Horror Remix/Alamo Drafthouse

Horror Remix: What Was It?

 

Horror Remix is All Killer, No Filler, its Obscure horror classics powerpacked into 2 hour screenings. Edward Ej Anttila works hard on putting them together and its a labor of love, it would have to be all the work thats put into it.  What he does is takes obscure and/or bad horror classics and cuts them down. So say an 80 min. movie cuts down to 25 mins.  He leaves in the kills, the nudity and just enough plot to understand it, if it has a understood plot.

Each Remix has a theme, Zombies, Love, Roadkill, where two to three movies are put up, after each cut movie two puppets, Cheesecake and Thunderclap, a wizard and a bat. They come out and make jokes about the movie which we just watched.  Its pretty funny and the movies themselves are usually so wierd and silly they almost don't need help.

There is always "Leftover Meat" movies that didn't quite make the cut with just scenes from them. They play all over in various city's and nights, her in Austin, Texas they play at the Almao Drafthouse at 10 pm on Wednesday, its free unless you want to reserve a seat, then its 5.00 bucks, which can be used as a voucher towards your food so even then its "free". Unless you had no plans to drink or eat. 

What The Horror Remix is now:

So in the start the horror remix was a blast, I had friends who came with me and there was this group of guys, some of who lived her in Austin, some in Dallas, some in San Antoine. All because Austin and the Drafthouse was the city and place to be. All of us who went to the Drafthouse shared in a love of bad horror movies and loved the Remix, we drank, we ate, we joked. When nudity was shown we had one woman who always yelled BOOBIES! It was some of the most fun I have every had. Its the way Austin should be, hell even Esther's Follies has you participte some.  As best as I can figure all this changed at one show...This one guy who I have never seen before, so not a regular, not one of us there at every remix spending money and paying Drafthouse and tipping waitstaff, stood up and yelled "EVERYONE NEEDS TO SHUT THE FUCK UP". The very next show we couldn't talk.

This is where it becomes Bullshit.  We had always had fun, bonded over bad movies, some of us had been to all or most of the remixes, buying drinks, bringing in new people saying how much fun it was. Then it all changed, and the drafthouse and remix were Never the same. When you pay for a new movie I agree talking and tweeting are super annoying and should be stopped but an event like this, when they have Quote-A-Longs and Sing-a-Longs and tweet humor you single us out.  These are not full movies, or even good movies to most people.

Half the reason us regulars came to The Remixes is because we loved laughing and joking and drinking. Now they lost that crowd that used to come, My old school Remix friends won't return and I won't bother bringing new ones as its no longer fun, I try to go when I can but each time I get reminded why I dislike it now.

Final Thoughts:

While I love the idea behind the Horror Remix still and they are still funny and well done, Edward Ej Anttila works hard and I can't stress that enough, my problem is not with him or even Horror Remix, its with Alamo Drafthouse though I wish Edward could do something about it, maybe if he knows there are many who are unhappy with how the Drafthouse is using his stuff who knows maybe he can.  

The last one, Love, had the perfect example, in Austin as the announcer was speaking he asked how everyone was and people were too worried or scared to even speak then or clap until he said you could, it was okay..thats sad and stupid. How unfun does that sound?  They lose people everytime I go, its less people then the time before and who knows we may lose it one day. 

I will still go as I enjoy the movies but I don't think I will be speaking up about it anymore or giving money to the drafthouse.

B.