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University Daily Kansan, October 29, 1982
Entertainment
Scary flicks teem this weekend
By VINCE HESS Staff Reporter
In the spirit of Halloween, movie goers who want to be frightened by scary movies this weekend will have several choices.
Horror movies that will be shown by local theaters and University groups include: "The Birds," an Alfred Hitchcock film; "The Night of the Living Dead," a cult favorite by George R.R. Martin; "Friday the 13th," about a deranged preacher; and "Halloween III," a sequel to two recent popular movies.
Student Union Activities will show "The Birds" at midnight tonight and tomorrow night in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Admission is $2.
"The Birds," a black-and-white movie, was directed by Hitchcock and released in 1963. It depicts an attack by flocks of birds on a village on the California coast.
A REVIEW in the April 5, 1963, issue of *Time magazine said*, "The sound track — there is not a note of music throughout the picture — reaches a chattering, flapping cacophony, whistling, chattering, flapping cacophony."
The movie features Rod Taylor and Suzanne Pleshette. The review said, "But the most unforgettable performers in 'The Birds' are the birds. They are utterly, terrifyingly believable as they go about their bloody business of murdering humanity."
The KU Rush & Shield club, a science-fiction group, will show "The Night of the Living Dead" at 7 and 9:30 p.m. and midnight tonight in Hoch Auditorium. The group will sponsor a costume
contest in conjunction with the movie. Admission will be $2, $1.50 for people in costumes.
"Night," a black-and-white movie, was released in 1988 but received bad reviews from film reviewers, according to a review by Elliott and spring 1970 issue of Sight and Sound magazine.
But the movie was praised when it was released again about a year later. George A. Romero worked as director, co-scenarist, cinematographer and editor on the movie.
THE MOVIE is about a group of rabmobens ghouls that lay siege to a Pennsylvania farmhouse. According to the Sight and Sound review, the ghouls "murder, mutilate and eat all the inhabitants except the leading man, Duane the shock— he is shot down by the police, his saviors."
The movie has no comic relief, scientific explanations, romance or other features contemptuously.
"We apply to comedies for chuckles; if you do harry filmers, (his) motive well be the most important."
"The Night of the Hunter," a black-and-white film, will be shown by the University Film Society at 7 and 9 p.m. today in Downs Auditorium in Dyche Hall. Admission will be
Actor Robert Milchum portrays a preacher in a backwoods Alabama village who wants to recover $10,000 that was hidden by a criminal before he was executed. The preacher tries to find the treasure, and the movie is played by Shelley Winters, and her children, Lillian Gish also has a role in this 1955 movie.
REVIEWER GAVIN LAMBERT wrote in the fall 1958 issue of Sight and Sound, "The Night of the Hunter" doesn't altogether, as they say, 'come off', but it is a film of extremely slow pace. It undermines the indifference to convention, make it uniquely surprising for a Hollywood production today."
Actor Charles Laughton directed the movie, and James Agree wrote the screamplay.
A recently horror movie, "Halloween III: Season of the Witch," will be shown at 7:30, 9:20 and midnight tonight and tomorrow night at Hillcrest Theatre, 9th and 1st streets. The film will also be shown at 2:15 p.m. to tomorrow and at 1:15 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 9:20 p.m. Sunday. A special screening will be held on Friday, "hazer card" from local radio station KLZR will be in for $1.50, except at the midnight show.
"Halloween III; Season of the Witch" is perhaps most noteworthy for what it does not include. Despite the title, the movie has no witch; "witch" comes from the witchcraft performed by the owner of a company that manufactures Halloween masks.
Unlike the previous "Halloween" movies, this one does not include teenagers. This sequel tells a story about a doctor who tries to stop the company from killing children who wear the company's masks. The company plans to kill the children through witchcraft.
The movie contains little violence, but producer John Carpenter emphasizes a few shocking, disgusting scenes of decapitation, crushing and people being turned into mush.
Lights, cameras, action!
On campus
TODAY
CATHOLIC CENTER WORSHIP will be at 12:30 p.m. in Danforth Chapel.
ASTRONOMY CLUB will meet at 8:30 p.m. in Room 500 in Lindley Hall if it is a clear
BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
MASTER'S RECITAL, Stephen Parsons on tambone; at 6 p.m. in Swarthout房
chamber.
EAST ASIAN LECTURE STUDENT,
"Mongolian"
shamanism," will be at 7:30 p.m. in Rooi
Roo."
SWIMMING, intersquad invitational, will be at 7 o.m. in Robinson Natatorium.
TOMORROW
FORMULANCE" "The House of Man," a modern Japanese dark comedy, will be at 8AM on Tuesday.
LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY will sponsor a speech by Julian Quan, a Guatemalan exiled in Costa Rica, at 3 p.m. in the International Room of the Union.
