mothers became (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O06tMbIKh0\">something) less of a popular punching bag\u003c/a>. 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221483930/girl-economy-taylor-swift-beyonce-barbie-2023\">was even declared\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/article/2023-girl-trends-barbie\">some outlets\u003c/a> as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4l5yHdpT-b/\">‘Year of The Girl,’\u003c/a> in recognition of the phenomenal cultural — and economic — impact of \u003cem>Barbie,\u003c/em> along with high-grossing stadium tours from Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. The \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>saga was, Kim said, “just too ahead of its time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage-1536x992.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eden Crowhurst growing up in Livermore, right, Twilight memorabilia from KQED’s Vicky Chung, left. \u003ccite>(Darren Tu/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Twilight’\u003c/em>s popular reclamation has also been driven in large part by recognition of its queer credentials. Actor Stewart, who came out as queer in 2017, told \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/film/features/kristen-stewart-coming-out-twilight-gay-sundance-sex-scenes-1235867627/\">\u003cem>Variety\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that “it’s such a gay movie,” and that its themes of dangerous desire are “a very Gothic, gay inclination that I love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daly City artist and \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>fan Amie Sarazan agrees wholeheartedly, calling the series “a foundational work of bisexual panic.” For Sarazan, the saga is “at once, this pop cultural juggernaut and also this bizarre indie movie that shouldn’t be as weird as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Instagram post from buggirl200brand of a Twilight-themed shirt.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sarazan, a costume designer for stars like Trixie Mattel and Peaches Christ, watches the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>movies on a loop while sewing for their drag clientele. And for their birthday last year, they convinced Bay Area collective \u003ca href=\"https://mediameltdown.tv/\">Media Meltdown\u003c/a> to turn the retro 4-Star Theater in San Francisco’s Richmond District into an adoring \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>drag tribute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the party, performer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cheetahbiscotti/?hl=en\">Cheetah Biscotti\u003c/a> strutted down the aisle, ripping off their shirt like the scorned werewolf Jacob Black. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/piranha_psychotronica/?hl=en\">Piranha Psychotronica\u003c/a> touched Sarazan’s hand and read their mind – mimicking the saga’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZrvflNZPCM\">unhinged villain Aro \u003c/a>portrayed by Martin Sheen – as \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>erotica blared in the background. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kafka.drag/?hl=en\">Kafka X\u003c/a> bit Sarazan’s neck, making them “forever 39.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarazan was even dressed as Vampire Bella herself in a dark navy blue dress with tinted sunglasses to mimic blood-red eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12057509 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image from Amie Sarazan’s ‘Twilight’-themed birthday photoshoot. Photo provided by Nicole Fraser-Herron.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Afterward, Sarazan cued up that night’s screening: the fourth installment of the saga, \u003cem>Breaking Dawn: Part 1. \u003c/em>They recall being “in full delight” watching their friends scream during the film’s wilder moments, including a pregnant Bella receiving an emergency C-section from her vampire husband using his teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because my experience in a female body has been one of body horror,” they said, “I like to inflict that on my friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Twilight’ as text\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Twenty years after the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book series was released into the world, the novels and the movies they spawned have also become the focus of academic study — opening up the thornier aspects of the saga to critical appraisal from fans and students alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent graduate Eden Crowhurst, who taught a student class on the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>saga at UC Berkeley, said she was compelled to create this course after seeing franchises deemed more “acceptable for boys to read” be the center of other classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowhurst, whose appreciation for the saga was cultivated by her \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>-loving family, wanted to prove that a series with a mostly female fanbase could be discussed in an academic sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, for many, \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>is a truly \u003ca href=\"https://womensenews.org/2025/06/watching-twilight-in-a-post-roe-america-hits-differently/\">loaded text\u003c/a>, with a lot to dissect even after all of these years, she said — everything from innocence and love to sex and chastity, interwoven with themes from Meyer’s own Mormon faith. There’s also an upholding of whiteness – especially among vampires, who are described as incredibly pale and beautiful – and the depictions of an indigenous tribe that Meyer “Christianizes” in “every sense of the word,” Crowhurst said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@dantehotsauce/video/7420595982489947422\" data-video-id=\"7420595982489947422\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@dantehotsauce\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@dantehotsauce?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dantehotsauce\u003c/a> i cant escape mormonism \u003ca title=\"twilight\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilight?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilight\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilightsaga\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilightsaga?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilightsaga\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ Originalton - moetdaddy\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/Originalton-7317970034784422689?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ Originalton – moetdaddy\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting the “perfect bad media” aspect of \u003cem>Twilight’s \u003c/em>resurgence, Crowhurst stresses the escapism inherent in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O06tMbIKh0\">much-derided romance genre\u003c/a> of which the series is a part, despite its horror trappings. It’s no accident that the series found true popularity during the 2008 recession, she said — with hero Edward providing a fantasy of protecting Bella physically and financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Romance is the one place where women can really be like, ‘No, this is what I want,'” Crowhurst said. “And \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>is kind of the blueprint for these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crowhurst wants her fellow students to critically engage with \u003cem>Twilight’\u003c/em>s myriad contradictions, too. “It’s such a weird book series because again, it toes the line,” she said. “The reception can be feminist, but also the content is very conservative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ultimately, for Crowhurst, this complexity holds true for the saga’s legacy itself. “People take \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>nowadays more seriously — and less seriously,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How you can observe 20 years of \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Internalize the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>vibe\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, listen to Sarazan: Washington-set \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>is not a “Halloween movie” but \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjGLNDuhTc0\">“a rainy season movie”\u003c/a> — and the Bay has \u003cem>plenty \u003c/em>of gloomy,\u003cem> “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-XUZgrCCjzo\">\u003cem>hoa-hoa-hoa-hoa\u003c/em>\u003c/a>” brooding spots here if you want to observe the 20th anniversary properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049568/best-bay-area-hikes-for-cold-gloomy-weather\">round-up of spaces\u003c/a> perfect for overcast days, including Tomales Bay in Point Reyes and the eucalyptus groves in El Granada. Just be sure to bring your \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/ASVP-Shop-Original-Twilight-Filter/dp/B0CDNMYZM7\">\u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>filter lens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"thefilmswillreturntotheaters\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Attend a \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> movie screening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To mark the 20th anniversary of the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book series’ publication, studio Lionsgate is \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/reel/1185872683714959\">bringing\u003c/a> the entire \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>series back to theaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major chains across the Bay Area are showing each movie in \u003cem>The Twilight Saga\u003c/em>, mostly from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Francisco screenings: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/amc-metreon-16-aanem/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">AMC Metreon 16\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>East Bay screenings:\u003c/em> AMC Bay Street 16 in Emeryville; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-hilltop-16-aaqal/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-11-02\">Cinemark Century Hilltop 16\u003c/a> in Richmond; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-bayfair-mall-16-aapic/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-11-02\">Cinemark Century Bayfair Mall 16\u003c/a> in San