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Title: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Ticonderoga 64 on April 15, 2014, 04:44:41 PM Supposing you had your own drive-in/theater...what kind of double features would you show? Stuff from any era, exploitation, mainstream, mix 'em and match 'em if you would like.
I'm interested to see all the great choices from other members out there. Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: LilCerberus on April 15, 2014, 04:54:57 PM I like there to be a permanent cinema strictly dedicated to local works.
There's always a local art gallery or nightclub trying to get something like this started, but in this town it's like herding cats. I think my side of town should be known for more than just it's chop shops & adult motels... Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: retrorussell on April 15, 2014, 05:39:36 PM I have an old Super 8MM movie projector and a screen. I could sort of have my own outdoor theater in my side yard but each full movie would require like 5 reels. I've seen full movies on ebay like Jaws, and some cartoon shorts that would go well with the drive-in type atmosphere, but 5 reels for a full movie kind of sucks. That's a lot of intermissions while I change reels!
Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Rev. Powell on April 15, 2014, 06:41:25 PM We're assuming profit is not a motive, of course.
I'd like to support low-budget filmmakers by playing movies that would otherwise go straight to DVD on my big drive-in screen, stuff like APOCALYPSE KISS and BIKINI SWAMP GIRL MASSACRE. Apocalypse Kiss (2014) - Official Trailer 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7J1l63XTys#ws) Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: jimpickens on April 15, 2014, 10:08:02 PM Since I have a variety of tastes it would be whatever I damn well please. I would like to have a combination theatre/ drive-in this way I can cover both bases for year round enjoyment.
Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: indianasmith on April 15, 2014, 10:14:23 PM I would have three screens, all in line of sight with one another.
I would put the director's cut of SUCKER PUNCH on every one of them, park my car in the center, and never leave! Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Trevor on April 16, 2014, 03:52:05 AM I would have three screens, all in line of sight with one another. I would put the director's cut of SUCKER PUNCH on every one of them, park my car in the center, and never leave! I had a feeling I might be reading that. :wink: I would screen South African films in the theater during the day and at night in the drive-in. On 35mm film, not crappy digital projectors. :tongueout: Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Ticonderoga 64 on April 16, 2014, 09:57:03 AM My own choices:
Double features- Horror High(1974)/Jennifer's Body(2009) Carnival Of Souls(1962)/Night Of the Living Dead(1968) The Town That Dreaded Sundown(1977)/House Of 1,000 Corpses(2003) Coffy(1974)/Jackie Brown(1997) Legend Of the Seven Golden Vampires(1974)/From Dusk Til Dawn(1996) House On Haunted Hill(1959)/Night Of the Demons(1988) Dracula vs. Frankenstein(1971)/Plan 9 From Outer Space(1956) Angel(1984)/Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers(1987) Shakes the Clown(1991)/Clerks(1994) The Incredible Melting Man(1977)/Without Warning(1980) Shriek Of the Mutilated(1973)/Cabin In the Woods(2012) Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Josso on April 16, 2014, 11:14:37 AM Coffy(1974)/Jackie Brown(1997) That would be awesome, still haven't seen it actually. I guess you could put Foxy Brown too! But then it would be too similar. Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Ticonderoga 64 on April 16, 2014, 11:28:07 AM Coffy(1974)/Jackie Brown(1997) That would be awesome, still haven't seen it actually. I guess you could put Foxy Brown too! But then it would be too similar. It could be a triple-bill Pam Grier fest actually! :smile: Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: messedup on April 16, 2014, 11:51:22 AM I would only show movies I like...genre doesn't matter.
And I would only show stuff in their original language. Of course I would have to be super rich to do that because under normal circumstances I would be broke in a couple of month due to only few people actually paying money to watch movies in any other language than german in my town. Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: retrorussell on April 16, 2014, 01:29:10 PM A double bill of KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE and AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON would be pretty cool.
Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Ticonderoga 64 on April 16, 2014, 01:55:47 PM A double bill of KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE and AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON would be pretty cool. I like the sound of that! :thumbup: Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Ticonderoga 64 on April 19, 2014, 03:05:01 PM More selections:
Ilsa: She-Wolf Of the SS/Caged Heat Vampyres/Invasion Of the Bee Girls House Of Dark Shadows/The Night Stalker Alien Dead/Shock Waves Legend Of Hell House/Spookies Attack Of the Mushroom People/The Manster Corruption/The Mutations Beneath the Planet Of the Apes/Logan's Run Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: The Burgomaster on April 21, 2014, 04:05:28 PM Most of mine would be 1970s stuff (with possibly a smattering of 60s and 80s movies). Some would be actual double features that I saw at the drive in when I was a kid.
