Our local Ritz Theatre offers several “Showtime at the Ritz” series. These include classic movies grouped by theme. In the past they have done a musical series, a Kung Fu action series, and, our favorite, the traditional October horror series – “Attack of the B Moves.” The crown this series it always ends with the “Quadruple Bypass,” a marathon of four horror movies ending with the classic Night of the Living Dead at midnight.
Since my wife is a super fan of B horror movies, we attend this event every year. This year the Quadruple Bypass took place on the day before Halloween. The featured movies were: The Bat with Vincent Price, a serial killer movie centered around a single house and the secrets that it holds. Werewolf in the Girls’ Dormitory, a mystery movie set in a school for the rehabilitation of criminal girls where one of the school’s residents is suffering from lycanthropy. The House by the Cemetery, an avant gard, confusing movie about a monster in the basement of a house. It is important to say that the cemetery near the house plays almost no role in the movie and the movie’s actual plot is so muddled and confusing that I found it impossible to follow. Finally, of course, the classic Night of the Living Dead – this is the black and white Romero movie portraying a world where the unburied dead have begun to rise. This is the movie that really defines how zombies move, attack and are killed. All in all this was a fun series of movies and a great way to start our Halloween.
~Chris Baldi “The Healer”~
~November 5, 2008~