Midnight Movie (2008)

There’s something to be said for modern slashers. That would be, most are uber generic and usually base their entire premise around finding the best way to off characters as the masked killer slices and dices through a troop of sexually-fiending teens and creepy old men. Now, I know that’s not extremely different from the slashers of the 80s, but there’s a completely different feel these days. It’s almost as if the filmmakers just want to make a film and the easiest way to do that is to put together a poorly structured story, using unlikable characters and then have them killed in gruesome ways. Now, that that’s out of the way, let’s get to the point of this rant, and that would be, Midnight Movie. This is one of the few slashers I’ve ever seen that actually kept my attention the whole time, and was actually pretty damned entertaining.

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Midnight Meat Train – LA Screening

UPDATE

I was lucky enough to catch an LA premiere of Midnight Meat Train (thanks very much for the hook-up Morbid) at the Nuart Theater.  Let me say that pulling up 15 minutes before the show the line was already around the side of the building and I had to park over 5 blocks from the main road.  Shady.  Read on for a little info on the night, and my super-short review.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly To Be Re-Released

Update: Dates And Venues Now Listed!

Park Circus are to be re-releasing the recently remastered 180 minute cut of Sergio Leone’s masterpiece throughout the Uk this August.

Update – August 5th – 2008

The dates and cinemas as of today are as follows…

London – BFI Southbank – from 1 August
Edinburgh – Filmhouse – from 1 August
Norwich – Cinema City – from 3 August
Bristol – Watershed – from 15 August
Newcastle – Tyneside – from 15 August
Workington – Plaza Cinema – 20 August
Dublin – Irish Film Centre – from 22 August
Liverpool – FACT – 5 September
Dundee – DCA – from 5 September
Glasgow – GFT – from 7 September
York – City Screen – 7 September
Leicester – Phoenix Arts – from 8 September
Bradford – National Media Museum – from 12 September
Manchester – Cornerhouse – 14 September
Stafford Film Theatre – 9 October
Dartington – Barn – 12 October
Belfast – QFT – from 24 October
London – Riverside Studios – 26 October
Liverpool – Philharmonic Hall – 5 December

We expected others to follow. If your favourite cinema is not included, give them a shout and perhaps they will schedule. It is available to screen on new 35mm prints and via Digital Cinema. Note that the first two films in the ‘Dollars’ trilogy are also available, via 35mm prints, to cinemas nationwide.

Hope this is useful.

Best wishes
John – Park Circus