Wow. These all just came in today. It’s times like this that make me so happy to work where I do.

For the 1st set, we told the 3 artists to go ‘European’ on the posters…don’t show faces…make ‘em arty. On this one, we picked 3 artists who could NAIL a likeness of the actors. I’m pretty freaking happy how it turned out.

Jesse Philips on A Fistful of Dollars. 24×36. Metallic Variant available. Printed by DnL. Numbered individually.
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VARIANT with Metallic inks

Stainboy on For a Few Dollars More.
Metallic Inks. Signed and Numbered. 32×22. Printed by Diesel Fuel.
Stainboy sent me images of the pencils on this as he was working on it. This MF’r can draw. He did his first ‘penciled/halftoned’ poster look for us. A Stainboy first!

And Billy Perkins on The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly-
We thought a triptych would be a good concept, and Billy really stepped up to the plate on his first poster for Alamo and Mondo Tees.
12×38. Signed and Numbered. As a set or individually. I can’t believe how badass these are. How great will these look hanging as a set? I need more walls. Printed by DnL.

All posters are available for a limited time on MONDOTEES. You can buy them as sets, or individually. Don’t sleep on it…or you’ll be sad.

GOREMASTERS and GUTBLASTERS!

There are very few events that can really bring out the little kid in you. But only one tears that little kid directly through your sternum and holds it up to the scorching light of pure horror insanity:

T E X A S F E A R F E S T !!!

If you’ve ever shrunk in terror from a shadow creeping across your window…if you’ve ever shivered at a cold wind passing through a darkened woods…if you’ve ever watched a goddamn horror movie, NOW IS THE TIME TO INDULGE IN YOUR OWN FRIGHT!

The central US’ most major celebration of terror — and the largest in our state’s history — THE TEXAS FEAR FEST will be upon us soon! On March 7 through 9, Dallas will be flooded with more b-movie royalty and big-scream celebrities than your wildest nightmares would ever allow. Everyone from JOHN SAXON to LINNEA QUIGLEY to MICHAEL BERRYMAN to ROBERT “FREDDY” ENGLUND to the cast of TROLL 2 will be there, waiting to shake your hand and manifest your deepest fears in the flesh!!

And the Alamo Drafthouse’s own Rolling Roadshow will also be there on opening night to present outdoor 35mm SPECIAL GUEST SCREENINGS of gut-churning classicks including A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, FRIGHT NIGHT, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER and (last but certainly not least) TROLL 2!! Each of these unforgettable back-to-back films will be hosted by a major group of cast and creators LIVE IN PERSON, and I guarantee that this is the closest you will ever get to seeing these films in unfettered ’80s drive-in glory!

For details on the screening event, CLICK HERE!

And to purchase a ticket for the entire Fear Fest weekend, CLICK HERE!

Honestly, there’s never been such a massively huge assemblage of high-grade horror luminaries and unadulterated hack-n-slash excitement under one roof. If you miss this event, you may as well spend the weekend sucking bullets out of a shotgun.

Attention all horrorhounds and mutilatio-maniacs!

The central US’ most major celebration of terror — and the largest in our state’s history — THE TEXAS FEAR FEST will be upon us soon! On March 7 through 9, Dallas will be flooded with more b-movie royalty and big-scream celebrities than your wildest nightmares would ever allow.

And the Alamo Drafthouse’s own Rolling Roadshow will be there on opening night to present outdoor 35mm SPECIAL GUEST SCREENINGS of gut-churning classicks including A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, FRIGHT NIGHT, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER and (last but certainly not least) TROLL 2!! Each of these unforgettable back-to-back films will be hosted by cast and creators LIVE IN PERSON, and I guarantee that this is the closest you will ever get to seeing these films in unfettered ’80s drive-in glory!

For details on the screening event, CLICK HERE!

And to purchase a ticket for the entire Fear Fest weekend, CLICK HERE!

Miss it and spend eternity shrieking in bitter agony.

My Lost Boys Roadshow experience actually began on Monday the 23rd, two full days before the show was to go on. I was in Austin watching Transformers with my girlfriend when I got a phone call from Chance, he was driving the truck and, because of a generator emergency, would be in Santa Cruz in a few hours. Unfortunately I would not be there until the next day. So Chance’s first night in Santa Cruz was spent sleeping in the cab of the truck.

I met up with the rest of the crew on Tuesday. We scouted the location at the Boardwalk and also the cave where the after party would be. As Tim put it, this would be where the VIP-VIP after party would be. Then, after watching Tim do a dress rehearsal of his pie eating technique for the contest in Brownsville, OR, we all hit the sheets for some much needed shuteye in preparation for the setup on Wednesday.

Alamo alum Christi and I arrived at the beach around 9:30am, just as they were beginning to tow the RRS truck across the beach to the screening location. Well, perhaps “tow” is a bit too generous of a word. It was more like the truck was dragged to the location. It was a bit hairy there for a while, especially when it became obvious that one tractor could not pull the fully loaded truck by itself. Instead, another tractor had to push while the bigger one pulled. Check out the video below.

