Join us as we celebrate October with a special screening of UPGRADE with an introduction from Dr. Ali McGhee! Free Pizza + Popcorn with all the great beers and wine that our friends at The Black Cloud offer! Donations accepted but not required. Food at 7pm with introduction and screening starting at 7:30pm.
(Put on in conjunction with It’s Alive!: Frankenstein, 200 Years. An Artist Book + Print Exhibition On view through October 27 at Bookworks in West Asheville: www.ashevillebookworks.com)
About the film:
After a brutal crime leaves Grey Trace paralyzed and his wife dead, a genius inventor and wunderkind offers him a chance to get his life back with STEM, a state-of-the-art implant that not only helps him walk again, but also gives him superhuman strength that motivates him to start looking for his attackers. What happens when the line between humans and our technologies blur? Find out in this splashily gory science fiction-horror film with a good dose of B-movie fun, which takes cues from David Cronenberg, Black Mirror, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and, of course, Frankenstein. From the producer of Get Out and the writer of Saw and Insidious. (Yes, it’s violent. And also fun. Because Halloween.)
About Ali:
Ali McGhee received her PhD in Romantic literature from the University of Rochester in 2015, where she wrote about 19th-century disease theory, slave narratives, and Frankenstein. She taught classes on Romantic literature, science fiction, and horror at U of R, UNC Asheville, and Warren Wilson College. She currently works as a Multimedia Producer for AVLtoday and is an editor for Holler. She loves talking about weird horror and SF films to anyone who will listen.
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