FRIDAY NIGHT SHOCKERS AT THE SHOVEL
May 14th 2009 07:38
Beware of ‘Uninvited Guests’ at the Chauvel Cinema
Friday nights just got scarier. Forget about the drunken fools staggering out of pubs and walking like a zombie in front of your car as you struggle in traffic two hours after you left the office. Now you can leave the car at home Friday and catch a bus down to the Chauvel cinema in Paddington where the only horrible and disfigured monsters you are likely to see are on the silver screen.
The Chauvel is presenting over 6 Fridays beginning May 22 nine classic and cult features on the big screen in killer 35mm!
Here’s how the gang at the Shovel describe the run home on Friday.
“First-up is a Joe Dante double feature: his wickedly scary horror GREMLINS about a loveable little Christmas gift that multiplies with savage consequences, and the B-classic PIRANHA about a government breeding program that gets out of hand:
then there's Tom Holland's clever horror CHILD'S PLAY about a murderous toy doll with the soul of a mass killer, screening with Terence Fisher's brain-transplant-gone-wrong horror FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED!;
Don't miss the legendary sci-fi scares of Ridley Scott's ALIEN, James Cameron's ALIENS and David Fincher's ALIEN 3.
Lastly, Jon Waters' outrageous, utterly fabulous ode to bad taste PINK FLAMINGOS is partnered with Stanley Kubrick's gothic horror masterpiece THE SHINING.”
What a brilliant way to get the horrors of the past week out of your head. And what better an excuse to head home and curl up with your significant other just in case…
Where do you think you are going to get a chance to see the some classic films at such a economical price. And when was the last time you attended a double feature. Gotta be better than fighting through crowds to get to the bar and then fighting against the zombies for that cab home.
For those that do need that Friday afters drink, there is a licensed bar at upstairs at the Chauvel and there are restaurants nearby for a pre show feed.
UNINVITED GUESTS! 6 NIGHTS ONLY!
GREMLINS PIRANHA (double feature)
Friday May 22nd 8:30PM
GREMLINS
Dir: Joe Dante/35mm/1984/PG/102Mins
Don't ever get it wet. Keep it away from bright light. And no matter how much it cries, no matter how much it begs--never, ever feed it after midnight. With these instructions, young Billy Peltzer takes possession of his cuddly new pet. Billy will get a whole lot more than he bargained for.
PIRANHA
Dir Joe Dante/35mm/1978/M15 /94mins
Man has meddled with mother nature and the result is not only deadly... it's voracious! With a clever screenplay by John Sayles from a story by Richard Robinson, director Joe Dante creates an eerie and devilishly fun tale of mutant piranhas terrorising a local swimming hole. On an inviting, tranquil evening, two venturesome teenagers take a moonlit skinny-dip in the inviting waters of Lost River Lake... little did they know they would quickly become fish food for a hungry school of man-eating piranha!
CHILD'S PLAY FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (double feature)
Friday 29th May 8:30PM
CHILD'S PLAYDir Tom Holland/1988/M15 /35mm/84mins
An innocent-looking doll becomes the vessel for a killer's soul--and pure terror--in this jolt-a-minute, heart-stopping fright-fest which pits the possessed toy against a terrorized woman in a race to save her six-year-old's life.
FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED
Dir: Terrance Fisher/1970/M15 /35mm/98mins
Baron Frankenstein is once again working with illegal medical experiments. Together with a young doctor, Karl and his fiancée Anna they kidnap the mentally sick Dr. Brandt, to perform the first brain transplantation ever.
ALIEN
Friday 5th June 8:30PM
Dir: Ridley Scott/1979/M15 /35mm/111mins
In space no one can hear you scream.
The nightmare begins when the crew of a spaceship investigate a transmission from a desolate planet, and discover a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. Sigourney Weaver stars as the iron-willed Ripley, who is destined to battle the galaxy's ultimate creature.
ALIENS
Friday 12th June 8:30PM
Dir: James Cameron/1986/M15 /35mm/148mins
Ripley, the sole survivor from the original ALIEN, is awakened after 57 years of drifting through space, her stories disbelieved by company executives who tell her that the alien's planet is now inhabited and colonised. When contact is suddenly lost with the colonists, Ripley returns to the planet with a squad of marines, an android, and a company executive...
