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NEXT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9! Join us as 7th House kicks off the opening night of their October series A KIND OF HUSH: Cinema of Ambient with the film that Martin Scorsese called one of the scariest movies of all time: Peter Medak’s exquisitely crafted ghost story THE CHANGELING (1980), starring George C. Scott. A landmark of supernatural horror and one of the great haunted-house films of its era, The Changeling is the perfect film to open a month devoted to the quieter reaches of horror—where the faintest sound, movement, or suggestion of a presence can become almost unbearable.  
A cavernous old house, a terrible loss, and the faintest sounds from somewhere beyond the living world gradually converge as Medak allows the film’s disturbances to accumulate almost imperceptibly, transforming empty rooms and unexplained sounds into an atmosphere of quiet, mounting dread. 
Scott, in one of his best roles, stars as John Russell, a grieving composer who retreats to a sprawling, long-vacant mansion after a sudden and shocking loss, only to discover that he may not be its only occupant. As the house begins to reveal traces of another life interrupted, haunting becomes inseparable from memory, grief, and the persistence of the lost in the lives left behind. 
Join us for the opening night of A KIND OF HUSH and a rare Los Angeles theatrical presentation of a ghost story whose eerie atmosphere, gathering dread, and moments of startling terror are best experienced with an audience in the dark of a theater. 
Info and tickets at prs.org. 🎟️ taken in The Philosophical Research Society by @7th___house

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THIS OCTOBER: It’s in the air…a shadowy footstep behind a locked door, a stranger’s dead-eyed stare, a glimpsed figure at the edge of an empty lot, a whisper from the other room. Something felt before it’s seen. Something not quite right. 
There’s an uneasy stillness that settles over a certain strain of horror, where the slightest sound, movement, or suggestion of a presence can become almost unbearable. This October, 7th House presents A KIND OF HUSH: Cinema of Ambient Dread, a six-film series devoted to movies that unsettle less through shocks than through atmosphere: quiet rooms, empty streets, unfamiliar landscapes, troubled dreams, and the uncanny feeling of being not quite alone… 
Spanning the ghostly memory palace of THE CHANGELING (1980), George A. Romero’s occult portrait of suburban disquiet SEASON OF THE WITCH (1972), the grief-haunted isolation of FULL CIRCLE (aka THE HAUNTING OF JULIA, 1977), the somnambulant seaside nightmare MESSIAH OF EVIL (1973), the rain-lashed Gothic fever dream of NEXT OF KIN (1982), and the hypnotic pastoral dread of LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971), these are films saturated in an atmosphere of gentle dread, where unease lingers long before frights are delivered.
 Join us throughout October for six singular excursions into the quieter reaches of horror, where silence draws us closer, shadows beckon, and the waking world slips into nightmare.
 10/9 — The Changeling 10/11 — George A. Romero’s Season of the Witch 10/15 — Full Circle (aka The Haunting of Julia) 10/20 — Messiah of Evil  10/23 — Next of Kin (1982) 10/27 — Let’s Scare Jessica to Death

Info & tickets at prs.org. taken in The Philosophical Research Society by @7th___house

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SUNDAY OCTOBER 11! As part of their October series A KIND OF HUSH: Cinema of Ambient Dread, 7th House proudly presents George A. Romero’s SEASON OF THE WITCH (1972), a woozy plunge into suburban discontent, occult fascination, and psychological unraveling, in which one housewife’s encounter with witchcraft opens the door to a radical—and increasingly unsettling—reimagining of herself. 📖🕯️

Jan White (in a remarkable performance) stars as Joan Mitchell, a Pittsburgh housewife adrift in a comfortable life that has begun to feel like a trap. Her husband is frequently away, her daughter is pulling away, and Joan finds herself increasingly haunted by dreams of confinement, aging, and erasure. When an encounter with a practicing witch introduces her to the occult, Joan begins experimenting with witchcraft herself—and discovers in it not simply the promise of supernatural power, but a means of imagining herself anew.🪞

