Cinema Dissection: Halloween

October 26, 2024

Film Talks

After John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 screened at the Milan Film Festival, producers Irwin Yablans and Moustapha Akkad approached the director to helm a low budget exploitation flick to be entitled The Babysitter Murders. Carpenter and his then partner Debra Hill ran with the idea: writing the script in 10 days, retitling the film to reflect its setting on the spookiest day of the year, and, with the help of a spray painted Captain Kirk mask, crafted one the most relentlessly frightening films of all time. And while not the first slasher film, John Carpenter’s Halloween firmly established the sub-genre as a popular, and lucrative, box office draw; Michael Myers blazed a trail followed by Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Ghostface.

Join facilitator and SIFF Programmer Dan Doody for a scene-by-scene—or should that be a slash-by-slash—breakdown of the night he came home!

PASSES & TICKETS
Cinema Dissection Pass: $130 | $100 SIFF Members
Individual Tickets: $30 Sustainer | $25 Regular | $20 Member

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Saturday, October 26, 2024

CLASS SPECIFICS

Saturday, October 26, 2024
10:00am–4:00pm PT
SIFF Film Center

ABOUT CINEMA DISSECTION

Cinema Dissection affords film lovers an exciting opportunity to dig deeper into the films that they love. Inspired by Roger Ebert's annual Cinema Interruptus in Boulder, CO, attendees will participate with a facilitator in a six-hour scene-by-scene, and sometimes shot-by-shot, deconstruction of the featured film. While the facilitator will certainly share their thoughts, anyone in the audience may call out "Stop" and either ask a question of the group or make an observation around a certain shot or moment in the film.

About the Instructor: Dan Doody

About the Instructor:

A Seattle-area native, Dan Doody received a degree in English from Western Washington University, and began working for the Seattle International Film Festival in 1999. He programs both features and short films for the festival, serving on the WTF! committee and as the festival's lead coordinator for its Oscar® qualifying ShortsFest section. He is an enthusiast of the gothic in both film and literature, the pagan-haunted pastorals found in English ghost stories, and the seedy streets of film noir. He could quite happily live in a crumbling castle so long as it was within walking distance of a neon-lit diner on a rain-slicked city boulevard.