There Was A Time When You Had To See Movies In A Theater – Meltdown
While I was on vacation last week, I did something that in some ways has become a lost art…I went to the movie theater and watched a classic horror film! I was in Milwaukee last Wednesday and Thursday, and as I was searching for something to do on Thursday night (Wednesday I went to see GWAR…that’s another story for later), I came across an old movie theater showing Freight Night from 1987. I thought I’d take a chance and go check it out. The theater wasn’t very full, but it brought me back to a time when my friends and I would go to the theaters on Friday or Saturday nights at midnight to watch the latest scary movie.
This theater was one of the old style ones, with only one floor that slowly inclined. Yes, I was looking over the seats in front of me as opposed to the theaters we have now, where there’s no blocked viewing. They even showed to previews before the movie- the trailer for the original Nightmare On Elm Street and Halloween. So cool!
A few weeks back, I went to a late night showing of Terrifier 2. I’ll be honest- it had kind of the same vibe. It was during homecoming season, so there was a lot of kids on dates there. While watching some of these movies at home is nice and easy, it does miss out on the ambiance of watching it in a theater with complete strangers…even if one of them was sleeping very loudly during Terrifier. LOL.
-Meltdown-