Originally released as HUNGRY WIVES, the film began when Romero was hired to make a softcore sexploitation picture about bored, swinging housewives—and instead delivered an eerie, nuanced feminism-infused occult psychodrama. Made at the height of the women’s liberation movement, Romero’s film locates horror in the quiet desperation of domestic life: empty afternoons, casual male cruelty, sexual frustration, and the realization that the identity you have inhabited for years may never really have been your own. Like an occult precursor to THE ICE STORM, the film captures a moment of free-floating suburban discontent in which old social arrangements are coming apart and no one seems quite certain what will replace them. For Joan, the answer is the esoterically empowered allure of witchcraft, becoming at once rebellion, self-invention, erotic awakening, and perhaps genuine supernatural force, while Romero leaves the boundaries between her psychic life and the world around her tantalizingly porous.

Less a conventional horror film than a woozy, disquieting psychodrama, Season of the Witch finds liberation and danger arriving hand in hand. An essential, still-undervalued work from one of American horror’s great filmmakers.

Info & tickets at prs.org! 🎟️✨ taken in The Philosophical Research Society by @7th___house

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KENNETH ANGER’S INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME: COME AS YOUR MADNESS — A PRESENTATION AND SCREENING BY BRIAN BUTLER

Friday, October 16 at 7:30 PM

📍Philosophical Research Society — Los Angeles

For this special pre-Halloween presentation at PRS, Brian Butler — artist, occultist, and official representative of the Estate of Kenneth Anger — returns to reveal the hidden mythic currents behind Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome. Costumes, masks, and ritual personae are encouraged. Come as your madness.

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome is more than a film. It is a cinematic ritual that merges Crowley’s Aeon with Hollywood’s occult underground. The film grew out of a “Come As Your Own Madness” masquerade attended by Anger; revelers from the party became members of his cast, wearing the same or similar costumes. Conceived in the early 1950s and reworked over decades, Pleasure Dome summoned the haunted glamour of Marjorie Cameron, Curtis Harrington, Renate Druks, and other lost avatars of the Babalon current.

Drawing on two decades of research and his first-hand experience collaborating with Kenneth Anger, Butler brings rare insights into the tangled legacy of this work: from writing one of the earliest major essays on Cameron (Disinformation’s Book of Lies), to a decade-long friendship with Curtis Harrington, to visiting the house where the film was shot and collaborating with Anger to restore his lost 1958 three-screen version, which Butler premiered to a sold-out crowd at the Max Linder Panorama in Paris in 2015.

Part screening, part ritual transmission, this presentation features a rare 16mm reversal print from the Estate of Kenneth Anger and invites you to step inside a magickal operation disguised as cinema — an initiatory vision that still flickers through underground culture today.

Co-presented by the Estate of Kenneth Anger.

Get tickets now at prs.org/events✨ taken in The Philosophical Research Society by @7th___house

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9! Join us for what Martin Scorsese called one of the scariest movies of all time, as 7th House kicks off the opening night of their October series A KIND OF HUSH: Cinema of Ambient Dread with Peter Medak’s exquisitely crafted ghost story THE CHANGELING (1980), starring George C. Scott. A landmark of supernatural horror and one of the great haunted-house films of its era, The Changeling is the perfect film to open a month devoted to the quieter reaches of horror—where the faintest sound, movement, or suggestion of a presence can become almost unbearable.  
A cavernous old house, a terrible loss, and the faintest sounds from somewhere beyond the living world gradually converge as Medak allows the film’s disturbances to accumulate almost imperceptibly, transforming empty rooms and unexplained sounds into an atmosphere of quiet, mounting dread. 
Scott, in one of his best roles, stars as John Russell, a grieving composer who retreats to a sprawling, long-vacant mansion after a sudden and shocking loss, only to discover that he may not be its only occupant. As the house begins to reveal traces of another life interrupted, haunting becomes inseparable from memory, grief, and the persistence of the lost in the lives left behind. 
Join us for the opening night of A KIND OF HUSH and a rare Los Angeles theatrical presentation of a ghost story whose eerie atmosphere, gathering dread, and moments of startling terror are best experienced with an audience in the dark of a theater. 
Info and tickets at prs.org. 🎟️ taken in The Philosophical Research Society by @7th___house

