Now Onto the Movies: New Beverly Cinema Marathon

Beyond the Door

That tag line is just awful.

This was the first film of the night. I had never heard of at the very least seen this film, which is the same for almost all the films of the night. The people running the show introduced it as one of the first The Exorcist  rip-offs that flooded into theaters after the success of the film. And I truly believe that is the best way to describe this movie.


To give you a quick synopsis of the film. Happy family with Mother, Father, daughter and son living their life in San Francisco oh so blissfully. Then the wife, Jessica,  reveals she is pregnant to her husband. Of course it is possessed throughout the film. So her health and mental well being slowly degrades and it becomes more evident that she’s possessed in Exorcist fashion her face looks messed up and is puking green.

Adventures in Horror and other thoughts

With part of my agreement with myself when I moved to LA I wanted to try and see a lot more and experience a lot more that I had for various reasons ignored or passed over while being in Philadelphia.  This includes watching more and more variety, AKA my list of shame (Coming soon!). Doing more, like visiting more stuff and just trying to become engrossed in the culture of the city; also reading more on horror or films in general.


In keeping with that promise to myself I went to something I had never done before and had let the opportunity pass my by in Philly. On Saturday, October 1st, the New Beverly Cinema here in LA did their 4th Annual Horror Movie Marathon. What it comprised of was 6 films shown in a row.  It was scheduled to start at 7:30pm and go to 7:30am. I was invited out of blue by someone and was totally intrigued by it. What really caught my eye with this is the fact that the 5 announced movies I had never seen any of them. Then there was a 6th secret movie that completely intrigued me.


The night ran smoothly it was a sold out event and it seemed like everyone there was pretty regular movie goers, e.g. no one was a douche. I had expected to have people calling out shit during the movies and ruining the experience. They also did a raffle which I was not anticipating where they gave away a lot of random things including vintage magazines, Joey Ramone’s video tape collection and porn related paraphernalia. Unfortunately I didn’t win so I can’t review a German made DVD of naked women shooting guns....darn!