Leandro; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-at-hayward-aavac/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Hayward; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-walnut-creek-14-and-xd-aarar/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Walnut Creek 14\u003c/a> in Walnut Creek; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-downtown-pleasant-hill-16-and-xd-aaqam/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Downtown Pleasant Hill 16\u003c/a> in Pleasant Hill; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-union-landing-25-and-xd-aanay/theater-page?format=all\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Union City; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC NewPark 12\u003c/a> in Newark; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Brentwood 14\u003c/a> in Brentwood; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/regal-hacienda-crossings-screenx-imax-and-rpx-aaopk/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Regal Hacienda Crossings\u003c/a> in Dublin; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-vallejo-14-aapis/theater-page?format=all\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Vallejo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>North Bay screenings: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/regal-edwards-fairfield-and-imax-aandk/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Regal Edwards\u003c/a> in Fairfield; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-great-mall-20-xd-and-screenx-aapcg/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Great Mall\u003c/a> in Milpitas; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-napa-valley-and-xd-aawtt/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Napa\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>South Bay screenings: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-daly-city-20-xd-and-imax-aaqlt/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Daly City 20\u003c/a> in Daly City; \u003ca href=\"https://www.cinemark.com/theatres/ca-san-mateo/cinemark-century-san-mateo-12\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in San Mateo; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinepolis-luxury-cinemas-san-mateo-aayrv/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas\u003c/a> in San Mateo; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-redwood-downtown-20-and-xd-aaubf/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Redwood City; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Mercado 20\u003c/a> in Santa Clara; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-mountain-view-16-aacfx/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Mountain View; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-at-pacific-commons-and-xd-aawqb/theater-page?format=all\">Cinemark Century at Pacific Commons\u003c/a> in Fremont; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Saratoga 14\u003c/a> in San Jose; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Eastridge 15\u003c/a> in San Jose\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’d like to host your own screening, be prepared to pay around $4 for an online rental: the movies have \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/twilight-leaving-netflix-where-watch-163000433.html\">recently been pulled from Netflix\u003c/a>. But according to KQED Education’s own Janelle Kim, this could be a great opportunity for a drinking game. Her suggestions include: a shot every time a vampire sparkles, or when Kristen Stewart has a dramatic Acting Moment (screaming Jacob’s name, scoffing, etc.) Try not to pass out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"ahostofTwilightthemedeventslocally\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Go to a \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> concert or party\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Twilight in Concert\u003c/em>, with live orchestra accompaniment, has a San Jose stop on Sept. 26. Tickets range from \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/twilight-in-concert-san-jose-california-09-26-2025/event/1C0062B0B14A5BA2\">$59 to $253\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNEzBPIJFnr/\">The Midway\u003c/a> in San Francisco is holding a \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>rave on Oct. 18. 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"content": "\u003cp>Summer may be winding down — at least for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/educationnews\">Bay Area’s kids returning to school\u003c/a> — but you still have many opportunities to watch movies under the night sky well into the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s beloved open-air film series, Sundown Cinema, may have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13975608/sundown-cinema-canceled-san-francisco-movie-series\">canceled earlier this year\u003c/a>, but several cities are still hosting their own free outdoor film programming. Keep reading for our roundup of the select shows happening in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tips-first-timers\">Pro tips for attending an outdoor movie screening in the Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Outdoor movie screenings in August\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 14:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire\u003c/em> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">Courthouse Square in Redwood City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 15:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>10 Things I Hate About You \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blankets-blockbusters-tickets-1368178110559?aff=erelexpmlt\">Thrive City in Chase Center, San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 15: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>The Wild Robot \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/our-city/departments/community-services/special-events/summer-outdoor-movie-night-series\">Rengstorff Park in Mountain View\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 15: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Moana 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 15: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Inside Out 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinole.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/summer-series-flyer.png\">Fernandez Park in Pinole\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 16:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Mrs. Doubtfire\u003c/em> at \u003ca href=\"https://visitunionsquaresf.com/park-programs\">Union Square Plaza\u003c/a> in San Francisco. While the film starts at 8 p.m., there will be a pre-show (and a Mrs. Doubtfire look-alike contest) at 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 16:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Clueless \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/jack-london-square%3A-waterfront-flicks/33905/\">Jack London Square in Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 21:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Clueless \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">Courthouse Square in Redwood City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 22: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Mufasa \u003c/em>at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/departments/alameda/rec-and-park/arpd-pdfs/spring-apr-may/2025-starlight-movies-in-the-park-flyer.pdf\">Alameda Point Multipurpose Field in Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 22: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Inside Out 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 22: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>A Minecraft Movie \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncity.org/419/Community-Events\">Kennedy Park in Union City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 28\u003c/strong>: \u003cem>Argylle \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">Courthouse Square in Redwood City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 29: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Up\u003c/em> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Outdoor movie screenings in September\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 5: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Superman\u003c/em> (2025) at \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/giants/ballpark/events/movie-night\">Oracle Park in San Francisco\u003c/a> (which is a ticketed event, costing around $28.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 5: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Wicked \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/news/summer-evening-movies-berkeley-parks\">Willard Park in Berkeley \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 5: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>A Minecraft Movie \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 5: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Inside Out 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofmillvalley.gov/840/Movies-in-the-Park\">Old Mill Park in Mill Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 12:\u003c/strong>\u003cem> Inside Out 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/news/summer-evening-movies-berkeley-parks\">Codornices Park in Berkeley \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 12: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Mufasa\u003c/em> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 12: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Sonic the Hedgehog 3 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.haywardrec.org/calendar.aspx?Keywords=movie&startDate=&enddate=&CID=35,23,43,28,14,29,31,40,27&showPastEvents=false\">Meek Estate Park in Hayward\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 13: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Coco \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/movie-night-coco/\">Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 19: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Encanto \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncity.org/419/Community-Events\">Old Alvardo/Cesar Chavez Park at Union City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 20:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Big Hero 6 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://visitunionsquaresf.com/park-programs\">Union Square Plaza\u003c/a> in San Francisco. While the film starts at 7:30 p.m., The Walt Disney Family Museum will be hosting art activists for audiences at 5:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 26: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Sonic the Hedgehog 3 \u003c/em>at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/departments/alameda/rec-and-park/arpd-pdfs/spring-apr-may/2025-starlight-movies-in-the-park-flyer.pdf\">Alameda Point Multipurpose Field in Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout September and October, \u003ca href=\"https://proxysf.net/events/2025-proxy-fall-film-fest\">San Francisco’s Proxy Film Festival on Octavia Street\u003c/a> is featuring a series of movies that are yet to be announced on Fridays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Outdoor movie screenings in October and beyond\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 3: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Little Mermaid (2023) \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofmillvalley.gov/840/Movies-in-the-Park\">Old Mill Park in Mill Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 4:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>The Birds \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://visitunionsquaresf.com/park-programs\">Union Square Plaza\u003c/a> in San Francisco. (The Union Square’s website adds, “Did you know the opening scene is filmed in Union Square?” This writer did not!