Filmhouse Cinemas Lagos celebrated Halloween a little differently this year, with the ultimate scary trio of music, movie, and mayhem. The dark-themed Filmhouse Halloween Party, featuring hypeman extraordinaire N.A.T.E, brought together horror enthusiasts to celebrate the Halloween enterprise.
Although Halloween is a relatively foreign construct that ignores the age-old African narrative of ignoring evil rather than celebrating it; it has over the years slowly gained acceptance in these parts, with more and more horror-themed African experiences around the season.
The Filmhouse Cinemas Halloween Party featured some interesting costumes to commemorate the day and an avalanche of dance-worthy music, interspersed with the rhythmic signature vibes of party-starter, N.A.T.E.
The final course for the night was the screening of the third installment of the Marvel horror movie franchise, ‘Venom; The Last Dance’; a worthy culmination to a night traditionally known for mayhem and madness.
The movie tells the story of an eccentric journalist, possessed by an alien entity, who is burdened with the life-threatening decision to save the world while being chased by an alien race.
‘Venom: The Last Dance’ is not an easy watch if you are easily rattled by grimy skin textures and razor-sharp dentures, or if spontaneously eating human heads is a no-no for you. In the epic conclusion of the Tom Hardy movie, Journalist Eddy Brock has settled into symbiotic bliss with the alien symbiote, Venom, and is ‘walking free’ through the dark underworld, even though the authorities are after him. Their symbiotic romance is suddenly cut short by the trans-dimensional entrance of the beings called ‘xenophages’ sent by the world-conquering, creator of the symbiotes, ‘Knull.’
The movie features a series of fast-paced, bloodcurdling action-packed scenes that show the evil Xenophages swallowing the symbiotes whole, while the symbiotes try to protect the one symbiote that Knull truly desires; the one with the precious codex; Venom himself.
What better way to commemorate a horror-fueled Halloween than by killing an alien symbiote in cold blood with an acid bath? No better way to do it than at FilmHouse Cinemas.