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THIS SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27!! Seriously folks, you do NOT want to miss the U.S. Premiere of the utterly gorgeous new 4k restoration of legendary Czech fantasist Karel Zeman’s rarely-seen A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (1974)! Returning to a Los Angeles screen for❗️the first time in a quarter-century❗️🕌🌙

Presented in conjunction with Through Mirrors, Webs, and Woods, PRS’s month-long September journey through fairy tales, folklore, and the fantastical, 7th House is proud to present this enchanting voyage into the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor—and a return to pure animation for renowned Czech fantasist Karel Zeman.

Across a succession of magical adventures, Sinbad sails through faraway lands, encountering giants, a magnetic mountain, the Sea Sultan, a flying carpet, a magical djinn, and other wonders. Drawing inspiration from the intricate beauty of Persian miniatures, Zeman conjures the feeling of an elaborately illustrated storybook coming wondrously to life.

Zeman began his career as an animator before becoming internationally celebrated for a remarkable form of cinematic illusion all his own, combining live action with animation, puppetry, elaborate sets, and handmade special effects. After nearly two decades exploring these possibilities in films like Invention for Destruction and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS marked his return to fully animated filmmaking. Beginning in 1971 as a cycle of seven Sinbad shorts, the project grew into the feature-length work presented here.

More than half a century later, that world has been painstakingly brought back to its original splendor. Completed in 2025, the new 4K restoration involved the manual retouching of an astonishing 130,000 individual frames, with Zeman’s daughter and longtime collaborator Ludmila Zemanová among the experts overseeing the work.

Newly restored through an ongoing project spearheaded by the Karel Zeman Museum, this long-overdue revival reveals anew the intricate beauty and one-of-a-kind visual imagination of Zeman’s animated world, and 7th House is proud to present its US premiere and the first LA screening in 25 years!

Info & tickets at prs.org! taken in The Philosophical Research Society by @7th___house

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THIS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26! 7th House is excited to present the what may well be the first ever U.S. theatrical screening of Jamil Dehlavi’s BORN OF FIRE (1987), a hallucinatory metaphysical odyssey steeped in Islamic mysticism and the mythology of the jinn. 🔥🪈

Marketed upon its original release as a horror film, BORN OF FIRE is something considerably stranger: a collision of supernatural fantasy, mystical quest, avant-garde art film and spiritual allegory, rendered in surreal, startling images that recall the visionary cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky.

A Pakistani filmmaker working between cultures, a British cast, the otherworldly landscapes of Turkey, a demonic Master Musician who shoots fire from his eyes, mystical flute battles, subterranean caverns, visions, rituals and transformations—Dehlavi stirs it all into a feverish, visually astonishing work that veers between the eerie, the beautiful, the profound and the wonderfully bizarre.

Peter Firth (Equus, Tess) stars as Paul Bergson, a classical flautist plagued by visions and mysterious music following his father’s death. His search for answers takes him and his lover (Suzan Crowley) to Cappadocia in pursuit of the elusive Master Musician, an enigmatic figure connected to his father’s death. There, the boundaries between human and jinn, earthly and otherworldly, begin to dissolve.

Made while Dehlavi was living in exile in England after his previous film, THE BLOOD OF HUSSAIN (1980), was banned in Pakistan following General Zia-ul-Haq’s military coup, BORN OF FIRE draws deeply from Islamic mysticism, transforming its spectacular Turkish locations into an alien spiritual terrain of rock formations, caves, thermal pools and underground spaces. Accompanied by Colin Towns’ haunting score, the film increasingly abandons conventional genre logic for the logic of ritual, myth and nightmare.

Long difficult to see, BORN OF FIRE is wildly imaginative, deeply idiosyncratic and filled with strange, striking images that linger long after the film is over. Nearly four decades after its original release, we’re thrilled to bring this singular vision to the big screen.

