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Published: May 16, 2008 12:00 AM
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Tonight, Retrofantasma comes around for another double shot of campy, creepy good times over at the Carolina Theatre in Durham.

This month's double bill starts off with "Creepshow," that tongue-in-cheek George Romero-Stephen King team-up from 1982. After that, it's "The Revenge of Trailerpalooza," the sequel to the retro movie trailer free-for-all the Carolina screened last May. It's certain to include the most awesomely trashy trailers to the best worst movies you've probably never seen. The bill starts at 7:30 and admission is $6.75. Details: 560-3030; festivals.carolinatheatre.org/retrofantasma.

On Sunday afternoon, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will have another matinee screening at the Nasher Museum of Art. Called "The Socialist, The Architect and the Twisted Tower," this 59-minute 2005 film chronicles the construction of the Twisted Torso, a 54-story public housing structure in Sweden. The film starts at 2 and tickets are $6 (Full Frame and Nasher Museum members get in free). Details: 684-5135; www.nasher.duke.edu.

And finally, speaking of twisted torsos, the Colony Theatre will once again dip into the "Cool Classics" well on Wednesday with the director's-cut screening of Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi chiller "Alien," starring Sigourney Weaver, Sigourney Weaver's drawers and, of course, that thing that bursts out of John Hurt's chest. The movie's at 7 and 9:30, and admission is $5. Details: 847-5677, www.myspace.com/colonytheatre.

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