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.
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.
Join us Friday, the 31st at 9:00pm sharp for a screening of the John Carpenter classic, They Live. By this point in the 80’s, of the original four horror movie dynamos, Romero, Hooper, Craven and Carpenter, John Carpenter was the only one among the bunch still injecting his features with a strong dose of social examination. They Live runs wild with the idea that rich people are weird and satirizes then contemporary American culture by assuming that the only way to explain the upper class disconnect is that they’re aliens and the only way to explain the middle class lethargy was to assume that our minds are being controlled by the alien upper class. And if the darkly comedic nature of the movie dosn’t sell you on it, immediately, hey! It stars Rowdy Roddy Piper!
George Nada is a homeless day laborer in Los Angeles who takes up in one of the local hoovervilles while he looks for work. Through sheer bad luck he finds his way into a street level resistance group that uses a pair of specialized sunglasses that cut through the illusion of daily life to reveal a world saturated in mind control devices and subliminal messages on everything. To make matters worse, the glasses also reveal a big portion of the population to be a horrific race of aliens that are running everything.
They Live is a great movie with a surprisingly able performance by Piper. This is the movie that the South Park episode, Cripple Fight, reproduced the epic Jimmy/Timmy fight from and if you’ve ever heard someone say they’re here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, this is probably where they heard it.
UPDATE! I have managed to track down a very special, very rare version of The Warriors for the show on the 17th. We will be screening an extended cut of the movie that combines all footage from the theatrical cut, the director’s cut and the rarely seen TV cut. This will be a unique opportunity. Don’t miss it!
Join us on Friday the 17th, 9:00pm sharp for a screening of one of the greatest cult movies of all time! I absolutely love The Warriors. It’s an original through and through. Andrew Laszlo’s night time photography of New York City is unrivalled and the brutal action is shot like dime store Peckinpah. What’s more, it’s packed to the rafters with outstanding characters and dialog. Sampled extensively by hardcore bands and just about everyone on Bad Boy Records. Based loosely on a novel by Sol Yurick which is, in turn, based on Xenophon’s Anabasis.
Cyrus, leader of the Grammercy Riffs, the biggest gang in New York City, is assassinated during a speech about uniting the city’s gangs and taking over. Small time gangbangers, The Warriors, from Coney Island get the blame even though they didn’t do it and they’ll spend the rest of the night running frantically from every colorful crew in the city just to make it back to their home turf.
Show starts at 9:00pm. Be on the lookout for the email that tells you where we’ll be screening.
Join our hidden resistance and celebrate the birth of America with John Milius’ yay-guns-boo-commies flick for the ages, Red Dawn. Produced in 1984, Red Dawn was the first movie to receive the PG-13 rating after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom set off alarms as being too violent for a PG rating but not hard enough for an R. Director, Milius, uses Red Dawn to communicate his strong feelings about communism in the 80’s and the second amendment, It is a favorite of NRA members and gun nuts, the world around.
As the political and economic climate in Eruope crumbles, a starving Soviet Union, aided by Central American and Cuban communist forces, stage a bold invasion of the United States. In Colorado, a small band of teens, armed and supplied by their parents, retreat into the mountains and fight back guerilla-style.
Red Dawn starts at 9:00pm, sharp. Be on the lookout for the inevitable email that will tell you where to find us.
What better way to kick off our Guerilla Drive-In series for summer, 2009 than with Allan Moyle’s 1990 pirate radio drama starring Christian Slater? It just seems appropriate. Since its release, it has been a favorite of mine. The acting is hammy at times but the soundtrack is killer and the story badly made me want to build my own pirate radio station.
Slater plays Mark Hunter, new kid at Hubert Humphrey High School. By night, he disappears into his basement and becomes Happy Harry Hard-On, DJ of a pirate radio station that rants poetically about the ordeals of high school life and plays extremely sweet music. He quickly gains a cult following and becomes the voice of the students when he uncovers a conspiracy perpetrated by the school faculty to remove undesirables among the student body to raise test scores and score more government cash. But The FCC isn’t crazy about him broadcasting without a license.
The show will kick off at 9:00pm, June 19th. The location will be emailed to you if you have signed up for the mailing list. If not, you’re SOL.
Join our hidden resistance and celebrate the birth of America with John Milius’ yay-guns-boo-commies flick for the ages, Red Dawn. Produced in 1984, Red Dawn was the first movie to receive the PG-13 rating after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom set off alarms as being too violent for a PG rating but not hard enough for an R. Director, Milius, uses Red Dawn to communicate his strong feelings about communism in the 80’s and the second amendment, It is a favorite of NRA members and gun nuts, the world around.
What better way to kick off our Guerilla Drive-In series for summer, 2009 than with Allan Moyle’s 1990 pirate radio drama starring Christian Slater? It just seems appropriate. Since its release, it has been a favorite of mine. The acting is hammy at times but the soundtrack is killer and the story badly made me want to build my own pirate radio station.