Info & tickets at prs.org 🎟️✨ taken in The Philosophical Research Society by @7th___house

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NEXT SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27!! Do NOT miss the U.S. Premiere of the utterly gorgeous new 4k restoration of legendary Czech fantasist Karel Zeman’s rarely-seen A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (1974)! Returning to a Los Angeles screen for the first time in a quarter-century! 🕌🌙

Presented in conjunction with Through Mirrors, Webs, and Woods, PRS’s month-long September journey through fairy tales, folklore, and the fantastical, 7th House is proud to present this enchanting voyage into the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor—and a return to pure animation for renowned Czech fantasist Karel Zeman.

Across a succession of magical adventures, Sinbad sails through faraway lands, encountering giants, a magnetic mountain, the Sea Sultan, a flying carpet, a magical djinn, and other wonders. Drawing inspiration from the intricate beauty of Persian miniatures, Zeman conjures the feeling of an elaborately illustrated storybook coming wondrously to life.

Zeman began his career as an animator before becoming internationally celebrated for a remarkable form of cinematic illusion all his own, combining live action with animation, puppetry, elaborate sets, and handmade special effects. After nearly two decades exploring these possibilities in films like Invention for Destruction and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS marked his return to fully animated filmmaking. Beginning in 1971 as a cycle of seven Sinbad shorts, the project grew into the feature-length work presented here.

More than half a century later, that world has been painstakingly brought back to its original splendor. Completed in 2025, the new 4K restoration involved the manual retouching of an astonishing 130,000 individual frames, with Zeman’s daughter and longtime collaborator Ludmila Zemanová among the experts overseeing the work.

Newly restored through an ongoing project spearheaded by the Karel Zeman Museum, this long-overdue revival reveals anew the intricate beauty and one-of-a-kind visual imagination of Zeman’s animated world, and 7th House is proud to present its US premiere and the first LA screening in 25 years!

Info & tickets at prs.org! taken in The Philosophical Research Society by @7th___house

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THIS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19! A 7th House at PRS original! As part of THROUGH MIRRORS, WEBS, & WOODS: A Month of Folk & Fairy Tales at PRS, 7th House and Cinemyth present THE FAIRY TALES OF JIM HENSON: An Illuminated Conversation with Author Andrea Wright, a special evening exploring Jim Henson’s fascination with fairy tales & folklore—and their influence throughout his career—featuring a very rare screening of Henson’s unaired first series pilot, TALES OF THE TINKERDEE (1962)! 🏰 
In a specially recorded conversation illustrated with rare archival materials, Wright—author of the new book THE FAIRY TALES OF JIM HENSON: KEEPING THE BEST PLACE BY THE FIRE—traces this overlooked thread across Henson’s career: from his unrealized 1958 HANSEL AND GRETEL and the early Tinkerdee pilots through the “Muppetization” of CINDERELLA, THE FROG PRINCE, & THE BREMEN TOWN MUSICIANS; strange fairy-tale commercials; fairy-tale riffs in SESAME STREET and THE MUPPET SHOW; the fantasy worlds of THE DARK CRYSTAL & LABYRINTH; and THE STORYTELLER (1987–89), Henson’s acclaimed television series—a journey into the stranger, darker corners of European folklore. 🐦‍⬛🦔 
The program will interweave clips & archival materials across Henson’s career, including rare materials provided by the Jim Henson Legacy: Henson’s fairy-tale-themed Wilkins Coffee commercials, the Pak-Nit Hansel and Gretel riff “Shrinkel and Stretchel,” and rare color footage of the Tinkerdee characters shot by Henson himself. The evening concludes with TALES OF THE TINKERDEE in its entirety, presented from an HD scan of the 1962 kinescope recording. 👑 
The evening will be followed by a separate, free RSVP screening of three episodes of THE STORYTELLER—a rare chance to experience Henson’s extraordinary series on the big screen. 📖 
🔔 Public free RSVPs are currently at capacity, though additional spots may be released. FAIRY TALES ticket buyers will receive access to a private RSVP for THE STORYTELLER. Ticketholders who have RSVP’d and checked in for the first program will receive priority re-entry for the second screening. See listings for full RSVP & admission details. 🔔
 Info & tickets at prs.org! 🎟️ by @7th___house

