It happens every year. Sometime on a Saturday, in the middle of the night, a demonic hand reaches out, changes our clocks and erases an hour of sleep from our lives.
This is how I dream about it.
Your nightmare fuel may vary.
I have no idea why we continue to submit ourselves to the scourge that is Daylight Savings Time, as it often leaves most of us in a perpetual state of grogginess for several days, and can cause health issues. It's PURE EVIL, yet we have to keep putting ourselves through it every few months.
But here's something that might make you smile this weekend, the latest edition of the Weekly Update. It might not be a full of events as the weeks later in the year, but it's loaded with some great movies, music, stage events and MORE!
And speaking of later in the year, head over to the
Horror/Sci Fi/Fantasy Calendar, updated with details on movie series, conventions, festivals and other amazing genre events coming in 2020 and beyond!!
If you are hosting an event that would interest Pacific Northwest Horror/Sci Fi/Fantasy Fans, send me an email with the details and promotional artwork to shadowoverportland@live.com and I'll take care of the rest. And remember, having your event listed on the site is FREE!
From Ashland, OR, to Vancouver, BC, The Shadow Over Portland has you covered!
Now Playing
The Lodge, a 2019 psychological horror film from directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, plays at the
Darkside Cinema (215 SW 4th St in Corvallis, OR) through Thursday, March 5. For more details, including showtimes, visit the
Darkside Cinema website.
Film Submissions
Submissions are being accepted for the 2020
H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, OR, and the third biennial
H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Providence, RI. And the stars have aligned for you, as you only need to click
this FilmFreeway link
for all the details on submitting your Lovecraftian short or feature
film to BOTH festivals. Final submission date is July 28, 2020.
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From the people who created the HUMP film festival comes
SLAY,
a chance for you to make a short horror film (up to 8 minutes in
length) and possibly win some cash! Your film can be terrifying or
funny, gory or campy, animated, or whatever your twisted mind can think
of. Prizes will be awarded for the Goriest, Funniest and Scariest film,
along with a Best in Show award. The submission date is Friday, August
7, 2020 at 5 pm PST, and the films will be screened in Portland and
Seattle on October 17, 2020. For more details, visit the
SLAY Film Fest website.
March, 2020
Friday, March 6
King Ghidora,
The Latter Day Skanks and
Wallcrawler will be performing at
Erebus
(409 Pacific Ave S in Kelso, WA) tonight. The show starts at 8 pm, and
admission is just $7 and you must be 21 or older to attend. For more
details, visit the
Facebook Event Page.
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Quentin Dupieux's homage to "'no reason' - that most powerful element of style," the horror film
Rubber, plays at the
5th Avenue Cinema
(510 SW Hall St in Portland, OR) through Sunday, March 8 in GLORIOUS
35mm. And yes, this one is weird, as a discarded tire become sentient
and starts out on a killing spree. Think Jason with treads. For more
details, visit the
5th Avenue Cinema website.
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The Beacon (4405 Rainier Ave S in Seattle, WA) presents the feminist commentary on slasher films,
The Slumber Party Massacre,
tonight at 9 pm. Sure, it has an important message, but it also is a
damn fine slasher flick as well! For more details and advance ticket
sales, visit
The Beacon website.
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The
Academy Theater (7818 SE Stark St in Portland, OR) will screen the witchcraft classic
The Craft through Thursday, March 12. For more details and advance ticket sales, visit the
Academy Theater website.
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The
Academy Theater (7818 SE Stark St in Portland, OR) will screen Richard Stanley's version of H. P. Lovecraft's
Color Out of Space, starring Nicholas Cage, through Thursday, March 12. For more details and advance tickets sales, visit the
Academy Theater website.
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The Geekenders presents
A Marvel-ous Comic Strip tonight at the
Rio Theatre
(1660 East Broadway in Vancouver, BC) at 8 pm. For more details and
advance ticket sales (be aware, tickets are SELLING OUT), visit the
Facebook Event Page.
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The
Friday Late Night Movie at the
Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway in Vancouver, BC) is Richard Stanley's sci fi/horror film
Hardware. The show starts at 11:30 pm. For more details and advance ticket sales, visit the
Facebook Event Page.
Saturday, March 7
The
Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway in Vancouver, BC) presents the anime version of
Ghost in the Shell tonight at 11:15 pm. For more details and advance ticket sales, visit the
Rio Theatre website.
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The
Rio Theatre
(1660 East Broadway in Vancouver, BC) will show the latest horror film
from the writer/director team of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala,
The Lodge tonight and tomorrow. For more details and advance ticket sales, visit the
Facebook Event Page.
Sunday, March 8
Frank and Zed, an all-puppet monster movie made in Portland, OR, premieres tonight at the
Cinema 21
(616 NW 21st Ave in Portland, OR) at 8:30 pm. Cast, crew and PUPPETS
will be in attendance. For more details and advance ticket sales, visit
the
Facebook Event Page.
