SPOOKS-A-POPPIN
A Nefarious Night of Spookshow Burlesque!

Friday, March 21 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre
Show begins at the Witching Hour (midnite) $10 All Seats
Advance tickets available at the Coolidge Box Office or www.ticketweb.com

Join us for a night of necromantic naughtiness as the sexiest spectres this side of the Netherworld bring you SPOOKS-A-POPPIN, an old-fashioned spookshow of ghastly proportions. Let the mysterious Phantom of the Coolidge (some say he was disfigured in a sinister popcorn machine accident) take you on a dastardly descent into phantasmagoric frights, spookalicious sights, and devilish delights. Meet your favorite monsters, undead and undressed, while zombies and demons lurk among you, searching for their next victim. BEWARE! The person sitting next to you may be dead...or WORSE!

Only at the Coolidge can an unsuspecting citizen of the 21st Century be subjected to the thrills and chills of a classic 20th Century Spookshow. From the 1920s to well into the 1970s, Spookshows proliferated the midnight movie houses and drive-ins to give audiences more bang for their buck and more nightmares to follow them home. Sandwiched between horror movie fare such as "Bloodfeast" and "The Horrors of Dracula", audiences were treated to sensationalist and often excessively gory skits, combining seance effects, creepy magicians, wacky hypnotists, over-the-top promotional gags ("One lucky audience member will take home a real dead body!"), fantastic empty promises ("Meet King Kong---LIVE and IN PERSON!!!), scantily clad female assistants, cheesy special effects, and of course, the ubiquitous rubber monster suit. The most famous Spookmaster of them all, William Castle, was infamous for his elaborate spookshow pranks, which included rigging shock devices to theater seats and ghosts flying straight from the screen into the wide-eyed audience.

Through The Keyhole Burlesque co-founder Ms. Firecracker
(www.msfirecracker.com) has teamed with artist/illustrator extraorda-scare Mister Reusch (www.misterreusch.com) and the Coolidge's own monster-man Clinton McClung for a loving tribute to this lost tradition. For one night only, we're nleashing our own mad monster party of demented mesmerists, stripping mummies, sadistic surgeons, audience-abducting gorillas, 3D apparitions, and bloodthirsty creatures upon Coolidge patrons while they are delighted by a handpicked collection of the best horror trailers, monster-themed burlesque loops, and shock cinema clips that the last century
had to offer.

If all that weren't enough, the Ghouls Next Door of Through The Keyhole Burlesque will be performing terror-inducing striptease that will leave you screaming for mercy. Your toes will curl in fright! You'll be white knuckled with desire!

WITNESS! Ms. Firecracker unwrapped and bathed in blood!
SCREAM! as the lethal Scarlet Fever goes "craaaazy"!
SUCCUMB! to the eerie sounds of Kitty Heels & her singing saw!
BE MESMERIZED! as Stella Ivory casts her spell!
TREMBLE! as Tallulah Starlight rattles your bones!
GASP IN TERROR! as the gorgeous Siamese twins are separated before your eyes!

And all with fantastic props, horrific giant masks, and terrifying keepsakes from Mister Reusch and other local artists who embrace the Spookshow Spirit! Alert your next of kin, because your heart may not be able to take it!!! Mark the date with skull and crossbones and come get gruesome with us...IF YOU DARE!!!

For more information, contact Clinton McClung 617-734-2501 or clinton@coolidge.org

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GLOW-IN-THE-DARK Souvenir T-Shirt

The Phantom of the Coolidge welcomes the crowd from his organ loft above the theater

Mister Reusch's giant Grim Reapers flanked the stage, glowing in the dark
with flashing red eyes.

Ms. Firecracker comes unwrapped

Gravestones by Tallulah Starlight

Scarlett Fever goes batty

Miss Kitty Heels plays the saw while the hypnotizing Stella Ivory puts a spell on the gathered ghouls

Tallulah Starlight decides to end it all.....

...but returns from beyond the grave to rattle her bones.

Psycho chef Scarlett Fever slips into something more comfortable while her rabbit stew simmers.....

....but regrets her carnivorous ways when a vengeful carrot-wielding bunny does her in.

Aided by her skeleton butler, bloodthirsty Ms. Firecracker toasts Hammer
studios with a "Hammer-Glamour" crimson cocktail.

Mister Reusch's "Sales From The Crypt" merchandise booth

Mister Reusch and Ms. Firecracker