You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

I'm basically going to be living at the Nitehawk this October. Their weekend midnight and brunch series revolves around "final girls" (and women in horror in general - I mean, we can't exactly call Julie Harris the final girl of The Haunting, can we? she's the only one who [SPOILERS]!). ANYWAY, loads of great movies, many of them screening in 35mm (a vanishingly infrequent treat at the movies nowadays), and most of the weekends this month I'll be making two trips because there's just too much stuff I can't let myself miss!

So tonight I went there to see Re-Animator (not a part of their Final Girl series, but one of their "Nitehawk Nasties" screenings). I wrote about it here several years ago, if you're curious what it's about (why yes, I *did* change my layout and go back to the Kill Bill mood theme, thank you for noticing!), so I won't rehash the plot here.

It's hard to ruin Re-Animator, but it came darn close to being ruined this evening. ( Read more... )