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The
Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway in Vancouver, BC) will show
Rabid,
the remake of David Cronenberg's body-horror classic by filmmakers Jen
and Sylvia Soska, tonight at 9:30 pm. The Soskas will be in attendance
for a Q and A after the film. For more details and advance ticket
sales, visit the
Facebook Event Page.
Tuesday, March 10
Burlynomicon returns to the
Lovecraft Bar (421 SE Grand Ave in Portland, OR) this evening. Doors open at 8:30 pm, with the show starting at 9:30 pm. Admission is $15, and you must be 21 or older to attend. For more details, including a list of performers and advance ticket sales, visit the
Facebook Event Page.
Thursday, March 12
The
Emerald City Comic Con takes place through Sunday at the
Washington State Convention Center
(800 Convention Pl in Seattle, WA). Guests include Mark Ruffalo (the
MCU Hulk), Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Michael J. Fox (
Back to the Future) and MANY MORE! For all the details, visit the
Facebook Event Page or the
ECCC website.
UPDATE:
The ECCC has been CANCELLED due to concerns about the COVID-19 (the coronavirus), and will be rescheduled later in the year. Visit the website linked above for more details.
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Nocturnal Emissions brings that other 1981 werewolf film, Joe Dante's classic
The Howling, to the
Northwest Film Forum (1515 12th Ave in Seattle, WA) tonight at 7:30 pm. For more details and advance ticket sales, visit the
Facebook Event Page.
Friday, March 13
Rocko Zevenbergen and The Bad Taste Video Team presents the local premiere of their first feature film,
I NEED YOU DEAD, at 9:30 pm tonight at the
Hollywood Theatre
(4122 NE Sandy Blvd in Portland, OR). The film follows DOOD (Estevan
Munoz), a young punk living in Shmucksville, USA, who births a strage
fleshy creature after a moment of total teen angst. Now DOOD must find a
way to kill the creature, the embodiment of his most self-deprecative
thoughts, before he's convinced to get rid of himself. For more details
and advance ticket sales, visit the
Hollywood Theatre website.
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Wyrd War presents exploitation filmmaker Stephanie Rothman's reimagining of the vampire mythos,
The Velvet Vampire, at 7 pm tonight at the
Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE Sandy Blvd in Portland, OR). The film stars Cleste Yarnall (
Beast of Blood) and Michael Blodgett (
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls). For more details and advance ticket sales, visit the
Hollywood Theatre website.
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The
Friday the 13th Haunted Taft Tour takes place this evening at 7 pm, starting at the
Sapphire Center
(4840 SE Highway 101 in Lincoln City, OR). Learn about the Ghost
Schooner of Siletz Pay, Lincoln City's Haunted Fire Truck, and the
apparition showing up on the beaches since Prohibition. For more
details and advance ticket sales, visit the
Facebook Event Page.
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The supernatural comedy
Extra Ordinary,
about a reluctant exorcist force to help a father rescue his daughter
from a rock star who sold his soul for a second chance at fame, plays
through Thursday, March 19 at the
Grand Illusion Cinema (1403 NE 50th St in Seattle, WA). For more details, visit the
Grand Illusion website.
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The Beacon (4405 Rainier Ave S in Seattle, WA) presents the slasher flick with the GREATEST twist ending ever,
Sleepaway Camp,
tonight at 9:30 pm. DO NOT spoil it for people seeing it for the first
time!! Instead, just enjoy their reaction to the final scene! For
more details and advance ticket
sales, visit
The Beacon website.
Saturday, March 14
Portland Sinful Walking Tour: Shanghaiers, Saloons, Skullduggery starts at 1 pm today at
Floyd's Coffee Shop
(932 SW 3rd Ave in Portland, OR). Walk through Old town and hear the
history of "Portland's naughty bits!" For more details and advance
ticket sales, visit the
Facebook Event Page.
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VHS Uber Alles brings
Phantom Brother,
the story of "normal" young man with a zombie family killing people in a
deserted house AND a drunken hillbilly foster family scheming to claim
his inheritance, to the
Grand Illusion Cinema (1403 NE 50th St in Seattle, WA) in GLORIOUS VHS! Showtime is 9 pm and admission is just $2. For all the details, visit the
Grand Illusion website.
Sunday, March 15
Fathom Events is bringing the Eighth Wonder of the World back to theaters nationwide! The 1933 classic
King Kong
will play at 1 and 4 pm today only. And if you haven't seen this film
on the big screen, DO NOT MISS IT!!! I'm not kidding, DO NOT MISS IT!
For more details, including advance ticket sales and a list of locations
near you, visit the
Fathom Event Page.
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The Future is NOW: Film Noir Hybrids for the Nervous Generation series at the
Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE Sandy Blvd in Portland, OR) will screen the grittiest, darkest post-apocalypse film from the 50s,
Five,
tonight at 7 pm in GLORIOUS 35mm. As the last five people alive after a
nuclear holocaust work to rebuild some sense of civilization, things
start to fall apart as each succumb to their desires and prejudices.
The event is hosted by noir expert Elliot Lavine. For more details and
advance ticket sales, visit the
Hollywood Theatre website.
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