Fun at the Skyline Drive-In

August 29, 2023 by Jon Kitley in Movie Events and tagged 30 Days of Night, Child's Play, Dead Snow, Dracula vs Frankenstein, Dusk to Dawn Horrorfest, Frankenhooker, Horrors of Spider Island, John Carpenter, Midway Drive-In, Night of the Demon, Return of the Living Dead, Severin Films, Severin Sleepover, Skyline Drive-in, Slumber Party Massacre, The Crawling Eye, The Five Days, The Invisible Man, The Skyline Drive-In, The Thing, Vampyros Lesbos, Zandor Vorkov | Leave a comment

This last Saturday, we ventured back to the Indianapolis area, twice in the last two weeks, for this year’s Super Monster Movie Fest at the Skyline Drive-In in Shelbyville, IN. Normally, we are there for both nights of fun, but due to some work issues, we couldn’t make it for the Friday night screenings, but did come out for Saturday. We got to see The Invisible Man (1933), John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), 30 Days of Night (2007), Dead Snow (2009), and The Crawling Eye (1958).

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Movie Review: Dead Snow

April 7, 2021 by Jon Kitley in Reviews: Movies and tagged Dead Snow, nazi zombies, Peter Jackson, Shock Waves, Tommy Wirkola | Leave a comment

(2009)
Directed by Tommy Wirkola
Starring Charlotte Frogner, Ørjan Gamst, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel, Jeppe Laursen, Evy Kasseth, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Jenny Skavian, Bjørn Sundquist

If Peter Jackson was to remake Shock Waves (1977), but set it in the snowy mountains, then you would have Dead Snow. After getting a lot of internet hype, we had the chance to see this new Norwegian zombie film in the theater and just loved it. For someone to take a sub-genre that has been done to . . . death (sorry, couldn’t help it), co-writer and director Tommy Wirkola pulled out all the stops and gives us one bloody entertainingly good movie.

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