[NFBMO] October Events

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All are invited to the below events for October! Feel free to share with
people that do not have access to Email!

Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8:00 PM Eastern

Ghostbusters Audio described movie

Friday, October 13, 2023 at 8:00 PM Eastern

exorcist Audio described movie

Friday, October 20, 2023 at 8:00 PM Eastern

Hush audio described movie

Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 11:00 AM

Presentation from 64OZ Games

Friday, October 27, 2023 at 8:00 PM Eastern

Trivia Night Send David Bundy a message at bundy at pobox.com
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Ghostbusters

Run Time : 1 hour 45 minutes

Rating TV 14

After Columbia University parapsychology professors Peter Venkman, Ray
Stantz, and Egon Spengler experience their first encounter with a ghost at
the New York Public Library, the university dean dismisses the credibility
of their paranormal-focused research and fires them. The trio responds by
establishing "Ghostbusters", a paranormal investigation and elimination
service operating out of a disused firehouse. They develop high-tech
nuclear-powered equipment to capture and contain ghosts, although business
is initially slow.

After a paranormal encounter in her apartment, cellist Dana Barrett visits
the Ghostbusters. She recounts witnessing a demonic dog-like creature in her
refrigerator utter a single word: "Zuul". Ray and Egon research Zuul and
details of Dana's building while Peter inspects her apartment and
unsuccessfully attempts to seduce her. The Ghostbusters are hired to remove
a gluttonous ghost, Slimer, from the Sedgewick Hotel. Having failed to
properly test their equipment, Egon warns the group that crossing the energy
streams of their proton pack weapons could cause a catastrophic explosion.
They capture the ghost and deposit it in an ecto-containment unit under the
firehouse. Supernatural activity rapidly increases across the city and the
Ghostbusters become famous; they hire a fourth member, Winston Zeddemore, to
cope with the growing demand.

Suspicious of the Ghostbusters, Environmental Protection Agency inspector
Walter Peck asks to evaluate their equipment, but Peter rebuffs him. Egon
warns that the containment unit is nearing capacity and supernatural energy
is surging across the city. Peter meets with Dana and informs her Zuul was a
demigod worshipped as a servant to "Gozer the Gozerian", a shapeshifting god
of destruction. Upon returning home, she is possessed by Zuul; a similar
entity possesses her neighbor, Louis Tully. Peter arrives and finds the
possessed Dana/Zuul claiming to be "the Gatekeeper". Louis is brought to
Egon by police officers and claims he is "Vinz Clortho, the Keymaster". The
Ghostbusters agree to keep the pair separated.

Peck returns with law enforcement and city workers to have the Ghostbusters
arrested and their containment unit deactivated, causing an explosion that
releases the captured ghosts. Louis/Vinz escapes in the confusion and makes
his way to the apartment building to join Dana/Zuul. In jail, Ray and Egon
reveal that Ivo Shandor, leader of a Gozer-worshipping cult in the early
20th century, designed Dana's building to function as an antenna to attract
and concentrate spiritual energy to summon Gozer and bring about the
apocalypse. Faced with supernatural chaos across the city, the Ghostbusters
convince the mayor to release them.

The Ghostbusters travel to a hidden temple located on top of the building as
Dana/Zuul and Louis/Vinz open the gate between dimensions and transform into
demonic dogs. Gozer appears as a woman and attacks the Ghostbusters then
disappears when they attempt to retaliate. Her disembodied voice demands the
Ghostbusters "choose the form of the destructor". Ray inadvertently recalls
a beloved corporate mascot from his childhood, and Gozer reappears as a
gigantic Stay Puft Marshmallow Man that begins destroying the city. Against
his earlier advice, Egon instructs the team to cross their proton energy
streams at the dimensional gate. The resulting explosion destroys Gozer's
avatar, banishing it back to its dimension, and closes the gateway. The
Ghostbusters rescue Dana and Louis from the wreckage and are welcomed on the
street as heroes.

