Sci-Fi movie marathon, Chicago, April 10th…

Updated on March 5, 2010 By Ken Begg 21 Comments

If anyone’s going to be in town for this, let me know:

Sci-Fi Spectacular 4, April 10, 2010, noon until 2:00 AM.
Over 14 hours of Sci-Fi and Horror Madness!

Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave.,
Chicago, IL

Current line up of films:

Them
Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava)
Dark Star (John Carpenter)
Flash Gordon
Q the Winged Serpent (with director Larry Cohen in Person!)
They Live (John Carpenter)
Plus one more feature!

Also – short films/videos, dealer tables, prizes, surprises a charity auction for Vital Bridges (www.vitalbridges.org) and much much more!

Doors open at 11am – come early and shop at the vending tables. Pay once and come and go as you like!
Tickets are $20 presale at brownpapertickets.com, $24 day of the show.

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  • and don’t forget Tween Fest in the Dallas area this March 13th – this year the schedule is going to include:

    Violent Naples
    Nightmare City
    Iron Master
    Ghosthouse

    after the break we return with:

    Black Demons
    Fatty Girl Goes to New York
    The Cynic, The Rat, and the Fist
    Man From Deep River

    I’d also like to call out Ken B. here, because he had a copy of Man From Deep River personally mailed to him by me, and he has never acknowledged, reviewed, or thanked me. He did acknowledge his recept of Ghosthouse, saying that it had immediately become his favorite haunted house movie, toppling his previous pick: Jan de Bont’s awesome remake of “The Haunting”.

  • I have never received a copy of Man From Deep River, so I hope you didn’t actually send one. Ghosthouse is utterly retarded though, and although it won’t play on my DVD player, I do have it on my review stack since I can play it on my computer.

  • We’re still tinkering with the T(ween) Fest list. Here’s our current line-up:

    Double Dragon
    Wing Commander
    Super Mario Brothers
    Street Fighter
    –orange juice & graham cracker break, naptime–
    Max Payne
    Alone in the Dark
    Doom
    Doom with running Sandy Petersen commentary

  • The Rev. D.D.

    You know, that could actually be fun (in a demented sort of way). A video game movie theme. Although I’d say drop SMB for Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever for maximum agony.

    Alternately, you could end it with Mortal Kombat so we get at least ONE good movie out of the whole mess.

    Following which, you crush everyone’s spirits by showing MK: Armageddon.

    And as proof of my sickness, I actually wouldn’t mind seeing Nightmare City again. Especially if we’ve got fresh fish who’ve never seen it, like last time.

  • BeckoningChasm

    I heard from a reliable source that the lineup for Tweenfest is going to be the following:

    On Deadly Ground
    The Glimmer Man
    Fire Down Below
    The Patriot
    Exit Wounds

    Meditation break

    Half Past Dead
    Into the Sun
    Mercenary for Justice
    Submerged
    Against the Dark

    Meditation break II: Hard to Kill

    Kill Switch
    Driven to Kill
    A Dangerous Man

  • Not-So-Great Cthulhu

    Does the audience grow older and fatter during the meditation breaks?

    By the way, Mr. Begg, you are a lucky bastard to have a place like the Music Box Theatre around.

  • Hmm. I wonder what happened to the copy of Man From Deep River that I actually honestly sent you. That makes me sad. Particularly since Ken doesn’t have nearly enough full-frontal-male-nudity films on his shelf.

    We’ve got our theme for Tween Fest, Ken – NIGHTMARE CITY every time!

  • Tis true. However, fate has kicked me in the nuts this month as the regular showings at the Portages, 95% of them on the last Saturday of the month (meaning I just missed one of their shows because of B-Fest), will weirdly be scheduled on the mid-month Sunday I will be out of town for T(ween) Fest. Thus do I miss the opportunity for seven bucks of seeing Chaney’s Phantom of the Opera–with live organ accompaniment–Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Bride of Frankenstein and Ghost and Mr. Chicken on the big screen.

    Nerts. Techmaster Paul, his Mrs., and I will, however, be seeing a midnight showing of UHF at the Music Box tomorrow night.

  • Meh, we could do worse. Surely a Zombi 3 showing would make more sense, though?

    Honestly don’t know about Man from Deep River. I did not get that.

  • My copy of the line up reads:

    Twin Sitters
    Double Trouble
    The Barbarians
    Think Big

    Dinner Break

    Hard Ticket to Hawaii
    Savage Beach
    Picasso Trigger
    Malibu Express

  • I was also thinking about Hell of the Living Dead for a zombie movie. Assuming we have to have a zombie movie. We could also watch the fabled Zombiez which tragically I bought and watched.

  • BeckoningChasm

    Hood of the Living Dead is a pretty terrible zombie movie, in a kind of cheap, earnest way.

  • Kirk, I’m the only one who knows the incredible restraint you showed only scheduling four Barbarian Brothers films.

  • The Rev. D.D.

    Hell of the Living Dead? Ye gods, that’s possibly the worst Euro-zom movie ever made. Definitely the most boring.

    My secret inside sources have named the line-up thusly:

    Arcade
    Captain America
    Omega Doom
    Alien from L.A.

    break

    Nemesis
    Nemesis 2: Nebula
    Nemesis 3: Prey Harder
    Nemesis 4: Death Angel

  • Petoht

    You know, Rev, Omega Doom isn’t horrible.

    Well, okay, it is, but it certainly had potential. It’s almost like they had a neat post-apocalyptic/Yojimbo/Red Harvest idea, and then someone crafted the ridiculous back story. Honestly, it would have been improved just by hacking off the opening few minutes talking about him killing the last human and getting bonked on the head. It didn’t add anything and frankly didn’t fit.

    Yes… I’ve just defended Omega Doom. Of course, I own a copy of Last Man Standing, so maybe it’s just that Hammett’s good enough that even horrible adaptations are still enjoyable.

  • existoid

    this is a late comment, but if Black Demons is shown at Tweenfest I will boycott it. It doesn’t deserve to even be mentioned.

    In fact, I would rather watch Nightmare City for every film. That was a great suggestion

  • Not-So-Great Cthulhu

    If you really hate the other participants, you can try an all-Sorority Theme for Tween Fest.

    Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
    Sorority Babes and the Creature from Hell
    Sorority Babes in the Dance-A-Thon of Death
    Sorority House Vampires from Hell
    Sorority House Massacre
    Sorority House Massacre II
    Sorority Succubus Sisters (aka: Nightmare Sisters)

  • jason hyde

    looks like the ‘one more feature’ will be Lifeforce. I’ll be going to this. I don’t feel like I even have a choice.

  • I went Saturday to see UHF at the midnight show, and saw the addition of Lifeforce. That’s some quality junk right there.

  • BeckoningChasm

    I’d really like a copy of the original US cut of Lifeforce, which is way superior to the extended cut readily available. (It’s still junk, but it’s incredibly fast-moving junk.)

  • Elizabeth

    OMG I wanna come I wanna coooommmme.

    Not sure about lodging, though. Might not be polite to bust in on Paul and Holly at ass o’clock in the morning. Plus we’d probably want to come down the night before, idk.