After the quiz (I won the Steel Book edition of Ultra Q…thanks, Chad R!) we headed out to dinner. My favorite slide on the quiz, which was about movie aliens, was the electronic microscope slide of the virus from The Andromeda Strain. Of course, that might be because you love the delightfully obscure ones you personally recognize.
For our evening repast, most everyone went to a Thai place. However, I needed my Whataburger fix, and there’s one right nearby. It turns out in Texas you can still *gasp* refill your own drink at a drink station. That’s been illegal–yes, illegal–in Illinois since the ‘Rona started, and is likely to remain that way for a long time to come. Maybe permanently. Hell, 80% of towns around here still don’t allow indoor restaurant dining.
And then back to Sandy’s house where….. Well, it took 25 Fests, but we finally showed The Green Slime. Soooo many movies.
We were running late, so we dropped my showing of The Driver, although I showed it later in the week to a more, er, select audience. (By which I mean those who could take extra vacation and hang around for another day or two.)
We ended with our traditional Texas movie. Some months ago I had seen that a truly obscure Dallas-filmed horror flick from the ’90s called Scary Movie–no, not that one–had hit Blu Ray. The reviews weren’t great but I sent Sandy a copy. As it turned out, it was pretty good. It doesn’t go quite where you expect it to, but I can’t really say anymore without risk of spoilers. It’s also a slow burn, so I guess that’s why some reviewers found it boring. Our elite crowd generally liked it, though. Sandy said it captured Halloween in Texas pretty well.
