Curated and Introduced by Noel Lawrence

Tonight's program draws on Other Cinema Digital's first DVD release of experimental horror films, with other forays into terror as well as odd and eerie trailers and clips sprinkled throughout. San Francisco curator and filmmaker Noel Lawrence introduces the films and talks about OCD's alternative distribution of offbeat, underground, and visionary works.

As if by some irresistible compulsion to witness the mortification of the flesh, tonight's program perversely unearths a celluloid sarcophagus of horrible, horrible beauty . . . a phantasmagoria of the uncanny, the dreadful, and the macabre . . . a pathological delirium of witchcraft, phantoms, and the undead. Using visionary cinematography and a masterful montage of rare film artifacts, amoral auteurs probe every dark corner of the human psyche, with morbid curiosity and in lurid detail! This shocking evening explodes the genre of the horror film, profoundly expanding the cinematic language of fear. Featured are: The Early '70s Horror Trailer (Damon Packard, U.S., 1999, 5 mins, Color, Video). Journey into the Unknown (Kerry Laitala, U.S., 2002, 4 mins, Color, 16mm). Psych-Burn (J. X. Williams, U.S., 1999, 3 mins, Color, 16mm). Ursula (Lloyd M. Williams, U.S., 1962, 13 mins, Color, 16mm). Tuning the Sleeping Machine (David Sherman, U.S., 1996, 13 mins, Color, 16mm). The Virgin Sacrifice (J. X. Williams, U.S., 2001, 9 mins, Color, 16mm). Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria, 1999, 10 mins, B&W, 'Scope, 35mm). Plus The Haunted Mouth (U.S., 1974, 13 mins, Color, 16mm), and trailers for the Psychorama film A Date with Death (5 mins, B&W) and William Castle's Homicide (3 mins, B&W).