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Susie Z. Miller, Project Manager, 301-228-2867

Sara E. McGill, Marketing Assistant, 301-228-2869

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 17, 2003

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Frederick, MD. --- The Weinberg Center for the Arts is showing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein on Friday October 31, 2003 at 7:30 p.m.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is about a man, Dr. Caligari, who is a demonic doctor and murderer. Dr. Caligari is untouchable by the law, is traced by his antagonist, whom he has robbed of both friend and lover, to a mental hospital where he lives as its director. The vengeful young antagonist uncovers the keeper of madmen as a madman himself; as a madman for whom the example of faded criminal memoirs has become obsessive. And then all these events, reproduced as the youth’s story, finally reveal themselves to be the fantasies of an equally sick mind, and therefore a well-disposed audience can make friendly allowances for them, along with the offensive décor; all the more so, since the director- actually a most upright fellow- now also fives the young patient hope for recovery. After all, he has been in the madhouse.

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is a great horror film about two freight handlers, Chick Young and Wilbur Grey, who have their worlds turned upside down when crates containing the actual remains of Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster arrive to be shipped to a local house of horrors. As the boys unload their cargo Dracula rises from his coffin taking the Monster with him, of course only Wilbur witnesses this. Dracula hypnotizes Wilbur and command him to forget. The beleaguered Lawrence Talbot, AKA The Wolf Man, arrives from London in an attempt to thwart Dracula’s insidious plan of transplanting a pliable human brain into the Monster and enlists the boys to help him. Dr. Sandra Mornay, Wilbur’s beautiful girlfriend, is in reality a salve of Dracula, unbeknownst to Wilbur. Sandra and Dracula decide that Wilbur’s simple brain would be perfect for the Monster. Wilbur constantly annoys the disbelieving Chick with all his monster sightings, but soon Chick realizes the monsters are among them and they must help Talbot in his quest to destroy Dracula and his lumbering servant

These back-to-back movies are sure to be horrifyingly perfect for Halloween.

Tickets cost $8 to purchase call 301-228-2828 or stop by the Weinberg Center Tuesday thru Friday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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