* BARN OF THE NAKED DEAD / INVASION OF THE BLOOD FARMERS * BLOOD OF GHASTLY HORROR / BRAIN OF BLOOD * SHAFT / SUPERFLY * LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT / DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT * WILLARD / BEN * SOYLENT GREEN / ROLLERBALL * BLACULA / SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM * SQUIRM / Ssssssss * DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY / VANISHING POINT * JUGGERNAUT / THE CASSANDRA CROSSING * THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN / THE THING WITH TWO HEADS * THE HOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS / KING FRAT * IF YOU DON'T STOP, YOU'LL GO BLIND / CAN I DO IT 'TIL I NEED GLASSES? * BARBARELLA / FLESH GORDON Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: The Burgomaster on April 21, 2014, 04:06:55 PM A double bill of KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE and AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON would be pretty cool. I like the sound of that! :thumbup: I remember KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE and THE GROOVE TUBE playing on some drive-in double features in the 70s. Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: retrorussell on April 21, 2014, 05:30:12 PM The Groove Tube had one of those scenes where your dad saw it and laughed when he was younger and years later when you watch it you laugh just as hard (as in the case of my dad and I).
BROWN 25: Brown 25 (from Uranus) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=008BPUdQ1XA#) Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Chainsawmidget on April 21, 2014, 08:12:28 PM I'd play a remake followed by the actual sequel to the original just to mess with people.
Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Javakoala on April 21, 2014, 09:47:39 PM Blood Mania/Blood Freak
Night Of The Lepus/Night Of The Demon Frogs/Rattlers Frozen Dead/Frozen Scream My goal would be to sucker them in with a fairly tame title, and then shock them out of the back seat sex with the insane follow-up. Yes, I am a bit of an arsehole. I almost forgot: Mwhahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Muscle Hedonist on April 29, 2014, 02:57:18 PM Oh boy, that's like the dream of my life. One of the things I'd definitely show would be Kill Bill, both volumes together like they're meant to be. Maybe even the fabled "Whole Bloody Affair" version if that ever gets released.
Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Allhallowsday on April 29, 2014, 04:16:54 PM FRIDAY NIGHT FRIGHTFEST
Here's previews to our first double bill: 1970s CHEESE DEAD OF NIGHT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSi43oYTJ6E GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiZaDaVruC0 Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Ticonderoga 64 on April 30, 2014, 07:45:10 AM Great choices!!
Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: ChaosTheory on April 30, 2014, 11:44:31 AM METROPOLIS/IDIOCRACY
PSYCHO/PEEPING TOM BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS/MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE R.O.T.O.R./ROBOCOP FROGS!/STANLEY THE HILLS HAVE EYES/TRIP WITH THE TEACHER FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE/DEAD MAN THE RAID: REDEMPTION/ENTER THE DRAGON Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Allhallowsday on May 01, 2014, 08:16:20 PM NEW YORK CRIME NIGHT ... '70s STYLE
ACROSS 110th STREET http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBPXkwRJubc THE SEVEN-UPS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r49YDHxwN_U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96WE2Nj-k-U Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Allhallowsday on May 02, 2014, 09:40:34 PM PAM GRIER NIGHT
SHEBA BABY and FOXY BROWN and COFFY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xahdFpTq2JM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOnqC_acEuI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jVAIitIP-4 Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Ticonderoga 64 on May 04, 2014, 10:01:54 AM The Pam Grier night looks like a winner! :teddyr:
Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Jim H on May 05, 2014, 10:34:10 PM I have an old Super 8MM movie projector and a screen. I could sort of have my own outdoor theater in my side yard but each full movie would require like 5 reels. I've seen full movies on ebay like Jaws, and some cartoon shorts that would go well with the drive-in type atmosphere, but 5 reels for a full movie kind of sucks. That's a lot of intermissions while I change reels! The thing to do is use the condensed films on the 800' reels. Ends up being a reel change every 25 minutes, and usually it's a whole "movie" in that time. If you don't mind spending more money, you can also get one of the ones that takes a larger reel. There's a very expensive Super 8 projector out there that takes a 2000' reel if memory serves. :teddyr: I've done this with my Super 8 stuff a couple times. Mine has an 800' reel. Last time I showed a Looney Tunes short, the trailer for Sword and the Sorcerer, and the 40 minute version of The Sting (which is very smartly edited down - it contains just the main con of the title). Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: The Burgomaster on May 06, 2014, 02:49:51 PM I have an old Super 8MM movie projector and a screen. I could sort of have my own outdoor theater in my side yard but each full movie would require like 5 reels. I've seen full movies on ebay like Jaws, and some cartoon shorts that would go well with the drive-in type atmosphere, but 5 reels for a full movie kind of sucks. That's a lot of intermissions while I change reels! The thing to do is use the condensed films on the 800' reels. Ends up being a reel change every 25 minutes, and usually it's a whole "movie" in that time. If you don't mind spending more money, you can also get one of the ones that takes a larger reel. There's a very expensive Super 8 projector out there that takes a 2000' reel if memory serves. :teddyr: I've done this with my Super 8 stuff a couple times. Mine has an 800' reel. Last time I showed a Looney Tunes short, the trailer for Sword and the Sorcerer, and the 40 minute version of The Sting (which is very smartly edited down - it contains just the main con of the title). I got a Super 8 sound camera and projector for my birthday when I was a kid. I had a collection of mostly 200', 400', and 800' condensed movies. Some of my favorites were: * CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (400' and 3-D!) * IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (400' and 3-D!) * ANIMAL HOUSE (800', mounted on two 400' reels) * SLAPSHOT (400') * BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (200') * SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (200') * FRANKENSTEIN'S NEW BRAIN (which was a condensed version of GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN on a 200' reel) I remember getting a catalog in the mail for FULL LENGTH Super 8mm sound movies mounted on a series of 400' reels. They were really expensive, but I very much wanted to get THE GODFATHER. I think it was about $350 and this was in the late 1970s. A small fortune at that time. Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: JaseSF on May 08, 2014, 03:57:00 PM First this would be something of a dream come true for me personally. I'd probably go with lots of AIP films personally with a dash of some British sci-fi/horror imports. The Herman Cohen produced films, Hammer films, the Corman Poe films, etc. The basic theme though would be people battling monsters of different sorts.
