Our top picks for Halloween fun in San Diego this season: Lon Chaney, 'Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors,' and the return of 'Rocky Horror.'
Lon Chaney stars in the 1925 silent horror classic"The Phantom of the Opera." The film screens with live organ accompaniment on Oct. 28 at the Balboa Theatre as part of its Silent Movie Mondays.
To help you travel back in time, the Balboa Theatre will have Peck accompany the film on the theater’s historic Wonder Morton theatre organ. Now the playwriting duo sink their teeth into Stoker’s Victorian classic to hit another comic vein. You can expect the same mix of irreverent humor blended with affection for the source material. The comedy of terrors begin as vampire hunter Van Helsing and a motley crew chase Count Dracula through the English countryside in a madcap race to prevent him from claiming another innocent victim.
“My young impressionable teenage self that went to the Strand Theatre and saw 'Rocky Horror' was moved very much by that message as a young kid in high school. And high school is all about trying to figure out where you fit in, and this movie experience gave me permission to not care and just be who you are and not try to fit in with all the gangs or cliques or whatever," Murray said in a 2016 interview.
Write Out Loud artistic director, Veronica Murphy said, “For this haunting season, we are once again partnering with the Friends of Villa Montezuma to bring our audience a chilling literary experience. The mansion’s music room serves as a backdrop for these stories by some of our favorite authors.”
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