Slideshow: EMP’s ‘The Lure of Horror Film’
All photos by Lucas Anderson.
No one jumps out at you, but this exhibit has film clips and some gruesome masks that aren’t for kids. Or wussy adults like our arts editor.
Before the exhibit opened, EMP collected as many screams as it could to line the wall leading up to the entrance to Can’t Look Away.
Directors Roger Corman, John Landis, and Eli Roth curated a list of 100 Horror Films to See Before You Die. I love that Bride of Frankenstein is on there.
In a soundproof booth, visitors watch a clip from a horror movie and are prompted to scream on cue.
An installation by artist Philip Worthington turns visitors into shadow monsters, complete with tentacles, fangs, and claws.
The exhibit features lots of iconic horror movie props, including Jason’s hockey mask from the Friday the 13th film series.
Don’t worry: The alien from Alien is behind glass.
Classic horror films are projected from the ceiling into a pit as you enter the exhibit.
On display: Edward Scissorhands’s…scissor hands.
We wouldn’t set foot in this screening room, but we took a peek. You can also watch clips and video discussions on Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Les Diaboliques (1955), Psycho (1960), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Suspiria (1977), and Evil Dead II (1987), among other horror classics.
For opening night, the exhibit featured local makeup artists "zombifying" museum-goers.
The making of a zombie.
