A RED carpet event is to be held in Rhyl to celebrate horror cinema's nominations at this year's Oscars.
Rhyller Thriller's Oscars Party takes place at Rhyl Little Theatre on Saturday, March 1, and will include a screening of body horror movie The Substance starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
Rhyller Thriller is the brainchild of Chad Jones and Tomos Rowlands, who have organised several film-inspired events in Rhyl.
Tomos said: "We're really happy to bring Oscar-nominated The Substance to Rhyl as it didn't get a cinema release here and feel like this is the perfect opportunity to have a celebration of cinema.
"We will be having a red carpet style event and a raffle to raise money for local charity.
"Since the closure of the local cinema we have tried to keep film in Rhyl going and have been so happy to say we have had a lot of support from the local community.
"It's also a joy to see other local media projects keeping cinema alive like Wicked Wales with their recent screening of Inside Out 2, which we at Rhyller Thriller were very happy to attend."
Rhyl Little Theatre. Photo: GoogleMaps
For more information and tickets visit https://www.facebook.com/events/964776582536396/
The Substance, in which an ageing TV fitness instructor signs up for a mysterious medical regime that promises to create the perfect version of herself, has five Oscar nominations including for Demi Moore and its writer and director, Coralie Fargeat.
Moore, 62, is nominated in the leading actress category and has already picked up gongs at the Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globes for her role.
Other horror films nominated at this year's Oscars are Robert Eggers' Nosferatu and Alien: Romulus.
What is The Substance?
(PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Review/Digest)
Pretty girls should always smile. So says a leering male TV executive to an ambitious female starlet in Coralie Fargeat’s grisly body horror.
The Substance gleefully satirises the objectification of the female form and unapologetic sexism in the film business by reshaping the harsh lessons of The Picture Of Dorian Gray as a futuristic feminist parable.
Undated film still from The Substance. Pictured: Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle. (Universal Studios/MUBI/Christine Tamalet)
In Fargeat’s hallucinogenic daydream, Demi Moore’s discarded actress gives birth to a younger self and shares her existence with this mirror image until naked ambition poisons the symbiotic relationship beyond repair.
Moore’s tour-de-force central performance energises ferocious scenes and provides emotional glue for the film’s deranged and divisive finale.
Beauty frolics with beastliness and the play fight turns gorgeously ugly.
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