MLK Library Presents: Tuesday Night Movies!

Horror in Noire

A Celebration of Black Hero's in Horror Films. Tuesday Night Movies Horror Collection

Tuesday, October 11th @ 5:00pm (Total Runtime 3h)

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)
Not Rated
1h 23m
A look at the history of black horror films and the role of Black Americans in the film genre from the very beginning.

Attack the Block (2011)  
Rated R
1h 28m
A teen street gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion. 

Tuesday October 18th

The First Purge (2018) 

Rated R
1h 37m
America's third political party, the New Founding Fathers of America, comes to power and conducts an experiment: no laws for 12 hours on Staten Island. No one has to stay on the island, but $5,000 is given to anyone who does. The First Purge's entry into the Black Horror cannon depicts how destructive class warfare and racism could be on a depraved institutional level. 

Tuesday, October 25th

Spell (2020)

Rated R
1h 31m
A man crash lands in rural Appalachia and awakens in the attic of a traditional Hoodoo practitioner. He desperately tries to break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.

Tuesday, November 1st (Shown on LED Screen)

Nope (2022) 
Rated R
2h 10m
Nope is a neo-Western science fiction horror film written, directed and co-produced by Jordan Peele. In this film a brother and sister of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.

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