Remembering Midnight Movies

[The Burgomaster]

When I was a kid, and into my early 20s, special "midnight only" movies played a local theaters a lot more frequently than they do now.  And those movies were true movie going events.  I remember some typical midnight line-ups as follows:

* BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA (the classic, cheesy cartoon!)
* One or two 3 STOOGES shorts
* A few classic bad movie theatrical trailers
* Feature film (quite frequently it was the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, the original HILLS HAVE EYES, and one time I even saw the legendary KING FRAT!)

Nowadays you can usually catch something like THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.  But those midnight movies of yore were great events.

[lester1/2jr]

theres a documentary about them thats good.  Isaw it. it had bambi meets godzilla, pink flamingos and a bunch of others

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

Posted by: The Burgomaster

Nowadays you can usually catch something like THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.  But those midnight movies of yore were great events.

I went to a midnight showing of Night Of The Living Dead when I was about 15 or so. My parents took a friend and I up to the old Lehigh Valley Mall (or was it Whitehall Mall) in the Allentown-Whitehall area back in, I think it was 1980, back when Allentown was a safer place.

There was indeed a 3 Stooges short also: False Alarms where the boys were firemen. One of my fave episodes. I always like when Moe pokes Curly in the eyes over the phone, and later when Moe grabs Larry by the hair and pulls him back up.

[Flick James]

There was a 4-screen multiplex in the 80's in So. California that did midnight movies every Saturday, on all 4 screens. They did the regular Rocky Horror, of course, and Pink Floyd The Wall played frequently, but they also cycled through various cult and B-movies, and concert movies like Song Remains the Same or The Last Waltz or Stop Making Sense. I remember seeing Reefer Madness, A Clockwork Orange, and The Blob. They ended it some time in the late 80's if I remember, but they may have continued Rocky Horror.

[Rev. Powell]

We have a local theater that plays some of these; the choices aren't always as "out there" as I would like (e.g. GHOSTBUSTERS), but I understand they have to make money.  Sadly, I'm no longer young and I usually am in bed before they start screening.  I did make it a point to go see the William Girdler double feature ASYLUM OF SATAN/ABBY and enjoyed myself.  They have a screening of THE ROOM coming up.