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/109351375-scaled-e1754946824662.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/109351375-scaled-e1754946824662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1370\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian carries a shopping bag from Macy’s as she walks through Union Square on Feb. 22, 2011, in San Francisco. Cinema on the Square, a free Saturday night outdoor movie series on Union Square, begins Aug. 16, with “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993). \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can expect more scary movie screenings to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinole.gov/event_list/halloween-movie-2/?event-date=2025-10-24%2018:00:00\">announced\u003c/a> for Spooky Season closer to the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, watch for the 2025 lineup announcement for \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/series/floating-features/\">Floating Features\u003c/a>: the Roxie Theatre and Red and White Fleet’s series that offers the chance to watch a movie on the top deck of a boat — as it sails around the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watching movies outdoors in the Bay Area: \u003ca id=\"tips-first-timers\">\u003c/a>Tips for first-timers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These movies usually start just after dusk, around 8 p.m. or 7 p.m. in the later months, so audiences can see the projected screen as clearly as possible. It’s a good idea to get to the “theater” early to secure a good view of the screen. Most screenings do not require a ticket or reservation, but check their website in case they do require some notice.[aside postID=news_12045979 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1369841386-1020x680.jpg']Before heading out to any show, be sure to check the weather and see if the screening will continue in the event of rain or other disruptive weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the comfiest experience, bring picnic blankets, a sweater and (non-crackling) snacks. A camping chair could offer you the most comfort, but be mindful you’re not blocking anyone’s view of the screen with your setup. Remember that some venues may also discourage — or outright prohibit — pets or alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are seeking captions for an outdoor movie, you may need to contact the city’s parks and recreation department at least two days in advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>And don’t forget these other options for outdoor movies…\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>Dinner and a show at Foreign Cinema\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For a fancier option, \u003ca href=\"https://foreigncinema.com/films/\">Foreign Cinema\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Mission District offers dinner accompanied by an outdoor movie screening, projected onto the wall of their covered patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The catch is that you likely won’t hear much — if any — sound during the movie, but in this reporter’s opinion, the vibes are still good.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The drive-in theater option\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Curling up in the comfort of your car at the classic drive-in theater is a retro way to catch a newly released movie under the stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has two major West Wind drive-in theaters in \u003ca href=\"https://www.westwinddi.com/locations/capitol\">San José\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.westwinddi.com/locations/solano\">Concord\u003c/a>, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.westwinddi.com/locations/sacramento\">Sacramento\u003c/a>. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.westwinddi.com/about-us/faq\">its website\u003c/a>, the theater is open even if it is raining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve never been to a drive-in theater, West Wind has \u003ca href=\"https://www.westwinddi.com/about-us/faq\">a Frequently Asked Questions\u003c/a> section on its website. A major tip is to keep your headlights off, and if you have a larger car, like an SUV, park closer to the back of the lot so you aren’t obstructing other people’s views. Your car battery isn’t likely to die during the movie, but West Wind does offer \u003ca href=\"https://www.westwinddi.com/about-us/faq\">a complimentary jump-start\u003c/a> in the case that it does go down during your time at the theater.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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While the film starts at 8 p.m., there will be a pre-show (and a Mrs. Doubtfire look-alike contest) at 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 16:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Clueless \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/jack-london-square%3A-waterfront-flicks/33905/\">Jack London Square in Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 21:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Clueless \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">Courthouse Square in Redwood City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 22: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Mufasa \u003c/em>at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/departments/alameda/rec-and-park/arpd-pdfs/spring-apr-may/2025-starlight-movies-in-the-park-flyer.pdf\">Alameda Point Multipurpose Field in Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 22: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Inside Out 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 22: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>A Minecraft Movie \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncity.org/419/Community-Events\">Kennedy Park in Union City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 28\u003c/strong>: \u003cem>Argylle \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">Courthouse Square in Redwood City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 29: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Up\u003c/em> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Outdoor movie screenings in September\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 5: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Superman\u003c/em> (2025) at \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/giants/ballpark/events/movie-night\">Oracle Park in San Francisco\u003c/a> (which is a ticketed event, costing around $28.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 5: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Wicked \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/news/summer-evening-movies-berkeley-parks\">Willard Park in Berkeley \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 5: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>A Minecraft Movie \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 5: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Inside Out 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofmillvalley.gov/840/Movies-in-the-Park\">Old Mill Park in Mill Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 12:\u003c/strong>\u003cem> Inside Out 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/news/summer-evening-movies-berkeley-parks\">Codornices Park in Berkeley \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 12: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Mufasa\u003c/em> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 12: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Sonic the Hedgehog 3 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.haywardrec.org/calendar.aspx?Keywords=movie&startDate=&enddate=&CID=35,23,43,28,14,29,31,40,27&showPastEvents=false\">Meek Estate Park in Hayward\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 13: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Coco \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/movie-night-coco/\">Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 19: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Encanto \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncity.org/419/Community-Events\">Old Alvardo/Cesar Chavez Park at Union City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 20:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Big Hero 6 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://visitunionsquaresf.com/park-programs\">Union Square Plaza\u003c/a> in San Francisco. While the film starts at 7:30 p.m., The Walt Disney Family Museum will be hosting art activists for audiences at 5:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 26: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Sonic the Hedgehog 3 \u003c/em>at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/departments/alameda/rec-and-park/arpd-pdfs/spring-apr-may/2025-starlight-movies-in-the-park-flyer.pdf\">Alameda Point Multipurpose Field in Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout September and October, \u003ca href=\"https://proxysf.net/events/2025-proxy-fall-film-fest\">San Francisco’s Proxy Film Festival on Octavia Street\u003c/a> is featuring a series of movies that are yet to be announced on Fridays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Outdoor movie screenings in October and beyond\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 3: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Little Mermaid (2023) \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofmillvalley.gov/840/Movies-in-the-Park\">Old Mill Park in Mill Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 4:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>The Birds \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://visitunionsquaresf.com/park-programs\">Union Square Plaza\u003c/a> in San Francisco. (The Union Square’s website adds, “Did you know the opening scene is filmed in Union Square?” This writer did not!