A FILM made 60 years ago that still has the power to terrify is coming to Feckenham as part of a very special screening.
It’s rarely, if ever, seen on the big screen and The FeckenOdeon Cinema, in Feckenham Village Hall, has got hold of a copy that’s been painstakingly restored by the UCLA Archive in Los Angeles.
The Night of the Hunter is a truly compelling and haunting classic masterpiece thriller-fantasy, and the only film ever directed by the great British character actor Charles Laughton.
Robert Mitchum gives his finest performance in a truly terrifying role as a sleepy-eyed, diabolical, dark-souled, self-appointed preacher with psychotic, murderous tendencies in pursuit of $10,000 of stolen cash.
Veteran actress Lillian Gish plays his opposite - a saintly good woman who provides refuge for the victimised children.
A spokesman from the cinema said: "Halloween has become a great commercialised festival of the ghostly and ghastly.
"As an antidote to this boisterous celebration of the weird and horrific there’s a chance to see a classic chiller that has little to do with the supernatural – and everything to do with the downright frightening."
The Night of The Hunter (rated 12a) is coming to The FeckenOdeon Cinema on Saturday, October 31 at 7.30pm.
Tickets cost £5 from the Village Shop and The Rose & Crown in Feckenham.
To book online or more information, visit feckenodeon.co.uk.
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