Zombie Walk IV Kicks Off With Two Cinematic Screenings At Downtown Drive-In!
"Army of Darkness" & "Shaun of the Dead" screen outdoors At Historic Press Telegram Building, Saturday Oct. 22 and Oct. 29 respectively. At 6:30 p.m. the doors open. At 8 p.m. the film begins.
This year we’re kicking off Zombie Walk Long Beach with not one but TWO cinematic tales of the undead – 1992′s "ARMY OF DARKNESS," and our annual tradition, 2004′s "SHAUN OF THE DEAD." Part of the new series at Downtown Long Beach Drive-In. Grab a bite at a food truck (or order food from your window from the Long Beach Roller Derby Girls!), get comfy in your car, tune in your FM dial to the station provided, and enjoy the show! Both films screen at the historic Press Telegram building, located at 604 Pine Avenue in downtown Long Beach.
Tickets to Downtown Drive In payable at the gate (cash only) and are $10 per person, $5 for Long Beach Cinematheque card-carrying Members (it pays to join! http://lbcinema.org/members). Children 13 and under may enjoy the event free of charge. “Foodies” welcome to come in free (in-and-out guests who simply wish to come in on foot, order from a food truck, and not stay for the show). Gates: 6:30pm / Film: 8:00pm.
SHAUN OF THE DEAD screens the night before Zombie Walk Long Beach, Friday October 29: What’s Long Beach Zombie Walk without a screening of Edgar Wright’s rom-zom-com classic Shaun of the Dead!? Shaun (Simon Pegg) is a twenty something salesman at an electronics store who loves nothing more than playing video games with his lethargic best friend Ed, (Nick Frost) and getting drunk at his neighborhood pub, The Winchester. His girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) however, wants a little more spontaneity and romance in their relationship, and promptly dumps him. After a night of pity-party drinking at the pub, Shaun’s best friend Ed reminds him that “It’s not the end of the world…” Well, it IS the end of the world: the Zombie Apocalypse has hit, and Shaun has to fend off the walking dead, save his doting mother Barbara (Penelope Wilton) and his curmudgeon stepfather Phillip, (Bill Nighy) and somehow win back his girlfriend Liz and keep her (and everyone else he knows) from getting their brains eaten.
Shaun of the Dead is British writer/director Edgar Wright’s loving homage to romantic comedies of his youth, as well as the zombie classics of George Romero. Re-teaming with most of the cast of his classic BBC series Spaced, Shaun of the Dead is one of the best comedies of the past decade, not to mention one of the best zombie movies of all time. There are few better ways to celebrate the Halloween season than by watching Shaun taking a cricket bat to a zombie’s head!
Event sponsor Lunch Truck It will line up food trucks for this event! Come hungry!
Information: www.lunchtruckit.com.
FM Transmission signal will be broadcast to guests in their cars. There will also be speakers in an area for those who wish to sit in chairs/on blankets – bring whatever you need to be comfortable. Out of consideration for those around you, please consider low-back chairs.
BADFISH Clothing Company also will be on hand at this month’s Drive-In events and Zombie Walk with cult-cinema tees and zombie attire.