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Published: May 16, 2008 12:00 AM
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Film Picks

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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