The beautiful revived ’20s theater the Music Box, down by Wrigley Field, is showing two double bills next week with big guest stars. Friday the 22nd sees the original Friday the 13th, with members of the cast on hand, enough that it’s being called a “reunion.” (Although I doubt Kevin Bacon will be there.) It is double billed with a purported well-regarded French gore flick called Inside.
Saturday sees A Nightmare on Elm Street, with a newly struck 35mm print AND Robert Englund in person to introduce the film. Also showing is the racier international cut of Swamp Thing, with a mystery guest star. That’s a lot of possibilities. Wes Craven, who directed both films? Dick Durlock? Ray “The Devil on Reaper” Wise? My guess would be Adrienne Barbeau, but who knows?
Details can be found at www.musicboxtheatre.com. If anyone decides to attend, and would like to compose a report, I’d be glad to post it here. In any case, Chicago has always been strangely lacking in horror and sci-fi movie related events, so it’s very cool to see this sort of thing occuring.
Meanwhile, if ’80s horror isn’t your bag so much? How about a chance to see two classic matinee flicks on the big screen, albeit sadly on the same night as the Nightmare on Elm Street show? I myself, if I am able, will be attending the double bill of the 1953 War of the Worlds and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad at the historic Portage Theater, also in Chicago. No guest stars that I’m aware of, but there will be sci-fi toy and memorbilia dealers in the lobby. Come one and come all.
