It often goes without saying that a passion project is less than likely to be a commercially viable venture. Joe Dante, known best for the likes of Gremlins and The Howling, has of course done plenty of genre mash-ups that are pretty eccentric. But this is something a little different; a story about the experience of movie going itself. It's set during very specific era of his childhood, and the result is a nostalgic look into the past where double features played against news reels about the Cold War. It's also a story about escapism and the lure of watching a creature feature at a time when the threat of real life catastrophes was all too plausible.
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