Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce is playing at the Carolina Theatre this Friday! Join the Mutantville Players as we make the trip out to see Mathilda May wreak space vampire havoc on the unsuspecting populace! Jim Carl of the Carolina Theatre sent out a reminder about the latest installment of RETROFANTASMA today:
Hey everyone!
RETROFANTASMA is tomorrow night, March 19th at the Carolina Theatre. It should be a fun and awesome show. We’ve got 1985’s LIFEFORCE and 1988’s KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE. There will be a re-screening of the 10-minute short film, SINKHOLE, (a Nevermore favorite) prior to LIFEFORCE. And as a special bonus, we will have a tribute to PETER GRAVES and COREY HAIM during the 15-minute Intermission.
We’ve just test-screened both 35mm prints, and they’re beautiful! No fading or scratches, just almost-flawless prints, as if they were kept in a time vault. It really will be a great presentation.
If you like animated films, then don’t miss A TOWN CALLED PANIC. It starts SATURDAY, MARCH 20th at the Carolina Theatre for one-week only. It’s a fantastic animated film from Belgium. It’s odd, to say the least, but a really fun film. Visit the film’s website at www.atowncalledpani
And if you like action movies, we’re opening DISTRICT 13–ULTIMATUM on Saturday, March 20th, as well. I checked the theatre listings in the newspaper and I think we’re the only theatre in the Triangle showing this film. It’s written by the great Luc Besson (The Big Blue, The Fifth Element, etc.) and our head projectionist, Thomas Reed, is screening the film as I write this e-mail. I popped my head into Cinema One a few minutes ago and asked him, “How is it?” He smiled and said, “This is AWESOME!” Thomas is a hard critic, so DISTRICT 13–ULTIMATUM must be pretty good to garner such a response. 🙂 We’ll only be screening the film for this one-week only, so please check it out!
See you tomorrow night! There will be some really cool door prizes!
Jim
From the IMDb:
LIFEFORCE: Halley’s Comet returns to the solar system and the English/American team aboard the shuttle “Churchill”, making a close-up survey of the comet, discovers an alien spacecraft in the head of the comet. Inside the spacecraft are some large bat-like creatures and in three cocoons are three “dead” humans – two men and a woman. The “Churchill” takes the humans and a creature back to Earth. There the bosses of the project are amazed to find the shuttle burnt out and all but one of the crew – Carlsen – dead. The humans from the spacecraft suddenly awake and all those who come into contact with them are drained of their “lifeforce” and in time all the victims – including most of the population of London – are turned into zombies all preying on the horrified survivors for their “lifeforce”. It’s up to Carlsen and Major Caine of the SAS to stop them before the whole world turns into a big blood-hunt… Written by Lee Horton {Leeh@tcp.co.uk}