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/109351375-scaled-e1754946824662.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/109351375-scaled-e1754946824662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1370\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian carries a shopping bag from Macy’s as she walks through Union Square on Feb. 22, 2011, in San Francisco. Cinema on the Square, a free Saturday night outdoor movie series on Union Square, begins Aug. 16, with “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993). \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can expect more scary movie screenings to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinole.gov/event_list/halloween-movie-2/?event-date=2025-10-24%2018:00:00\">announced\u003c/a> for Spooky Season closer to the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, watch for the 2025 lineup announcement for \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/series/floating-features/\">Floating Features\u003c/a>: the Roxie Theatre and Red and White Fleet’s series that offers the chance to watch a movie on the top deck of a boat — as it sails around the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watching movies outdoors in the Bay Area: \u003ca id=\"tips-first-timers\">\u003c/a>Tips for first-timers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These movies usually start just after dusk, around 8 p.m. or 7 p.m. in the later months, so audiences can see the projected screen as clearly as possible. It’s a good idea to get to the “theater” early to secure a good view of the screen. Most screenings do not require a ticket or reservation, but check their website in case they do require some notice.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Before heading out to any show, be sure to check the weather and see if the screening will continue in the event of rain or other disruptive weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the comfiest experience, bring picnic blankets, a sweater and (non-crackling) snacks. A camping chair could offer you the most comfort, but be mindful you’re not blocking anyone’s view of the screen with your setup. Remember that some venues may also discourage — or outright prohibit — pets or alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are seeking captions for an outdoor movie, you may need to contact the city’s parks and recreation department at least two days in advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>And don’t forget these other options for outdoor movies…\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>Dinner and a show at Foreign Cinema\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For a fancier option, \u003ca href=\"https://foreigncinema.com/films/\">Foreign Cinema\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Mission District offers dinner accompanied by an outdoor movie screening, projected onto the wall of their covered patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The catch is that you likely won’t hear much — if any — sound during the movie, but in this reporter’s opinion, the vibes are still good.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The drive-in theater option\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Curling up in the comfort of your car at the classic drive-in theater is a retro way to catch a newly released movie under the stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has two major West Wind drive-in theaters in \u003ca href=\"https://www.westwinddi.com/locations/capitol\">San José\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.westwinddi.com/locations/solano\">Concord\u003c/a>, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.westwinddi.com/locations/sacramento\">Sacramento\u003c/a>. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.westwinddi.com/about-us/faq\">its website\u003c/a>, the theater is open even if it is raining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve never been to a drive-in theater, West Wind has \u003ca href=\"https://www.westwinddi.com/about-us/faq\">a Frequently Asked Questions\u003c/a> section on its website. A major tip is to keep your headlights off, and if you have a larger car, like an SUV, park closer to the back of the lot so you aren’t obstructing other people’s views. Your car battery isn’t likely to die during the movie, but West Wind does offer \u003ca href=\"https://www.westwinddi.com/about-us/faq\">a complimentary jump-start\u003c/a> in the case that it does go down during your time at the theater.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>This summer, Bay Area movie lovers may already be feeling the absence of San Francisco’s Sundown Cinema, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13975608/sundown-cinema-canceled-san-francisco-movie-series\">the annual open-air film series that was abruptly canceled last month.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beloved 22-year-old program was run by the nonprofit San Francisco Parks Alliance, which is currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\">facing an official review of its finances\u003c/a> by city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re looking to fill the Sundown Cinema-shaped hole in your heart, luckily there \u003cem>are\u003c/em> other spots in the Bay Area offering ways to enjoy the movies outdoors for free this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cities and counties are hosting their own film series in local parks and public spaces, which are generally free. Among the frequent repeats in the Bay Area outdoor movie slate this summer (with \u003cem>Wicked \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Clueless \u003c/em>particularly on rotation), some less expected screenings to watch for include \u003ca href=\"https://www.danville.ca.gov/calendar.aspx?Keywords=moonlight&startDate=&enddate=&CID=39,31,25,22,14,28,43,24,40&showPastEvents=false\">\u003cem>Field of Dreams\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in Danville on June 27, Jack London Square’s screenings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/jack-london-square%3A-waterfront-flicks/33905/\">\u003cem>Space Jam\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (July 12) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/jack-london-square%3A-waterfront-flicks/33905/\">\u003cem>Happy Gilmore\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (August 2) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blankets-blockbusters-tickets-1368178110559?aff=erelexpmlt\">\u003cem>10 Things I Hate About You\u003c/em>\u003c/a> on August 15 at San Francisco’s Chase Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grab a picnic blanket and keep reading for more, including local outdoor film festivals, movies on the beach in Santa Cruz and even the old-fashioned drive-in theater. (And if you’re looking for family-friendly screenings instead? Check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045055/outdoor-movie-screenings-for-kids-around-the-bay-area-this-summer\">our guide to Bay Area outdoor movie screenings for kids\u003c/a> this summer.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#movies-bay-area-outdoors-things-to-do\">Where to see outdoor movie screenings in the Bay Area this summer\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Watching movies outdoors in the Bay Area: Tips for first-timers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These movies usually start just after dusk around 8:30 p.m., so audiences can see the projected screen as clearly as possible. It’s a good idea to get to the “theater” early to secure a good view of the screen. Most screenings do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> require a ticket or reservation, but some of the special showings at community pools do ask for an RSVP.[aside postID=news_12045055 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1450590312-2000x1334.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before heading out to any show, be sure to check the weather and see if the screening will continue in the event of rain or other disruptive weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the comfiest experience bring picnic blankets, a sweater and (non-crackling) snacks. A camping chair could offer you the most comfort, but be mindful you’re not blocking anyone’s view of the screen with your set-up. Remember that some venues may also discourage — or outright prohibit — pets or alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are seeking captions for an outdoor movie, you may need to contact the city’s parks and recreation department at least two days in advance. For example, for the Berkeley showings, contact the city at least two days before the screening at jolee@berkeleyca.gov or (510) 926-1458, and for Santa Cruz shows, call (831) 423-5590. According to \u003ca href=\"https://beachboardwalk.com/movies/\">the Santa Cruz Movies on the Beach website\u003c/a>, a “limited number of assistive listening devices (ALDs) are available for check-out at the Mini Golf Kiosk inside Neptune’s Kingdom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"movies-bay-area-outdoors-things-to-do\">\u003c/a>Where to watch free movies outdoors in the Bay Area this summer\u003c/strong>\u003c/h1>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Outdoor movie screenings in June\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>June 25: \u003ca href=\"https://www.danville.ca.gov/calendar.aspx?Keywords=moonlight&startDate=&enddate=&CID=39,31,25,22,14,28,43,24,40&showPastEvents=false\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Town Green, Danville\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June 26: \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Dune Part 2\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Courthouse Square, Redwood City[aside postID=news_12043932 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Light-Jacket-Reading-Series-43_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June 27: \u003ca href=\"https://www.danville.ca.gov/calendar.aspx?Keywords=moonlight&startDate=&enddate=&CID=39,31,25,22,14,28,43,24,40&showPastEvents=false\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Field of Dreams\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Town Green, Danville\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Outdoor movie screenings in July\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>July 12: \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/jack-london-square%3A-waterfront-flicks/33905/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Space Jam\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Jack