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Monsters, Ghouls and Melancholy Misfits

Dracula

Screens in tandem with Tim Burton: The Exhibition

From German Expressionism to Grand Guignol, through stop-motion classics, '50s sci-fi, British Hammer and studio-era Hollywood horror films, Vincent Price and Ray Harryhausen, this season, spanning six decades, assembles a constellation of actors, genres and motifs that have informed, inspired and enriched director Tim Burton's wondrous visual aesthetic.

"Monster movies are my form of myth, of fairy tale. I linked those monsters, and Edgar Allan Poe, to direct feelings. I didn't read fairy tales, I watched them" Tim Burton

Curated by Roberta Ciabarra

Friday 9 July - Sunday 18 July 2010
Full $14 Concession $11
6 Session Pass: Full $60 Concession $48
NB > 6 Session Pass can only be purchased by phone (03 8663 2583) or in person at the ACMI Tickets & Information Desk. All sessions must be selected at time of booking.

Freaks + Frankenweenie Tod Browning's cult curio from 1932 screening with Burton's Frankenstein-inspired live-action short.

The Elephant Man David Lynch's moving Victorian-era drama about a hideously deformed yet disarmingly genteel man.

Jason and the Argonauts The mythological 1963 fantasy classic with special effects by stop-motion wizard, Ray Harryhausen.

Frankenstein + Frankenweenie Mary Shelley's gothic novel spawned both James Whale's Universal classic and Burton's 1984 short.

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed Terence Fisher's 1969 Hammer horror, starring Peter Cushing and Freddie Jones.

Black Sunday Mario Bava's moody gothic horror from 1960 made a star of cult 'Scream Queen' Barbara Steele.

Baron Blood Mario Bava's Austrian-set Grand Guignol gothic melodrama, with Joseph Cotton and Elke Sommer.

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror F.W. Murnau's iconic 1922 German Expressionist classic.

Dracula Bela Lugosi stars in Universal's enduring 1931 adaptation of Bram Stoker's literary classic.

Forbidden Planet MGM's 1950s sci-fi cult classic, shot in Cinemascope and starring Robby the Robot - as himself!

The Raven + Vincent The Universal Pictures' classic starring Bela Lugosi screens with Burton's early stop-motion short.

The Pit and the Pendulum Roger Corman's extravagant Edgar Allan Poe adapatation co-stars Vincent Price and Barbara Steele.

The Tomb of Ligeia + Vincent Roger Corman and Vincent Price re-team for Corman's brilliant, U.K. set, Edgar Allan Poe adaptation.