Not like "Avengers 19 opens on Feb 29, so the theater will be open Feb 28, selling tickest at 10:30 pm so we can show the movie at 12:01 am," but cult, fringe and exploitation movies Dawn of the Dead and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Looking at the local cool cinema- they're showing Harold and Maude and Phantom of the Paradise next month, but those start at 10:30pm. Heck, even a showing Rock'n'Roll High School stars at 9pm.
I'm rewatching Dawn of the Dead (78) tonight because it's a mindless diversion. I've seen George Romero's survivors versus zombies in a shopping mall movie about half a dozen time because Zombies. Watching it again in the context of seventies movies is fascinating. Romero manages to touch on inner-city strife, racism, sexism, consumerism, and abortion without seeming preachy and still tell a classic survival horror story.
As it was filmed in the seventies when the consumer landscape was changing, it has one of my favourite lines- as they're flying in a helicopter over the Pennsylvania countryside, they approach a large building surrounded by a parking lot and one of them wonders what it is: "It looks like a shopping center, one of those big, indoor malls."
I can't think of a better place to spend the end of the world.
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