Monday, December 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Downtown, Los Angeles
**About THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM** A schoolteacher’s late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps without a reservation leaves him with no option but to accept the room of a missing hotel guest — leading to a sleepless night full of strange and uncanny occurrences. The narrative debut of Kier-La Janisse, director of the SXSW award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, and author of the pioneering horror memoir House of Psychotic Women, is based on the classic chiller of the same name by Algernon Blackwood.* DCP courtesy of Severin Films* **About GHOSTKEEPER** During a New Year’s Eve snowmobiling trip, Jenny (Rabid’s Riva Spier), her boyfriend Marty (*The Grey Fox*’s Murray Ord), and their friend Chrissy (Sheri McFadden) veer off path to explore a patch of private property. Stranded by a heavy snowfall, they stumble upon an abandoned hotel and seek refuge for the night. But before long, they meet a menacing woman (Rad’s Georgie Collins) who shares the building with her knife-wielding son (*The High Country*’s Bill Grove) and a mysterious creature who feeds on human flesh. As the visiting trio comes under attack, they struggle to make a safe escape – and maintain their grip on reality. Featuring haunting performances from the entire cast and a typically atmospheric score by Paul Zaza (*My Bloody Valentine*), Jim Makichuk’s *Ghostkeeper* is an essential entry in the New Year’s Eve horror canon and a dread-inducing descent into wintery isolation and madness. Long regarded as the Canadian answer to Stanley Kubrick’s *The Shining*, this slasher staple is a Canuxploitation classic and one of the enduring highlights of the tax shelter era.* Newly scanned and restored in 4K from the only known complete 35mm print by Canadian International Pictures.*