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HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH Midnights This Weekend at The Hi-Pointe
“It’s almost time, kids. The clock is ticking. Be in front of your TV sets for the Horrorthon, followed by the Big Giveaway. Don’t miss it. And don’t forget to wear your masks. The clock is ticking. It’s almost time!”
HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH screens midnights this Friday and Saturday Night (October 16th and 17th) at the newly-refurbished The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis) as part of Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Night Grindhouse
Critically panned and loathed by John Carpenter fans who were expecting another chapter in the saga of Laurie Strode vs. Michael Myers, HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982) was actually an attempt by Carpenter and partner Debra Hill to break out of the “Saga of the Shape” story and make the “Halloween” series a franchise that dealt with horror on October 31. It failed as a project, but what it did give us is a one-of-a-kind movie that’s pretty interesting in its own right. What other movie can you think of that tells a story about a Druid maskmaker plotting to murder millions of children on Halloween with a bizarre scheme involving computer chips, Stonehenge, killer robots, laser beams, black magic, and the hopes that all the children with the cursed masks will coincidentally gather around the TV set at an appointed time to watch a strobing commercial that triggers the device on the mask? The results of this are not quite clear, but the masks melt, the children’s heads disintegrate and hundreds of roaches, snakes, and other weird bugs emerge from the corpse. Mission accomplished.
Don’t miss HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH when it screens this weekend (October 16th and 17th) at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave) as part of Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Night Grindhouse midnight series.
Admission is $7 – Beer & Wine is served until 12:45am
A Facebook invite for Friday night’s show can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/488943967950606/
A Facebook invite for Saturday night’s show can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1659368300946002/
The Hi-Pointe’s site can be found HERE
http://hi-pointetheatre.com/
The Destroy The Brain.com site can be found HERE
http://www.destroythebrain.com/
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