Friday the 13th is horror night at the filmfest
The 18th annual St. Louis International Film Festival officially opened Thursday night with a screning of “An Education,” my pick for the best film of the year, a coming-of-age romance starring young Carey Mulligan and former St. Louisan Peter Sarsgaard. But the fest really gets going on Friday.
While there are imports on display at Plaza Frontenac, the Tivoli is hosting homegrown horror flicks. “Edgar Allen Poe’s Ligeia,” screening at 7, stars Wes Bentley (”American Beauty”) in a modernized Gothic thriler about a writer who falls for a sickly woman who stays alive by stealing souls. It was filmed in St. Louis–and in the Ukraine.
“Albino Farm,” screening at 9:45, is a based on an Ozark legend about pale-skinned, backwoods religious fanatics. It stars pro wrestler Chris Jericho and was filmed in the hollers of outstate Missouri.
Tickets for filmfest screnings are $10 and are avaiable at the door. Here’s a swig of the moonshine-fortified “Albino Farm”:
How is “An Education” different from “Manhattan”? Woody Allen is such a jerk!