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[Steve Cook]

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Each October since we started audio description movie night in December of
2020 I have been showing spooky movies and the tradition continues!!



Hope you will join me for the below audio described movies at 8:00 PM
Eastern on the below Zoom platform! If you would like to be added to my
weekly reminder list, send me a message.



Friday, October 3, 2025

Sinners



Friday, October 10, 2025

Gremlins



Friday, October 17, 2025

Child’s Play



Friday, October 31, 2025

Trivia Night



SC Tech Talk is taking the month of October off, but will be back in
November!



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Sinners




In 1932, identical twins and World War I veterans Elijah "Smoke" and Elias
"Stack" Moore return to Clarksdale, Mississippi, after working for the
Chicago Outfit for seven years. Using money stolen from gangsters, they
purchase a sawmill from landowner Hogwood to start a juke joint for the
local Black community. Their cousin Sammie, an aspiring guitarist, joins
them despite his pastor father Jedidiah's warnings about the sins of blues
music.

The twins recruit pianist Delta Slim as a performer, local Chinese
shopkeeper couple Grace and Bo Chow as suppliers, field worker Cornbread as
a bouncer, and Smoke's wife Annie as a cook. Annie believes her Hoodoo
practices kept the twins safe, but Smoke doubts them for not preventing
their infant daughter's death. Stack runs into his white-passing
ex-girlfriend Mary, who resents him for abandoning her out of protection.
Elsewhere, Irish-immigrant vampire Remmick shelters from Choctaw vampire
hunters with a married Klansmen couple, whom he turns into vampires.

On the joint's opening night, Sammie, Delta Slim, and Pearline - a singer
with whom Sammie becomes enamored - perform on stage. Sammie's music is
transcendent, unknowingly summoning spirits of both past and future to join
the crowd. However, the performance also attracts Remmick and his vampires,
who offer money and music in exchange for entry. A suspicious Smoke refuses.
The twins realize that their patrons' reliance on company scrip makes it
impossible for the joint to be profitable. Reasoning with Stack that outside
income is necessary, Mary meets Remmick outside, where she is turned.
Returning inside, she seduces and fatally bites Stack. Sammie and Smoke
discover them; Smoke shoots Mary, but she is unaffected and escapes.
Outside, Remmick turns Cornbread.

Smoke closes the joint early; as the patrons and Bo leave, the vampires turn
them. Stack revives as a vampire, but flees after Annie repels him with
pickled garlic juice. Annie realizes their assailants are vampires and tells
the survivors how to deter and defeat them and that killing Remmick will not
revert the other vampires to humans. Although Remmick and his vampires share
a hive mind, their personalities remain intact.

Still unable to enter the joint, Remmick tries to negotiate by inviting the
survivors to join him, saying that vampirism offers immortality and freedom
from persecution. He promises to leave in exchange for Sammie, whose musical
skills he wants to use to summon the spirits of his lost community, also
revealing that Hogwood heads the local Klan and plans to attack the joint at
dawn. They refuse, and Remmick threatens to attack the Chows' daughter Lisa
at their home.

Enraged by the threat, Grace invites the vampires into the joint, and a
fight ensues. Grace, Bo, Annie, and Delta Slim are killed as a result, while
Mary escapes and Remmick turns Pearline. Smoke fights and defeats Stack and
then assists Sammie in defeating the vampires, who are all incinerated by
the light of the sunrise. Smoke sends Sammie home before he kills Hogwood
and his men, but is fatally shot. He reunites with Annie and their daughter
after dying. Meanwhile, Sammie disregards his father's pleas to seek
salvation and travels to Chicago.

In 1992, an elderly Sammie, now a successful blues musician, is visited by
an ageless Stack and Mary after performing at his blues club. Stack reveals
that Smoke spared him at the joint on the condition that Sammie live in
peace. After declining the couple's offer of immortality, Sammie performs
for them. As they leave, Sammie admits that despite being haunted by that
night, until the violence, it was the greatest day of his life. Stack
wistfully agrees, since it was the last time he saw Smoke or the sun, and
the only time they were all truly free.

