Looking to get into the mood for Halloween? Director Peter Hyoguchi has just the ticket: a screening of The Occult, his indie thriller about a young man who falls under the spell of a seductive fortune-teller with an extremely creepy family.
But there’s only one chance to see this movie: Go to the Pruneyard Cinemas in Campbell on Oct. 7 at 7pm for a screening followed by a Q&A with Hyoguchi and editor Robert Días, a San Jose native who has worked on television series for more than two decades.
The past year Hyoguchi has been traveling the country, booking one-night stands in 22 cities and promoting the screenings himself. One way he gets the word out: leaving tarot cards around town with information about the local screening. Here in Silicon Valley the movie—which he describes as an “old