February 8, 2013: Audition (1999) and My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Greetings, folks!
For our first double feature screening, we will be showing two movies that are sure to get you in the mood for Valentine's Day: Takashi Miike's Audition (1999) and some classic 80's slasher cheese, My Bloody Valentine (1981): believe me, much to be preferred over the horrendous 3D remake.

A widower wants another shot at true love and decides to screen some girls to see who will work best for him. A typical romantic comedy set-up? He should be so lucky. At the Rotterdam Film Festival, this movie had a record number of walkouts; one person even passed out and had to be taken to the emergency room. Sounds like just about every other rom-com I've ever seen. 

Okay, so Freddy, Jason, and Michael are the major knife-wielders of the eighties, but did they have their own end credits country music ballad? I didn't think so. Watch idiotic nubile teenagers die horrible deaths. Hear deranged old men in seedy podunk bars talk about how they're all doomed. And remember: "In this town on Valentine's Day, everybody loses their heart."

This double-feature screening will be held at the Lewis Library Bowl Classroom 138 on February 8 from 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM. Pizza and soft drinks will be served before the start of the first film. Please shoot us an e-mail at horror77 - at - princeton.edu if you need directions or have any other questions or comments.