SCALPEL SUMMER film series returns to the International Museum of Surgical Science on Thursday, July 23 with one of Hammer Horror's boldest and most delirious creations: Roy Ward Baker's Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971). Released during Hammer's adventurous late period, the film stars Hammer leading man Ralph Bates and genre favorite Martine Beswick in a Technicolor collision of Gothic horror, Victorian melodrama, medical experimentation, and gleefully transgressive storytelling.
Following the screening, guest speaker Matt Kasin brings his gloriously outsized sensibility to the evening's post-film Q&A. As Gaudy God, Matt blends cinema, fashion, music, and performance into one fabulously gaudy package. A longtime Music Box fixture, DJ, filmmaker, and vintage curator, he has a particular gift for finding the camp, subversion, and sheer style hiding in plain sight. With Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde gleefully scrambling gender, Gothic horror, and Hammer excess, there could be no better accomplice for the evening's conversation.
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Doors at 6:30 p.m.