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!