ELECTRIC DUSK DRIVE IN & SECRET MOVIE CLUB present PARKING LOT CINEMA!
Part of our HALLOWEEN-O-THON series. Saturday, October 3, 2020. 7:15pm THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974, Directed by Tobe Hooper, Bryanston Distributing Company, 83 mns, Digital) & 9:30pm PHANTASM (1979, dir by Don Coscarelli, AFGA, 89mns, Digital)
IMPORTANT NOTE: Gates will open for our First Movie at 5:45pm. If you are just attending the second movie, please arrive no earlier than 8:45pm so we can allow all FIRST FEATURE only attendees to leave and get you in quickly!
ALSO, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE PURCHASING TICKETS TO THE CORRECT MOVIE IF YOU ARE JUST SEEING ONE FEATURE INSTEAD OF BOTH.
PARKING LOT: Glendale Sears Parking Lot, 211 W. California Avenue Street, Glendale, CA 91203
HOW TO:
Make sure when you purchase your ticket(s), you do the following:
1)PURCHASE EITHER THE TWO FEATURE MAIN TICKET ($37) which includes a $25 car fee and the first ticket at $12 per person. This gets you into BOTH Features.
OR PURCHASE A SINGLE FEATURE EARLY BIRD TICKET ($23) which includes a $15 car fee and the first ticket at $8 per person. This gets you into the single FEATURE you select by title.
2) GO TO ADD ONS: Purchase either an additional $12 per person ticket (for BOTH Features) or an additional $8 per person ticket (for a SINGLE FEATURE) for however many other people after the first person will be in the car. We will be doing a count at the gate.
PLEASE NOTE TICKETS THE DAY OF AND AT THE GATE WILL BE $20 per car + $8 per ticket for a single screening.
3)PRE-ORDER ANY CONCESSIONS & POSTERS you would like from the additional Add-Ons. You can pick up all concessions and posters at our table in the middle of the Parking Lot.
To attend, you need a car with an FM radio. We will space out cars to make sure folks can always maintain 6 feet of distance. We ask that folks stay in their cars unless they need to use the portable restroom or get concessions. Whenever you are out of your car, you are required to wear a mask.
We will have hand sanitizer, masks, and gloves for sale for folks who need them. WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU BRING ALL THESE THINGS ON YOUR OWN.
IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, PLEASE BRING A SMALL OR REGULAR SIZED CAR. We want to make sure EVERYONE gets a great space. So if you have the option, always bring a smaller or regular sized car as it will get you the best possible space.
If bring a larger car, arrive as near to when we open our gates as possible to get the best possible space.
Our partnership with Electric Dusk Drive In https://www.electricduskdrivein.com/) continues as we take a look at two great low budget 1970’s horror cult classics.
First up, the all-time horror classic, Tobe Hopper’s original THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Made in 1974 on a very low budget, this movie follows a group of (what else) sort of clueless young people as they stop off in the middle of rural Texas to explore a run down old house only to discover ANOTHER house behind it.
What lies in that house becomes the story that fills up the rest of the movie. What no one tells you about the original TCM is that it is at once both one of the most terrifying AND hilarious of all horror movies. Hooper pulls off a miraculous tonal switch two thirds of the way into the movie so that the final third (which includes one horrifying family dinner sequence) somehow has you both horrified and laughing out loud.
We follow up with Don Coscarelli’s cult horror hit PHANTASM (another movie that launched a number of sequels). Coscarelli fully commits (as he would in all his subsequent movies) to be as weird and singular as possible. Here we follow two brothers whose investigation of their friend’s suspicious death leads them to a very strange mortuary. In that mortuary is “The Tall Man” a mortician determined to hide his secrets at all costs, including murdering trespassers with a really strange flying silver ball with daggers.
As the two brothers get closer to the secret, they also get closer to other dimensions, dwarves, a Lady in Lavender, and all manner of crazy weird late 70’s sh@t.
So come join us for two of the most singular low budget horror movies of the 1970’s.
Best always,
Craig Hammill
35mm Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
“HOW TO” AND FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR OUR PARKING LOT CINEMA SERIES
HOW TO:
GLENDALE SEARS PARKING LOT: 211 W. California Avenue St, Glendale, CA 91203
You will need a car with FM radio to attend. Gate will open at 5:45pm for the first feature and 8:45p for the second feature so folks have plenty of time to find the lot, get a good space.
IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, PLEASE BRING A SMALL OR REGULAR SIZED CAR. We want to make sure EVERYONE gets a great space. So if you have the option, always bring a smaller or regular sized car as it will get you the best possible space.
If bring a larger car, arrive as near to when we open our gates as possible to get the best possible space.
IMPORTANT: PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU DOUBLE CHECK THE TICKET YOU ARE PURCHASING IF YOU ARE ONLY ATTENDING ONE FEATURE. If you are just attending the first feature, arrive around 5:45p-6:45p to get the best possible space.
PLEASE ALSO WORK TO BRING A SMALL CAR IF YOU CAN. LARGE CARS that arrive right at showtime often have to be put towards the back of the lot.
