Overnight Horror Film Marathon at Cinema Arts Centre

Photo: Vincent Price and Robert Morley in “Theater of Blood.” Credit: Park Circus

Horror film lovers, take note. Beginning Saturday at 10:30 p.m., Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington is offering a night of what it calls “mayhem and fun” as it presents Brett Sherris’ Summer Camp Cinema Film Festival’s Ninth Annual Pay-To-Get-Out Horror Marathon.

A Northport resident, Sherris graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is president of REEL Entertainment. Sherris is a cinematic anthropologist who founded, curates, hosts and coordinates the film festival. Now in its ninth season, the festival developed by Sherris and his wife Peg as a fundraising project for Cinema Arts Centre. The couple also produces Long Island’s Unconventional Conventionalists’ production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and a new Long Island theater troupe, The Black Box Thespians, which performs original and premiere one-act plays.

Saturday’s festivities last until dawn. The evening features five horror films: “Cockneys vs Zombies,” “Theater of Blood,” “American Mary,” “Hellraiser,” culminating a mystery fifth feature. And in between, “some bloody amusing shorts and trailers,” according to Cinema Arts.

There’s a $35 admission fee ($25 for members), but filmgoers who survive the night receive not only a $10 refund but also a “ghoulish continental breakfast,” or what others might call bagels and coffee.

Details: Cinema Arts Centre is located at 423 Park Ave., Huntington, NY 631-423-7611 www.CinemaArtsCentre.org.

Cinema Arts Centre provided these descriptions about the films:

“Cockneys vs Zombies”

Set in London’s East End, a group of inept young criminals arm themselves to the teeth to rescue their grandfather and his retirement home cohorts from a zombie apocalypse in this deliciously lively and gory 2012 British horror comedy. In the vein of now legendary “Shaun of the Dead,” the film co-stars Honor Blackwell (the legendary Pussy Galore from the James Bond classic “Goldfinger”), and Alan Ford as the most delightfully cantankerous octogenarian to cuss his way across the screen in years!

“Theater of Blood”

In this classic 1973 horror comedy, Vincent Price received one of his meatiest roles as Edward Lionheart, a mad Shakespearean actor who sets out to wreak vengeance on all the critics who ever panned his performances with a series of murders inspired by the Bard’s most famous plays. Diana Rigg co-stars as Lionheart’s equally deadly daughter. Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Jack Hawkins, Ian Hendry, Michael Hordern, Robert Morley, Milo O’Shea, Diana Dors and Dennis Price round out the spectacular British cast.

“Hellraiser”

The one, the only original 1987 Clive Barker classic has spawned numerous sequels, but none come close to matching the bone-chilling horror of the original’s spellbinding tale of a family whose lives are forever transformed by a puzzle box that unlocks a shocking world of violence and pain. Written and directed by Barker, the film co-stars Andrew Robinson (“Dirty Harry” “Cobra”), Claire Higgins and Ashley Lawrence.

“American Mary”

From Jen and Sylvia Soska, creators of the indie-smash hit “Dead Hooker In A Trunk,” “American Mary” (2012) tells the mesmerizing story of Mary, a surgical med student who, while growing increasingly destitute and disenchanted with medical school and the established doctors she once idolized, decides to pull a mid-career course adjustment. The allure of easy money sends a desperate Mary through the perverse world of elective, unsanctioned underground surgeries, which leaves more marks on her than her altered flesh clientele.