ROBERT HUGHES. Time magazine art critic, will lecture on "Abstract Expressionism: Myths and Misunderstandings" at 7:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium.
TOURS: Spencer Museum of Art; Dyche
Museum of Natural History; and the
Academic Computer Center will be from 9:30 to
11 a.m. Advanced registration available at
VOLLEYBALL. KU vs. Oklahoma, will be at 7 n.m. in Allen Field House.
KU INDIA CUUB will show a film,
"Wheeler 2005" in McCullough Hall.
SUNDAY
OLIVER HALL will be open for trick or treating at 7 p.m.
COLLEGE REPUBLICANS will have a reception for Morris Kay at 6:30 p.m. in the Javahawk Room of the Union.
MONDAY
DERATE between Jim Slattery and Morris Kay will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Library.
MARANATHA MINISTRIES will meet at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union.
Costumes' cost frightens some Halloween buvers
By LAUREN PETERSON
Staff Reporter
Two KU students, Fritz Wood and Daren McCullough, Manhattan freshmen, were at Fun and Games, 102 Massachusetts St., Monday, preraining for a Naismith Halloween party.
Pailid masks, with loose red tongues and wrinkled, rubber faces, sit on top shelves and dangle from store ceilings, sneering and laughing. It is a life in the outside world on Halloween night.
"We thought we'd go as K-State cheerleaders," Wood said, holding a purple afro wig. He said he hoped he would win a $50 prize for best costume.
LARRY CORNELIUS, manager of Fun and Games, said the economy had caused people to become more choosy about their Halloween purchases.
With Halloween only two days away, many students have been shopping for the most terrifying or ridiculous masks to make their costumes the hit of a party.
Steve Maley, one of three owners of Footlights,
2449 Iowa St., said although money was tight this year, a lot of people, especially KU students, have been in shopping for Halloween russels.
But few students win enough prize money to pay for their contours. Merchants agree that the cost of a class is low.
Masks and costumes come in all shapes, sizes and prices.
Cornelius said that he had one of the largest selections of masks in Kansas. His most expensive mask is a Hobbit character, the Great Goblin, which is 36 inches tall, made of latex rubber and coated with gray fuzz. It sells for $140.
Foolhights' selection of masks ranges from Frankenstein to Woody Allen. The most
Beth Dearinger, manager of the House of Fabrics, 63 Massachusetts St., said most of her business this month had been from people buying Halloween mask and costume patterns.
THE AVERAGE COST of a pattern is $3.
Material prices vary. There is even an E-T.
price for each pattern.
Merchants have noticed definite trends in costume buying.
Liz Caldwell, manager of Act One, 1025 Massachusetts St., a theatrical books and supplies store, said that she had increased her book stock because the demand was so hot this year.
"We're already out of the small E. T. masks." Cornelius said. "They have been a big hit this year with the movie. A lot of people have asked for Nixon and Reagan masks, too."
People are shopping earlier this year to get the best costume selection.
"We had someone last December asking for halloween makeup. We were already designing it."
"We had a girl'cirl in last week who wanted to see what the bride of Frankenstein looked like in our movie book. Nothing seems strange to me anymore."
MAKEUP KITS and costume accessories are selling more quickly than masks, which are more expensive. Besides the savings, some companies invent their own costumes, Cornelius said.
Two Footlights customers, Alex Borear, Bear,
Del, sophomore and Todd Brown, St. Louis
sophomore, were looking for masks to wear to a
medieval Halloween party at Hashinger Hall.
Brown said he was thinking of going as Merlin
the Magician.
As about 20 people — children, parents, high school and college students — stood in line, strange, menacing sounds came from beyond the walls, which were painted to resemble brick.
Several students are planning Halloween parties this weekend.
Spook spoofs scare up funds
By VINCE HESS Staff Reporter
Another customer, Eric Strautman, Stanley freshman, said he might go as Adam from the punk rock group Adam and the Ants to an Acacia fraternity party.
Halloween is not just kid stuff anymore. With academic pressures, dressing up can be a real release of tension.
Amid screams, moans and howls, a woman, dressed as a witch with a green face and black garb, let people enter the dark interior of a haunted house.
And it can be fun.
Staff Reporter
The haunted house, sponsored by the Lawrence Jaycees, opened Monday in the Southern Hills Shopping Center at 23rd and Ousdahl streets.
"Since Halloween is on the weekend and it is midterm time," Caldwell said, "people have a lot of time to spend."
THE HAUNTED HOUSE will be open today,
tomorrow and Sunday from 7 p.m. to midnight.
Admission is $1.50 each, with children five years
under admitted free if accompanied by an adult.
The haunted house's cardboard walls form a maze. Visitors pass through rooms in the maze and confront Jaycees volunteers dressed as ghouls and monsters, and even encounter a mad scientist. Strobe lights flash in most of the rooms give them an eerie atmosphere.