If you are only attending the second feature, please arrive no earlier than 8:45pm so we can get everyone attending the first feature out of the lot, so we can get you in and start the movie!
We will be pre-selling concessions and posters here on Eventbrite to start so everything is as easy as possible. You can pick up your concessions and posters at our concessions table in the parking lot once you’ve parked. We have everything factory sealed, chilled, ready for pick up under your name.
PURCHASE EITHER A TWO FEATURE MAIN TICKET ($37) which includes a $25 car fee and the first ticket at $12 per person. This gets you into BOTH Features.
OR PURCHASE A SINGLE FEATURE EARLY BIRD TICKET ($23) which includes a $15 car fee and the first ticket at $8 per person. This gets you into the single FEATURE you select by title.
GO TO ADD ONS: Purchase either an additional $12 per person ticket (for BOTH Features) or an additional $8 per person ticket (for a SINGLE FEATURE) for however many other people after the first person will be in the car. We will be doing a count at the gate.
PLEASE NOTE TICKETS THE DAY OF AND AT THE GATE WILL BE $20 per car + $8 per ticket for a single screening.
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE GONE TO THE "ADD ONS" section in EVENTBRITE to purchase your ADDITIONAL PERSON(S) IN CAR tickets. We will be doing a count when we check you in at the gate.
We can offer refunds for requests made MORE than 24 hours before showtime through Eventbrite. After that, no refunds. Sorry.
We highly recommend that you bring a sweater, jacket, or a few layers of clothes just in case it gets a little chilly and you don’t want to run your car.
We also have portable restrooms which are cleaned every 15 minutes throughout the movies.
TICKETS & REFUNDS: Because of the special nature of these screenings, we can not offer discounted series passes. We can offer refunds for requests made through Evenbrite more than 24 HOURS before screening time.
After that, no refunds. Sorry. But we can offer you complimentary tickets to a future Secret Movie Club screening as long as it hasn’t sold out and isn’t a special screening with a different pricing structure.
WHERE DO I PICK UP MY PRE-ORDERED CONCESSIONS AND/OR POSTERS?
We have a concessions/pick up table at the parking lot. All our concessions are factory sealed. We simply hand you your order. If you pre-order posters, we will also have them at this table for pick up. Concessions WILL be available for purchase at the event itself as well if you want to make a game time decision.
WHAT IF I HAD TICKET(S) TO A SECRET MOVIE CLUB SCREENING THAT GOT POSTPONED DUE TO COVID AND WANT TO USE IT HERE? We will be reserving 10 spaces per screening for folks who want to transfer their tickets to one of our Parking Lot Cinema events. We will still need to charge you for the car ($25) but we won’t charge for the tickets.
Please email us at: community@secretmovieclub.com as soon as you can if you want to attend so we can reserve you one of these spaces. Once these 10 spaces fill up, you will have to either pay full price or request a different event.
WHAT IF I HAVE A SECRET MOVIE CLUB LIFETIME, SPRING OR SUMMER 2020 SEASON, OR SERIES PASS? Lifetime Pass holders do get automatic admission to all our events so that includes our Parking Lot Cinema events. Please just email us at community@secretmovieclub.com to let us know you will be attending.
For Spring and Summer 2020 Season and Series Pass holders who had their events delayed due to our COVID postponements, we can’t transfer those passes to the Parking Lot Cinema series because of the special nature and different pricing structure of this series.
HOWEVER, if you write us at community@secretmovieclub.com, we will do our best to get you entrance into at least a few of these screenings as a thank you for your patience. We will have to charge the $25 car fee but we will waive the per person ticket fee. And your Season or Series pass will STILL BE GOOD once we return to theatrical screenings.
WHAT PRECAUTIONS AND MEASURES ARE YOU TAKING SO THESE EVENTS ARE SAFE DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC?
All our staff will have gloves, masks, and work to maintain 6 feet of distance.
We are working to make these events as touch-less as possible. Therefore we ask that you purchase your tickets and all concessions, movie posters, etc THROUGH Eventbrite prior to the event. That way we can just check you off our list, hand you your concessions/posters, and guide you to your parking space.
We will work to have masks, gloves, hand sanitizer for sale at our events.
BUT WE DO HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO BRING ALL THESE THINGS YOURSELVES.
We will have portable restrooms which are constantly cleaned between EACH USE.
HOW WILL THESE MOVIES BE SCREENED: For the time being all movies will be screened digitally. While our first love is 35mm, to make these events happen in parking lots, we do need to screen movies digitally. However, we have taken every step to make sure the image and sound are of the highest quality so you have a great cinematic experience. We will also be doing LIVE IN PERSON INTRODUCTIONS as we did for our theatrical screenings.
WILL THERE BE SINGLE FEATURES AND/OR FAMILY FEATURES? Yes! We will occasionally be screening single features of longer length and single family features. Pleasencheck our website (secretmovieclub.com), our Social Media (@secretmovieclub35mm @secretmovieclub), and our Eventbrite page: http://secretmovieclub.eventbrite.com each Monday at 1pm for newly announced events.
HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:
You can always email us at community@secretmovieclub.com with any other questions, thoughts, recommendations.