NEON MARQUEE FILM FESTIVAL HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! CHOPPING MALL (1986) + SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982)
While we await the reopening of all our favorite film houses, we’re presenting an ongoing online film festival of a genre (of sorts) of B grade Sci-Fi, legendary cult action and Martial Arts, some ‘so-bad-they’re-good’ faves and unintentionally funny bottom-of-the-video-store-shelf gems! Plus some cinematic misfires and titles that may serve as a great hangover film, movie comfort food or a perplexing head scratch as to how a film like this got made in the first place.
Our procedure will include a pre-show warm up of classic relevant trailers, clips and commercials, then a link to stream either through official channels or via YouTube (multiple options will be presented if possible).
Played in sequence, it’s just like being at the cinema!
TONIGHT’S DOUBLE FEATURE:
It’s mall security gone berserk and the worst night ever for a sleep over with our Double Feature of CHOPPING MALL (1986) + SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982).
Our first feature takes places inside a state of the art mall fit with advanced security and patrolled by the kind of bulky robots only the 1980s dreamed up that turn rather nasty during (what else?) a lightning storm. A group of randy teens coincidentally decide to have a sleep over party inside the closed furniture store they work at. From there, it’s the kids vs the murderous robots in a night of mayhem! One must wonder however why a shopping mall needs such Pentagon level security in the first place…
After intermission, settle in for an 80s grind house slasher full of all the genre tropes you can handle, as an all girl slumber party is rudely interrupted by an escaped mental patient armed with a rather nasty drill who. Originally penned as feminist satire of the slasher genre by author / activist Rita Mae Brown, it was repurposed by the film’s producers to follow the standard model of such films. As a little bit of side trivia, the Director Amy Holden Jones was offered a job editing a little film called E.T for Steven Spielberg, which she had to turn down when financing for the film came through from legendary Producer Roger Corman. Interestingly enough, she went on to write Mystic Pizza and the family classic Beethoven
TRAILERS:
PRE-SHOW REEL
Our pre-show warm up will help you settle into the mood with a collection of retro grindhouse trailers and clips!
MAIN ATTRACTION
Also available to stream via TUBI