PICTURE THIS - The Inspiration Behind the Creation

Join us at the Village Community Cinema for our 2024 season of PICTURE THIS - The Inspiration Behind The Creation. In this series, artists, film makers, musicians, share with us, the film that has influenced or inspired their artistic practice, analytically reflecting on their work in correlation with their chosen film.

'Looking into the Darkness'

 Bram Stoker's Dracula was the gateway into horror films for local filmmaker Gary Davies, being the first Horror Gary ever saw on the big screen. Despite being self-confessed spooked by horror, he loved it - a rich, sumptuous re-telling of a classic that never before had interested him much; and to this day, Gary's still not that much into vampires.

 But Francis Ford Coppola's film is a visual masterpiece, utilizing old school in-camera special effects techniques - some from the dawn of cinema itself - and eschewing any of the then-exploding CGI wizardry being insisted…