Retro Slashers Invites You To My Bloody Valentine Uncut Theatrical Screening At Alamo Drafthouse
Retro Slashers is teaming up with Blood Thirsty Thursdays for a theatrical screening night of George Mihalka’s 1981 Canadian ode to pick-axes, My Bloody Valentine (Review). Best of all, the print is UNRATED & UNCUT! Venue will be Alam0 Westlakes, San Antonio TX at both 8pm and 10.30pm on Thursday, Feb 10th. Tickets will be available at the Drafthouse website.
I wish i lived in TX but alas i dont, sounds fun though. Love this film the Uncut version is amazing
I love the movie and I live in Texas but it’s not enough to get me to drive 4 & half hours to see it on the big screen. Very cool but sucks at the same time. oh well……. I pretty sure it will be the blu ray version on the big screen and not a 35mm print. When I saw Friday the 13th(1980) at the Movie Tavern here in Houston a couple of months ago it was the blu ray version. It was cool because the original was the only one I had never seen on the big screen but it sucked becasue it was not a 35mm print.
Who’s to say it will be the Blu Ray? I’ve seen loads of ’80s movies with the original print. Part of the charm is that the footage has spent the last thirty years travelling from one dingy theatre to another, slowly worn down over time. Love watching all the vintage trailers beforehand as well. Should be a good event!
Great job trying to tank the screening myersjason78, I’m aware digital projection is still frowned upon by cinema purists but I could care less what the man in the projector booth is doing as long as it screens and looks and sounds good. If it were a choice between 35mm cut version and digital uncut version, what do you think the layman would pick? I don’t know if it’s 35mm or digital. But it’s the movie. And it’s uncut.
howdy all! my name is Kelly Warren the host and organizer of Blood Thirsty Thursdays @ the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Westlakes in San Antonio,Tx. yes, the MBV screening will be shown via Blu Ray since it is the only way to view the film with the originally edited out scenes. with that said, my concept for BTT was to bring back the horror gems i grew up watching in the cinema from the early 70s through to the late 1980s to give the new younger generation of horror fans the chance to see them on the big screen as opposed to viewing them in the their living room via a TV set. as well as the chance for us older fans to see them once again the way they should be. i attempt to obtain 35mm prints for ALL my titles i choose for this monthly event, but there are times when thats just not possible (ie. an unrated/uncut version of MBV as opposed to the theatrical version). in the past i have a been lucky enough to obtain 35mm prints of EVIL DEAD (remastered), EVIL DEAD II, ARMY OF DARKNESS, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2, MOTEL HELL and CREEPSHOW. i had to use the DVD format for my double feature of SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT and BLACK CHRISTMAS because i was looking for, yet again, the UNcut/UNrated versions in print form and they just weren’t available. i just recently showed AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON which i could have had used a 35mm print, but damn was the Blu Ray version beautifully remastered! so i went that direction. LOL coming up in March i will be screening a remastered 35mm print of MANIAC to get things back on track the way i had intended…35mm prints!
hope this answers your questions and undertand the reasoning why i have to choose between the two different formats from time to time.
also, i John will be interviewing me soon for this stie, so keep your eyes open for that AND my ideas for up-coming titles for the months of April through August, which will be BTT’s one year anniversary so ya know i got something REALLY special planned.
thanks for the support and HAIL HORROR!
kelly
I don’t live close enough to go to this, but I have been to the Alamo Drafthouse and I LOVE it. We saw a regular running film (Burn After Reading), but they had a pretty good schedule of events. I wish I could have made it to one of the horror screenings.
I think anyone who goes will have a great time, not only because MBV is so incredible, but it’s also a fantastic venue!
Great post Kelly,can’t wait to see it on the big screen.Having it in 35 mm is great,but what really makes a movie is seeing it with tons of like-minded fans!