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Zhe Dahrk Cahrneevahl, she ees afoot
Aug. 23rd, 2007 11:33 pmThis week is the Dark Carnival here in Bloomington: a weeklong (Monday through Saturday) horror movie festival, complete with a sideshow tomorrow (the Blue Monkey Group, I think it is? apparently they hang things from nipples) and a dance on um I think Saturday. Many of the films are local, and many are also suckily low-budget. Some are low-budget but good, and some are slicker but still sucky. Examples, in order: Doomed To Consume (a slow-ass zombie movie where all the characters are dumber than rocks and about 10% of the footage comes from a camera trained on the front passenger wheel of a moving SUV); Stupid Teenagers Must Die (stupid teenagers go to a haunted house to have a seance, death ensues, and there are two geeks who make endearing idiots of themselves until the cute one gets killed); and Twilight Of Youth, which is about some guy who hates old people until (LOLZ IRONY!!!) he gets a disease similar to progeria, moves to a retirement home, loses everything he loves, and is sad. Spoiler alert, it ends with him looking out the window sorrowfully as stirring music plays. Several audience members were heard to question whether this was, in fact, a horror film festival. (My answer: "Well, I'm horrified that I sat through that, so...")
That was all at the Cinemat, where we go to Atomic Age Cinema every week. Tonight's movie was at the Starlite. Which was fun for me, because the Starlite is in fact a drive-in, and I had never been to a drive-in movie before. Ever. Not a lot of those in suburban southern California. Turns out that Dead and Breakfast is a nice choice for a first drive-in experience, though! Especially when before and after the movie, Dr. Calimari and Baron Marti talk at us and give us prizes. The prizes included a DVD of the movie, which as it turns out would have been a nice thing to win, but eh. I don't know how big a release this thing is getting, but if given a chance you should probably see it. Apparently it's been described as the American Shaun of the Dead, and that's actually fairly accurate. Plus it has country songs about how all you need to take the pain away is beer.
Tomorrow there is a bunch of stuff showing downtown, and then also the sideshow thing. Should be fun.
Next week I start school for what should be my second to last semester. Stupid school. Stupid having to do stuff. Boo.
The end.
That was all at the Cinemat, where we go to Atomic Age Cinema every week. Tonight's movie was at the Starlite. Which was fun for me, because the Starlite is in fact a drive-in, and I had never been to a drive-in movie before. Ever. Not a lot of those in suburban southern California. Turns out that Dead and Breakfast is a nice choice for a first drive-in experience, though! Especially when before and after the movie, Dr. Calimari and Baron Marti talk at us and give us prizes. The prizes included a DVD of the movie, which as it turns out would have been a nice thing to win, but eh. I don't know how big a release this thing is getting, but if given a chance you should probably see it. Apparently it's been described as the American Shaun of the Dead, and that's actually fairly accurate. Plus it has country songs about how all you need to take the pain away is beer.
Tomorrow there is a bunch of stuff showing downtown, and then also the sideshow thing. Should be fun.
Next week I start school for what should be my second to last semester. Stupid school. Stupid having to do stuff. Boo.
The end.
