Win Passes to Supertrash Saturday Screening
Win Passes to Supertrash Saturday Screening of Halloween (1978)! The cat is de-bagged. Truth spills out. Simplicity runs amok. SuperTrash Saturdays are on. The new cult is mainstream. Don’t be addicted to movies, be ridiculously addicted. Go to the neighborhood theater-pub with the biggest screen and sweetest, loudest sound around–it’s the BAGDAD! I’ve heard it referred to as the “bag,” or the “dad,” even “bagdaddy-o,” or my favorite–the “baggydada.” Moving on, look at this movie line up…and, good news-all shows $3! Shows start at 10pm, with live sets from Bridgetown Comedy; awesome 35mm trailers; unreleased vintage rock performances from Classic Concert Series (Bowie, Sabbath, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, The Clash, etc.); and animation curated by Floating World Comics. Then at 11pm, the movie!
Satuday, November 8th, HALLOWEEN (1978) Dir. John Carpenter
Okay, Rob Zombie tried, but Carpenter’s homicidal groove is the stuff of thumping perfection–steady and terrifying as death itself.
(check theater listing for additional showtimes during week)
Halloween Synopsis: Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his older sister to death. Locked away for many years in a mental hospital Michael escapes one night and returns to his hometown to continue his killing spree. Jamie Lee Curtis, in her first role, plays the resourceful babysitter who is chased by the killer on Halloween night. Produced for very little money and a tight shooting schedule, HALLOWEEN was a stunning success when it was released. Written by John Carpenter and his longtime producer Debra Hill, the film set their careers on fire, with both of them working together many times over the next 25 years. The film also made a star out of Jamie Lee Curtis and turned the slasher movie into a viable, successful genre. HALLOWEEN has been copied, parodied and even turned into a franchise of its own, but the original is still considered the best of the bunch. HALLOWEEN was John Carpenter’s first foray into horror, and remains the standard to which all other modern horror films are measured.
