Well That Was Unexpected...

Going into this week we were gonna be pretty excited if 40 people came to our first Trylon screening. Instead, we sold the place out before the doors even opened! You people are the BEST!! Even if you came down and didn't get in, thank you so much for your support. Seriously, we are taken aback and full of gratitude.

But we do feel bad for anyone who came down and was met with a "sold out" sign, so if you're coming to a screening in the future, please buy ticket ahead of time on the Trylon website. (If tickets are getting close to selling out a count down will appear and they have an email reminder option for screenings further out!) Also, if you got into the screening but didn't get buttons, we're so sorry! We really didn't think we were going to sell out the place on our first night. But we're going to be better prepared for next month. BUTTONS FOR EVERYONE!!

If you bought a poster, t-shirt, or a membership; thank you so much!!! We're excitedly planning the goodies for next month because of your enthusiasm. If you're kicking yourself for not picking up something at the show, everything is available on Tim's Storenvy page!

And lastly, we're so glad you all had fun! We set the bar pretty high but we like to start off the year with a bang because winter is HARD. Next month's movie will be a new flavor of weird, so stay tuned for clues all this month!

I think that's all, and I have really gone crazy with the exclamation points, so please enjoy these photos from the night and know were super excited for the next few months!

Lucio Fulci is Rated X: Poster

You can still pick up a limited, four-color, glow-in-the-dark screen print of Tim's design for Lucio Fulci is Rated X poster at the Trylon! (We're splitting the proceeds with the Trylon, so purchasing one poster supports two great local things!)

You can pick up a poster any time the Trylon is open, but we recommend heading over this weekend and visiting Moon Palace Books and Peace Coffee before catching a screening of Rosemary's Baby. I mean, it's just a suggestion...

Lucio Fulci is Rated X: City of the Living Dead

This movie opens with a séance so intense the medium dies of fright. What scared her so badly? She had a vision of a priest hanging himself in the church's cemetery and consequently that opened the gates of hell. And that would be all well and good (so to speak) if the medium didn't wake up in a coffin having been burred alive two scenes later. Before you ask, this movie does takes place in the 1980s when people routinely have autopsy preformed when they die under mysterious circumstances and are embalmed before being burred. That she would awake after her burial is asking for a pretty large suspension of disbelief, even for a Fulci movie. 

But, as this is a Fulci movie, that point of contention is made up for with rich atmosphere, a looming sense of other worldly dread, a fantastic score from Fabio Frizzi, and of course, horrifying gore.

There is so much gore.

And not just the standard Fulci effects and over the top zombifications, there's also a scene where a man dies from being drilled straight through the head, there are many tears of blood, there's even a room full of maggots! So full. And those aren't the only maggots in the film.

So many maggots.

This movie is also the first in the “unofficial” Gates of Hell trilogy. The second being The Beyond and the third would be The House by the Cemetery (though that might be why it's “unofficially” a trilogy as they never talk about "the gates of hell" in House). The thin (and at time straight up goofy) plot gives this film a handicap, but it pretty well lays the foundation for how amazing The Beyond turned out. It also gives The Beyond a run for it's money in the well-that-was-a-confusing-ending department...

So confusing.

But it truly, watching this movie fully prepared for it's flaws leaves you free to more thoroughly enjoy the great elements abundant throughout the film. (There's so much gore and grossness! So much!) And you can enjoy all the grossness in restored glory, so you'll see every single maggot!

Seriously, so many maggots.


Lucio Fulci is Rated X: 

City of the Living Dead

Mon Oct 12 7:00 9:00
Tue Oct 13 7:00 9:00 

@ Trylon microcinema, tickets $8 (or snag a discount card at $25 for 5 movies!)

Lucio Fulci is Rated X: Zombie

With the release of Zombie, Lucio Fulci entered three visual touchstones into the zombie pop-culture lexicon: the image of the zombie that graces the poster art with an eye socket full of maggots, a zombie slowly pulling a victim’s eye through a splinter of a door, and the underwater fight between a zombie and a shark. As time fades on and you forget the details of this zombie classic, you'll likely start referring to this movie as “the one with the splinter though the eye” or more commonly “the one where the zombie fights a shark”, and this begs a question: Why didn't the idea of underwater zombie ever take off?




George A. Romero ran with the underwater zombie in Land of the Dead and Max Brooks addresses the idea (as does Shock Wave apparently, though I have not yet watched it), but it's strange more modern zombie movies aren't embracing the water-mobile zombie. Possibly the idea adds too much cost to production (I imagine makeup that holds up underwater isn't cheep, nor are underwater stunt people). But what if the underwaterness was used as premise to the story rather than mere sight gags. A deserted island could easily be over run by a water logged horde, a cargo ship could pick up what they thought was a man-overboard, a shipwrecked crew could see what could perhaps appear to be their saviors slowly lumbering from the depths of the ocean...

