Comedies, Friends, Coming Of Age, Science-Fiction, Spoof, Nostalgic, Theatrical Release, Film About Film, 1960s, Horror Movies
Description
It's 1962 and 15-year-old horror film fan Gene Loomis (Simon Fenton) is the new kid in a small Key West town; the Cuban Missile Crisis is happening in his own backyard; an intriguing girl (Lisa Jakub) is actually looking his way, and best of all, master showman Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) is in town promoting his latest sci-fi horror flick. Gene and his friends eagerly gather at the local theater for the debut of MANT!, a terrifying tale of one man's mutation into a demonic ant. At the theater they experience the thrill of a lifetime, as the threat of nuclear war looms overhead. John Goodman is at his uproarious best as the larger-than-life horror promoter who revels in the creation of one-of-a-kind shock and terror as the nation waits for its fate to be revealed. MATINEE is a masterful homage to B-movie science fiction classics of the 1950s and '60s that ingeniously combines science fiction shock and suspense with the real life horror of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What was more horrible in the 60s? The threat of the atom bomb from Cuba, or the horror on the screen from Schlockmeisters like Roger Corman, who gave us such thrills as Little Shop of Horrors,... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
