{"id":181,"date":"2007-06-08T22:27:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T04:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:00:35","slug":"living-dead-to-resurrect-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"LIVING DEAD to resurrect Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not that<\/em> “living dead” movie. Or that other one. Or even the gajillionth knock-off that you just found in the “New Release” section of your video store last week.<\/p>\n

Crawling out of the woodwork with little warning, LATE AFTERNOON OF THE LIVING DEAD<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is the most recent downstate micro-budget offering to pit a bunch of twentysomethings against a monster-movie staple. This time, a worldwide zombie plague reaches the cornfields and devastates the populace, creating expansive ghost towns wherein lucky survivors attempt to outlast the reanimated dead. It’s up to a ragtag team led by librarian Chris (played by Chris Hutson<\/strong>) to save the day. Um, night. Er, dawn. Oh,\u00a0never mind…<\/em><\/p>\n

Directed by central Illinois native and Illinois State University<\/strong> alumnus Jason Huls<\/strong> under his Ten Wing Films<\/strong> banner, LAOTLD<\/strong> (as it will probably be known in horror film circles once the flick makes festival and convention appearances) was filmed primarily in Bloomington-Normal<\/strong> and Decatur<\/strong> with a five-person crew and more than 100 actors. After an ISU premiere earlier this spring, the zombie romp returns to B-N for an encore performance at the Castle Theatre, 209 E. Washington, Bloomington, IL<\/strong>, tomorrow night, Saturday, June 9, 7 p.m.<\/strong> Admission will be\u00a0$3 with the doors opening at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

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\"LATE\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The cast and crew will be in attendance to talk about the film and drink a lot of beer. You should probably do the same,” invites Huls on the movie’s official Weblog. No wiser words spoken, my friend, except for the fact that the Castle shut down in January. Didn’t it?<\/p>\n

Further research confirms that a comedy club has taken root<\/a> inside the vintage movie house since Ben Slotky<\/strong>‘s departure (once again, see item: 1\/5\/07<\/a>) and I can’t help but draw a parallel between the Castle’s unfortunate deevolution and LAOTLD<\/strong>‘s decomposing armies who once lived full, warm-blooded lives as human beings. Naturally, it will take a “living dead” movie and its creators to reawaken the venue and remind everyone of its original purpose – if for one night only.<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LATE AFTERNOON OF THE LIVING DEAD, a brand-new horror\/comedy feature produced in downstate Illinois, will be shown on Saturday, June 9, 2007, 7 p.m., at the Castle Theatre in downtown Bloomington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}