Yes, Halloween is about candy and sexy costumes and partying. But remember that whole other aspect of it with all the ghouls and gore and stuff? I forget about it some years too. Luckily, this weekend the Bay Area is creeping with arts events to remind you what Halloween is really all about. Here are a few that strike me as particularly spooky and fun.
Monster Show at Project One Gallery
Twenty artists team up to offer a multimedia show inspired by horror and monster movies. (Ends November 1st!)
Project One Gallery
251 Rhode Island Street (between 15th & 16th)
San Francisco, CA.
Voodoo and Art, Featuring Herb Gold
Author Herbert Gold will be screening a documentary he is in entitled “Hotel Haiti.” Directed by German filmmaker Uly Aumuller, the documentary explores the voodoo and art of Haiti.
Friday, October 28, 07:00 pm
Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
The Blob: A Shapeless Spectacle
The Berkeley Art Museum will be screening the ’80s monster classic “The Blob” as part of their Halloween edition of L@TE. This will apparently be accompanied by gooey treats and “a giant air sac with sounds and images emitting from its moving membrane.”
Friday, October 28, 7:30 pm
Berkeley Art Museum
2621 Durant Avenue Between College and Telegraph
Cinema Arts: Scary Celluloid
The Exploratorium will be screening “eerie” old 16mm cartoons by the Fleischer Brothers including some darker Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat.
Sun Oct 30, 1pm and 3pm
Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco
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Shocktoberfest 12: Fear Over Frisco
The Thrillpeddlers, San Francisco’s masters of horror plays, will be performing three plays by the “Czar of Noir” Eddie Muller.
Fri Oct 28, 8pm
Sat Oct 29, 8pm
Hypnodrome
575 10th Street, San Francisco
An all female theater parody of the Evil Dead movies. Lots of blood is involved.
Fri Oct 28, 7pm
Sat Oct 29, 7pm
CELLspace
2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco
Bottom of the Hill opens its doors to the all ages crowd for a night of music, costumes, and treats.
Please Do Not Fight (Indie Rock)
Rin Tin Tiger (Alt Folk)
Debbie Neigher (Singer-Songwriter, Jazz, Pop)
Owl Paws (acoustic, indie)
Friday, October 28, 9:00 PM (doors at 8:30pm)
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street, San Francisco
Psychedelic Halloween Freakout
Kimberly’s Music Box presents a line up of experimental, psychedelic rock at Bottom of the Hill for those who are 21 and up.
The Warlocks (Experimental / Psychedelic / Rock)
Fake Your Own Death (Freestyle / Indie / Rock – indie/art rock/tango)
The Spyrals (garage psychedelic rock)
DJ Duke of Windsor
Sunday, October 30 9:00 PM (doors at 8:30pm)
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street, San Francisco
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