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The heyday of the gothic horror pictures spanned the 1950s through the 1970s with glorious gothic and giallo takes on classic stories. Senior Director of Film, Jim Carl, highlights the history behind the gothic and giallo genres and the films featured in this year’s RetroGothic Film Series, March 22-28 at the Carolina Theatre.  HOUSE OF […]

 MovieDiva Film Series curator Laura Boyes describes the inspiration behind the new season of the series, titled Sirens and Smart Alecks.  What gets you into a movie theater? For me, it’s the promise of a film telling a woman’s story, whether she is humorous, romantic, manipulative, or powerful. And the big screen accentuates all these […]

Jim Carl, the Carolina Theatre’s Senior Director of Film, shares his favorite trivia about films in the FantasticRealm Film Series series.  COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT Universal Pictures originally planned for Charlton Heston to star in this picture, but he was unavailable due to being contractually obligated to appear in a supporting role in “Beneath the […]

Jim Carl, the Carolina Theatre’s Senior Director of Film at the Carolina Theatre reminisces on 25 years of programming our beloved Retro Film Series.    When my editor asked me to write a blog on the rather broad subject of my “25 Years of Retro,” I might have flinched a bit. By nature, I’m not […]

Our Senior Director of Film, Jim Carl gives his take on films which have played at previous editions of SplatterFlix or are scheduled to appear at future ones. Read Jim’s take on this year’s SplatterFilx film in Part I, here. DRESSED TO KILL (1980)  This is the one about a sexually repressed housewife who enters […]

Our Senior Director of Film, Jim Carl gives his take on horror films that have been in the SplatterFlix Film series. Make a horror movie too artsy and it sits there on the screen, a boring Halloween decoration. Let it grow too gory and it becomes a study in clinical pathology. SplatterFlix Film Series was […]

The air has chilled, the leaves have begun to fall, and spooky season has begun! The Carolina Theatre of Durham offers film series, screenings, and special events all season long to keep the creepy vibes going! SplatterFlix From October 9-15, Retro Film Series reanimates sixteen of the goriest, scariest horror movies ever made, for screening […]

How is THIS rated PG? Depending on your worldview, 1984 is either one of the greatest years in motion picture history or it’s the year when the movies broke America. The one thing we can say with certainty is that it was not a good year to be part of the MPAA. 1984 changed the […]