IFC Midnight Announces Screening Series Planet Midnight
IFC Midnight and Forbidden Planet announced today that they will launch their new sneak screening series and genre film night at IFC Center titled Planet Midnight. They will kick it off with NYC horror legend Larry Fessenden and his new film Depraved in advance of its release on Friday, September 13th. On a monthly basis, they will program a mixture of undistributed films, new titles from IFC Midnight and films from other distributors. Planet Midnight is dedicated to championing defiantly independent genre films, and collaborating with partners who share that passion. Upcoming films to expect in the 2019 line-up will include Dawn Lubbe and Jocelyn DeBoer’s Greener Grass, Jennifer Reeder’s Knives + Skin, and Miguel Llansó’s Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway. Planet Midnight is a destination for the genre community in NYC. As smaller community spaces, video stores, record stores, and comic book shops are dwindling, institutions like the IFC Center and Forbidden Planet continue to plant
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