Cast

*             Michael B. Jordan as the Smokestack Twins:

*             Elijah "Smoke" Moore

*             Elias "Stack" Moore

*             Hailee Steinfeld as Mary, Stack's ex-girlfriend

*             Miles Caton as Samuel "Sammie" Moore, Smoke and Stack's
cousin, a sharecropper and aspiring blues musician.[17]

*             Buddy Guy as elderly Sammie.[18]

*             Jack O'Connell as Remmick, an Irish vampire

*             Wunmi Mosaku as Annie, Smoke's estranged wife and a Hoodoo
practitioner

*             Jayme Lawson as Pearline, a married singer with whom Sammie
becomes smitten

*             Omar Benson Miller as Cornbread, a sharecropper and bouncer

*             Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim, an old town harmonica player and
musical legend

*             Peter Dreimanis as Bert, a local KKK member, Hogwood's nephew
and Joan's husband

*             Lola Kirke as Joan, a KKK member and Bert's wife

*             Li Jun Li as Grace Chow, Bo's wife and a shopkeeper

*             Saul Williams as Jedidiah Moore, a pastor, Sammie's father,
and the twins’ uncle

*             Yao as Bo Chow, Grace's husband and a shopkeeper

*             David Maldonado as Hogwood, the local KKK leader and Bert's
uncle

*             Helena Hu as Lisa Chow, Bo and Grace's daughter

*             Andrene Ward-Hammond as Ruthie, Sammie's mother

*             Nathaniel Arcand as Chayton, a Choctaw vampire hunter

*             Emonie Ellison as Therise, Cornbread's pregnant wife




Gremlins




Struggling inventor Randall Peltzer visits a Chinatown antique store to find
a Christmas present for his son, Billy. In it, Randall uncovers a small and
furry creature called a mogwai (Cantonese: 魔怪, 'devil'). The owner, Mr.
Wing, refuses to sell it to Randall, but his grandson secretly does, warning
Randall to remember three important rules concerning its care - keep the
creature away from light, especially sunlight, which will kill it; do not
let it come in contact with water; and above all, never let it eat after
midnight.



In Randall's hometown of Kingston Falls, Billy works at the local bank, but
fears that his dog Barney will be put down by widowed miser Ruby Deagle. His
father returns and offers him the mogwai, now named "Gizmo", as a pet and
informs him of the rules. Gizmo is friendly and docile, but when Billy's
friend, Pete Fountaine, accidentally spills water on Gizmo, five more mogwai
spawn from him - a more mischievous sort led by the aggressive Stripe, named
after the white and mohawk-like tuft of fur on his head. Billy shows one of
the mogwai to his former elementary school science teacher, Roy Hanson,
spawning another mogwai, whom the latter experiments on. Back home, Stripe
and his fellow mogwai trick Billy into feeding them after midnight by
sabotaging his bedside clock. They form cocoons, as does Hanson's mogwai,
which soon hatch, emerging as destructive and reptilian imp-like monsters
called "gremlins". Hanson is murdered by his gremlin, while those at the
Peltzer house torture Gizmo and assault Billy's mother, Lynn.



Lynn and Billy are able to dispatch all the gremlins sans Stripe, who
escapes to the local YMCA where he jumps into its swimming pool, spawning an
army of gremlins that wreak havoc on Kingston Falls. Many locals are injured
or outright killed during their rampage, including Deagle. The police are
helpless in the ordeal, as they too fall victim to the gremlins' mischief.
After Billy rescues his co-worker and girlfriend, Kate Beringer, when the
gremlins attack the bar she works at, and they seek refuge in the bank, the
latter discloses that her father went missing on Christmas Eve when she was
nine years old, but was then found dead in their house's chimney several
days later. Planning to surprise his family while portraying Santa Claus, he
inadvertently slipped and broke his neck while climbing down the chimney.
Still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder due to the incident,
Kate confesses how this led to her dislike of the holidays.



The trio find the gremlins gathered in the local movie theater due to
morning approaching and set off a natural gas explosion, killing them all
except for Stripe, who left the theater earlier to retrieve candy at a
Montgomery Ward store across the street. They follow Stripe into the store,
where he attempts to use a fountain to spawn more gremlins, but Gizmo then
opens a nearby skylight, exposing Stripe to sunlight and killing him.



As the local news reports on the incident, Mr. Wing arrives at the Peltzer
house to reclaim Gizmo. He scolds the family for their negligence and
criticizes Western society for its carelessness with nature. However, as he
turns to leave, Gizmo, having bonded with Billy, bids him goodbye. A
compassionate Wing then concedes that Billy may be ready to properly care
for him one day.



