Note: The date of this Movie Chat is moved to one week later from Oct 22nd, its previously scheduled time and we’ve added a third Halloween-themed movie. The subsequent Movie Chat will be the originally scheduled Nov. 5th.

Do you like to chat about movies? Participants view each film on their own and then join a group discussion and critique via Zoom. Movies are selected through discussion and a decision of Chat participants. Join the Movie Chat and bring your recommendations! This week’s movies are:

Gothic - rated 5.7/10 (1986) Disturbed, drug-induced games are played, and ghost stories are told one rainy night at country estate of the mad Lord Byron–the night Mary Shelley gave birth to the horror classic FRANKENSTEIN

• Directors: Ken Russell

• Writers: Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands and Natasha Richardson

The Uninvited - rated 7.2/10 (1944) A composer and his sister discover that the reason they can buy a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past. It becomes obvious that the house is haunted. They are compelled to solve the reasons for the haunting.

• Directors: Lewis Allen

• Stars: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey and Donald Crisp

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein rated 7.3 (1948) The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster’s body.

• Directors: Charles Barton and Walter Lantz

• Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello and Lon Chaney, Jr.

Copies of these movies are often available on DVD at the Edgewater Branch library for checkout with your library card or you can watch them online through a streaming service of your choice.

Registration is required. You will receive an email with the link to join the online Zoom discussion group.

This program is offered in partnership with the Edgewater Branch Library.