London Square, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>July 17: \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Courthouse Square, Redwood City\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>July 19: \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/events/blankets-and-blockbusters-20250719/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Wicked\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Thrive City at Chase Center, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>July 24, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/parks-recreation-neighborhood-services/programs-activities/placemaking\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Lady and the Tramp\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Cimarron Park, San José\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>July 24: \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Wicked\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Courthouse Square, Redwood City\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Outdoor movie screenings in August \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>August 2: \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/jack-london-square%3A-waterfront-flicks/33905/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Happy Gilmore\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Jack London Square, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August 5: \u003ca href=\"https://www.walnutcreekca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/19200/387?curm=8&cury=2025&selcat=31\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Goonies\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem> (part of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://natw.org/\">National Night Out\u003c/a>), Civic Park, Walnut Creek\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August 7: \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Beetlejuice Beetlejuice\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Courthouse Square, Redwood City\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August 14: \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Courthouse Square, Redwood City\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August 15: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blankets-blockbusters-tickets-1368178110559?aff=erelexpmlt\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>10 Things I Hate About You\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Thrive City at Chase Center, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August 16: \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/jack-london-square%3A-waterfront-flicks/33905/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Clueless\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Jack London Square, Oakland\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August 21: \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Clueless\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Courthouse Square, Redwood City\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August 28: \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Argylle\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, Courthouse Square, Redwood City\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Outdoor film festivals in the Bay Area this summer\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As part of the 49th Frameline film festival, San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://proxysf.net/events/jimmy-frameline-49\">Proxy SF\u003c/a> in Hayes Valley will be screening \u003ca href=\"https://proxysf.net/events/jimmy-frameline-49\">\u003cem>Jimmy\u003c/em>, a documentary about James Baldwin’s time in Paris\u003c/a>, on June 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">Movies on the Square series\u003c/a> will also host the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">BraveMaker Film Festival\u003c/a> on July 10 in the city’s Courthouse Square. The program will include three documentaries: \u003cem>This is Me, Cycling Without Age \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Everywhere.\u003c/em>[aside postID=arts_13975608 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Sister-Act-2-at-Dolores-Park-2022_1920-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Head to Santa Cruz for a movie on the beach \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, it’s a drive from the Bay Area. But Santa Cruz’s free movie screenings take place right on the beach, in front of the historic Colonnade — with \u003ca href=\"https://beachboardwalk.com/movies/\">films on offer every Friday except the Fourth of July\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’re looking for things to do with kids in the Bay Area this summer, you might be especially spoiled for outdoor family-friendly movie screenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13975608/sundown-cinema-canceled-san-francisco-movie-series\"> the abrupt demise of San Francisco’s beloved Sundown Cinema\u003c/a> outdoor film series, many cities and countries in the Bay are hosting their own movie screenings in local parks and public spaces — and they’re usually free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for our list of movies for kids being screened around the Bay Area this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to where to watch outdoor kids’ movies in:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#things-to-do-with-kids-bay-area-movies-east-bay\">East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#things-to-do-with-kids-bay-area-movies-north-bay\">North Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#things-to-do-with-kids-bay-area-movies-south-bay\">South Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Watching movies outdoors in the Bay Area: Tips for first-timers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These movies usually start just after dusk around 8:30 p.m., so audiences can see the projected screen as clearly as possible. It’s a good idea to get to the “theater” early to secure a good view of the screen. Most screenings don’t require a ticket or reservation, but some of the special showings do ask for an RSVP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12044161 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/inntown-3-2000x1333.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before heading out to any show, be sure to check the weather and see if the screening will continue in the event of rain or other disruptive weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the comfiest experience bring picnic blankets, a sweater and (non-crackling) snacks. A camping chair could offer you the most comfort, but be mindful you’re not blocking anyone’s view of the screen with your set-up. Remember that some venues may also discourage — or outright prohibit — pets or alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are seeking captions for an outdoor movie, you may need to contact the city’s parks and recreation department at least two days in advance. For example, for the Berkeley showings, contact the city at least two days before the screening at jolee@berkeleyca.gov or (510) 926-1458, and for Santa Cruz shows, call (831) 423-5590. According to \u003ca href=\"https://beachboardwalk.com/movies/\">the Santa Cruz Movies on the Beach website\u003c/a>, a “limited number of assistive listening devices (ALDs) are available for check-out at the Mini Golf Kiosk inside Neptune’s Kingdom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Bay Area outdoor movie screenings for families this summer \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1298826859.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1298826859.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1298826859-160x102.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thrive City is the district surrounding the Chase Center arena in San Francisco where the film ‘Wicked’ will be screened on July 19. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/thrive-city/\">Thrive City at Chase Center\u003c/a> will \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/events/blankets-and-blockbusters-20250719/\">screen \u003cem>Wicked \u003c/em>on July 19.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"things-to-do-with-kids-bay-area-movies-east-bay\">\u003c/a>East Bay: Berkeley \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley has \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/news/summer-evening-movies-berkeley-parks\">a free series of children’s movies running through September\u003c/a> at its various parks — and one screening of \u003ca href=\"https://ca-berkeley.civicrec.com/CA/berkeley-ca/catalog?filter=c2VhcmNoPTIzOTA3MzY%3D\">\u003cem>Finding Dory\u003c/em> at its pools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Wild Robot: \u003c/em>June 27, San Pablo Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Cars 3\u003c/em>: July 11, Glendale La Loma Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Finding Dory\u003c/em>: July 18 at West Campus Pool (registration required)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>IF\u003c/em>: July 25, Live Oak Park, 1301 Shattuck Avenue\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Despicable Me 4\u003c/em>: Aug. 8, Cedar Rose Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Sonic the Hedgehog 3\u003c/em>: Aug. 22, Grove Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Wicked\u003c/em>: Sept. 5, Willard Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Inside Out 2\u003c/em>: Sept. 12, Codornices Park,\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Bay: Oakland \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland offers its \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/jack-london-square%3A-waterfront-flicks/33905/\">Waterfront Flicks\u003c/a> series in Jack London Square from July 12 to August 16, including classics like \u003cem>Space Jam:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Space Jam: \u003c/em>July 12\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Princess and The Frog:\u003c/em> July 19\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Minions: \u003c/em>July 26\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Despicable Me 4: \u003c/em>August 9[aside postID=news_12042763 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2167750287-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Bay: Alameda \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda Parks and Recreation Department is \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/departments/alameda/rec-and-park/arpd-pdfs/spring-apr-may/2025-starlight-movies-in-the-park-flyer.pdf\">hosting six children’s movies\u003c/a> outdoors this summer — all of them free except for a showing of the seminal \u003cem>Sky High \u003c/em>ticketed at $15 per person:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Despicable Me 4: \u003c/em>July 27\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Sky High: \u003c/em>July 18\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Wild Robot: \u003c/em>July 25\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Mufasa: The Lion King: \u003c/em>Aug. 22\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Sonic the Hedgehog 3: \u003c/em>Sept. 26\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Bay: Antioch \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch is organizing \u003ca href=\"https://www.antiochca.gov/outdoor-movie-night/\">several free movie screenings\u003c/a> in July\u003cem>. \u003c/em>A food truck will also be available, as well as first-come, first-served popcorn and refreshments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Moana 2\u003c/em>: July 10\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>A Goofy Movie\u003c/em>: July 17\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Parent Trap \u003c/em>(1998): July 24\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Holes: \u003c/em>July 31\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More East Bay outdoor movie screenings for families this summer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pinole.gov/calendar/?title=movie\">Pinole outdoor movie screenings\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://piedmont.ca.gov/cms/one.aspx?portalId=13659823&pageId=14128087¤tDate=2025-07-01&todaysDate=2025-04-30&view=monthly\">Piedmont outdoor movie screenings\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.danville.ca.gov/calendar.aspx?Keywords=moonlight&startDate=&enddate=&CID=39,31,25,22,14,28,43,24,40&showPastEvents=false\">Danville outdoor movie screenings\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://dublin.ca.gov/1327/Picnic-Flix\">Dublin outdoor movie screenings\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.haywardrec.org/calendar.aspx?Keywords=movie&startDate=&enddate=&CID=35,23,43,28,14,29,31,40,27&showPastEvents=false\">Hayward outdoor movie screenings\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.herculesca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/9316/269?npage=5&toggle=allupcoming\">Hercules outdoor movie screenings\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/calendar.aspx?Keywords=movie&startDate=&enddate=&CID=20,14&showPastEvents=false\">Emeryville outdoor movie screenings\u003c/a> (use arrows to see the calendar)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofmartinez.org/home/showpublisheddocument/4785/638772105373270000\">Martinez outdoor movie screenings\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncity.org/419/Community-Events\">Union City outdoor movie screenings\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca 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You’ll also find food vendors and pre-movie activities for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"things-to-do-with-kids-bay-area-movies-south-bay\">\u003c/a>South Bay: San José \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José has not one but \u003cem>two \u003c/em>outdoor movie series. Firstly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/parks-recreation-neighborhood-services/programs-activities/placemaking\">Viva Parks Association’s “Free Movie Nights Under the Stars,”\u003c/a> offers family screenings in parks around the city parks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>A Goofy Movie\u003c/em>: June 26, Lake Cunningham Action Sports Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Despicable Me 4\u003c/em>: July 3, Cahill Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Inside Out 2\u003c/em>: July 10, Silver Leaf Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Emoji Movie\u003c/em>: July 17, Mercado Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Lady and the Tramp\u003c/em>: July 24, Cimarron Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Migration\u003c/em>: July 31, Starbird Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Garfield Movie\u003c/em>: August 7, Rubino Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>How to Train Your Dragon\u003c/em>: The Hidden World: August 14, Kelley Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Moana 2\u003c/em>: August 21, Brigadoon Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Sonic the Hedgehog 3\u003c/em>: August 28, Calahan Park\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Over in St. James’ Park, \u003ca href=\"https://sjdowntown.com/starlight-cinema/\">the Downtown San José Starlight Cinema series\u003c/a> will present three movies this summer, with pre-movie entertainment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>School of Rock: June 29\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nacho Libre: July 13\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A Minecraft Movie: July 27\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More South Bay outdoor movie screenings for families this summer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.paloalto.gov/Events-Directory/Community-Services/Family-Movie-Night-Series\">Palo Alto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.millbrae.ca.us/355/Movies\">Millbrae\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">Redwood City\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/our-city/departments/community-services/special-events/summer-outdoor-movie-night-series\">Mountain View\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Further afield: Movies for kids on the beach in Santa Cruz \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, it’s a drive from the Bay Area. 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"content": "\u003cp>Making engaging movies or TV shows is all about creating a convincing fantasy. Take the show \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804503/\">\u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>\u003c/a> for example: The mid-century furniture, soundtrack and clothes all work together to create a mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps less obvious, but no less important, is the food seen on screen — tomato aspic, salmon mousse or cocktail party weenies in grape jelly that take us right back to the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind every dish on screen, there’s a person or a team of people researching it, cooking it and keeping it fresh on set take after take. It may seem simple, but food styling requires a unique combination of organizational skills, culinary expertise and creativity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While much of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/08/27/hollywood-writers-strike-issues-studios/\">media attention is focused on the Hollywood writers and actors strike\u003c/a>, thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/hollywood-indictment-crypto-space/wga-sag-aftra-economic-costs\">other movie industry workers are impacted\u003c/a> by the work stoppage. People like food stylist Melissa McSorley, whose work is often invisible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Behind the scenes with Hollywood’s food stylist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On an early morning in March, well before the strikes began, McSorley pulled into the parking lot of a distinctly unglamorous part of Santa Clarita — an industrial-park-turned-soundstage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She unloaded her SUV, packed as tightly as a perfectly played Tetris game, pulling out electric burners and what looked like a contractor’s tool bag. Instead of hammers and drills, it held hundreds of kitchen utensils, from tongs and torches to measuring cups and cutting boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McSorley moves around a lot, working on different sets most days, so she carries all her tools with her. On this particular set, she was assigned a designated space for her work kitchen — a treat — because the show, Hulu’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7820906/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Good Trouble\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, features a character who is opening a restaurant. Food is central to the show’s plot.[aside postID=news_11954383 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230626-SAUCY-CHICK-05-KQED-1020x816.jpg']Before they started filming, the space was an empty shell with ceiling insulation exposed, McSorley said. But crews built a half-dozen huge plywood boxes that each hold a completely realistic room, like an office or a den.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many people touched all of this before you could even think about putting food into this set,” McSorley said, with awe.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made sure everything on the commercial kitchen set was perfect before filming began the next day when actors were expected to flip burgers and stir polenta. The set was incredibly realistic, from rubber mats covering the floor to food containers labeled with blue painter’s tape. Except, it wasn’t a real kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing about a set, it doesn’t have practical lighting,” McSorley said. “Any light switches you see don’t really work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had to use the flashlight on her phone to complete her inspection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An unlikely career\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Food styling is not the job McSorley thought she’d have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She grew up in Burbank, home to many studios, but her family wasn’t involved in entertainment at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom had office jobs,” McSorley said. “In fact, when I was little, she was a telephone operator. I don’t even think that exists anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her stepfather owned a printing company in North Hollywood. But the entertainment industry was all around. As a girl, she remembers driving past fans lining up to watch \u003cem>The Tonight Show\u003c/em> being taped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was [an actors’] strike that happened when I was in high school, and it affected a lot of the families that I grew up with,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when she told her family that she would never work in entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never wanted to work in an industry where people were so expendable,” she said. “Nobody cared how many lives these strikes could disrupt. And so, I was never, ever, ever going to be in this industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa was a kid with a creative streak, growing up in a structured home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was in high school, I actually wanted to go to school for photography, and my parents said that I could do that as a hobby any time I wanted,” she said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Melissa McSorley, Hollywood food stylist\"]‘I decided I was just going to do it part-time for a little while before I decided what I really wanted to do. It turned out that I loved it. And here I am, almost 20 years later.’