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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 11:31 am 
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For some reason I can only speculate on, the past organizers of the Music Box Massacre have parted company with the Music Box Theater. The Music Box of Horrors is now run by different people and takes place on October 13-14th.

http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/collecti ... of-horrors

The previous hosts/promoters of the Music Box Massacre have taken their marathon to the Portage Theater across town on the 20th-21st (in direct competition with the Columbus marathon). Here's the link:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/268053

I'll try to go to both probably (though I think the Columbus marathon has the best lineup of the 3). The Music Box lineup is heavy on schlock so far, but Phantasm will be awesome beyond belief. The Portage marathon has a good lineup but I guess there's no single film I haven't seen on 35mm that is making my heart pound yet.

At least with 2 marathons I don't have to feel guilty if I fall asleep or leave early.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 2:39 pm 
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THE BLACK CAT (Karloff & Lugosi!)
CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF (Hammer Classic/Oliver Reed!)
WITCHFINDER GENERAL (Vincent Price!)
FRENZY (Rare Hitchcock!)
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (with Linnea Quigley in Person!)
DEAD SNOW (Modern Monster Mayhem!)
HOUSE (Rare '77 Japanese Weirdness!)
HALLOWEEN II (Michael Myers is Back!)
NIGHTMARES (80's Anthology Awesomeness!)
PRINCE OF DARKNESS (Carpenter Craziness!)
PHANTASM II (The Ball is Back!)

I bet most of these are Blu-Ray projected, especially Halloween II. Don't get me wrong I would love for the Ohio marathon to show Halloween II any way we can get it also Nightmares would be cool on the Big Screen!

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 3:22 pm 
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Actually the organizers are pretty good at digging up 35mm prints usually. Only a few times have they projected blu-ray and that was because they wanted to show the director's cut of From Beyond or Dark Night of the Scarecrow was only available on blu-ray. I hope that everything is a print because video does not look good projected at the Portage Theater. (The Music Box projects it much better-when necessary).

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 4:12 pm 
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The unusual lineup at the Music Box makes more sense now with this new information. I don't know anything about anything, but this kind of reminds me of when Comedy Central unwisely decided to try and keep The Man Show going with Joe Rogan and Doug Stanhope. I wonder if the people who run "The Massacre" ever considered doing it on the same weekend?

I know at least one person on this board will disagree, but you are right, the Portage lineup is better.
But we still win. :)

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 12:13 pm 
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MEATFETISH wrote:
Actually the organizers are pretty good at digging up 35mm prints usually. Only a few times have they projected blu-ray and that was because they wanted to show the director's cut of From Beyond or Dark Night of the Scarecrow was only available on blu-ray. I hope that everything is a print because video does not look good projected at the Portage Theater. (The Music Box projects it much better-when necessary).


There hasn't been a Halloween II 35mm print available to rent since the early 80's so if it is a 35mm print I would like to know where they got it so maybe Bruce and Joe could book it.

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IamJacksUserID wrote:
I know at least one person on this board will disagree, but you are right, the Portage lineup is better.
But we still win. :)


I dont know man, lets take a close look:

Phantasm vs PHANTASM II
The Golem vs THE BLACK CAT
Howling II vs HALLOWEEN II
Child’s Play vs PRINCE OF DARKNESS
Blood Diner vs HOUSE
The Deadly Spawn vs NIGHTMARES
The Burning vs CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF
Squirm vs FRENZY
Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal vs DEAD SNOW

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
WITCHFINDER GENERAL

The movies that are on Bold and underlinded would be my pick for the better of the two films. I have seen Dead Snow but I have not seen Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal so I couldn't make a choice. And I couldn't deiced over a couple. However as you can see both marathons have good choices. Once they round out the list at the Music Box we will see if the titles compare to RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD or WITCHFINDER GENERAL but those are 2 very strong titles.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:14 am 
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So the Music Box has added the following films to round out their lineup:

Mark of the Vampire
The Invisible Man
Satan's Little Helper
The Beyond
Evil Dead 2

So it looks like a decent marathon with few great films. Phantasm is the one I'm most looking forward to with The Beyond close behind. I'm hoping they're all 35mm like they usually are but no official word yet.

http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/collecti ... of-horrors

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:52 am 
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MEATFETISH wrote:
So the Music Box has added the following films to round out their lineup:

Mark of the Vampire
The Invisible Man
Satan's Little Helper
The Beyond
Evil Dead 2

So it looks like a decent marathon with few great films. Phantasm is the one I'm most looking forward to with The Beyond close behind. I'm hoping they're all 35mm like they usually are but no official word yet.

http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/collecti ... of-horrors


Satan's Little Helper was pretty good for a direct to video movie. Evil Dead 2 is there to sell tickets to the general masses.

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Look's like the other Chicago Marathon's lineup is complete with the additions of the best Freddy sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and the awesome classic Spider Baby with director Jack Hill in person.

Not too shabby...


Guess this means we are really close to the announcement of our final film and schedule?

Right?....

RIGHT?...

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