"It's for anybody who wants to come out and get scared," Dick Henneman, Jaycees community member.
Some people screamed Monday as monsters leaped at them. A little girl clutching her mother's hand yelled, "Mommy, let's hurry!" Some of the glohous snarled and gestured threateningly.
Henning said the Jayces tried to vary the house from year to year, although some
features, such as a graveyard scene, were retained because of their popularity. A room last year that depicted a chainshaw massacre drew enthusiastic comments, he said. It is not in the sense that.
DESPITE THE SCARY nature of the event, visitors to the haunted house are usually not rowdy, he said.
The Jayces began the haunted house in 1973 to raise money for charitable projects, Henning said, and last year's haunted house raised $1,700 for the KU Audio-Reader Network.
This year's proceeds will go to Volunteers in Court, a local agency that assists youth who need help with drug addiction.
"It's a good project," Henning said. "We enjoy doing it."
The haunted house costs little to run, he said, because the labor and most materials are cheap.
Planning for the haunted house starts in early September, Henned said, when a chairman and a location are selected. The Jayees must obtain permission and city approval before the haunted house opens.
Parties to mark Halloween weekend
"I know some people in there," he said. "I went up to Frankstein and yelled, 'Hil!'."
The Jaycees is the only group that applied for city permission to conduct a haunted house, according to the Lawrence-Douglas County Department. The department handles the applications.
"It was great!" said Scott Pelhan, a senior at Lawrence High School, after visiting the haunted house Tuesday.
As this year's visitors to the haunted house walked out, in some cases hurriedly, other people got in line. Those in line watched closely the reactions of the excited visitors.
By SUSAN O'CONNELL Staff Reporter
Any weekend is a cause for celebration, but when the weekend combines with Halloween, it's a special occasion.
To lend the students a hand, many local bars, residence halls and scholarship halls are sponsoring special Halloween celebrations.
Gammons, the 1601 W. 23rd St., is having its third Annual Halloween party at 8 p.m. Sunday, said
The response to the party the last two years was "nothing short of phenomenal." he said.
There will be a costume contest, which will be judged by audience response. Prizes of $100, $105, and $25 will be awarded for first, second and third place. No cover will be charged for those in costume.
"I can't expand the energy that the people expend on the costumes. It is like a three-ring hat."
SOME OF THE costumes are so good that some businessmen and professors come to the studio.
At a party at the Jazhaus, 926 $1 Massachusetts St., Used Parts will play in costume at 9 p.m. Sunday. According to Mike Donovan, manager, the bartenders will also be in costume, and all of the tables will be decorated with Halloween items, such as jack-o-lanters.
Residence halls are getting in on Halloween festivities, too.
Ellsworth Hall has a Halloween party at p.m. today in the main lobby. Anyone may attend.
Many categories of costumes will be judged,
Tom Coomba, hall director, said, including those
of "horses."
"The Ellsworth hall party has a typical name, but it is not a typical affair." Coombs said.
Oliver Hall is the scene of the Oliver Hall Masquerade Ball, from 8 p.m. to midnight today for Oliver residents and their guests. A $1 admission will be charged for non-residents.
ALSO, MOVIES, including 'Psycho' and 'Phantasm', will be shown at 10:30 p.m. on Monday.
Oliver Hall will also be showing movies tomorrow night. Dave Bares, hall director, said.
Joseph R. Pearson Hall is hosting a Halloween party at 8 p.m. today, Blake Griffin, hall vice-president said. The Lewis and GSP-Corbin hills have been invited.
Hashinger Hall is having a party at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the hall theatre. The theme of the party is "Medieval Fantasy," Debbie Faling, Boston sophomore, said.
Movies will be shown before and after the party, Griffin said. "Ghost Story" will begin at 8 p.m. in the front lobby of JRP, and "American Werewolf in London" will show at midnight.
A costume contest will be held, she said, and judges will choose the best medieval, the most ornate. (Molly Pendleton)
McCollin Hall is sponsoring a party at p.m. tomorrow in the main lobby. A contest cost will be held, and judges will choose the best costume for the successful cosmetic costume, the Fraser Hall, or the Friars Hall, directed said.
THE PARTY WILL feature a 6-foot-long dragon designed by Lon Craven, Greenwood, Mo. freshman, she said. It will be electrically wired so that its eyes will light up.
"Come and have fun — dress up and look funnny." he said.
The All-Scholarship Hall Council is sponsoring a party from 8 p.m. to midnight tomorrow at the Elks Lodge, 3705 W. 23rd, Fred Sherman, Lawrence freshman, said.
Grouchly masks hang from the ceiling at Fun and Games, 1002 Massachusetts St., waiting to make their appearance on Halloween night.