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THIS SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20! In collaboration with You Must Remember This—film writer Karina Longworth’s acclaimed podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century—7th House presents a rare screening of Dadaist Hans Richter’s kaleidoscopically intoxicating avant-garde landmark, DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY (1947)—a wildly imaginative fable featuring a collision of talents drawn from the 20th century’s artistic vanguard, including Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, and John Cage. Acclaimed writer and podcaster Karina Longworth will join us to give a special presentation on the film and its place in The Bisexuals, the new season of You Must Remember This, launching September 15.

Its wonderfully strange premise is almost disarmingly simple: broke and behind on his rent, Joe discovers that by looking into his own eyes in a mirror he can see the contents of his mind—and realizes he might make a living doing the same for others. Soon he is selling tailor-made dreams to a succession of clients, a framing device that allows Richter and his extraordinary collaborators to move freely between live action, animation, abstraction, dance, music, sculpture, and theatrical fantasy—all through a Surrealist and Dada funhouse mirror. The resulting episodes range from the eerie to the comic, the erotic to the absurd, each operating according to its own peculiar dream logic while somehow cohering into a singular cinematic reverie, made all the more remarkable by its creation in 1947. Playful, seductive, funny, sometimes baffling, and always strange, Dreams is far too rarely seen. Keep your eyes peeled for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-him cameo by a young Stanley Kubrick!

Longworth will also illuminate the film’s surprising connection to The Bisexuals: singer Libby Holman—one of the new season’s two central figures, alongside Montgomery Clift—appears on the soundtrack with blues singer/guitarist Josh White, her rumored lover, performing in Fernand Léger’s “The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart.”

Info & tickets available at prs.org! 👁️🎟️✨ taken in The Philosophical Research Society by @7th___house

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7th House is proud to present the U.S. premiere of the dazzling new 4K restoration of Karel Zeman’s rarely-seen A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (1974)—returning to a Los Angeles screen for the first time in a quarter-century! 🕌🌙

Presented in conjunction with Through Mirrors, Webs, and Woods, PRS’s month-long September journey through fairy tales, folklore, and the fantastical, A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS is an enchanting voyage into the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor—and a return to pure animation for renowned Czech fantasist Karel Zeman.

Across a succession of magical adventures, Sinbad sails through faraway lands, encountering giants, a magnetic mountain, the Sea Sultan, a flying carpet, a magical djinn, and other wonders. Drawing inspiration from the intricate beauty of Persian miniatures, Zeman conjures the feeling of an elaborately illustrated storybook coming wondrously to life.

Zeman began his career as an animator before becoming internationally celebrated for a remarkable form of cinematic illusion all his own, combining live action with animation, puppetry, elaborate sets, and handmade special effects. After nearly two decades exploring these possibilities in films like Invention for Destruction and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS marked his return to fully animated filmmaking. Beginning in 1971 as a cycle of seven Sinbad shorts, the project grew into the feature-length work presented here.

More than half a century later, that world has been painstakingly brought back to its original splendor. Completed in 2025, the new 4K restoration involved the manual retouching of an astonishing 130,000 individual frames, with Zeman’s daughter and longtime collaborator Ludmila Zemanová among the experts overseeing the work.

Newly restored through an ongoing project spearheaded by the Karel Zeman Museum, this long-overdue revival reveals anew the intricate beauty and one-of-a-kind visual imagination of Zeman’s animated world.

Don’t miss this rare chance to experience Zeman in his fully animated form—and to welcome this long-absent wonder back to a Los Angeles screen for the first time in 25 years!

Info & tickets at prs taken in The Philosophical Research Society by @7th___house

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