Event Listing - Theater
Thu May 29 - Sat Jun 7

The Dark Room & Foul Play present

Attack of the Killer B-Movies: The Blob

Part Three in a Trilogy of Low Budget Terror


Tel. 415-401-7987
Email Attack of the Killer B-Movies: The Blob
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$15 - $20
Tickets
Box Office: 415-401-7987

Location
Date and Time
The Dark Room Theatre
2263 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110 map
cross street: between 18th & 19th
district: Mission

Thu May 29 (8pm)
Fri May 30 (8pm)
Sat May 31 (8pm)
Thu Jun 5 (8pm)
Fri Jun 6 (8pm)

Description
May Day! May Day! Six weeks of cinematic pseudo-sincerity! This May Day comes Attack of the Killer B-Movies. A trio of deadly B-movies at their biggest, baddest and most brilliant! Horror classics The Birds, the Bad Seed and the Blob, are brought to life by an intrepid acting ensemble, and ‘streamlined’ by SF playwright Sean Owens (Best Comic Playwright, SF Weekly). Two weekends each—and all three deftly handled by a fearless stable of actors. Another Dark Room classic, to be talked about for years to come!

Equal parts camp and cunning, each of these film classics exudes lurid excess, as well as astute insights on the taboos and terrors of its era, balancing the satiric with the sensational, the cliché and the clever.

Beginning with the Hitchcock classic, THE BIRDS (May 1-10), this ominous tale of avian invasion ripples with undercurrents of feminism, as willful gadabout Melanie Daniels pursues a ‘lovebird’ relationship with enterprising lawyer Mitch Brenner, while the quiet town of Bodega Bay takes notice. It’s Mitch’s mother, Lydia who rules the roost—but before feathers can fly, an aerial assault pits the hapless household against a squadron of starlings. Michelle Talgarow directs.

Next, Maxwell Anderson’s cult classic THE BAD SEED (May 15-24) finally gets the spanking it deserves. Pandemonium reigns as Christine Penmark, devoted wife and mother, gradually discovers the dark side of her insufferably sweet 10-year old daughter Rhoda. Christine grows more alarmed when little Claude, the winner of the school’s coveted penmanship medal, tragically drowns and his medal mysteriously vanishes. Can a criminologist, a mystery writer and a Freud-fixated, nosy neighbor discover the moral decay festering behind little Rhoda’s radiant smile? Jim Fourniadis directs.

Finally, it takes a ragtag team of scofflaws to alert their sleepy town to the gelatinous dangers that a fallen meteor has unleashed. Brooding teen Steve Andrews interrupts a hot date with good girl Janie Johnson to chase the oozing, formless horror that’s gobbling up the community in THE BLOB (May 29 - June 7). Sean Owens directs.

Attack of the Killer B-Movies runs May 1 – June 7, 2008; Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm, at the Dark Room Theater, 2263 Mission Street, between 18th and 19th, SF. Tickets are $15 at brownpapertickets.com or $20 at the door. More info at darkroomsf.com/killerbs, 415-401-7987, or wsup@darkroomsf.com.

Attack of the Killer B-Movies is a Foul Play (Sean Owens, Cameron Eng) and stars Nancy Bower, Damien Chacona, Flynn deMarco, Jordan Eldrege, Jim Jeske, Gerri Lawlor, Josh Lenn, Donna K. Moore, Sean Owens, Alexia Staniotes, Michelle Talgarow and Don Wood.