Matinee Page #9

Synopsis: A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalises on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Joe Dante
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
PG
Year:
1993
99 min
619 Views


It's over.

As do the people

of the soviet union."

The Pentagon said that the

american naval quarantine

of Cuba would be ended.

The ships would be returning

to their home ports

by the end of the week.

And so a sigh of relief

around the world...

As two of the great powers

pull back from

the nuclear abyss.

Amazing! You won't

believe the kind of ink

we're getting.

Look. "Horror stunt

saves patrons' lives."

Where?

Oh, down there.

Well, we're up

against this Cuba thing.

Anyway, spector's getting

us into 60 theaters.

How do you like the car?

It's great.

Well, we're off

to the opening.

Cleveland.

Congratulations.

Exactly.

Honey?

So, now, you two,

was that your first date?

Ah... yeah.

Hard to top.

You guys'll do it,

though.

Well...

Better be rolling.

Uh, keep

your eyes open.

I will.

Bye.

[Honking]

Keep your eyes open

for what?

The Scary parts.

Oh.

Nice kids.

That wouldn't be bad,

have a couple kids.

We have to be married

for that, Larry.

Yeah, I know.

Boy, you are

the shock expert.

Think about it.

You see the look on those two?

It's like their whole life

got called off and then,

"no, wait a second, sorry,"

it's on again.

That's how

everybody looks now.

People are walkin' around,

[sigh] They made it. Safe.

Uh-huh. How long do you give that?

Couple weeks, couple years,

then bang,

somebody else comes along

with another way

for the world to end.

Only this time

they mean it.

At least those two

got a jump on it.

Huh?

They've seen

the coming attractions.

[Laughing]

["The lion sleeps tonight"]

in the jungle

the mighty jungle

the lion

sleeps tonight

in the jungle

the quiet jungle

the lion sleeps tonight

hup, hup

owimoweh, owimoweh

owimoweh, owimoweh

owimoweh, owimoweh

owimoweh, owimoweh

owimoweh, owimoweh

owimoweh, owimoweh

oh, bill!

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Charles S. Haas

Charles Stephen Haas (born October 22, 1952), also known as Charles Haas or Charlie Haas, is an American screenwriter and actor, and novelist. Haas was born in Brooklyn, the son of Eunice (née Dillon) and Philip Haas, who was an attorney. Haas began his writing career with the film Over the Edge (1979). It was co-written with Tim Hunter and starred Matt Dillon. He later worked on Martians Go Home (1990) starring Randy Quaid. At around this time he was approached to write the script to the film Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), which was directed by Joe Dante and produced by Michael Finnell. Haas also had a small acting role in the film as one of the scientists. Haas later took part in recording the DVD commentary for that film, and it was noted that it was Haas's idea to set that film in New York City. Haas would later work with Dante and Finnell again, writing the script for and appearing in the film Matinee (1993). More recently, Charlie Haas wrote the 2009 novel The Enthusiast, which was published by HarperCollins. He also wrote a humor piece for The New Yorker in April 2010. more…

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