So, I guess what I'm driving at is this: while you're enjoying Zombie and all it's quintessential contributions to the zombie cannon, fantastic gore, and makeup effects, take notes and write a screenplay that dictates the next direction in zombie horror. Why not? What else are you going to do on a Wednesday afternoon?

Lucio Fulci is Rated X:

Zombie

Mon, Oct 05, 7:00 & 9:00
Tue, Oct 06, 7:00 & 9:00

@ Trylon microcinema, tickets $8 (or snag a discount card at $25 for 5 movies!)

That Guy Dick Miller

We've written about Dick Miller before but you really can't say enough about him. That's likely why Elijah Drenner made a documentary about him!


If you aren't familiar with Dick Miller by name, you most likely would recognize him from any of his  175 roles. He sells guns to the Terminator, he's the town drunk/snow plow driver in Gremlins, in the Howling he sells convenient books on werewolfs. He pops up in Pirannah, Chopping Mall, The 'Burbs, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Innerspace, Matinee, Unlawful Entry, Small Solders, and he's got a (rare) starring role in A Bucket of Blood.

We seriously can't wait for That Guy Dick Miller so we can learn so much more about this iconic That Guy. But we only have to wait for Friday because Trylon is screening That Guy all weekend! Check it out and know so much more about a man you've seen in everything.

Fri, Apr 4th 7 & 9pm
Sat, Apr 5th 7 & 9pm
Sun, Apr 6th 5 & 7pm

The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T

Did you know that Dr. Seuss wrote a screen play in the 50s? Well you do now! The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T was his only full leingth movie script to hit the silver screen. It stars Hans Conried (the voice of Captian Hook in Disney's Peter Pan) and Tommy Rettig (the original boy to TV's Lassie). Strange, dark, dripping with commentary on opression and world dominataion this is defanatly a movie for your movie bucket list, and Trylon microcinema is playing this gem all weekend!

The 5000 fingers of Dr. T, Jan 23rd-25th, show times vary, $8

Have you seen these kids?

If you aren't familiar with Y.N. Rich Kids, take a second to get aquatinted because they will be hosting the Defenders Series at the Trylon microcinema tonight! To quote the organizer "Their movie pick is amazing by the way. You'll be surprised." 

The Defenders Series is always hosted by a local celebrity who picks a movie to screen No one in the audience knows what's been chosen, and after the movie ends the Defender stands in front of the audience to defend their selection. It's amazing, and to the best of my knowledge it's never been hosted by a kid (let alone a group of them) before. Don't miss this amazing chance to see what these bright and talented kids have selected to Defend!

Tonight (Wed 12/17) @ 7pm, Trylon microcinema $8 (half of the proceeds will go to the Beats & Rhymes Program at the Harold Mezile YMCA.)

I wrote a thing for the Trylon blog!

You missed the screening, but you can read all about my thoughts on Scream if you like! Trylon microcinema has some fun meta-horror all October, I'm particularly excited for Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and Hausu, but there's really not a bad one in the bunch. 













But seriously, if you haven't seen Hausu please do so, there's not a snowballs chance in hell you'll regret it.

And while you're there, check out the poster Tim designed for the series!

And while you're there, check out the poster Tim designed for the series!

Jackie Chan!

Trylon microcinema is screening Jackie Chan movies every Monday and Tuesday for the month of July! You've already missed Supercop, but don't let Project A slip out of your grasp, it screens at 7 and 9 tonight! Don't miss this epic program! (And we'll see you at Operation Condor!)

Big Trouble and John Carpenter's legit band.

John Carpenter directed some of our favorite movies, and nearly all of those movies he scored himself. Likely utilizing latent talents to save on budget costs, those scores have influenced countless filmmakers and musicians through the years. As if that wasn't enough, in the mid 80's Carpenter recruited fellow filmmakers Tommy Lee Wallace (dir Halloween 3, It, Fright Night 2) and Nick Castle (dir The Last Starfighter, Major Payne, and writer of this magical number "Everyone's coming to NY"  from Escape From New York) and formed the band “The Coupe de Villes”.

And, for what seems to be a hobby band, they were fairly prolific. They released a full length album, wrote some songs for soundtracks, and made a music video. Yes, that's right: a music video. It is as splendored, as it is painful.

Obviously that song was written for Big Trouble in Little China, and if watching that amazing feat of musical courage reminded you how much you love Big Trouble, hit up Trylon Microcinema April 18-20^th. They're also screening Buckaroo Banzai in a weekend in a line up Trylon's had on their wish list for years. (I was lucky enough to help them celebrate by designing the poster for the double header!)

Obviously we'll be attending one of these screenings since few things are funner than filling* a Trylon screening with 15 of your friends and watching a movie you all love to death!

Psst: If you want to buy one of those posters, they're for sale at Trylon. They sell small prints of all their posters for 10 bucks. Sales towards keeping the (completely non-profit) theater going for another year. Support a cool theater and get a sweet poster in the process!

*To actually fill a Trylon screening, you'd have to bring 50 of your friends, but 15 of your posse will make you feel like a film nerd gangster to be sure!

-Tim