Carmike dumps, er, screens in the area. Bruce Campbell is a real fan of The Avon, and has made two sold-out appearances to date (and “sold out” in the old theater means 708 seats!). Bruce told me he would always come to the Avon when he was on a promotional tour. The Alloy Orchestra has performed on our stage to a clas- sic silent film now five times, and always contact me when they are in the area. We have the cutest pop- corn girls in the world. All de- cent young ladies from good local families. Many have gone on to college as far away as USC in LA, but always come home to the Avon during summers and holidays to work. And here is the final, and maybe most controversial: We are proudly analog! We have three 35mm projectors in the old Avon booth alone, and our Dolby SR has a “warmth” that you just don’t hear anywhere now. Our three 8' tall Voice-of-Theater subwoofer speakers behind the screen of the main theater really move some air during bass ex- tensions! We will have to go digi- tal in projection and sound someday, but we are not looking forward to it. My style is big screens, and all three of our auditoriums sac- rifice more seating for bigger screens!
Please check out our website at
www.TheAvon.com to see fur- ther proof that we are, indeed, the proud exception to your editorial! P.S. As far as GRINDHOUSE is concerned, Weinstein blew it by insisting it play the multibox and mall theaters! It was an “up- scale commercial” film, whether they liked it or not, but they thought they had a mainstream teenage hit! Blame them for their poor marketing of a film that
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needed the extra “showcase” that a theater like the Avon could have given it!
Skip Huston, Owner Huston’s Avon Theatre 3 Decatur IL
CAN’T GET ENOUGH AL MULOCK
In response to Richard Har- land Smith’s “Things From the Attic” [VW 133:18], I urge fans of the late actor Al Mulock to seek out Ken Annakin’s film THE HEL- LIONS (Columbia, 1962)—sort of a British reworking of HIGH NOON—in which Mulock has a memorable part as whip-wielding Mark Billings, member of a fam- ily of vicious outlaws who terror- ize a small town in Africa’s Transvaal region while searching for an old enemy, military officer Richard Todd. Never (that I know
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SEVERIN FILMS
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XPLOITED CINEMA
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of) offered on home video or DVD, this unusual and effective film has played occasionally on Cinemax. Watch for it!
Peter W. Many New Orleans LA
TOO PREOCCUPIED WITH THE
BLEEDER VALVE
It was great to see DARK SHADOWS—THE BEGINNING get a review in VIDEO WATCHDOG [VW 135:36]! However, you were remiss in not pointing out that the vast majority of the series is already out on DVD, episodes 210 through 1,245. The initial DVD release began with the first episode to feature vampire Barnabas Collins. Now that all of those episodes are out, MPI Home Video is releasing the first 209 episodes under the “Begin- ning” banner. Just thought your readers should know this.
Curtiss Hammock Smyrna GA
SHUFFLING OFF TO INLAND
I’m sure someone else has already dropped a note about this but, in case they haven’t, the R1 disc of INLAND EMPIRE is chaptered. There’s no chap- ter index on the disc menu, but the movie is divided into 39 chap- ters that can at least be stepped through—quite a relief for a three hour movie! The deleted scenes, the “More Things That Happened,” are also given 16 chapters.
If I had more free time, I’d suck all 39 chapters of the movie and the 16 deleted chapters into an I-Pod, play ’em back in shuffle mode, and see what new movies emerge...
Brooks Caruthers Little Rock AR .
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