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One thing kids today don't have: midnight movies
Posted on 2/23/26 at 11:00 am
Posted on 2/23/26 at 11:00 am
That's where the off the wall stuff would show up. Good times.
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 11:44 am to prplhze2000
great point, I can't remember the last time a movie was an event like it used to be.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 11:52 am to prplhze2000
quote:They have too much weird and substandard content to sort through now.
That's where the off the wall stuff would show up. Good times.
Back in the day, the large theater markets would let the audiences and word of mouth have their vote, then us lesser areas would get the cream of the bottom of the barrel crop.
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 11:57 am
Posted on 2/23/26 at 12:07 pm to prplhze2000
From about 08-11 Thursday midnight movie features were me and my cousins shite. He lived right down the road from the oneal Rave (back then). We’d ride around his neighborhood and smoke a blunt then head there. Saw a lot of great movies at midnight at that rave as a teen
Off the top of my head
The Dark Knight
Inglorious Bastards
The Strangers
Paranormal Activity
I don’t think we’ll ever see a movie event like The Dark Knight again. The parking lot at that oneal theatre is massive it stretches back along the interstate a couple 100 yards. Not exaggerating when I say that’s the only time I’ve seen it completely full and every theatre in the house was dedicated to The Dark Knight. You got your ticket and had to just find one that wasn’t jam packed. We fricked ourselves and showed up late and had to sit in the very front
Off the top of my head
The Dark Knight
Inglorious Bastards
The Strangers
Paranormal Activity
I don’t think we’ll ever see a movie event like The Dark Knight again. The parking lot at that oneal theatre is massive it stretches back along the interstate a couple 100 yards. Not exaggerating when I say that’s the only time I’ve seen it completely full and every theatre in the house was dedicated to The Dark Knight. You got your ticket and had to just find one that wasn’t jam packed. We fricked ourselves and showed up late and had to sit in the very front
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 2/23/26 at 12:14 pm to cfish140
quote:I think OP was referring to the midnight movies of the pre-midnight-premiere era. When you'd go to see Rocky Horror or Flesh Gordon or Heavy Metal or Pink Floyd's The Wall, years after they'd already run in theaters.
The Dark Knight
Inglorious Bastards
The Strangers
Paranormal Activity
Posted on 2/23/26 at 12:17 pm to cfish140
quote:It took us an hour to get out of the parking lot that night. When O'Neal first opened and was the big thing, they had a trolley cart that would drive people from the back of that massive parking lot to the theater.
I don’t think we’ll ever see a movie event like The Dark Knight again. The parking lot at that oneal theatre is massive it stretches back along the interstate a couple 100 yards. Not exaggerating when I say that’s the only time I’ve seen it completely full and every theatre in the house was dedicated to The Dark Knight.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 12:26 pm to prplhze2000
Saw "Song Remains the Same" a bunch of times at the old Plaza Theater in West Palm Beach.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 12:28 pm to Fewer Kilometers
If I recall correctly, they had an 18 wheeler that tried to make a U turn onto the service road by the Waffle House coming from the interstate and got stuck and it made it a shite show getting in and out. I think that’s why we were late
Posted on 2/23/26 at 12:34 pm to prplhze2000
Saw Faces of Death 4 at midnight at the theatre on Jones Creek.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 12:46 pm to cfish140
Spiderman 3 at midnight was peak if were talking midnight premiers
Crowd was insanely good; better than the film
But iv always loved watching night of the living dead at local theaters and The Warriors is one of my favorite films
Hard to get much better than Rocky Horror or Eraserhead though
Crowd was insanely good; better than the film
But iv always loved watching night of the living dead at local theaters and The Warriors is one of my favorite films
Hard to get much better than Rocky Horror or Eraserhead though
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 2/23/26 at 12:54 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:
Flesh Gordon or Heavy Metal
Yes, those were the staples. Saw this gem a few times at Cortana.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 12:57 pm to Miganey
quote:
Hard to get much better than Rocky Horror or Eraserhead though
The very first midnight movie I ever went to was "Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the Gentilly Theater near the Baptist Seminary on Gentilly. The gal I was dating talked me into it and when in line I knew it was not going to be like any other movie I'd been to.
Many people were in costumes that I later saw they were imitating the movies characters. Once the show started much of the audience broke out into song and dance as the movie was playing. That experience was nothing like any other movie experience I had ever had.
A few months later, the theater burned to the ground never to be replaced and became one of New Orlean's "Ain't dere no more" things.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 1:22 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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When you'd go to see Rocky Horror
Ive seen Rocky Horror 15 times at the late show near my home town when I was a late teen
Man I knew every single word of that stupid arse movie
Posted on 2/23/26 at 1:25 pm to tigermeat
quote:
A Boy and His Dog
Don Johnson's first movie credit, IIRC.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 2:00 pm to VoxDawg
Looking through old newspapers, saw where The Groove Tube played at one midnight showing
Posted on 2/23/26 at 2:02 pm to prplhze2000
First time i saw American psycho was midnight movie situation in college. It was a thing. Hate that it's not anymore
Posted on 2/23/26 at 2:17 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:
When O'Neal first opened and was the big thing, they had a trolley cart that would drive people from the back of that massive parking lot to the theater.
Can confirm, I went to a movie there on its Grand Opening, may have even been before it officially opened. You got a ticket by giving a canned good...to see Bruce Almighty
Posted on 2/23/26 at 4:06 pm to The Godfather
Morgus the magnificant
Posted on 2/23/26 at 4:22 pm to prplhze2000
Imagine going to see Eraserhead blind
Posted on 2/23/26 at 4:28 pm to Godzilla jr
quote:It played on our college campus in like 79 or 80. My buddy tried to describe it to me, but the phrase he kept using was "fricked up".
Imagine going to see Eraserhead blind
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