Just in time for the scariest season, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles is unveiling The Horror Show, a major survey of costumes, props, drawings, posters and other artifacts from the most iconic horror films throughout the history of cinema. The exhibit opens Saturday.<\/p>\n
From Bela Lugosi\u2019s original cape from the 1931 \u201cDracula\u201d to Aunt Gladys\u2019 pantsuit from \u201cWeapons,\u201d the exhibit showcases classic and lesser-known films from every era. Beloved characters like Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Chucky are represented along with more recent titles such as \u201cSinners,\u201d \u201cGet Out,\u201d \u201cMidsommar\u201d and \u201cThe Babadook.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMany different types of films can be considered horror filmmaking, from vampires to slashers to thrillers,\u201d said Academy museum director Amy Homma as she introduced the exhibit Thursday. \u201cHorror has its own filmic history, it\u2019s own origins through literature, culture and art and its own lineage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Horror Show revolves around a simple question: Why do horror films mean so much to so many people?\u201d said the exhibit\u2019s curator Jessica Niebel. \u201cHorror reflects the anxieties of its time, but it also gives us a safe space to confront those anxieties, to look at the things that frighten us and that we desire.\u201d<\/p>\n
The exhibit\u2019s chambers feature themes like slashers, religion, ghosts and science, with several interactive photo ops from a coffin to a chance for a selfie with Mrs. Bates from \u201cPsycho,\u201d and guests exit through an eerie blood room. If that\u2019s all a little too scary for the younger visitors to the museum, an accompanying exhibit called Zombies! goes easier on the gore.<\/p>\n
The Academy will screen a robust schedule of horror films to complement the exhibit, kicking off with an appearance by Jamie Lee Curtis and John Carpenter for \u201cHalloween\u201d and a Carpenter retrospective.<\/p>\n
The Horror Show will run through July 25, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just in time for the scariest season, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles is unveiling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[71905,156,47129,409,111,139,69,61759,81545],"class_list":["post-610993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures","tag-entertainment","tag-halloween","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-robert-englund","tag-saw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}