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November 1, 2002
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Inaugural Film Festival to Bring
Thrills, Chills to Johns Hopkins
The first ever ThrillerFest at The Johns Hopkins
University will bring some classic creepy films to the
Homewood campus throughout November and December, with four
free screenings in the Donovan Room, Gilman Hall 110, 3400
N. Charles St. in Baltimore.
Organized by Johns Hopkins junior Andrew Moskowitz of
Villanova, Pa., the series will treat the Homewood
community and the general public to some relatively obscure
films that are representative of the thriller genre,
Moskowitz says.
"I am showing films that, I suspect, most of the
public has not heard of, let alone seen," says Moskowitz,
20. "These movies are dying for some mainstream
attention."
Headed for the Donovan Room screen are:
Thursday, Nov. 7
Donovan Room, Gilman Hall 110, 8 p.m.
George Sluizer's 1988 movie Spoorloos (The
Vanishing). The plot centers on a man whose girlfriend
disappears at a rest stop and his attempts, years later, to
discover what happened to her. The film was remade by the
director as an American film in 1993, but Moskowitz will
present the original French version that he says "is far
superior" to its stateside successor. "Whereas the American
version had a typical Hollywood ending, Spoorloos
takes a turn for the dreadful," Moskowitz says.
Thursday, Nov. 14
Donovan Room, Gilman Hall 110, 8 p.m.
Michael Powell's 1960 film Peeping Tom. Karlheinz
Bohm plays a man who murders women only to film their dying
faces. Universally reviled upon its initial release,
"Peeping Tom" has since become considered one of the
greatest films of all time, Moskowitz says. "Forget
Scream -- Peeping Tom to be aware of the
fact that its only a movie."
Thursday, Nov. 21
Donovan Room, Gilman Hall 110, 8 p.m.
Todd Hayne's 1995 film Safe. Considered by some the
best film of the 1990s, Safe tells the story of a
young housewife (played by Julianne Moore) who suddenly
becomes allergic to everything around her. "Gently shot,
Safe sneaks up on you and gets under your skin,"
Moskowitz says.
Thursday, Dec. 5
Donovan Room, Gilman Hall 110, 8 p.m.
Robin Hardy's 1973 film The Wicker Man. The story of
a Christian police officer who travels to a pagan island,
the film is likely to offend just as much as it terrifies,
Moskowitz says. Following The Wicker Man, Moskowitz
will show a 10-minute comedy/thriller he helped to make
called Breathing Room, which recently won third
place in the local Creative Alliance Movie Makers Slamm
(Camm Slamm) contest.
The idea for the film festival was born last summer
when Moskowitz, a Writing
Seminars major minoring in film studies, had an
internship with the University of Maryland Video Press, the
Baltimore-based production company behind the Oscar-winning
documentary King Gimp. As an aspiring film maker and
a longtime film fan, Moskowitz spent his downtime watching
movie after movie.
"I began to realize that the thriller has to be the
hardest to do," Moskowitz says. "A thriller has to be so
tight with no fat in the story. There can't be a plot hole
in a good thriller. So they are one of the hardest things
to write because the writer has to know how it's going to
end before it starts."
Each screening is free and open to the public.
Moskowitz will introduce the films, providing background
about their creators. He will also be available to
facilitate discussions after the shows. For more
information, write to Moskowitz at
moskow@jhu.edu.
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