Great ready to be afraid. Very afraid.
The Loft Cinema’s annual All-Nite Scream-O-Rama, now in its 10th year, is Friday.
It’s a pajama party as well as a film and horror bonanza, with seven movies designed to send frightful shivers throughout the theater.
The movies run from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. In between, there will be trivia games and prizes, drink specials, freaky food surprises and scary short films and trailers. Falling asleep is part of the fun, so bring a pillow.
“There is something really great about having 100-plus people really getting into a horror film,” says the Loft’s program manager, Jeff Yanc. The bigger audiences often opt for the later movies, and they come prepared to get into the spirit of the films, he adds.
“They’re laughing and screaming, and we kind of give people the license to do that without the need to be polite.”
The horror in store:
“Poltergeist” (1982): Directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, an all-American family faces many challenges when their house is haunted by ghosts. 7 p.m.
“Halloween” (1978): John Carpenter directed this, one of the most popular — and scariest — horror flicks. At 6 years old Michael Myers murders his sister and is sent to a mental hospital. What happens when Myers breaks out and heads back to his hometown 15 years later? 9:10 p.m.
“Slither” (2006): A small town is taken over by an alien outbreak, causing an unusual change in its residents that might just threaten the human race. 10:50 p.m.
“The Hitcher” (1986): Starring Rutger Hauer and Tomas Howell, a young man makes the mistake of giving a ride to a hitchhiker who happens to be a serial killer. 12:30 a.m.
“Housebound” (2014): A girl on house arrest is ordered to live in her childhood home with her off-kilter mother. The new living arrangement is even more unbeareable to the house. 2:20 a.m.
“Night of the Creeps” (1986): Alien brain parasites begin to take over humans by turning them into killing zombies, and a group of teenagers has no choice but to fight back. 4:10 a.m.
“Videodrome” (1983): Watching TV becomes a little bizarre when a cable programmer comes across a mysterious broadcast called “Videodrome.” Directed by David Cronenberg. 5:30 a.m.
