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Friday Night Movie Frights at the Topsham Public Library!

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Celebrate spooky season with the Topsham Public Library. For the first four Fridays in October, join us after hours at 6pm to watch a horror classic! Popcorn will be served. Themed outfits are encouraged!

Here’s what we’re showing!

Oct. 3rd at 6pm
Beetlejuice

After Barbara and Adam Maitland die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence, unable to leave the house. When the unbearable Deetzes and teen daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) buy the home, the Maitlands attempt to scare them away without success. Their efforts attract Beetlejuice, a rambunctious spirit whose help quickly becomes dangerous for the Maitlands and innocent Lydia. Rated PG.

Oct. 10th at 6pm
Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) is a young lawyer who is assigned to a gloomy village just outside of Transylvania. He is forced to stay at the castle of the undead vampire Dracula (Gary Oldman) and imprisoned by his minions. Dracula travels to London after being inspired by a photograph of Harker’s betrothed, Mina Murray (Winona Ryder). Once Dracula lands in England, his reign of seduction and terror begins. He drains the life from Mina’s closest friend, Lucy Westenra (Sadie Frost). Lucy’s friends, including her fiancé, gather together to try to drive Dracula away. Rating: R, for sexuality and horror violence.

Oct. 17pm at 6pm
The Ring

A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After the viewing the tape, they receive phone calls in which they are warned they will die in seven days. Rachel, the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter. She manages to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve the puzzle of the video and who is behind it. Rated PG-13, for thematic elements, disturbing images, language and some drug references.

Oct. 24th at 6pm
The Blair Witch Project

Three student filmmakers set out into the forest to film a documentary on a legend known as The Blair Witch. As they become lost in the woods, an unseen evil begins to stalk and harass them. They soon realize that what they are filming is not a legend, but their own descent into a horrifying encounter with the supernatural. Rated R.