Nitehawk’s AUGUST MIDNITE: BITE THIS! Vampire Series Starts Tonight with Martin!
Attention, New Yorkers! Starting tonight in the lovely borough of Brooklyn, Nitehawk Cinema kicks off a month-long series highlighting five of the “new classics” that now proudly sit among other classic films of the vampire genre.
George Romero’s angst-ridden dark horror comedy Martin is first up tonight at 9:70 PM ET, and actor John Amplas will be in attendance! Our old friend Sam Zimmerman from Fangoria will also provide the introduction.
Be sure to check out the official press release below to find out the other films playing (one of which has arguably the best makeup sequence of Dick Smith’s legendary career in a scene featuring David Bowie). Hope to see you there tonight and all this month!
For more info check out Nitehawk’s AUGUST MIDNITE: BITE THIS! website.
From the Press Release
With appearances on film now spanning over a century, the vampire is the most fictionalized character in the history of cinema. This month they’re featured in five very different modern interpretations of the movie vampire: an introspective, perhaps delusional, self-diagnosed vampire struggling with his thirst in George Romero’s masterpiece Martin. Neon 90s, green blood bleeding, Mexican comic book monsters await you in the Tarantino/Rodriguez collaboration From Dusk Till Dawn. Quite possibly the most badass bloodsuckers ever to walk the night are coming to get you in Kathryn Bigelow’s hugely influential Near Dark. Come spend your eternity in the sexy, stylized shadows in Tony Scott’s vampire-chic The Hunger. It’s nearly impossible to re-make a classic iconic film and make it your own while staying true to the spirit of the original, but Werner Herzog did just that with Klaus Kinski in his cold and atmospheric Nosferatu The Vampyre.
AUGUST 4 (9:70PM)
MARTIN
George Romero • 1976 • 100 mins • English • 75mm • John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest, Elyane Nadeau, Tom Savini • R
George A. Romero’s is-he-or-isn’t-he vampire film may just be his best! The father of the modern cinematic zombie (the one and only George A. Romero) is also the creator of one of the most subtle vampire films ever made, Martin. Set in the decaying urban landscape of Pittsburgh, the film contains much of the underlying social and political concerns expressed in his Dead works. Here we have a young man named Martin, who has been sent to stay with his elderly relative. Things are a little tense between the two because dear old Martin has a tendency to kill people for their blood (with razors, not teeth). It’s never quite clear if he’s actually a vampire or just someone with mental issues, but it’s this ambiguity, the focus on the fine line between reality and unreality, that makes Martin so great.
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