Get ready! Halloween is coming and we think this is a great excuse to send some haunted post.  We’re teaming up with the NZ Film Archive for a night of postal (witch)craft, music and film. Alphabet City will bring along everything you need to make some spooky postcards! Rubber stamps of skeletons, bats, spiders and things that go creep in the night, stencils and ephemera. Send a spook-tacular Halloween greeting that is sure to make your favorite ghoul or ghost smile.

Info from the NZ Film Archive (RSVP on Facebook)
Hunter Moon Rising II: New Zealand Film Archive’s Halloween Spooky Special!!!
Come along early to the Wine Cellar for an early Halloween film programme! Drop in and ghoul out! Your $5 entry includes bottomless popcorn cups!

6pm: Short films

7pm: Live undead performances:
short film soundtracks by Ducklingmonster the dunt loop
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and
Chronic Fatigue (double “whammy” with Pseudorobustus later playing the All Hallows’ Eve event next door)

8:15pm: Crush (1992) directed by Alison Maclean. Many of you will have seen Maclean’s germinal short “Kitchen Sink” (1989). This Halloween we are channeling that Gothic energy and playing her debut feature, the noirish ‘Crush’. From the NZFA catalogue: “The film revolves around four characters – a famous writer, Colin, and his 15 year old daughter, Angela, and the two women who were coming to visit them, until a car accident intervened. Like Kitchen Sink , Maclean’s prize- winning short, Crush is about the shifting power in relationships, and it has similar tonal elements. The film’s dark, psychological manoeuvrings become tense and dramatic, because the characters are all completely real”