The Blob (1958), I Was a Teenage Werewolf The Creeping Unknown, The Creeping Terror The Crawling Eye, Fiend Without a Face Brain From Planet Arous, The Brain That Wouldn't Die Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958), Village of the Giants Blood of Dracula, The Brides of Dracula Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Rev. Powell on May 08, 2014, 05:12:18 PM I'm going to keep going with current stuff from up and coming exploitation movie filmmakers instead of the nostalgia classics.
http://youtu.be/BafcXR-7opo (http://youtu.be/BafcXR-7opo) http://youtu.be/DOj5CAbIp28 (http://youtu.be/DOj5CAbIp28) That's a pretty cool concept for a musical horror double feature. (I haven't seen either of them). Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Jim H on May 08, 2014, 07:18:57 PM I have an old Super 8MM movie projector and a screen. I could sort of have my own outdoor theater in my side yard but each full movie would require like 5 reels. I've seen full movies on ebay like Jaws, and some cartoon shorts that would go well with the drive-in type atmosphere, but 5 reels for a full movie kind of sucks. That's a lot of intermissions while I change reels! The thing to do is use the condensed films on the 800' reels. Ends up being a reel change every 25 minutes, and usually it's a whole "movie" in that time. If you don't mind spending more money, you can also get one of the ones that takes a larger reel. There's a very expensive Super 8 projector out there that takes a 2000' reel if memory serves. :teddyr: I've done this with my Super 8 stuff a couple times. Mine has an 800' reel. Last time I showed a Looney Tunes short, the trailer for Sword and the Sorcerer, and the 40 minute version of The Sting (which is very smartly edited down - it contains just the main con of the title). I got a Super 8 sound camera and projector for my birthday when I was a kid. I had a collection of mostly 200', 400', and 800' condensed movies. Some of my favorites were: * CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (400' and 3-D!) * IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (400' and 3-D!) * ANIMAL HOUSE (800', mounted on two 400' reels) * SLAPSHOT (400') * BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (200') * SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (200') * FRANKENSTEIN'S NEW BRAIN (which was a condensed version of GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN on a 200' reel) I remember getting a catalog in the mail for FULL LENGTH Super 8mm sound movies mounted on a series of 400' reels. They were really expensive, but I very much wanted to get THE GODFATHER. I think it was about $350 and this was in the late 1970s. A small fortune at that time. Dunno if you're aware, but there's actually been some fairly recent Super 8 releases. There's a condensed version of Captain America (the Chris Evans version), for example, and a number of trailers. Partly Cloudy (the Pixar short) is on Super 8. There's small print runs still being made by small companies, I guess. They're quite expensive still. If you want to buy a feature, sometimes older films (like Laurel & Hardy) features can be had for $30-$100. Anything in color will likely be $150+. I moved into a smaller place and had to leave my film equipment in storage, otherwise I'd still have em. Greatly enjoyed projecting stuff on film, a lot of fun. Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: LilCerberus on May 11, 2014, 04:48:49 PM Only three movies I wanted to see this year. Jodorowsky's DUNE; not playing in my town. Under The Skin; missed it altogether. The Creep Behind The Camera; not holding my breath...
I think I'd seek out the really obscure & indie crap that isn't gonna get much cinema play. Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Robot Ears on May 11, 2014, 05:52:11 PM I'd love to see some 80s/Early 90s cheese blown up to theatrical size, being more badass than ever. Something about a screen that size must make the cheesy goodness seem more intentional than ever before if you know what I mean. I'd love it. Plus I'm an 80s kid wannabe... (I was a 90s kid *sigh*)
I'd play stuff like... Night of the Creeps The Brain TerrorVision FrankenHooker House The Gate The Video Dead Child's Play Killer Klowns From Outer Space Spookies Neon Maniacs Flesh Eating Mothers Rabid Grannies Troll PumpkinHead Ticks/Infested Class of 1999 Maniac Cop 1 and 2 Beyond Dream's Door Phantasm 2 and 3 Slime City god... I'd be in heaven... Title: Re: If you had your own theater/drive-in? Post by: Chainsawmidget on May 13, 2014, 01:07:16 PM i think Sharknado/Birdemic would be a nice double feature... for anyone that really hates themselves.
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