Creepy Close Encounters at Hollywood Forever

As summer draws to a close, if not weatherwise at least as far as putting away the white trousers and shoes is concerned, what better way to celebrate than taking in a movie at a cemetery about creepy extraterrestrials that will never allow you to look at a plate of mash potatoes the same way again? Bad carbs! BAD!!

Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles’ friendly neighborhood graveyard, and Cinespia are screening Close Encouters of the Third Kind this Saturday evening, August 30th. And Sunday night it gets even scarier after the jump…

I saw this mesmerizing big budget blockbuster during my early years in NYC at the vaunted, cavernous Ziegfield Theater, high out of my mind on pot, and I can still remember its chilling, heartwarming, stirring thrust that poked fun at our humanity in the face of — um, extraterrestrial-ity(?)– follow me there?

Anyway, get there early for the good spots. Otherwise you’ll be left to wander amongst the grave markers and various gardens of lost souls, looking for a private spot to make out with your date.

AND! If that weren’t enough, the following night, Sunday, August 31st, they’ll be screening Don’t Look Now, Nicolas Roeg’s scary ghost tale of justifiable paranoia (and hot, steamy ’70s-style sex) embodied in a red-hooded, terrorizing little person. Venice will never seem the same to you after this one– and I mean the city in Italy, not the west side hipster/yup enclave, okay, Dude?

Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd. at Gower. Gates open at 7:00PM, screens at 8:30PM. $10 donation; $5 parking.

Photo: Sony Pictures