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Spine-chilling tales to take over the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – With the Halloween season in full swing, the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas (FBAC) has teamed up with film and television professionals to present two engaging evenings filled with spooky stories, frightening footage and creepy cinema-centered conversation.
It all begins with a free screening of HeBGB TV, followed by an in-person Q&A with its creators on Tuesday, Oct. 11. HeBGB TV centers on a retro-horror TV cable box as it infiltrates a neighborhood and curates nostalgic killer content to its viewers. Drawing on television themes throughout the decades, this feature is jam packed with fun shorts, scary songs and creepy characters all for a cheap laugh. The Q&A session with Adam Lenhart, Eric Griffin, and Jake McClellan the directors, producers and writers for this mise en abyme – or film-within-a-film – will immediately follow the screening.
This screening is featured as part of the ArtsQuest LGBTQ+ Series curated by Catherine Ford, Alessandra Fanelli and Adrianna Gober to explore and uplift a wide and diverse scope of LGBTQ+ issues an stories by highlighting selections from the rich, enduring history of queer cinema.
Tickets are now on available at steelstacks.org/film or by calling the ArtsQuest Box Office at 610-332-3378.
On Thursday, Oct. 20, Paranormal investigator Eric Mintel will take over the cinema with “Eric Mintel Investigates: Paranormal Projection Room”, an evening of stories and episode screenings from his television show “Eric Mintel Investigates”. Episodes will feature regional sites including Hanoverville Roadhouse in Bethlehem, a 1759 Farmhouse in Boyertown, the New Jersey Pine Barrens, a historic restaurant in Bucks County, and the legendary Beast of Bray Road.
The show features Mintel and paranormal investigating partner Dominic Sattele. On many an investigation, Mintel and his team have gotten groundbreaking footage and captured strange paranormal activity the likes of which have never been seen. Lead investigator Mintel has been interested in the paranormal from a very young age he has led “Eric Mintel Investigates” since 2016, seeking out strange stories to tell whether it’s ghosts, UFO’s, Bigfoot or Dog men. Mintel is an acclaimed jazz musician with his group the Eric Mintel Quartet by day, and by late night he investigates the paranormal. He has toured and performed around the country in concert halls, high schools, libraries, elementary schools, churches, jazz clubs, and The White House to name a few.
The screenings will be followed by a Q&A led by Mintel.
Tickets for this event are $7.50 for ArtsQuest Members, $8 for seniors and students and $10 for general public. Tickets can be reserved at steelstacks.org/film or by calling the ArtsQuest Box Office at 610-332-3378. For a full schedule of upcoming film screenings visit: steelstacks.org.
Information provided to TVL by:
Kelley Andrade, ArtsQuest
Public Relations Coordinator
http://www.artsquest.org/
