Philadelphia ’s Trocadero Theater is the older operate on nineteenth century theater in the US . Last night , it was invade by zombi .
( from left to right : Jason Faris , George Faris , David Evans , and Karen Housman , in zombie regalia )
Monday night marked a conflux of modernistic geekage and Victorian computer architecture , as more than four hundred people read up to see the Geekadelphia / Philly Zombie Crawl / Trocadero Monday Movie Night screening of Zombieland . People came in costume , there were prizes awarded and a raffle to be conducted , there was beer ; it ’s difficult to imagine a adept way to spend a Monday night , specially if you wish snake god .
The Trocadero is a locus that much begs to be itself the set of a zombi flick : from the narrow-minded , tattling stairway up to the balcony to the Brobdingnagian chandelier and shuddery baroque grimace carved over the degree ’s proscenium wall , everything about it suggest a variety of decaying brilliance .
The place is in fantabulous shape , of course , and it ’s a beautiful place to view anything , but there ’s no denying that it ’s honest-to-goodness - a relic of another earned run average that is miraculously still around , and a staring setting for Zombieland ’s tour through cannibal - maniac - devastate America .
The folks from Geekadelphia have decorated the wall with signs illustrating the thirty - two dominion describe in Zombieland ; for the short but harrowing take the air up to the balcony , they seem less like light - hearted shout - out to the movie ’s buff , and more like actual warnings . Once we attain the balcony cake , it seems more like a veritable political party - people of all personal manner and stripe are here and drinking , and about every 10th person is covered in some kind of fake - blood - and - gore for the zombie costume competition at intermission . The doors give at seven , and the movie wo n’t take up for another hr ; no one is complaining .
I find Dan Tabor , one of the arranger from Geekadelphia , snapping pictures for the web log ( that ’s him on the right ; Matthew Bilik on the left field ) . Dan , like many Philadelphia natives , grew up with the Troc as one of the well - know live music venues in the city . It was a born selection of specify for a geek effect in Philadelphia .
“ That ’s the great thing about Geekadelphia , ” Dan say of his fellow organizers , “ is we can take these things that hoi polloi in Philadelphia have grown up with , and sort of make them our own . ”
His goal seems to be succeeding : the place is tamp . This is the 2d screening that Geekadelphia has done at the Trocadero . The first one - for the Diablo Cody - penned Jennifer ’s Body - didn’t go as well . Tabor attributes the dispute to how presently and how efficaciously they got the word out ; this time around , with the assistance of Philadelphia ’s Zombie Crawl initiative , word of the showing had go around like wildfire , a will to the societal media that has made something like this potential .
The movie start out , and the crowd is strident and drunk , begging the question as to why more pic theaters do n’t serve three - clam Pabst or ( my taste ) Yards ’ Pale Ale . No one enjoys a movie of any sort more than bibulous eccentric , and this bunch is no exception . I do n’t have much to say about the picture show itself - there are plenty ofreviewsaround - but if you have n’t see it , let ’s just say this : Romero has mined basically all there is to mine that ’s serious about the zombie assumption , leaving Zombieland to take everything absurd and hilarious about the idea , distill it into a strong cordial , and then smash up it into your face with a banjo . It is a move that scream to be watched with booster , the more and more drunken the better .
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The most startling face of the movie , however , is the irony of its principal character ( Columbus ) as a unimaginative wonk - an neurotic misfit who is painfully asocial . There ’s something strange about meet Columbus on screen and pick out him as a kindred tone , despite the fact that I ’m besiege by four hundred other people who all reckon the same matter . Well , presumably - maybe that ’s still an old - fashioned melodic theme ? Something else that ’s a picayune surprising is how young the interview here is , compared to the last eccentric person - gather I went to ( the PhilCon ) , where it was apparent that the beggarly geezerhood of attendees has been creeping slowly up .
The movie breaks after the hilarious celebrity cameo ( a cameo that must go down in history as the skilful inclusion of a fame as himself in any film , ever ) so that we can do the costume contest . Geekadelphia has weighed themselves down with schwag ; prizes are grant left and right consort to a band of criteria that is as opaque as it is irrelevant . There are copies of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies : Dawn of the Dreadfuls ( not uncommitted to the non - zombie attired populace until March ) and Wolfman t - shirts to give away . They ’ve got stacks of comic book , Daybreakers merchandise , and , inexplicably , a guitar .
The costume range from some pretty telling makeup issue like Danielle Elliot’s — who ’s been perfecting her techniques at regularly - give ear Philadelphia zombi spirit crawls — to the inexplicable .
enigma : how do you make a Dharma zombie ? Answer : you require to land a radioactive meteorite on top of some electromagnetism . IT IS YOUR DESTINY . ( Local beer expertRachel Piot , vaunt everyone ’s mind by drinking generic ) .
The audience is even noisier for the 2nd half of the flick , because we ’ve had the chance to stock back up on cheap beer during the intermission . Still , no one cares . By the end , Columbus has found his fellowship , and it ’s plain that the previous idea that geeks are socially - maladjusted outcasts needs to be put to rest for near .
Maybe it was true when we were kids . Dan Tabor agrees on that scotch . acquire up , “ you were lucky if you know three guys around your family who were into this clobber . Social medium has changed that , though . It does n’t have the boundaries that it used to . ”
or else , we can go with four hundred of our closest friend to a movie screen at an old Victorian theater where it is literally unacceptable to attend out office — bring together by our sexual love of watching zombies aim their aspect boom in .
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Philadelphia Zombie Crawlhopes to one day break the world record of zombie spirit crawl attendance .
The Trocaderodoes motion picture on Monday nights . Tickets are three dollars which get going towards the leverage of your first drink , are you jolly me ?
Chris Braak is an editor of lit & furore / ure blogThreat Quality Press , and emperor of the moon in exile . His credentials , acquisition , and accolades are too numerous to list .
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