[/pullquote]They expected her to pursue a degree that would lead to a stable career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Culinary arts falls under the term ‘arts,’ and it would not have been acceptable to my parents,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she studied biology and psychology. She learned the basics of cooking as a kid by whipping up casseroles for her hungry siblings when her mom was working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After college, she started taking cooking courses in her spare time. She cycled through several different careers, working at an electrical engineering company, drawing blood and producing commercials at an advertising agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she yearned for more creative work. While working at the ad agency, she encountered her first “food stylist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided I was just going to do it part-time for a little while before I decided what I really wanted to do,” McSorley said. “It turned out that I loved it. And here I am, almost 20 years later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not home cooking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In her work kitchen on the set of \u003cem>Good Trouble\u003c/em>, McSorley demonstrated how cooking for the screen is a lot different than cooking at home. For example, in one scene an actor makes a pizza. To pull that off, she needed to prep at least 18 pizzas so the crew could shoot the actor in all stages of pizza-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you’ll see her grab a dough ball, that’s been proofed and looks amazing,” McSorley said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Melissa McSorley, Hollywood food stylist\"]‘Then, you might see her start to sauce it. Then, you might see it finished, but uncooked. At the very, very end of the scene, she’ll pull out that perfect pizza.’[/pullquote]McSorley will then swap out that dough for another that’s been perfectly shaped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then, you might see her start to sauce it. Then, you might see it finished, but uncooked,” she said. “At the very, very end of the scene, she’ll pull out that perfect pizza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to make sure that shot is just right, McSorley will have three or four perfect pizzas prepped — just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her job depends on making sure that food looks as delicious as possible, and that it looks identical, take after take.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bizarre set of skills\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What’s clear is that a Hollywood food stylist needs an eclectic array of skills that go way beyond cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, they have to be organized. Even the simplest scene has many moving parts. 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There were full, perfect turkeys, turkeys staged just for carving, turkeys that fell on the floor, turkeys that the dog came too close to, and even turkeys in the oven. McSorley had to find them, buy them, store them and cook them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of turkeys,” she said, shaking her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, a food stylist needs to be a nutritionist — and a problem-solver. In that same scene in \u003cem>Love the Coopers\u003c/em>, stars like Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Marisa Tomei and Alan Arkin all sat together.[aside postID=news_11958720 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66538_230623-wahpepahs-kitchen-05-ks-KQED-1020x679.jpg']“When you went around the table, there was a vegetarian who loves cheese; a vegan that also doesn’t do sugar or sugar substitutes; [and] other people who ate no carbs,” McSorley said. “You have to make sure that you’ve made something that everybody can eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, food stylists are often technical advisors, making sure kitchens on set seem real to viewers. 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And that’s not as simple as it might seem.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Melissa McSorley, Hollywood food stylist\"]‘I was able to work with the prop master to come up with a \u003cem>nuna\u003c/em> skeleton and skin that I could work with. Then, I filled it with turkey meat so that it looked like the meat was just coming off in layers.’[/pullquote]“The food couldn’t look like anything that we’ve seen here,” McSorley said. “Was it a planet that actually had an environment: air, water to it? Was it a dry planet that maybe everything would have been from root vegetables? And then, you just figure out what exists in the edible world that you can make look like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one scene in \u003cem>Boba Fett\u003c/em>, McSorley helped fill a 30-foot-long table for a feast. One element was a roasted \u003cem>nuna\u003c/em>, a swamp turkey from the planet Naboo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it was really awesome because I was able to work with the prop master to come up with a \u003cem>nuna\u003c/em> skeleton and skin that I could work with,” she said. “Then, I filled it with turkey meat so that it looked like the meat was just coming off in layers. And you really get the idea that these came from another planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hands of a stylist like McSorley, food becomes a character on screen. It can help set the mood with party food, home cooking or upscale bites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can mirror the personality of a character — like a meticulous assassin who also bakes with precision. One glance at a plate and the viewer should get a sense of the person in the scene with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes a lot of labor to make the shimmering fantasy that Hollywood sells to the world. There are a lot of behind-the-scenes industry people like Melissa whose work is largely invisible — and they’re all feeling the impact of recent labor disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I wish people knew that the job existed, that the food didn’t just miraculously appear on the plate,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lisa Morehouse’s series \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://californiafoodways.com/\">\u003cem>California Foodways\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is supported by California Humanities, a nonprofit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>There are big changes ahead for San Francisco’s legendary Castro Theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Live music promoters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">Another Planet Entertainment have announced plans to renovate the venue\u003c/a>, part of which includes removing many of the theater’s iconic red velvet chairs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">Read more about this complex saga from KQED Arts & Culture.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what the future holds, it’s the end of an era for the beloved Castro Theatre. So we wanted to create a space to highlight some of your memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked you: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall#castrotheatre\">What was your most memorable experience at the Castro?\u003c/a> From first dates and childhood memories to unforgettable movies and an overwhelming sense of community, you delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on for some of the stories you sent us. And if you didn't get the chance to share your own memories and you want to do so, you can still \u003ca href=\"#castrotheatre\">send us your thoughts on the Castro Theatre here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These submissions have been lightly edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worked at the Castro from 1983-1986. Most memorable experience? \u003cstrong>Getting married on the mezzanine level in August 1986.\u003c/strong> Being broke, I approached my manager about getting married in the theater. He agreed as long as we were done before the Saturday matinee. — \u003cem>Linda Absher\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=arts_13917362 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Castro.MAIN_-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hayao Miyazaki’s \"Spirited Away\" at the Castro was the most amazing movie experience of my life.\u003c/strong> The energy was incredible, and I remember how Japanese speakers were laughing before people reading the subtitles caught up. A representative of Studio Ghibli was there, I think it was \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Suzuki_(producer)\">[Toshio] Suzuki\u003c/a>, and I hope he went back and told Miyazaki how much the audience loved his film. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Fantasia,\" 1979. The organist played first, then the movie started, and my date brought out a joint!\u003c/strong> I had never tried marijuana before — I am sure that this \"altered\" my movie experience! — \u003cem>Anonymous \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922228\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of red velvet seats in a dimmed theater.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I've spent so many nights at the Castro over the decades, but one of the most memorable was a screening of \"Milk.\" Cleve Jones was there along with others from the production and those who informed it. Those of us who remembered Harvey Milk were in the audience wondering whether the Sean Penn portrayal would fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toward the end of the film, there was a scene showing the candlelight march after the assassination moving down Market St. from the Castro.\u003cstrong> Everyone in the theater was in tears. Including myself.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A room full of strangers together in that space, feeling the same emotions. The Castro Theatre was the center of our experience. \u003cstrong>It was a moment for our community and in our lives that I will never forget.