Over the course of reviewing altogether too many direct-to-dvd horror films, I’ve been steadily building the argument that today’s crop of low-budget slasher films are the cultural heirs of the similarly low-budgeted sci-fi and horror films of the 50s and 60s, but have replaced their generally fun spirit with a meaner and more malevolent one. Midnight Movie has made that argument better than a review ever could. A supposedly reverently campy and fun film that quickly devolves into yet another carnival of abuses, Movie takes everything that’s supposed to be fun about horror and processes it through everything that’s become just plain hateful about the genre.
The plot of Midnight Movie is astonishingly similar to that of an Are You Afraid Of The Dark? episode, in which a couple of kids working at a movie theater run into a vampire monster (a clear reference to Nosferatu...
The plot of Midnight Movie is astonishingly similar to that of an Are You Afraid Of The Dark? episode, in which a couple of kids working at a movie theater run into a vampire monster (a clear reference to Nosferatu...
- 3/17/2010
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
Bigfoot Entertainment has announced the details of the 10-city theatrical run of its new chiller Midnight Movie. It begins with an special opening-night event tonight in Minneapolis, Mn, and continues with bookings in nine other cities (some of them at midnight, natch) on Friday, November 7.
The specifics are as follows:
Friday, October 24 at 9:30 p.m.
Oak Street Theatre, Minneapolis, Mn; opening night costume event in which those dressed as a famous horror icon get in for free, followed by an afterparty starting at 11 p.m. at Stub & Herbs Bar (free drink with Midnight Movie ticket stub)
Friday, November 7
New York City: Village East Theatre (midnight)
Los Angeles, CA: Laemmle Sunset 5 (midnight)
San Diego, CA: Regal Horton Plaza
Dallas, TX: Angelika Film Center
Houston, TX: Angelika Film Center
Pittsburgh, Pa: Southside Film Works
Baltimore, MD: Charles Theatre (midnight)
Portland, Or: Cinema 21
Tempe, Az: Valley View Theatre (midnight)
There will be...
The specifics are as follows:
Friday, October 24 at 9:30 p.m.
Oak Street Theatre, Minneapolis, Mn; opening night costume event in which those dressed as a famous horror icon get in for free, followed by an afterparty starting at 11 p.m. at Stub & Herbs Bar (free drink with Midnight Movie ticket stub)
Friday, November 7
New York City: Village East Theatre (midnight)
Los Angeles, CA: Laemmle Sunset 5 (midnight)
San Diego, CA: Regal Horton Plaza
Dallas, TX: Angelika Film Center
Houston, TX: Angelika Film Center
Pittsburgh, Pa: Southside Film Works
Baltimore, MD: Charles Theatre (midnight)
Portland, Or: Cinema 21
Tempe, Az: Valley View Theatre (midnight)
There will be...
- 10/24/2008
- Fangoria
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