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Nov 1, 2008

Early evening madness

If you were a theater manager in up-all-night Tokyo, and you were cool enough to think it would be fun to show the original classic Halloween on a Halloween that happened to fall on a Friday, what would you think would be a good schedule?

A) On a 24-hour loop starting mid-day Friday

B) Starting at 8 pm the week before Halloween and through the weekend

C) One midnight viewing on Friday only - people who want to see it will make it an event

D) On Friday at 11:50am, 2:10, 4:30, and, for a late-night finale, 6:50pm.



If you answered D, send your resume to the Shinjuku Toa, stat. You'll fit right in.

2 comments:

Trixie Bedlam said...

I was going to suggest they were concerned that people might be so scared by this masterpiece of horror that they couldn't stand to leave the theater at late-night hours...and then I remembered that at least two of the more horrifying and deeply scary movies I have ever seen (including the original of The Ring - Ringu? - which I couldn't even FINISH because it scared me so badly) were made in Japan.

so, I got nothing, besides that last, very long low-yield sentence. but I embrace the mystery, in the spirit of the season.

The Feather Monster said...

Yeah, considering this is the culture that produced Takashi Miike, they probably think the movie is too tame to waste on an evening screening.

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