ALIEN 3
Friday 19th June 8:30PM
Dir: David Fincher/1992/M15 /35mm/110mins
This time it's hiding in the most terrifying place of all
Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the lone survivor when her crippled spaceship crash-lands on Florina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum-security prison. Ripley's fears that an alien was on board her craft are confirmed when the mutilated bodies of ex-cons begin to mount.
Without weapons or modern technology of any kind, Ripley must lead the men into battle against the terrifying creature. And soon she discovers a horrifying fact about her link with the alien, a realisation that may compel her into a final, desperate act.
PINK FLAMINGOS THE SHINING (double feature)
Friday 26th June 9:00PM
PINK FLAMINGOS
Dir: John Waters/1972/R18 /35mm/93mins
Sleaze queen Divine lives in a caravan with her mad hippie son Crackers and her 250-pound mother Mama Edie, trying to rest quietly on their laurels as 'the filthiest people alive'. But competition is brewing in the form of Connie and Raymond Marble, who sell heroin to schoolchildren and kidnap and impregnate female hitchhikers, selling the babies to lesbian couples. Finally, they challenge Divine directly, and battle commences..
THE SHINING
Dir: Stanley Kubrick/1980/MA15 /35mm/144mins
Think of the greatest terror imaginable. Is it a monstrous alien? A lethal epidemic? Or, as in this harrowing masterpiece from Stanley Kubrick, is it fear of murder by someone who should love and protect you - a member of your own family? From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots and shock after shock into a milestone of the macabre. In a signature role, Jack Nicholson ("Heeeere's Johnny!) plays Jack Torrance, who's come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd). Torrance has never been there before - or has he? The answer lies in a ghostly time warp of madness and murder.
ADVANCE TICKETS ON SALE: All tickets $12.00 each (including double features - two films for the price of one!)
Tickets available in person from the Chauvel box office (Cnr Oxford St & Oatley Rds, Paddington) or online at www.chauvelcinema.net.au.
Friday nights just got scarier. Forget about the drunken fools staggering out of pubs and walking like a zombie in front of your car as you struggle in traffic two hours after you left the office. Now you can leave the car at home Friday and catch a bus down to the Chauvel cinema in Paddington where the only horrible and disfigured monsters you are likely to see are on the silver screen.
The Chauvel is presenting over 6 Fridays beginning May 22 nine classic and cult features on the big screen in killer 35mm!
Here’s how the gang at the Shovel describe the run home on Friday.
“First-up is a Joe Dante double feature: his wickedly scary horror GREMLINS about a loveable little Christmas gift that multiplies with savage consequences, and the B-classic PIRANHA about a government breeding program that gets out of hand:
then there's Tom Holland's clever horror CHILD'S PLAY about a murderous toy doll with the soul of a mass killer, screening with Terence Fisher's brain-transplant-gone-wrong horror FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED!;
Don't miss the legendary sci-fi scares of Ridley Scott's ALIEN, James Cameron's ALIENS and David Fincher's ALIEN 3.
Lastly, Jon Waters' outrageous, utterly fabulous ode to bad taste PINK FLAMINGOS is partnered with Stanley Kubrick's gothic horror masterpiece THE SHINING.”
What a brilliant way to get the horrors of the past week out of your head. And what better an excuse to head home and curl up with your significant other just in case…
Where do you think you are going to get a chance to see the some classic films at such a economical price. And when was the last time you attended a double feature. Gotta be better than fighting through crowds to get to the bar and then fighting against the zombies for that cab home.
For those that do need that Friday afters drink, there is a licensed bar at upstairs at the Chauvel and there are restaurants nearby for a pre show feed.
UNINVITED GUESTS! 6 NIGHTS ONLY!
