By Bob Shultz
Horrorfest ‘08! Thursday, July 3rd. Horseshoe Lake Drive-In, Admission: $7.50 per person (Under 17 not admitted without parent or guardian). Barf bags not included.
Tired of the same old Thursday Night?? Have you NOT spent enough quality time this summer with the “Undeaded”? Sick of using sheathes and weed-whackers on nothing but the lawn? Well, heads up, “Zombie-Ites” and “slasherphiles”… If your taste in movies runs blood-red with the screams of the horror-genre, you’re probably feeling a bit left out of this summer’s movie season. Sure, you’ve braved the crowds at “Ironman” and witnessed the second coming of “Indiana Jones”. You may have even been the handful of confused people who sat throw the “what the hell is going on here?” experience of “The Strangers.” You’re probably the same fear-thriving moviegoers that “planted” themselves for the 2-hour not-so-happening, happenings in “The Happening.” Yes, for Horror Fans, the summer is pretty dry for your particular brand of entertainment. But relief is here. Raise your bloody-stumps in thankfulness, because the Horseshoe Lake Drive-In Theatre will be ushering in the
Thursday, July 3rd is The First Annual Independent Horrorfest: A collection of the bizarre and macabre that you won’t find anywhere else in the World. Kansas City Filmmaker Jeff Chitty is the guest programmer for this blood-soaked night of nightmares and terror that will combine classic underground films and the best of the best independent films from metro filmmakers. It’s a night long celebration of the unexpected that is being exhibited exclusively for YOU, you little freaks! Of course I must stress again, for this one-night event… it is not the usual night of “family friendly” entertainment usually seen at the Drive-In… unless of course, your family is the Manson Family or you’re traveling with the Donner Party.
Rest assured, movie-fans… the Drive-In will be showing its reliable brand of mainstream family films over the evenings of Friday, Saturday and Sunday… BUT on THURSDAY, July 3rd…beginning at Sundown… Its adults’ only and its a night filled with severed limbs, zombie attacks, conscience free serial stalkers and everything that makes the horror genre the fastest growing and most reliable form of independent filmmaking “fun.”
Kick off the Holiday by leaving your parents’ basements, saving your place on “Resident Evil: Part Pie” and head out to the Drive-In to meet like-minded people, eat the best popcorn in town and prepared to be grossed-out, sickened and frightened out of your “tighty-whiteys.” Don’t miss the 1st annual Horrorfest at the Horseshoe Lake Drive-In Theatre, Sundown… One-night-only, Thursday July 3rd. Concessions will be available, with proceeds benefiting the purchase of equipment for local young and underprivileged filmmakers of the Film Alliance of the Midland Empire.
We’ll see you there… unless you’re a big pansy. EDITOR’S NOTE: Despite the author’s implication that horror movie fans are “freaks, Mama’s boys, pansies and socially-inept,” please be aware that the author not only suffers from a massive elitist ego, but is also a “Grade-A Hypocrite.” He has been a producer on 2 feature Horror Films (“Lewis and Clark Trail of Blood” and the upcoming “Bonnie and
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