British Museum in London will host unique Horror Film Festival

March 31, 2023 – 09:00 am

LONDON. - The British Museum in London mounted a unique film festival, in which Dracula, the Mummy and other horror monsters shared with the pharaohs of ancient Egypt that are in that room.

The museum, founded in 1753 and one of the oldest in Europe, scheduled as a cultural experiment, from 29 to 31 August, several passes of classic horror films in what has been called the "Monsters Weekend".

At 15 pounds per session, Londoners and tourists will review some of the most valued horror films of the mid-twentieth century in a "sinister", which organizers are responsible for promoting to encourage viewers to attend the meetings disguised looking "Gothic".

The relationship between the horror and the British no accident: something grim appearance of the museum building inspired director Alfred Hitchcock to film there in 1929 his film "Blackmail".

Some of the scenes from "Night of the Demon", one of the projections of the weekend are also filmed in the building, as well as some sequences of the film "Tale of the Mummy", which recovered in 1998 the classic story English Terence Fisher and the demonic "Possession" (2002).

In that scenario used and the suspense, Friday will open the festival with the "thriller" by French director Jacques Tourneur's "Night of the Demon", which in 1957 worried the audience with a clever plot sects on a researcher involved in a freak accident.

On Saturday, he issued the second movie in the series, the film "Dracula" (1958) in which the Briton Christopher Lee set in the retina of the spectators sinister image that created the Irish Earl Bram Stoker.

With the same actors, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing also British, Sunday will close the cycle with "The Mummy" (1958).

In the scenario excellent museum that more relics of ancient Egypt after Cairo, the spectators attending the violent revenge reanimated mummy that archaeologists have dared to take his quiet grave.

Unlike the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York, who aspire to be universal museums of art and culture, the British Museum is primarily a museum of antiquities.

The rapid growth of its archaeological collection made the last century sought separate locations for the Museum of Natural Sciences and the British Library, formerly part of the same complex, and its galleries currently only retain objects of classical Greece, the Egitpo and other ancient historical civilizations.

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