SUMMER OF HORROR—The always-reliable Hollywood Theatre is kicking off a summer series of classic horror films, all set at summer camp! Tonight starts it off with the 1983 cult slasher Sleepaway Camp, which features quite a precedent-setting surprise twist ending… no spoilers! MS
Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy, 7:30 pm, $8
GRAVEYARD PICNIC—Metro crams a bewildering potpourri of activities into Southeast Portland’s Lone Fir Cemetery for its Picnic with the Departed event. You’ll be free to picnic, clearly, but then there will also be music, a speech from former Governor Barbara Roberts, and actors previewing a production of Macbeth? And lots of buried people, of course. DVH
Lone Fir Cemetery, SE 26th & Stark, 5 pm, FREE
Tonight’s events go well together!
I hope I don’t weenie out in the middle of Sleepaway Camp. That would be embarrassing. I’m easily scared. 😀
Catbot, Sleepaway Camp is more on the silly “so bad it’s good” side of horror movies, like many slashers.
The ending, though, will have you recoiling in what the hell mode. Saw it in a packed theater once and the reaction was spectacular.
I was not too scared! I even wanted more killing! And I won a poster! Thanks for the encouragement, cat & beard.
The ending was not what I was expecting, and it was pretty amazing to watch in a theater full of people.
My friends are claiming I missed a sex scene when I went to buy caramel corn, but I think they were just jealous of the caramel corn at Hollywood. That’s a tasty treat.