GREMLINS PIRANHA (double feature)
Friday May 22nd 8:30PM
Dir: Joe Dante/35mm/1984/PG/102Mins
Don't ever get it wet. Keep it away from bright light. And no matter how much it cries, no matter how much it begs--never, ever feed it after midnight. With these instructions, young Billy Peltzer takes possession of his cuddly new pet. Billy will get a whole lot more than he bargained for.
PIRANHA
Dir Joe Dante/35mm/1978/M15 /94mins
Man has meddled with mother nature and the result is not only deadly... it's voracious! With a clever screenplay by John Sayles from a story by Richard Robinson, director Joe Dante creates an eerie and devilishly fun tale of mutant piranhas terrorising a local swimming hole. On an inviting, tranquil evening, two venturesome teenagers take a moonlit skinny-dip in the inviting waters of Lost River Lake... little did they know they would quickly become fish food for a hungry school of man-eating piranha!
CHILD'S PLAY FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (double feature)
Friday 29th May 8:30PM
CHILD'S PLAYDir Tom Holland/1988/M15 /35mm/84mins
An innocent-looking doll becomes the vessel for a killer's soul--and pure terror--in this jolt-a-minute, heart-stopping fright-fest which pits the possessed toy against a terrorized woman in a race to save her six-year-old's life.
FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED
Dir: Terrance Fisher/1970/M15 /35mm/98mins
Baron Frankenstein is once again working with illegal medical experiments. Together with a young doctor, Karl and his fiancée Anna they kidnap the mentally sick Dr. Brandt, to perform the first brain transplantation ever.
Friday 5th June 8:30PM
Dir: Ridley Scott/1979/M15 /35mm/111mins
In space no one can hear you scream.
The nightmare begins when the crew of a spaceship investigate a transmission from a desolate planet, and discover a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. Sigourney Weaver stars as the iron-willed Ripley, who is destined to battle the galaxy's ultimate creature.
ALIENS
Friday 12th June 8:30PM
Dir: James Cameron/1986/M15 /35mm/148mins
Ripley, the sole survivor from the original ALIEN, is awakened after 57 years of drifting through space, her stories disbelieved by company executives who tell her that the alien's planet is now inhabited and colonised. When contact is suddenly lost with the colonists, Ripley returns to the planet with a squad of marines, an android, and a company executive...
ALIEN 3
Friday 19th June 8:30PM
Dir: David Fincher/1992/M15 /35mm/110mins
This time it's hiding in the most terrifying place of all
Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the lone survivor when her crippled spaceship crash-lands on Florina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum-security prison. Ripley's fears that an alien was on board her craft are confirmed when the mutilated bodies of ex-cons begin to mount.
Without weapons or modern technology of any kind, Ripley must lead the men into battle against the terrifying creature. And soon she discovers a horrifying fact about her link with the alien, a realisation that may compel her into a final, desperate act.
PINK FLAMINGOS THE SHINING (double feature)
Friday 26th June 9:00PM
PINK FLAMINGOS
Dir: John Waters/1972/R18 /35mm/93mins
Sleaze queen Divine lives in a caravan with her mad hippie son Crackers and her 250-pound mother Mama Edie, trying to rest quietly on their laurels as 'the filthiest people alive'. But competition is brewing in the form of Connie and Raymond Marble, who sell heroin to schoolchildren and kidnap and impregnate female hitchhikers, selling the babies to lesbian couples. Finally, they challenge Divine directly, and battle commences..
THE SHINING
Dir: Stanley Kubrick/1980/MA15 /35mm/144mins
Think of the greatest terror imaginable. Is it a monstrous alien? A lethal epidemic? Or, as in this harrowing masterpiece from Stanley Kubrick, is it fear of murder by someone who should love and protect you - a member of your own family? From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots and shock after shock into a milestone of the macabre. In a signature role, Jack Nicholson ("Heeeere's Johnny!) plays Jack Torrance, who's come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd). Torrance has never been there before - or has he? The answer lies in a ghostly time warp of madness and murder.
ADVANCE TICKETS ON SALE: All tickets $12.00 each (including double features - two films for the price of one!)
Tickets available in person from the Chauvel box office (Cnr Oxford St & Oatley Rds, Paddington) or online at www.chauvelcinema.net.au.
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