Strange things are afoot at the Silver Cinema 8.
Author: Sterling Heltzel | Filed under: Uncategorized
It’s fun to live in Phoenix, because while it isn’t a major or particularly sophisticated market by any means (we don’t get indies or anything of worth that isn’t on more than 2000 screens, most of the time), we get the dumping ground films by the dozen. We got Killshot, we got Fanboys (which is lovely, by the way), we got Southland Tales (three months after it was on DVD…), we currently have Carriers, and we got Chaos Theory. These were all at the full-price theaters, but meanwhile, the lone dollar three dollar theater, the Silver Cinema 8, got stuff like Midnight Meat Train and Repo! The Genetic Opera and became a popular spot for me and some others despite the fact that it’s absolutely nasty in every way. But that adds so much to it, as audiences are either non-existant or the auditorium is completely packed, and that is just awesome. It’s the closest thing I have to a grindhouse theater I have, sure it doesn’t play Rocky Horror every Saturday like the theater in Chandler, nor does it play Hell Ride for 3 months like the Drive-In here (I don’t go nearly enough, also HOLY CRAP THERE’S A DRIVE-IN HERE!!!!!), but, it does the trick. And Lionsgate has done it again in a way that’s unparalleled, and it ends up being my reward. But they stepped over the line…they screwed over Michael Fassbender.
The film in question doesn’t even have an IMDB page (another film of the same name does), and it was directed by the infamously terrible-yet-well-respected-anyway Joel Schumacher. It’s titled Blood Creek, and apparently it is an occult story of the formation of the third reich. That’s right, Hitler horror. And that my friends, is the best thing ever. The film stars Dominic Purcell (the other guy on Prison Break) and OMG FASSBENDER, and it’s currently playing at the Silver Cinema 8…completely unannounced. Lionsgate doesn’t even acknowledge that the film exists on their website, nor on IMDB, and it never had an announced release date. But they’re releasing it in theaters for contractual obligations, and they changed the title from the two titles it has had, Creek and Town Creek, because Lionsgate is the king of changing titles and having misleading covers to get people to buy one thing and get another. Expect this movie to release on DVD with zombies or vampires on the cover and never feature any of them.
It’s good to know that in a time when everything is regressing, politically, culturally, anything with the private sector involved, that the movie business is going back to the absolutely hilarious business practices of going under the radar to screw as many people as they can over as long as contracts are met. Lionsgate is an unparalleled studio at the moment, and it’s just…beautiful. I don’t want to see this, but I feel I should just so I can talk about it to everyone who wouldn’t actually care.
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Tags: Arizona, Blood Creek, dollar theater, Dominic Purcell, Joel Schumacher, Lionsgate, Michael Fassbender, Phoenix, Silver Cinema 8
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