Friday, August 28th, 9pm: Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo

August 15, 2009

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The much maligned Breakin’ sequel, produced and released in the same year as the first Breakin’, is a much better movie than it has any right to be. At least I think so. Then again, I’m a grown-ass man that likes Breakin’ 2 more than any man should. It’s a nonsensical movie that did everything it could to make as much money as it could before someone found the sense to point out that it’s a series of bizarre dance numbers set to a pretty cool electro soundtrack and not much else. And furthermore, how the hell was Turbo supposed to form a meaningful relationship with a girl who only spoke Spanish? As usual, we’ll be down at the Simply Green station in Dover at 547 Central Ave in Dover. Show starts at 9pm. Tune your radios to 90.3 FM.

After an unfulfilling turn at a ballet academy, Kelly returns to the streets, much to the horror of her parents, to reconnect with Turbo and Ozone. The pair are helping out at a youth center in the barrio that is at risk of being condemned and the only way to raise the money is to hold the sweetest dance prty ever conceived of. They’re also going to have to face off against their rivals, Bodyrock and Turbo learns to get over his shyness and talk to that latina in the park that has her eye on him. Oh yeah, and everybody breakdances. Like, all the time.

Friday, August 14th, 9:00pm: Heavy Metal Parking Lot/Black Roses

August 8, 2009

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Join us this Friday for the first Sub Rosa Drive-In double feature. In lieu of the usual trailers that we run, we’ll be showing the old VHS cult classic, Heavy Metal Parking Lot prior to our feature presentation screening of the ultimate heavy metal turkey, Black Roses. As usual, the show starts at 9:00pm and we’ll be in the back lot of Simply Green Biofuels at 547 Central Avenue in Dover. Be there. You don’t want to miss this one.

Heavy Metal Parking Lot documents the American cultural decline of the mid-1980’s as one man with a microphone and one man with a camera interview anyone who will give them the time of day at the Maryland stop of the Judas Priest/Dokken US tour. The results are both sad and hilarious as the true face of rock and roll is unwittingly captured on film for all time.

Black Roses pits small town America against the evil power of heavy metal as the titular band moves into town to rehearse for their upcoming tour and bring the children of the town under their evil thrall. The only person who can stop the band and bring the children back is a school teacher with a righteous ’stache. Most of the soundtrack is provided by the band King Kobra, whose singer now sells real estate as a woman in Miami.

Once again, a huge thank you to Synapse Films for helping us get the permission to show the movie at no cost.

They Live wrap-up

August 8, 2009

If you missedFriday night’s screening of They Live, you really missed out. We had our best turn out yet on the best night of the series. It was a beautiful night to watch a movie outdoors and everyone else seemed to think so, too, since the Simply Green lot was packed. Larry and I also seem to have all the technical details nailed down so there was no bad picture, no bad audio, no power loss, nothing. We even had people driving by the lot stop to ask what we were up to, generating even more interest. It was a very encouraging show.

And in case you were wondering, the answer is yes. Nun Of That is a real movie. I’m a big fan of the film’s director, Richard Griffin. Other movies of his that I’ve seen are uniformly great. Here’s a rundown of all the trailers we ran.

Starcrash – A turkey of proportions so epic, it could have only come from the Italian exploitation machine. It’s supposed to ape Star Wars. Has David Hasselhoff in a substantial role.

The Deadly Spawn – Sold in some markets as Return of the Aliens, The Deadly Spawn is a fun alien carnage movie from the early 80’s made for practically nothing, featuring a fantastic alien monster model that is mostly teeth chasing kids around their attic and basement.

Nun of That – As mentioned above, it’s real. It’s by Providence, Rhode Island filmmaker, Richard Griffin, and was spawned from a mock trailer he made for the ‘08 48 Hour Fillm project.

Big Trouble In Little China – Does this one even need an introduction? A terrific flop upon release in 1986, it went on to become one of John Carpenter’s classics. Kurt Russel must battle an ancient chinese evil in San Francisco. Originally planned as a western while Carpenter was attached to The Golden Child.

Hell Comes To Frogtown – Rowdy Roddy Piper plays Sam Hell, one of the last fertile men on earth. The government recruits him to save a group of fertile women, captured by mutant frogs, so that he may reproduce with them. I wish I were making that up.

So there you go, the anatomy of a good time. Join us this Friday, the 14th, for our first double feature, the cult classic documentary, Heavy Metal Parking Lot and the goofy dog of a horror movie, Black Roses.

Coming to the show tonight? Here are some tips!

August 7, 2009

Sub Rosa cohort, Mike Merrigan passed this link along which is full of great tips that apply to our trunk-bourne show and some that apply to actual drive in theaters. Either way, it’s a fun read.

http://www.moviesbystarlight.com/drive-in-tips.htm

Reminder! They Live rescheduled for tomorrow night! August 7th

August 6, 2009

In case you’d forgotten, The Sub Rosa Drive-In resumes it’s series tomorrow night after postponing last week’s show due to rain. The show is John Carpenters “rich people are weird, man” science fiction actioner, They Live, starring Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David.

You can find us out back at the Simply Green station at 547 Central Avenue in Dover at 9pm. Tune into 90.3 FM for audio. Also, consider showing up early as we’ll be broadcasting some sweet tunes and there will be mingling. Come meet your fellow Sub Rosa attendees as well as Larry and I.

And to whomever called Simply Green last time to try and rat us out to them: Grow up. They’ve been very generous in permitting us to be there.

As usual, donations are always welcome. We have still have a big schedule on the horizon leading right up to October and your continued support makes sure that we get to show the movies.

Synapse Films is clutch. Regarding Black Roses.

August 5, 2009

Ever since our traumatic run-in with licensing issues in the wake of some downright irresponsible comments made to the papers about licensing and permission, we’ve been doing our best to make sure that our shows are by the book and that the people with the licenses are being paid. However, we hit a snag when we came up on some titles that Swank Motion Pictures didn’t have licenses for. They made it sound like we had some kind of exclusive deal with them since they more or less had our backs to the wall in the licensing department. This is not the case, of course, and pictures that they don’t license aren’t really any of their business. Case in point, the upcoming showing of the heavy metal horror movie, Black Roses, a real turkey that is nothing but good laughs and cheesy metal. It’s important that we do this right, though, if our little movement is going to gain any kind of traction, and with this in mind I contacted the fellas at Synapse Films who last released Black Roses on DVD. They contacted the license holder for the movie who then promptly granted us permission to show the movie at no cost. I only wish that they would have told me who owned the license so that I could thank them, myself.

So big ups to Synapse Films and big ups to whomever owns the rights to Black Roses. We’ve been getting shaken down at great expense to show some of these movies and I hope this screening generates some interest in Synapse, who also released John Fasano’s other kickass metal horror movie, Rock N’ Roll Nightmare (starring the one and only Jon Mikl Thor). Black Roses screens August 14th. See you there!

They Live rescehduled for August 7 at 9pm

August 1, 2009

Once again, we’ve been screwed by nature’s cruel will. Apart from the fact that it seems like it has rained through 80% of the summer, the worst of it all tends to land on our Friday nights. So like our first show, where I prematurely called it off based on the forecast, I called the show off last night because it was supposed to be torrential downpours all day and then thunderstorms all night and by 6 when I said that I would make the call, it was still looking that way.

Can you imagine how angry I was when, at 8ish, the sunset was visible through considerable gaps in the clouds and the water on the ground started to dry up?

So we’ll do this this coming Friday, the 7th at Simply Green at the same time, 9pm.  See you there.