Cast

Main article: List of Ghostbusters characters

Portrait photos of the stars of the film: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd,
Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Harold Ramis, and Annie Potts

Stars of the film include (l-r) Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver,
Ernie Hudson, Harold Ramis, and Annie Potts

Bill Murray as Peter Venkman

Dan Aykroyd as Ray Stantz

Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett

Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler

Rick Moranis as Louis Tully

Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz

William Atherton as Walter Peck

Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddemore

In addition to the main cast, Ghostbusters features David Margulies as Lenny
Clotch, Mayor of New York, Michael Ensign as the Sedgewick Hotel manager,
and Slavitza Jovan as Gozer (voiced by Paddi Edwards). It also features
astrologist Ruth Hale Oliver as the Library Ghost,[3] Alice Drummond as the
Librarian,[4] Jennifer Runyon and Steven Tash as Peter's psychological test
subjects,[5][6] Timothy Carhart as a violinist,[6] and Reginald VelJohnson
as a corrections officer.[7] Playboy Playmate Kymberly Herrin appears as a
seductive ghost in Ray's dreams.[3]

Exorcist

Run Time: 2 hours and 2 minutes

Rating: R

In Georgetown, Washington, D.C., actress Chris MacNeil stars in a film
directed by her friend Burke Dennings. MacNeil, along with her 12-year old
daughter Regan, rents a house with servants. Father Damien Karras, a
psychiatrist who counsels Georgetown University priests, visits his ailing
mother in New York. He confides to a colleague that he feels unfit in his
role, citing a crisis of faith.

Chris hosts a party with Karras' friend, Father Dyer, who explains Karras'
role as counselor, mentioning that his mother died recently. Regan,
seemingly unwell, appears and urinates before Chris comforts her. After she
puts Regan to bed, it shakes violently. Dyer consoles Karras, who expresses
guilt at not having been with his mother when she died.

Regan's personality becomes violent. She is subjected to medical tests,
which find no physical cause. During a house call, Regan exhibits abnormal
strength. One night, Chris finds the house empty except for a sleeping
Regan. Dennings is found dead beneath Regan's window. Homicide detective
William Kinderman questions Karras, confiding that Dennings’ head was turned
backwards.

Regan's condition worsens as her body becomes covered with sores. Kinderman
visits Chris, explaining that the only plausible explanation for Dennings’
death is that he was pushed from Regan's window. As Kinderman leaves, the
possessed Regan stabs her genitals with a crucifix, turns her head backwards
and speaks in Dennings' voice. Regan is confined to her bedroom.

Chris seeks out Karras, who visits Regan. The possessed Regan claims to be
the Devil himself, and projectile vomits into Karras's face while speaking
in tongues. The demon says it will remain in Regan until she is dead. At
night, Chris's assistant calls Karras to the house, where he witnesses the
words "help me" materialize on Regan's skin. Still ambivalent, Karras
concludes that an exorcism is warranted. His superior grants permission on
the condition that an experienced priest lead the ritual. Having performed
an exorcism before, Catholic priest Lankester Merrin is summoned.

Merrin arrives at the house. As the priests read from the Roman Ritual, the
demon curses them. The priests rest and Merrin, shaking, takes
nitroglycerin. Karras enters the bedroom where the demon appears as his
mother. Showing weakness, Karras exclaims that the demon is not his mother.
Merrin excuses Karras and continues the exorcism by himself. Karras assures
Chris that Regan will not die and re-enters the room, finding Merrin dead.
Enraged, Karras beats the possessed Regan and demands that the demon take
him instead. The demon rips the medallion of Saint Joseph from Karras' neck
and possesses him, freeing Regan. Karras hurls himself out the window,
tumbling down the stairs outside. Chris and Kinderman enter the room. Chris
embraces the healed Regan, and Kinderman surveys the scene. Outside, Dyer
administers the dying Karras’ last rites.

The MacNeils prepare to leave, and Father Dyer says goodbye. Despite having
no memory of her ordeal, Regan, moved by the sight of Dyer's clerical
collar, kisses him on the cheek. As the MacNeils leave, Chris gives Dyer the
medallion found in Regan's room.

Director's cut ending

Dyer gives Karras' medallion back to Chris. After she and Regan drive away,
Dyer pauses at the top of the stone steps before walking away and coming
across Kinderman, who narrowly missed Chris and Regan's departure; Kinderman
and Dyer begin to develop a friendship.[6][7]

Cast

Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil

Max von Sydow as Father Lankester Merrin

Lee J. Cobb as Lieutenant William F. Kinderman

Kitty Winn as Sharon Spencer

Jack MacGowran as Burke Dennings

Jason Miller as Father / Dr. Damien Karras, S.J.

Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil

Father William O'Malley as Father Joseph Dyer

Barton Heyman as Dr. Samuel Klein

Peter Masterson as Dr. Barringer

Rudolf Schündler as Karl, House Servant

Gina Petrushka as Willi Engstrom

Robert Symonds as Dr. Taney

Arthur Storch as The Psychiatrist

Father Thomas Bermingham as Father Tom Kanavan, President of Georgetown
University

Vasiliki Maliaros as Mrs. Karras, Damien's Mother

Titos Vandis as John, Damien's Uncle

John Mahon as Language Lab Director

Wallace Rooney as Bishop Michael

Ron Faber as Chuck and The Voice of Pazuzu

Donna Mitchell as Mary Jo Perrin

Dick Callinan as Captain Billy Cutshaw

Roy Cooper as Jesuit Dean

Robert Gerringer as Senator at Party

Mercedes McCambridge as The Voice of Pazuzu

William Peter Blatty as Fromme, The Producer (uncredited)

Paul Bateson as Radiologist's Assistant (uncredited)

Elinore Blair as Nurse (uncredited)

Barton Lane as Angiography Doctor (uncredited)

Eileen Dietz as The Face of Pazuzu (uncredited)

Ann Miles as Spiderwalk (uncredited)

Hush

Run time: 1 hour and 21 minutes

Deaf-mute horror author Maddie Young lost her abilities to hear and speak
after contracting bacterial meningitis at age 13. The disease caused
permanent hearing loss and temporary vocal cord paresis which became
permanent after unsuccessful surgery.

Hoping to advance her writing career following her publication of the novel
Midnight Mass and receiving international critical acclaim, Maddie leaves
New York City and lives an isolated life in the woods with her white cat.
Her friend Sarah visits her one evening to return a copy of her book, and
they talk about her isolation and Sarah's desire to learn more sign
language. Later that night, a masked killer with a crossbow attacks Sarah
and chases her to Maddie's house. A bloodied Sarah bangs on the door
shouting for help; she goes unnoticed by Maddie as she is deaf and the
killer stabs Sarah in the stomach 13 times resulting in her death.

The killer quickly deduces that Maddie is deaf and decides to try and make
her another victim. He sneaks into her house and steals her phone, which he
then uses to take pictures of her and send them to her. Maddie realizes she
is being stalked and tries to call the police, but the killer cuts the power
and punctures the tires on her car to prevent escape. Maddie writes "won't
tell, didn't see face, boyfriend coming home" on the glass panel door with
her lipstick. The killer responds by taking off his mask and revealing his
face and—upon learning she can read lips—taunts her with the threat of
waiting to break in. He then uses Sarah's corpse to knock on the window.
Maddie uses her car keys to trigger her car alarm in an attempt to distract
the killer so she can retrieve Sarah's phone from her corpse’s pocket, but
is caught by him before she can grab it and quickly locks herself back
inside.

While attempting to escape through the second-story window, Maddie is shot
in the leg by the killer with a crossbow bolt, but she manages to knock him
off the roof and steal the weapon. Sarah's boyfriend, John, arrives at
Maddie's house looking for Sarah. The killer poses as a police officer
responding to a call, but John grows suspicious of him. He plans to attack
the killer from behind with a rock, but Maddie distracts him by banging on
the window, allowing the killer to stab him in the neck. As John bleeds to
death, he puts the killer in a chokehold to buy Maddie enough time to
escape, but she realizes that she will either be caught or bleed to death.
Her only chance for survival is to kill her assailant.

Outside, the killer is about to kill Maddie's cat with his knife, but she
shoots him in the shoulder with the crossbow. As Maddie retreats into the
house and sticks her hand out to get a crossbow arrow, the killer slams the
sliding door on her wrist and crushes her hand beneath his boot. He allows
Maddie to pull her mangled hand inside and close and lock the door. When he
threatens to enter the house, Maddie writes "do it, coward" on the door with
her own blood. As the killer begins bashing the door in with a tire iron,
Maddie uses her laptop to type up a description of the man and a message to
her family. She then locks herself in her bathroom, armed with a knife.

Failing to break through the door, the killer opts to crash through the
bathroom skylight. Maddie does not notice him until he breathes against her
neck. She narrowly avoids his attack and stabs him in the knee. He follows
her into the kitchen, where she blasts his face with insecticide and uses
her visual smoke alarm to disorient him. He begins strangling her, but she
finally kills him when she stabs him in the neck with a corkscrew. Maddie
retrieves her cell phone from the man's body and dials 9-1-1. As she sits on
her porch steps while the police approach her, Maddie pets her cat and
smiles.

Cast

Kate Siegel as Madison "Maddie" Young

John Gallagher Jr. as The Man

Michael Trucco as John Stanley

Samantha Sloyan as Sarah Greene

Emma Graves as Max, Maddie's sister

Steve Cook

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