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CineYouth Program
Up Past Bedtime: Horror
Synopsis
True crime, creature features, and descents into the darkest depths of the mind are the jumping off points for these exciting and bold genre exercises.
Note: Films in this program may not be suitable for all ages.
Films
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Taming Kara
Poaching rare animals for the black market, a pair of hunters find themselves in over their heads after capturing the exotic Tokoloshe, a mythic creature whose touch leaves one with a menacing curse.
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Wendigo
Deliriously deadpan, this hybrid animation follows a young man who decides to visit an abandoned house in the mountains, only to be haunted by its baneful, pagan past.
![CY21 Pogo 1200x600](https://cinemachicago.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CY21_Pogo_1200x600-300x150.jpg)
Pogo
This free associative dive into the mind of America’s most infamous clown paints a portrait of “Pogo” as the culmination of failed artistic impulses and dark desires.
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Blue Zenith
Sitting around a campfire, we are told the curious tale of Gregory, a young man who takes his maniacal obsession with eels to a gruesome extreme in this dark comedy horror.
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Hollow
Soaked in inky dread and featuring a Lynchian sonic preoccupation with electricity, this formally bold journey into darkness follows a young investigator as she experiences strange phenomena in a recently abandoned house.
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Swipe Right for Murder
An aspiring crime writer finds her perfect match through online dating. Unfortunately, their interests are a little too closely aligned: it’s not “fictional” crime he likes to dabble in…