Celebrate Halloween with Peter Lorre

Only treats – no tricks – for Lorre fans this Halloween season, as theaters in Asheville, North Carolina, and Seattle, Washington, present a couple of classic comedy-murder films.

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On Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, the Asheville Film Society will show You’ll Find Out (1940) at the Carolina Asheville Cinema Lounge.

The program will begin at 8 pm. Admission is free, however a $10 membership in the Asheville Film Society helps to support the AFS, as well as offering members invitations to special screenings and discounts on special events. Memberships will be available at the cinema.

The Carolina is located at 1640 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC. Parking is available at the cinema. For more information, please call (828) 274-9500.

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From now until Thursday, Oct. 25, The Grand Illusion Cinema will be showing Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

The film begins at 6:45 pm.

Ticket prices are $8 for regular admission, and $5 for Grand Illusion members. Senior and Student tickets are available for $6. Tickets may be purchased at the box office. Credit cards are not accepted.

The Grand Illusion Cinema is located at 1403 NE 50th Street, Seattle, Washington. For more information, please call (206) 523-3935.

It’s Rondo Time Again!

It doesn’t look like much – a small gray bust of a 1940s horror-film actor – but to those lucky enough to win one, it’s as precious as any prize.

It’s the Rondo – a yearly award where the voters are ordinary fans of science-fiction, horror, and fantasy, and the categories include Movies, TV, DVDs, Restorations, Books, Magazines, Magazine Covers, Websites, Blogs, Fan Events, and more.

In the spring of 2006, Stephen D. Youngkin’s book The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (University Press of Kentucky) won the Rondo for Best Book of 2005.

This year, there are two other Lorre items on the ballot:

#4 – Best Classic DVD Collection ~ Among the nominees is the 4-film, 2-disc box-set Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics, released Oct. 6, 2008, and including You’ll Find Out (1940), co-starring Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Bela Lugosi in their one and only on-screen teaming in this comic take on the “old dark house” horror staple.

#12 – Best Magazine Article of 2009 ~ Among the nominees is “Peter Lorre: The Lost One Is Found”, written by Herbert Shadrak for the Cinema Retro website, Apr. 4, 2009. The article is both an interview with author Stephen Youngkin and a discussion of Lorre’s career.

Voting is by eMail only and ends Saturday, April 3, at midnight, Eastern Standard Time. The official ballot and instructions, as well as the history of the awards and a list of past winners, can be found here on the Rondo website.

The winners will be announced on the Rondo website as well as the Classic Horror Film Board, in the folder “Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards”.

Happy voting!