Mixing Spirits & Mysteries

Our new winter series with film aficionado and author Marc Strauss, Ph.D., continues with its second installment February 3rd! Join us on four Wednesdays between January-March for classic mystery films paired with a make-at-home cocktail! Sign up to receive the special recipe and Zoom link to join the libations, viewing and post-film discussion.

These events are FREE and all are welcome (we’ll provide non-alcoholic recipes too)! Donations of any amount are accepted.
Tonight’s mystery: Dead of Night (September 9, 1945; Universal; 1 hour, 43 minutes)

Dead of Night is a British anthology horror film directed by four different people on six different short films (one of which is a comedy). Its circular plot inspired astrophysicist Fred Hoyle’s steady state model of the universe. When he asked himself “What if the universe is like that?’ he wondered if the universe could indeed be eternally circling on itself without beginning or end.
The film is best remembered for the concluding story, which features Sir Michael Redgrave and concerns a ventriloquist’s malevolent dummy. In the early 2010s, Time Out conducted a poll with several authors, directors, actors and critics who have worked within the horror genre to vote for their top horror films. Dead of Night placed at number 35 on their top 100 list. Director Martin Scorsese placed Dead of Night 5th on his list of the 11 scariest horror films of all time.