For this special Untapped series, Science On Tap hosts a monthly movie screening with Netflix Party featuring live chat with experts.
Break up your quaran-routine and invite your housemates for a Science On Tap Philadelphia monthly movie screening with Netflix Party. Guests can talk to our Science On Tap experts through the chat function, asking questions in real-time and learning more about the myths and misrepresentations in some of our favorite movies. The fun goes down on the fourth Monday of the month at 7:00 p.m.
If you have a Netflix account and a home computer, you can join our party! This is a FREE event, but preregistration is required as Netflix Party limits the number of guests for each session. Click here to register.
How to access Netflix Party
All pre-registered guests will be sent the link to the event's Netflix Party before the event start time (It will also be available in the Digital Links section of the Eventbrite event).
Make sure to download the Netflix Party extension for Google Chrome.
You can learn more about Netflix Party and how to set it up on your computer at www.netflixparty.com.
The Movie
Poltergeist (1982) (PG) – A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorize the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter.
Meet our Experts: Anna Dhody, Curator, Mütter Museum, and Director, Mütter Research Institute at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
In the 17th century, the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia had a burial ground at 2nd and Arch Streets. The cemetery was moved in 1860 and became private property for 150 odd years… but in 2016, during a construction project, human remains were uncovered. It quickly became apparent that over 100 individuals were not relocated during the 1860 move, prompting cries of “they moved the headstones, but they didn’t move the bodies!” from the construction workers.
Mütter curator Anna Dhody was confused. She thought that that was pretty obvious, and didn’t realize that they were quoting Poltergeist, because she has never seen it. Join us for a Netflix watch party of Anna’s first viewing, and her impressions and recollections of the film in light of her role in the Arch Street recovery project
Image: Photograph of Science On Tap: Untapped at the Philadelphia Science Festival in 2019 (altered, of course). Photograph was taken by Kyle Gronostajski