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Topic: Matinee
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Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted March 01, 2005 03:22 PM
Anybody seen the movie "Matinee" starring John Goodman? I watched this last night, and what a superb movie it is, set in Key West during the Cuban missile crisis. Its main attraction is Lawrence Woolsey, played brilliantly by Goodman, who is a spoof of William Castle the 1950's B movie producer, who produced all those creature features, with gimmicks such as electrically wired theater seats (The Tingler), skeletons flying over the theater audience (House on Haunted Hill), and Life insurance requirements for patrons in case thay died of fright during these wonderfully corny movies! If you have'nt seen this movie, do try to get a VHS or DVD of it. You will not be disappointed- a wonderfully funny film which any 50's creature feature film buff will love. And to those of us who grew up during the height of the cold war, it remind us of how close we all came to destruction.
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