Killer Shrews Invade Texas Theater!!!

On Saturday afternoon, February 18,  DPA presents a couple of rarely-screened ICFD! cult classics at the Texas Theater to get you guys psyched for the 2012 edition of "It Came From Dallas:  The Magnificent Seventh!", happening Thursday February 23rd at The Studio Movie Grill-Dallas, at 7pm.  We've cross-bred the two most famous made-in-Dallas drive-in double bills, 1959's THE GIANT GILA MONSTER/THE KILLER SHREWS and 1960's BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER/AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN to create our own monster double-dose of black-and-white  Dallas dementia.  I'll be there with to talk about the big show and add some running commentary, plus fun trailers and shorts, all from Gordon's Vault.  Tickets are $2 for each flick, or $3 for both.  The matinee double feature starts at 4pm with:

BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER, from producer/star Robert Clarke (who gifted us the previous year with THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON).  He's an astronaut zapped into the future of 2024 after a 1995 war left the world sterile (and no one told you!)  Guess what he's called upon to do.  And you thought ROBOCOP was the first time Dallas played a future city! Of course there's a mutant attack scene! Shot at the State Fairgrounds and Dallas airports by legendary B-movie director Edgar G. Ulmer (famous for 1934's THE BLACK CAT with Karloff and Lugosi).

At 5:30, we're invaded by giant KILLER SHREWS (actually agitated dogs wired up with bath mats and hand puppets for the closeups).  James Best (The Dukes of Hazzard's Sheriff Coltrane) stars with Miss Sweden 1956 Ingrid Goude,  Gunsmoke's Ken Curtis (also co-producer) and Dallas radio pioneer Gordon McLendon, exec producer of this and co-feature GIANT GILA MONSTER (SHREWS is more fun!)  Monster-animal-attack madness that predated THE BIRDS and in some ways, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.  Best starred in a sequel last year!   Lake Dallas never had it so good.

So please drive in slowly, remember to replace the speaker when you leave, and don't think we don't know about the guy you're hiding in the trunk.  For more details, click here:

Texas Theater Classic B-Movie Double Bill 

See you on the 23rd!

-Gordon K. Smith