April 8, 2009 at 4:42am
STEPH DEROSA: GET ON YOUR BAD MOTOR SCOOTER AND RIDE TO THE ACME MONDAY >>>
Much like the critically acclaimed show Mystery Science Theater 3000, which openly ridiculed mediocre science-fantasy movies from 1988 to 1999, the newly formed Tacoma Cult Film Club will honor only the best B-movies one beat-up VCR can handle. Only this time you’re not alone on your Dorito-stained futon laughing at other people’s jokes and cringing at the sight of coagulated, fake ketchup-type blood. This time you’re amongst friends. Friends who are just as cinematically demented as you.
Apparently a partner in the love of cult classic movies is not something that is easy to find. Just ask Mary K. Johnson. It was by accident that she and friend Colin Sannes, best known for emceeing Puget Sound Pizza’s weekend karaoke nights, discovered mutual adoration for all things sci-fi, satire, and lowly graded on the cinematography scale. I say it’s about time these two partnered up with one of my all-time favorite Tacoma bars, The Acme,and offered the rest of society a glimpse at just how fun watching these obscure movies can be with a beer in hand and well more than a handful of people around you.
Ladies and gents, I bring you something new to do on a Monday night. I bring you something FREE. I bring you something you’ve always dreamed of, yet never thought other people enjoyed as much as you â€" I bring you the newly formed Tacoma Cult Film Club. Like I said, it’s free, it’s on a Monday, and it’s at The Acme.
“Each night will entail at least two full length movies â€" based upon a theme â€" plus short subjects, raffles, free popcorn, and general silliness,†explains Sannes. "This month's theme is biker films. Make no mistake, it's unlikely that any of these films will even have been considered for an Oscar, but sometimes, that's exactly what we're looking for.â€
I warn you the same, just as Mary K. Johnson has warned me, “Wear your smoking jacket ... you might just meet a nine-foot Manateeâ€. Oh, if I could only be so lucky.
[The Acme, Monday, April 13, 7 p.m., free, 1310 Tacoma Ave. S., Tacoma, 253.272.1892]
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