The Coronado Island Film Festival will be screening the 1974 comedy horror spoof, Mel Brooks’s “Young Frankenstein,” on Wednesday, Oct. 30 at Coronado’s Village Theatre, 820 Orange Avenue.
The film is presented by the film festival as part of the monthly Classic Film Series. Doors will open at 5 p.m. for complimentary libations, followed by a vintage cartoon and the feature presentation at 5:30. Tickets are $15 and are available at coronadofilmfest.com.
Halloween costumes are encouraged.
About ‘Young Frankenstein’
The film, a parody of the classic horror films of the 1930s and 40s, is directed by Brooks and written by Brooks and his friend and frequent collaborator, Gene Wilder, who plays the title character.
Also starring are Peter Boyle as the monster, Terry Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn and Gene Hackman.
Cloris Leachman is her usual fearless self as the intimidating housekeeper Frau Blücher.
“Those who attended the CIFF Leonard Maltin Celebrity Tribute Award Gala at the Del in 2019 will never forget her as she accepted that year’s Legacy Award, bringing down the house by climbing onto a stunned Leonard Maltin’s lap!,” said Doug St. Denis, the founder and executive director of the Coronado Island Film Festival, in a press release. “That may have been one of her last public appearances before her death in 2021 at age 94.”
At Brooks’s insistence, “Young Frankenstein” is shot entirely in black and white for vintage authenticity, according to St. Denis.
This is the second Brooks film that has been screened in this year’s Classic Series. “Blazing Saddles” was shown in June.
Tickets are available at coronadofilmfest.com. And CIFF 2024 badges and individual tickets are now available for the 9th annual festival, Wed. Nov. 6 – Sun. Nov. 10.
