What: Blacula

When: 9 p.m. March 19 (Tuesday) (120 minutes)

Where: Alamo Drafthouse, 3220 Town Center Tr, Denton.

Buy Tickets: https://drafthouse.com/dfw/show/blacula 

About: A 1972 American blaxploitation horror film produced for American International Pictures, BLACULA was directed by William Crain and stars William Marshall in the title role about an 18th-century African prince named Mamuwalde, who is turned into a vampire (and later locked in a coffin) by Count Dracula in the Count’s castle in Transylvania in the year 1780 after Dracula refused to help Mamuwalde suppress the slave trade.

Nearly two centuries later, in the year 1972, two interior decorators from modern-day Los Angeles, California travel to Castle Dracula in Transylvania and unknowingly purchase the now-undead Mamuwalde’s coffin, which they ship to Los Angeles. Unlocking the coffin, the decorators release Mamuwalde, becoming his first two victims as a vampire, turning them and others he encounters in his bloodthirsty reign of terror into vampires like himself. Mamuwalde later meets a woman named Tina (Vonetta McGee), whom he believes to be the reincarnation of his deceased wife Luva (also played by McGee in the pre-opening credit scenes at Dracula’s castle).

What: Get Out. 

When: 9 p.m. March 19 (Tuesday) (120 minutes)

Where: Alamo Drafthouse, 3220 Town Center Tr, Denton.

Buy Tickets: https://drafthouse.com/dfw/show/get-out 

About: JORDAN PEELE’S DEBUT FILM WILL SCARE THE HELL OUT OF YOU. After years of making us laugh with his beloved sketch comedy show, Jordan Peele delivers a knockout debut feature film to make us scream. Easily one of the best horror movies to come along in decades, GET OUT blew away critics, becoming one of the best reviewed movies of the year AND a record-smashing success at the box office. It’s our programming team’s #1 movie of 2017. Simply, it’s a great movie, period — and definitely worth experiencing more than once on the big screen. Watch. Scream. Discuss. Repeat. 

Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, who you might recognize from the excellent BLACK MIRROR episode “Fifteen Million Credits”) is a black man dating a white woman (Allison Williams, GIRLS), whose rich family is the epitome of the liberal elite. Dad (Bradley Whitford, THE WEST WING) tells Chris that he’d have voted for Obama a third time, if he could have. But things are not as they seem, and Chris can’t help but notice that the all-black staff of help have suspiciously glassy stares. By the time he gets the title warning – “Get out!” – it’s too late. 

In the tradition of social message horror films like THE STEPFORD WIVES and ROSEMARY’S BABY (both of which Peele says influenced his movie), GET OUT tackles the insidious monster of racism, a monster that can be lurking in even the most bleeding hearts.