We then rapidly got situated by setting up the screen and aligning the truck. As Tim and I were sinking the stakes into the sand, he said to me, “It’s nice to know we can do this on the beach.” I quickly ran through my mental Rolodex of previous RRS locations and replied, “Tim, apparently we can do this anywhere.” And while the sand did prove challenging to deal with, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I had envisioned. Though I’m sure the crew will be dealing with this sand for the rest of the tour.

By the time we had finished setting up it was around 1 pm and folks were already taking their seats in front of the screen. We had about four hours of free time and used that for a little R&R. We returned to the location at around 5pm, did some last minute setup, had a little panic over the print and then at about 9:30 The Lost Boys hit the screen to a thunderous cheer as the Boardwalk filled the fame.

As Zack mentioned in a previous post, there were approximately 3,000 people at this screening. It was by far the biggest crowd I have ever seen at a Roadshow event which made it especially exciting while the Boardwalk provided a fantastic backdrop. Tim and I were running around with our cameras, so be sure to check out our pics.

Video:
Alamo Surf and Turf pt 1
Alamo Surf and Turf pt 2
Alamo Surf and Turf pt 3

Pics:
My unofficial Rolling Roadshow Flickr set

Hard work is its own reward. And other rewards include sunburn, bruising, exhaustion and missing skin. But the crew of the 2007 Rolling Roadshow Tour agree that any degree of physical damage is little price to pay when bringing unbridled entertainment to our glorious nation.

We’ve had two more shows since the last RRS2007 posting. The first was the beloved, Wahlberg-legitimizing BOOGIE NIGHTS in the legendary Valley of sunny Southern California. Everything you’d have hoped for was there…palm trees, skaters, mini malls and tons and tons of actual, bona fide adult film stars. Yep, real life porno humans abounded at the screening and after-party, upping the surreality and off-Hollywood glamor of the event and increasing its memorability at least a dozenfold. Among them was a certain suave gentleman named Ron Jeremy. Earlier in the evening, we were lucky enough to have an introduction by the writer-director P.T. Anderson, who sat in on the show and shot the breeze about the film’s creation, as well as his much anticipated new film, THERE WILL BE BLOOD.

A few days later saw us at the Santa Cruz, CA boardwalk for a mammoth screening of 1986′ ultimate teen vampire masterpiece THE LOST BOYS. Over 3000 people were on hand for the show. One of them was the city’s mayor, who showed up ready for action and quoted the film’s bloodsucking oath: “Sleep all day, party all night!” This was followed by appearances from many of the film’s leads, and the audience went nuts. Every new shot of the boardwalk evoked a roar of cheers from the audience, and everyone left with a head full of memories and pants full of sand.

I’d love to write more, but we’re in the midst of preparing for our record-breakingly huge STAND BY ME show, which is basically going to envelop the entire town of Brownsville, OR this weekend.

There will be pie,
RRS Tour 2007 crew

The concept for the Alamo was originally to combine the dinner and a movie date into one all-inclusive experience, and we still like to think that we’re the best place for that in the country. But we realize that sometimes you’ll be out at dinner somewhere else with a group of friends and someone will say, “Hey, wanna go see a movie after this?” And that idea sounds great to you, but what movie? What theater? And when does it start?

The “what theater?” question is obviously easy to answer. The “what movie?” is often tied into when it starts, though, isn’t it? And so then you can go to the front of the restaurant and see if there are still any Chronicles left, but sometimes that just isn’t that convenient. A few years ago, we set up a mobile version of our site at www.originalalamo.com/m that would give you a pared down version with just some showtimes and the basic info like that.

Recently, we also created an iPhone version that should work for you as well, and will also guide you all the way through to a ticket purchase page. Just go to our regular website – www.originalalamo.com – on your iPhone, and a dialogue box will pop up asking if you’d like to visit the iPhone page. Say yes, and a new and magical world will be yours for the taking!

If you want to be really cool and have quick and easy access all the time, don’t forget to add the Alamo to one of your home screens. We don’t have an actual app you can download, but we do have a pretty iPhone-ized “A” logo for the button, so it’ll make you happy every time you sweep past it on your way to the latest version of Worms that you’re trying to play while waiting for an elevator somewhere.

But wait, there’s more! You can also follow the Alamo on Twitter (@drafthouse) to make sure you’re the first to hear about upcoming advance ticket sales for special guest appearances. You can also follow a bunch of us who put the programming together so you can hear about when we’re bored, when we’re riding our bike home, or when we’re needing help choosing new ideas for Sing-Alongs (that’s usually me, I need lots and lots of help). Here’s a breakdown of everyone:

Tim League, founder: @timalamo

Henri Mazza, creative director: @henrimazza

Lars Nilsen, programmer: @larsalamo

Zack Carlson, programmer: @zackalamo

Brad Parret, programmer: @alamobrad

Caitlin Stevens, promotions: @caitlinestevens

Or for when you’re actually in front of your computer, we’ve also got a wonderful blog, complete with RSS feeds! You’re reading one of our posts right now, so why not subscribe to this as well?