SHOCK IT TO ME! HORROR FILM FEST INVADES THE CASTRO THEATRE FOR A SPOOK-TACULAR THIRD YEAR!

SPECIAL GUESTS TO INCLUDE LEGENDARY DIRECTOR JOE DANTE, HAMMER FILM STARLET VERONICA CARLSON, AND HORROR HOST JOHN STANLEY!

San Francisco — The third annual Shock It To Me! Horror film festival oozes its way into San Francisco’s legendary Castro Theatre at 429 Castro Street, just in time for Halloween, with a dozen classic horror films!

Unstoppable. Unbelievable. Shock It To Me! will be chilling and thrilling audiences the entire weekend of October 5 —7, 2007, with a horrific mix of fright films, special guest fiends, ghoulish giveaways, midnight mayhem and more.

Special guest stars will include legendary director Joe Dante, on hand to screen his werewolf masterpiece, “The Howling,” as well as his tribute to horror schlock-masters “Matinee” and “Gremlins 2!” And heading up a horrific night of Hammer horror will be the lovely Veronica Carlson, presenting a double feature of “Dracula Has Risen From the Grave” and “Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed.” Both Mr. Dante and Ms. Carlson will answer audience questions and discuss their films.

The Castro Theatre and Shock It To Me! are also proud to welcome very special guest, author and horror host John Stanley. If you grew up in Northern California in the ‘70s and ‘80s, you’ll remember Stanley as the host of the incredibly popular “Creature Features” (1971-84), broadcast on KTVU Channel 2. Fangoria magazine called John “The Leonard Maltin of Horror,” while Joe Bob Briggs stated, “John Stanley knows more about horror movies than any person alive.” John will not only meet with fans and interview our Guests of Honor on stage, but will bask in the glory of his new magnum opus, “I Was a TV Horror Host” – a historic overview of the Horror Host phenomenon, with his experience on “Creature Features” being the centerpiece.

But that’s not all, fright fanatics- fans of classic Blaxploitation horror will scream their heads off at the double feature of “Blacula” and “Sugar Hill.” And you cannot miss the rare midnight screening of “Killer Klowns from Outer Space!” This show will feature REAL killer klowns terrorizing the audience! Also to screen at midnight- “Re-Animator!” Plus- Roman Polanski’s sinister tale of Satanism, the horrific “Rosemary’s Baby,” More films to be announced!

Besides the movies themselves, the upstairs mezzanine of the Castro will be crawling with vicious vendors, eager to sell their horrific wares: gory goods, terrifying
t-shirts, malevolent memorabilia, putrid posters, demonic DVDs, monstrous models, and all things spooky and kooky.

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