Just in time for Summer Quarantine: Other Worlds presents the Pioneer SciFi Film Club! It’s like a book club, but we’ll be celebrating essential SciFi films that launched the genre. Film Club members will congregate every two weeks on Zoom to discuss the most important and interesting SciFi films from the ‘20s-‘60s. There may be a special guest, but otherwise it will just be us – SciFi fans talking about the art and history of some special films.
When? 7:30 pm, every other week (we'll alternate between Tues and Thurs)
Where? Zoom
Cost? Free
Synopsis
If you missed it, our first film was the classic FORBIDDEN PLANET. This next film will be the SciFi Gangster Thriller BLACK FRIDAY, starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi (in a smaller role).
In the film, originally titled FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH, as Dr. Ernest Sovac (Boris Karloff) makes his way to the electric chair, he recalls the events that landed him on death row. After placing brain matter from a violent gangster into the mind of a dying teacher named George Kingsley (Stanley Ridges), Sovac watches his patient take on violent tendencies. When Sovac learns, through an almost-possessed Kingsley, about a hidden stash of mob money, the doctor entices the criminal in Kingsley to come out -- with murderous results.
BLACK FRIDAY is available for FREE on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74rz7yWTw2E) and other streaming sites.