SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our SEEING DOUBLE series! Saturday, October 8, 2022
LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021
*Please note entrance/parking is actually in the back of the building. Make a right on Wilson Street, then a right behind the building. We’re the first set of black steps after the big gate.
8pm THE BLOB (1958, dir. Irvin Yeaworth, Worldwide Entertainment Group, USA, 86mns, 16mm)
10pm THE BLOB (1988, dir. Chuck Russell, Sony, USA, 95mns, 35mm)
Our second Halloween-o-thon Saturday is devoted to an unstoppable ever-expanding unthinking mass of terror known as …The Blob!
First up, we’ve scored a rare 16mm print of the 1958 original starring Steve McQueen in his first leading role as. . .Steve Andrews. The movie, part of the 1950’s trend of atomic age sci-fi monsters and anxieties (think the giant Ants in Them or the people copying pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers), follows the unfortunate landing of a carnivorous alien in small town Pennsylvania in a meteorite. When young lovers Steve and Jane accidentally hit a man who touched the meteorite and take him to the hospital, they unintentionally set The Blob loose on the entire town.
It grows and grows and terrorizes and terrorizes including a packed movie theater of folks watching a horror movie (!!). Although not the most subtextual or subversive of the 1950’s nuclear monster movies, The Blob somehow still gets at a creeping fear of the growing sameness and mindlessness of suburbia. McCarthyism was in the air and Americans of many political stripes feared a darkness was growing over the land.
Nobody expected 1988’s remake of The Blob to be amazing and even to. . .dare we say it…be better than the original, but it was. Directed by chameleon-like director Chuck Russell and written by a young Frank Darabont (both filmmakers collaborated on Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors), the 1980’s The Blob takes many of the same elements (and even plot points) of the original but makes sure to turn it all up to an R-rated eleven. Filled with some of the greatest (and grossest) practical special effects of the 1980’s, the 1980’s Blob is a jaw-dropping joyride of gross out effects and terror.
Join us to see double but make sure you escape before the Blob gets you…
Best always,
Craig Hammill
Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
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REFUNDS:
We can offer refunds up to 24 hours before showtime. Please request a refund through Eventbrite and we will process ASAP. After that, no refunds. Sorry.
However if something last minute comes up and you can’t make the screening, for whatever reason, just write to us before showtime: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening, good for 90 days. (Disclaimer: Future screening must have available tickets, cannot be a fundraiser, and must be comparably priced)
HELPFUL SECRET MOVIE CLUB (1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021) THEATER PARKING TIPS:
We recommend that you park just outside our theater. Remember our theater is actually in a beautiful street art alleyway in the back of the 1917 Bay Street building. You get to our entrance by taking a right on Wilson, then a right behind the building. We are the first set of black steps on the right after the big gate.
There is also a parking lot at the corner of Mateo and Violet Street, just 2 blocks from our theater, which costs $7 per car.
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