Tag: George C. Scott

George C. Scott in THE CHANGELING This Weekend Midnights at The Moolah


“That house is not fit to live in. No one’s been able to live in it. It doesn’t want people!”


THE CHANGELING (1980) screens Midnights this weekend (August 17th and 18th) at The Moolah Theater and Lounge (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108) as part of  Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Nite Grindhouse film series.


George C. Scott loses his wife and daughter in a car accident, moves to Seattle, and rents a gigantic old mansion with a haunted secret past. THE CHANGELING is skillfully directed by Peter Medak who gets more that even he probably bargained from a solid cast of actors, a wonderful script, and one great-looking eerie old house. Medak creates tons of suspense with the barest sight of blood. This film reeks atmosphere. The house reeks atmosphere. Scott’s performance and that of veteran Melvyn Douglass reek atmosphere. Doors creak, balls mysteriously bounce, water runs, windows break in the old house trying to tell Scott about the secret of a young child that once lived there. The script is fanciful yet well-written and very creative. Scott gives an atypically subdued performance that suggests passion, heartbreak, and tenacity. The rest of the performers are very good too. Some of the scenes that really stand out in my mind are flashback sequences showing the terrible secret that has been hidden in the house for over 70 years. THE CHANGELING is one classy scare film and now you’ll have your chance to see it on the big screen!


The Facebook invite for Friday night can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1948095655429029/

The Facebook invite for Saturday night can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1876248872668988/

THE PSYCHOTRONIC PRE-SHOW STARTS AROUND 11:30P WITH THE FILM STARTING AT MIDNIGHT.

The Moolah Theatre & Lounge serves alcohol until 2:30AM! Feel free to show up early and stay late to have some drinks and get friendly with the amazing Moolah staff.

Stanley Kubrick’s DR. STRANGELOVE Returns to the Big Screen for Two Days Only Sept. 18th and 21st

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“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”

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It’s time to unlock the secret codes and scheme with the best, as the one-of-a-kind classic DR. STRANGELOVE  returns to cinemas later this month, as part of Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies’ TCM Big Screen Classics series. “TCM Big Screen Classics: Dr. Strangelove” will screen on Sunday, September 18 and Wednesday, September 21 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. local time (both days), and will include specially-produced commentary from TCM host Ben Mankiewicz to help decipher the many layers of satire in Kubrick’s dark comedic masterpiece.

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Through a series of military and political accidents, a pair of psychotic senior military officers – U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Joint Chiefs of Staff General “Buck” Turgidson (George C. Scott) – hatch an ingenious, foolproof and irrevocable plan to unleash a wing of B-52 bombers and their nuclear payloads on strategic targets inside Russia. When the brains behind the scheme, Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers), a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist with bizarre ideas about man’s future, accidentally activates the bombing mission, even the President of the United States is unable to stop it. The inevitable comes to pass as the efforts of the Pentagon brass and all the politicians in Moscow and Washington cannot undo the cascading series of cataclysmic events.

Sterling Hayden in Stanley Kubrick's DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964). Courtesy Sony Pictures Repertory. Plays May 16-22

DR. STRANGELOVE  or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was originally released in 1964 to rave reviews by critics and audiences alike. Roger Ebert described it as “arguably the best political satire of the century,” and the film was nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Actor (Peter Sellers) and Best Picture. The screenplay is by Stanley Kubrick, Peter George & Terry Southern.

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Dr. Strangelove is the first of two Stanley Kubrick classics returning to theaters as part of the TCM Big Screen Classics series this fall. Kubrick’s modern horror masterpiece The Shining will screen nationwide on October 23 and 26.