Voor de november screening van The Cult Corner in Cinema OT301 mochten de bezoekers van The Cult Corner beslissen welke vampierfilms de site vertoond op The Night of the Vampires. Zij hebben op Facebook gestemd op hun favoriet en daar rolden de volgende twee winnaars uit, die op dinsdag 17 november worden vertoond op het witte doek van OT301, de voormalige filmacademie van Amsterdam:

Martin (1977) van George A. Romero


"In 1977 came MARTIN, which attempted what is the most potent cinematic deconstruction of the myth conducted to date. Martin is a remarkable film. It dismisses all the mythological elements of vampirism. The vampire in Martin has no supernatural powers. It is able to go out in daytime. It lacks the raw animal magnetism of its cinematic forebears - it even gets an amusing speech bemoaning its lack of mind control abilities or any of the seductive powers of its cinematic counterparts. Martin, the vampire, appears as a weak, slightly autistic teenager - he is a rather pitiable creature who owes its ancestry more, if anything, to Norman Bates rather than Bela Lugosi." (The SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review)

Near Dark (1987) van Kathryn Bigelow



"Het intelligente en verrassende script van Kathryn Bigelow en Eric Red zorgt voor nieuw bloed binnen het vampier-genre; Tangerine Dream's duistere synthesizer-score vormt de hartslag van de film, terwijl cameraman Adam Greenberg de metaforische lading van Near Dark in prachtige beelden weet te vangen." (Preview)

"Near Dark is truly one of those rare gems and an incredibly entertaining cinematic experience. An extremely well made horror, western, love story hybrid you owe it to yourself to give this a look: Near Dark is a class act all the way." (Monsters at Play)



Datum: 17 november 2009
Tijd: 20:30, de bar opent om 20:00
Entree: 4 euro voor de hele avond
Plaats: Cinema OT301, Amsterdam (Overtoom 301 is via de tramlijnen 1 & 17 makkelijk te bereiken. Uitstappen op halte Jan Pieter Heijestraat)