Tiki Central / California Events / TIKI-INVASION, Mission Tiki Drive-In Theatre, 8/5
Post #234635 by 'Vid on Tue, May 30, 2006 12:47 AM
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TIKI-INVASION UPDATES: STAGE: We are very excited to announce that the "decoration/transformation" of our stage and VIP area will be designed, built and installed by THE CULT OF THE EYE. Also be sure to visit their Fez-O-Rama booth when browsing through our vendor area! TICKETS: tickets are now available online at Ticket Alternative - http://www.ticketalternative.com General admission is $20. VIP admission is $30, which includes preferred movie parking, a souvenir Hawaiian lei and a refillable Tiki "brew" cup. There has been one more tweak to the Tiki-Invasion movie lineup folks... After talking to the studio, it turns out the last remaining print of what was to be our 2nd feature "The Creeping Flesh" is most likely a bit too faded and "pink" for our tastes. So, we're going to go with a tried and true "B" movie classic, "BUG", from 1975, starring Bradford Dillman and Joanna Miles. This is a great print and will look spectacular projected through the Mission-Tiki's state of the art Technalight Projection System. We screened this film at our Starlight Drive-In (Atlanta) back in 2005 and I can tell you the print was fabulous and there were an equal amount of screams and laughs from the audience. BUG is a perfect Drive-In movie. From IMDB, the BUG plot: And a reviewers comment: BUG Trivia: "The set used for the Parmiter home, where Joanna Miles's character has her head set ablaze by a "bug" on the phone receiver, was the same Studio City, California, set used as the Brady home in ABC-TV's "The Brady Bunch" (1969). Due to very poor ratings, the BB series had been cancelled in 1974, a few months before filming BUG began. Since BUG's release in 1975, "The Brady Bunch" became a ubiquitous hit in syndication, and the set has become easily recognizable to several generations of classic TV watchers." There you have it, the middle feature of three for our Saturday, August 5th event. First film is "Cobra Woman", from 1944. From IMDB, Cobra Woman Plot: Cobra Woman review: 3rd film is "Hard Ticket to Hawaii". Written and directed by Andy Sidaris, and produced by Arlene Sidaris, who will be our special guests at Tiki-Invasion. Hard Ticket Plot: Hard Ticket review: Anyway, Dona's job here is to run around with the adorable Hope Marie Carlton as DEA agents investigating... oh, who cares. No one's watching this thing for story, and why the hell does Sidaris feel the need to make his plots so dang convoluted? Great Scott man, if we want complex writing we'll watch Chinatown. So Dona and Hope Marie get naked often, which is very good, and when they're not nude they have the courtesy to at least wear flattering and revealing outfits. The movie also includes some nice travelogue stuff in and around Hawaii, and one extremely fake-looking venomous snake. There's also the return of the drag queen from Malibu Express, but that's actually OK because in one of his scenes ex-Playmate Patty Duffek flaunts the all-natural attributes that got her in Hef's magazine in the first place. So no major complaints on this end." Memorable quote: "I always do my best thinking in the hot tub." You can see we have a beautiful, campy and fun evening of movies ahead! Remember, tickets now available at http://www.ticketalternative.com See you there! |