Cast

Zach Galligan as Billy Peltzer

Phoebe Cates as Kate Beringer

Hoyt Axton as Randall "Rand" Peltzer

Polly Holliday as Ruby Deagle

Frances Lee McCain as Lynn Peltzer

Judge Reinhold as Gerald Hopkins

Dick Miller as Murray Futterman

Glynn Turman as Roy Hanson

Keye Luke as Mr. Wing

Scott Brady as Sheriff Frank Reilly

Corey Feldman as Pete Fountaine

Jonathan Banks as Deputy Brent Frye

Edward Andrews as Roland Corben

Jackie Joseph as Sheila Futterman

Belinda Balaski as Mrs. Harris

Harry Carey Jr. as Mr. Anderson

Nicky Katt and Tracy Wells as schoolchildren

John Louie as Mr. Wing's grandson

Kenny Davis as Dorry

Mushroom as Barney

John C. Becher as Doctor Molinar




Childs Play




Detective Mike Norris chases fugitive serial killer Charles Lee Ray through
the streets of Chicago and into a toy store while Ray's accomplice, Eddie
Caputo, flees the scene with Norris' partner, Jack Santos, pursuing him.
Shot by Norris and dying, Ray performs a voodoo chant to transfer his soul
into a nearby Good Guy-brand talking doll. The store is struck by lightning,
causing an explosion. Shortly thereafter, Norris finds Ray's lifeless body
next to the doll.



Widow Karen Barclay's six-year-old son Andy wants a Good Guy doll for his
birthday, but she was not able to save up enough to afford one. At work, her
best friend Maggie informs her that a homeless peddler outside has gotten
his hands on a Good Guy. Karen excitedly buys the doll and gives it to Andy.
He is immediately captivated by the doll, who introduces itself as "Chucky".



That night, Maggie babysits Andy while Karen goes to work to cover a shift.
Chucky comes to life and attacks Maggie, striking her with a hammer and
causing her to fall out of a window to her death. Karen returns home to the
crime scene where Norris is serving as lead detective. Norris believes Andy
may have been involved in Maggie's death, while Andy claims that Chucky may
have been involved. Andy tells his mother that Chucky told him his real name
was "Charles Lee Ray".



The next day, Chucky convinces Andy to skip school and take a train ride to
a bad neighborhood. Chucky sneaks into an abandoned home where Caputo is
hiding out and kills him in a gas explosion in revenge for abandoning him.
Andy is discovered by police and again considered a suspect, and Karen is
informed that he will be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for observation.
Karen returns home with Chucky and discovers that the doll has been moving
and speaking without batteries. After Karen threatens to throw him into the
fire, Chucky violently comes alive and attacks her, then escapes. Karen goes
to Norris, but he does not believe her story.



Karen finds the peddler and asks for more information, but he attempts to
rape her; Norris saves her and forces the peddler to admit that he stole the
doll from the destroyed toy store where Norris killed Ray. Norris, still
skeptical, is later attacked by Chucky. He shoots the doll, whose wound
inexplicably bleeds and causes pain. Chucky escapes to his former voodoo
instructor John, demanding answers; John informs him that the longer his
soul remains in the doll, the more "human" the doll will become. He refuses
to help and is tortured by Chucky with a voodoo doll, forcing him to reveal
that in order to escape the doll's body, he must transfer his soul to the
first human he revealed his true identity to: Andy. Chucky leaves for Andy
as Karen and Norris arrive and find John bleeding to death. Before dying,
John tells them that in order to kill Chucky, they must destroy his heart.



Chucky arrives at the psychiatric hospital and kills Andy's doctor with an
electroshock therapy device. Andy flees home, where Chucky knocks him out.
As Chucky prepares to possess Andy, Karen and Norris arrive. Chucky wounds
Norris, but Karen and Andy gain the upper hand, setting him on fire. A
burned Chucky attacks again, but Karen shoots his head and several of his
limbs off, appearing to kill him. Jack arrives, refusing to believe the trio
until Chucky's body bursts through a heat vent and attacks Jack. Norris
shoots Chucky's body through the heart, finally killing him. The group
leaves to get the wounded Norris to the hospital as a traumatized Andy looks
back at Chucky's remains.



Cast

Catherine Hicks as Karen Barclay

Chris Sarandon as Detective Mike Norris

Alex Vincent as Andy Barclay

Dinah Manoff as Maggie Peterson

Tommy Swerdlow as Jack Santos

Jack Colvin as Dr. Ardmore

Neil Giuntoli as Eddie Caputo

Raymond Oliver as John "Dr. Death" Bishop

Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky / Charles Lee Ray

Edan Gross as Friendly Chucky (voice)

John Franklin as Walkabout Chucky

Ed Gale as Chucky (in-suit performer)[13][14]





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