Scaaaaaary Mooooovies

Halloween isn't until Monday, but everyone's going out to celebrate this weekend. So after you put the final touches on the ultimate scary costume (be it a Katrina victim, avian flu, or even *shudder* Harriet Miers), hit the town for one of the many Halloween-themed movies showing on the big screen.

Tonight at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame is the second film in their Alien Encounters series, It Came from Outer Space. Based on a Ray Bradbury story, in this film a "meteor" falls from the sky, and people start acting weird. Extraterrestrial-related wackiness ensues---in 3-D. The film shows at 7:00 pm at the JBL Theater inside the EMP. Tickets are $6 for the general public, or $4 for SFM or SIFF members. If you're interested in buying tickets for the remaining films in the series (including upcoming screenings of Alien and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), it's $30 for the general public, and only $24 for SFM or SIFF members.

Meanwhile, the Central Cinema is showing a veritable cavalcade of freaky films:
· Roger Corman's original Little Shop of Horrors, featuring a young Jack Nicholson. This is the cinema's first Late-Nite-Black-N-White film, Friday and Saturday at 11:30pm.
· Dead Alive, the ridiculously gratuitous zombie bloodfest from a young Peter Jackson. Running now through Sunday at 7:00 and 9:15pm.
· Ghostbusters, starring a young Bill Murray, an even younger Dan Akroyd, and the biggest role ever for Ernie Hudson. This is the weekend's kids' matinee, so it's screening Saturday and Sunday at 12:00, 2:15, and 4:30pm.

And of course, the Egyptian Theatre is doing their requisite midnight showings of The Nightmare Before Christmas on Friday and Saturday. Expect to see a lot of Jack Skeleton shirts, fresh off the racks from Hot Topic.