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TRAILER APOCALYPSE – Grindhouse Trailer Reel Plays Midnights This Weekend at The Hi-Pointe
“If you’re revolted by the sight of blood, close your eyes for the next 90 seconds!”
TRAILER APOCALYPSE screens midnights this Friday and Saturday Night (June 5th and 6th) at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis) as part of Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Night Grindhouse
To celebrate the fifth year of the monthly Late Night Grindhouse, the crazies over at Destroy the Brain are presenting ‘TRAILER APOCALYPSE – A Grindhouse Trailer Reel’ featuring a 2 solid hour buffet of trailers from the so-called “grindhouse” era: the notorious, the long forgotten, and everything in between. If you went to see a double or triple feature playing on 42nd Street in New York City in the seventies these are just the kind of coming attractions that would run before the films. Unfortunately, almost no one currently living in St. Louis ventured into NYC grindhouses 40-something years ago (at least no one I know), so here’s your chance to take that time machine back to the gritty days of exploitation madness.
Andy over at Destroy the Brain is keeping it close to the vest as to exactly what trailers we can expect to see unspool on The Hi-Pointe’s massive screen in glorious 35mm, but I did get him to tease three titles and if these are indicative of the titles on this trailer reel, St. Louis is in for one sleazy treat this weekend.
Herschell Gordon Lewis’ GRUESOME TWOSOME opens with a bizarre scene of two Styrofoam mannequin heads wearing wigs talking to each other. It’s as terrible as it sounds and it’s one of Lewis’ very worst films (and that’s saying a lot!), but I’m sure that the 2 minute trailer will be a lot of fun.
BLOOD FREAK (1972) is the one about the hippy who smokes weed, which naturally turns him into a slasher with a giant turkey head. It has to be seen to be believed and is probably the finest example of the pro-Christian / anti-drug / gore / Turkey-headed-monster horror sub genre.
PSYCHO FROM TEXAS (1975) is a sweaty, hickploitation trash that features Linnea Quigley in an early role as a stripper who gets a pitcher of beer poured over her.
I guess we’ll have to wait until this weekend to see what other goodies are in store. I can’t wait!
SOUVENIR VOMIT BAGS WILL BE GIVEN TO THE FIRST 45 ATTENDEES EACH NIGHT!
Admission is $7 – Beer & Wine is served until 12:45am
The Hi-Pointe’s site can be found HERE
The Facebook invite for the Friday night show can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/848981635139625/
The Facebook invite for the Saturday night show can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/363677790494027/
The Destroy The Brain.com site can be found HERE
http://www.destroythebrain.com/
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