September 18, 2024

Garden Theatre Marks the Spooky Season

This October, the Princeton Garden Theatre will present a series of films to mark the spookiest time of the year.

The Garden’s programmers have scheduled a new restoration of Tim Burton’s eerie Sleepy Hollow; the screwball comedy I Married a Witch, with Veronica Lake as an immortal sorceress; the musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors preceded by a carnivorous plant presentation; the David Bowie vampire flick The Hunger as part of the Garden’s Fashion in Film series; and a documentary on Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.

For young viewers, the October $5 Family Matinee title is the animated creature feature, Hotel Transylvania.

The Garden’s Retrograde series will offer two films this October: the teen-vampire phenomenon Twilight, and the parody comic book film, The People’s Joker. The end of the month will see the return of Not So Silent Cinema providing live accompaniment to F.W. Murnau’s iconic Nosferatu, and on Halloween night the theater will present Dario Argento’s Suspiria.

The Garden Theatre is at 160 Nassau Street. Tickets are available at the box office or online at princetongardentheatre.org/specials.