Date: November 7th (Sunday)
Time: 8:00pm
Movie: "House on Haunted Hill" (1999)
Location: The Haunted Linda Vista Hospital
610 South Saint Louis Street, Los Angeles (map)
Come out for our last free outdoor-screening of the "Haunted Films at Haunted Places" film series presented by GHOULA and the EPFC Filmmobile, and see "House on Haunted Hill" (1999) at this real haunted hospital (like the one in the movie). Also, hear about this local landmark's dark history (and ghost stories) with special guests, Sarah Troop of The Boyle Heights Paranormal Project and the Art of Bleeding.
When this hospital (originally built for Santa Fe Railroad employees) opened in 1904, it may have had a simple design on the outside, but it was all state-of-the-art on the inside. Among the many (then) high-tech gadgets found here were automatic elevators (push-button), automatic fire escapes (using body weight to lower slowly), and automatic wheelchairs (???). Some of the revolutionary design elements used in the construction (and now commonplace) were individually heated/cooled rooms, park lands surrounding the hospital, large interconnected halls on each floor so beds and bath tubs could be rolled easily from any room to any other room. The Hospital also featured tiled surgical rooms so cleaning could be done simply with a water hose. These features made it the most sanitary and best equipped hospital on the Pacific Coast, and one of the largest hospitals in the country at that time.
Unfortunately, these improvements (as with any hospital) are never enough to keep patients from dying within their walls. In over a hundred years, there has been a lot of death and sadness at this site. So, it is no wonder that just about any kind of paranormal experience that one can imagine has happened within these buildings.
Time: 8:00pm
Movie: "House on Haunted Hill" (1999)
Location: The Haunted Linda Vista Hospital
610 South Saint Louis Street, Los Angeles (map)
Come out for our last free outdoor-screening of the "Haunted Films at Haunted Places" film series presented by GHOULA and the EPFC Filmmobile, and see "House on Haunted Hill" (1999) at this real haunted hospital (like the one in the movie). Also, hear about this local landmark's dark history (and ghost stories) with special guests, Sarah Troop of The Boyle Heights Paranormal Project and the Art of Bleeding.
When this hospital (originally built for Santa Fe Railroad employees) opened in 1904, it may have had a simple design on the outside, but it was all state-of-the-art on the inside. Among the many (then) high-tech gadgets found here were automatic elevators (push-button), automatic fire escapes (using body weight to lower slowly), and automatic wheelchairs (???). Some of the revolutionary design elements used in the construction (and now commonplace) were individually heated/cooled rooms, park lands surrounding the hospital, large interconnected halls on each floor so beds and bath tubs could be rolled easily from any room to any other room. The Hospital also featured tiled surgical rooms so cleaning could be done simply with a water hose. These features made it the most sanitary and best equipped hospital on the Pacific Coast, and one of the largest hospitals in the country at that time.
Unfortunately, these improvements (as with any hospital) are never enough to keep patients from dying within their walls. In over a hundred years, there has been a lot of death and sadness at this site. So, it is no wonder that just about any kind of paranormal experience that one can imagine has happened within these buildings.
This Sunday's movie, "House on Haunted Hill" (1999) is an odd (but fun) remake of the 1959 classic. In addition to adding more blood in the scenes, the producers inexplicably set the story in a hospital on a hill (as opposed to a "house" like the title suggests). Geoffrey Rush (who must reprise the role created by the great Vincent Prince) delivers his own great scenery-chewing performance that surely would make Vincent Price's corpse smile. It is also interesting to note, that this time around the main character designs theme park attractions for a living. Is this a nod to the influence William Castle (the creator of the original "House on Haunted Hill) had on the development of Disneyland (for more info...)
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