Primed with an assortment of gruesome deaths and a very dark sense of humor, Tom Daley's THE LAMP (aka THE OUTING) is a wild regional Texas-lensed supernatural horror jam. After thieves ransack the home of an old Gypsy woman and murder her in the process, they unwittingly free a vengeful genie held captive for centuries in an ancient oil lamp. Soon the lamp’s acquired by a local museum, but as the daughter of the museum’s curator sneaks in a friend group after hours, she doesn’t realize that the genie’s looking for a new “keeper”!

This 35MM print has been made available through the generosity of the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection at the SMU Libraries. VAULT ACCESS is a series devoted to exhibition of the acetate gems in this collection.