Grimm Up North are putting on a run of classic John Carpenter films over a two month period at The Dancehouse on Oxford Road in Manchester from May 23rd. Such news makes me extremely happy as a number of these films are amongst my favourites and the opportunity to see them on the big screen is one not to be missed. Three of these films feature John Carpenters muse in the eighties, Kurt Russell who plays each role with the relevant swagger be it The Thing,Big Trouble In Little China or Escape from New York. The first film to be screened is They Live,starring Rowdy Roddy Piper in a satirical look at the way we (as humans) are governed by forces we are not fully aware of or probably even care about so long as we are given our daily dose of mindless media guff. I can recall ,as a kid, seeing a trailer for an ITV screening of The Thing during an ad break in Auf Wiedersehen Pet and that alone was enough to give me nightmares for weeks!
Not one to miss you can find more info and tickets here .
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