USC archivist Dino Everett curates horror film retrospective

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At USC's Hugh M. Hefner Moving Images Archive, Dino Everett collects and archives student films, with a particular fascination for horror.

Among the Cinematic Arts school's allums are John Carpenter, director of "Halloween" and "The Thing," and John O'Bannon, who helped create the chest-bursters in "Alien."

In his retrospective, "Shock Value," playing at the Cinefamily, Everett brought together student projects from those two and others into a short-film horrortacular.