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Special Halloween Exhibit !
“HALLOWEEN CHAMBER OF HORRORS AT THE HOLLYWOOD MUSEUM ”
Wednesday, Oct. 15 – November 2, 2008
Celebrate Halloween at The Hollywood Museum
in the historic Max Factor Building in the new "Chamber of Horrors" showcasing your favorite terrifying costumes, masks, corpses, mummies, posters and props from popular horror genre films and TV.
You’re not afraid of Halloween because you don’t believe that monsters and ghosts are real?
iThen get face to face with the masks of Jason and Mike Myers from the "Friday the 13th" and "Halloween" movie series
iSit in the haunted church pews from "The Exorcist" and – if you dare
iVisit Hannibal Lecter’s dark jail from "Silence of the Lambs"
The attraction begins in the depths of the Max Factor Building ’s basement where, during prohibition days, the bowling alley and speakeasy played host to Hollywood stars!
See the real (and really scary) items from Hollywood ’s greatest horror films – including "Sweeney Todd," "The Mummy," "Jaws," "Hell Night" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer"
Plus See:
iLecter’s jail cell, personal effects and his mask from “Silence of the Lambs”
i"Sweeney Todd" blood-spattered costumes
iMike Meyers’ original mask and jumpsuit from “Halloween IV: The Return of Mike Meyers."
iSarah Michelle Gellar’s "corpse" fished out of the lake in "I Know What You Did Last Summer"
iOriginal spider web costume worn by famed Hollywood personality Vampira
iJason’s mask from “Jason Goes to Hell”
iCostume and props worn by TV’s sexiest horror host – “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark”
iOriginal Dead Man in the Basement from “Hell Night”
iGuillotine and severed heads from “Quills”
iplus much more including corpses, mummies and masks from Boris Karloff’s, Lon Chaney Jr. and Brendan Fraser’s “The Mummy” films
i12 most popular horror films from Blue Underground (www.blue-underground.com, North America ’s leading source of horror movies) will be screened in the first floor theatre where the seats are none other than the eerie pews from the classic “The Exorcist.” The top 12 Blue Underground movies are (in alphabetical order); “The Bird With the Crystal Plumage,” “Daughters of Darkness,” “Dead and Buried,” “Fade To Black,” “Living Dead at Manchester Morgue,” “Maniac,” “Mark of the Devil,” “Suspiria,” “Two Evil Eyes,” “Uncle Sam,” “Vampyres” and “Zombie.”
“HALLOWEEN CHAMBER OF HORRORS
AT THE HOLLYWOOD MUSEUM ”
WHERE: The Hollywood Museum , 1660 N. Highland Ave. (at Hollywood Bl.)
WHEN: 10 am to 5 pm - Wednesday through Sunday
PRICE: $15 for adults; $12 for seniors and students under 21;
$5 for children under 5.
View: Basement
View: Ground Floor
View: First Floor
View: Second Floor
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| There are special sections here dedicated to major actresses. A large display of Marilyn Monroe items comes complete with huge enlargements of her famous nude Playboy pose, costumes, and memorabilia such as what may be the last check she ever signed (to her housekeeper, just before her death). | |||||||||
| The Mae West collection is particularly large, including her trademark hats, “Diamond Lil” jewelry, and feathered boas. There’s even a “Mae West” life-vest, and a photo of her being presented with the inflatable preserver. Quite a few of these costumes come complete with photos taken from the films, with the actress wearing the same item of clothing, or a video monitor showing a clip from the film. The Lucille Ball display includes a large conga drum that belonged to Desi Arnaz, and a nearby monitor features a film clip of him playing a similar drum. (It would be ideal if all of the displays were identified in such a way.) | |||||||||
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The final trip down to the basement to see Hannibal Lector’s prison cell is almost worth the price of admission alone. One boards a room-size freight-elevator (complete with sparkle-ball, silent movies projected on the wall, and a scale model of the Eiffel Tower from "Moulin Rouge") and descends to the lower level. There one discovers not just Lector’s plexiglas cell, but the entire cell block used in the films "Silence of the Lambs" and "Red Dragon", complete with all the original furnishings and props. Even the small folding chair outside Hannibal’s cell has a story: it was the actual chair that Jodi Foster sat in when she met with Dr. Lector - it was cut to a smaller-than-normal size me make Clarisse appear smaller and more vulnerable as she faced Hannibal. And that is just some of the collection. |