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Fred Bove\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \"Blade Runner\" director's cut [1992] came out, I went alone to see it at the Castro. Rain was just starting when I went into the red-and-gold, well-loved, slightly shabby Art Deco interior. I'd seen the original release and a couple of video versions; this cut's subtle changes made it that much more enthralling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My head full of neon and rain, and the Bradbury building where Roy and Pris met their ends, I walked out of the theater to find the sky opened and pouring, light and reflections everywhere, water coursing down my trench coat as I walked up Castro Street. \u003cstrong>My favorite moment of immersive cinema ever.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Alana Dill\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The frontage of the Castro Theatre, shot from a low angle below.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Castro Theatre in San Francisco's Castro District on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s and '80s it was wondrous to sit in the Castro Theatre, enjoy the Art Deco artistry and listen to the organ player before the retro movies began. \u003cstrong>Most of all we relished the feeling of what it must have been like in gone-by eras. \u003c/strong>Seeing the stage intact below the screen, even though the stage was no longer used, allowed me to imagine what a burlesque hall must have felt like, and how audiences during the early days of film must have felt, experiencing the transition from burlesque to film entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our current era we are transitioning yet again, but if we were to radically change the Castro Theatre we would never be able to truly preserve the full legacy of showbiz and we couldn’t physically relive its former eras. \u003cstrong>If the theater can’t be profitable, let’s establish a fund to subsidize it as we would any important museum or archive.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Marti Schoen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well. \u003cstrong>I don't remember which movie it was but I had sex in the balcony once, which I feel quite proud of now!\u003c/strong> Favorite movie experience was probably \"Wuthering Heights.\" And of course many rounds of Frameline. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The proscenium of the Castro Theatre, shot from below. The lighting is purple and gold.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proscenium of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a kid growing up in the Castro (born in 1944) my wife spent Saturday in the theater. Twenty cents to get in, a nickel for candy and two movies, newsreel, serial, cartoons. \u003cstrong>A day’s worth of entertainment. Family nights in the balcony. Lots of memories, all good.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Rose Shuck \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highlight: \"Nights of Cabiria,\" the great Fellini movie, with a beautiful print, maybe eight years ago. \u003cstrong>The whole, packed-house audience almost held its breath at the ending.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community moments: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. The first \"BAHFest\" (Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses) in a science festival. Realizing in an \"aha!\" moment that the Jewish Film Festival was where I would run into \u003cem>all\u003c/em> my Jewish acquaintances and friends if I attended enough shows. — \u003cem>David Grosof\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Watching \"Miracle on 34th Street\" with a sold-out crowd of movie lovers.\u003c/strong> The way everyone booed the evil company psychiatrist, then the place erupted in cheers when the bags of letters to Santa were poured out on the judge’s desk!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been to rock concerts and weddings and whatever else they are thinking this absolutely historic movie theater will be used for, and \u003cstrong>I have never experienced a thrill like it or a greater sense of shared joy.\u003c/strong> This place is the heart of a great community and if they tear it up it will be a travesty. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922669\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees pick up free sodas and popcorn before the town hall to discuss planned renovations at the theater on Aug. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first feature film I produced premiered at the Castro as part of the Frameline Film Festival. \u003cstrong>I will never forget my excitement as I watched the historic venue fill up with strangers coming to see my movie.\u003c/strong> My heart fills with joy thinking about it. — \u003cem>Ashley Hillis \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was around 1992 and I had just begun a fiery relationship with a woman living in Oakland, while I was living in Berkeley. We met at the Castro Muni station and went to the theater to see the animated film version of \"Fritz the Cat,\" based on R. Crumb's comic strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It was my first time to the Castro Theatre and its breathtaking grandeur was matched by my ecstatic joy from having just fallen in love.\u003c/strong> Frankly, I remember almost nothing from the movie, but the way the theater was so romantic and such a conducive environment for us cuddling in our bliss is indelibly etched on my mind. That romance didn't last the summer, but even 30 years later I remember the magnificence of the Castro Theatre like it was yesterday. — \u003cem>Gifford Hartman \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years back, there was a minister in Oakland that announced the end of the world was on a certain upcoming date. 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The organist played first, then the movie started, and my date brought out a joint!\u003c/strong> I had never tried marijuana before — I am sure that this \"altered\" my movie experience! — \u003cem>Anonymous \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922228\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of red velvet seats in a dimmed theater.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I've spent so many nights at the Castro over the decades, but one of the most memorable was a screening of \"Milk.\" Cleve Jones was there along with others from the production and those who informed it. Those of us who remembered Harvey Milk were in the audience wondering whether the Sean Penn portrayal would fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toward the end of the film, there was a scene showing the candlelight march after the assassination moving down Market St. from the Castro.\u003cstrong> Everyone in the theater was in tears. Including myself.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A room full of strangers together in that space, feeling the same emotions. The Castro Theatre was the center of our experience. \u003cstrong>It was a moment for our community and in our lives that I will never forget.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Fred Bove\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \"Blade Runner\" director's cut [1992] came out, I went alone to see it at the Castro. Rain was just starting when I went into the red-and-gold, well-loved, slightly shabby Art Deco interior. I'd seen the original release and a couple of video versions; this cut's subtle changes made it that much more enthralling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My head full of neon and rain, and the Bradbury building where Roy and Pris met their ends, I walked out of the theater to find the sky opened and pouring, light and reflections everywhere, water coursing down my trench coat as I walked up Castro Street. \u003cstrong>My favorite moment of immersive cinema ever.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Alana Dill\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The frontage of the Castro Theatre, shot from a low angle below.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Castro Theatre in San Francisco's Castro District on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s and '80s it was wondrous to sit in the Castro Theatre, enjoy the Art Deco artistry and listen to the organ player before the retro movies began. \u003cstrong>Most of all we relished the feeling of what it must have been like in gone-by eras. \u003c/strong>Seeing the stage intact below the screen, even though the stage was no longer used, allowed me to imagine what a burlesque hall must have felt like, and how audiences during the early days of film must have felt, experiencing the transition from burlesque to film entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our current era we are transitioning yet again, but if we were to radically change the Castro Theatre we would never be able to truly preserve the full legacy of showbiz and we couldn’t physically relive its former eras. \u003cstrong>If the theater can’t be profitable, let’s establish a fund to subsidize it as we would any important museum or archive.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Marti Schoen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well. \u003cstrong>I don't remember which movie it was but I had sex in the balcony once, which I feel quite proud of now!\u003c/strong> Favorite movie experience was probably \"Wuthering Heights.\" And of course many rounds of Frameline. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The proscenium of the Castro Theatre, shot from below. The lighting is purple and gold.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proscenium of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a kid growing up in the Castro (born in 1944) my wife spent Saturday in the theater. Twenty cents to get in, a nickel for candy and two movies, newsreel, serial, cartoons. \u003cstrong>A day’s worth of entertainment. Family nights in the balcony. Lots of memories, all good.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Rose Shuck \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highlight: \"Nights of Cabiria,\" the great Fellini movie, with a beautiful print, maybe eight years ago. \u003cstrong>The whole, packed-house audience almost held its breath at the ending.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community moments: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. The first \"BAHFest\" (Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses) in a science festival. Realizing in an \"aha!\" moment that the Jewish Film Festival was where I would run into \u003cem>all\u003c/em> my Jewish acquaintances and friends if I attended enough shows. — \u003cem>David Grosof\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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