The Crypt Keepers is a unique Vancouver-based band designed specifically to celebrate music created for the best holiday of the year: Halloween!

About the Film: The Day of the Beast (99 mins)

Convinced that the Antichrist will be reborn in Madrid on Christmas Day, Father Angel (Álex Angulo, Pan’s Labyrinth) hatches a bold plan to forstall Armageddon. He will dispatch of the devil himself, but first he must get his hands dirty and learn about sin. He enlists a death-metal record store clerk and a celebrity occultist to the cause. Alex de la Iglesia’s blasphemous black comedy is a wild ride shot through with his trademark comic book verve. He went on to win the Best Director award at the Spanish Oscars.

Content Considerations: Graphic violence

About The Crypt Keepers

The Crypt Keepers is a unique Vancouver-based band designed specifically to celebrate music created for the best holiday of the year: Halloween! Starring vocalist Jason Winikoff and some of the best musicians from Vancouver’s blossoming jazz & rock scenes, this group plays perennial Halloween favourites as well as serious deep cuts that only the most dedicated spooky movie fanatic will know.

Music from 8:00 pm
Film 9:15 pm approx.

This performance is part of VanJazz 2026, a new Jazz festival running from October 14-25.

The Day of the Beast is a shotgun blast of a film. It dives deep into religion, demonology, friendship, conservatism, fascism, and so much more… feels like a heady mixture of Raimi, Romero, Schrader, Pasolini, Cervantes. Highly entertaining with a dash of shock and awe.

AW Kautzer, The Movie Isle

A devlishly funny horror-comedy.

Nigel Floyd, Time Out

Splendidly blasphemous.

Anne Billson, Daily Telegraph

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