Crown & Club: Don’t Panic

Kicking off their summer-spanning genre series at Second Street cineplex Violet Crown, local movie mavens Hyperreal Film Club and programmer Morgan Hyde drop a real deep cut. Don’t Panic represents a Mexican spin on the Freddy Krueger craze: 17-year-old Michael gets a birthday-gift Ouija board that unlocks an evil spirit known as Virgil, after which Michael begins to receive premonitions of murders – murders he ends up the chief suspect of! The movie’s tagline ordered audiences to “Forget Freddie and Jason. Virgil’s the newest nightmare in town.” You’ll have to judge for yourself if that confidence is earned. – James Scott