February 14, 2024

The From Below Microcinema will be hosting a special Valentine’s Day screening of John Carpenter’s *Christine *(1983) on Wednesday, February 14th, at 7:00pm. This will also be the first installment in our four-part film series: Gender, Sex and Cars.

Here is the link to reserve a seat. Doors will be at 6:50 and we’re starting the movie at 7:10!

All of John Carpenter’s films can perhaps be divided into stories of either a supernatural force arriving from above, or of a force returning from the past, disentombed from below. Christine, a thriller-horror film about the transformation of a teenager’s identity through his fraught romance with a car, a red 1958 Plymouth Fury, definitely falls into the latter category. This film has what you want: a car cast as a slasher villain, body horror elements explored on the surface of an automobile, Harry Dean Stanton, and another fantastically pulsing, repetitive synthesizer score that’s so crucial to the feel of Carpenter’s films. Come watch pure envy, desire, and drive roll out of a junkyard.

All attendees will receive a little special Valentine’s gift from Christine.