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Mahoning Drive-In Theater - Lehighton, PA
Tonight's double feature was two of my favorite movies from the 70's.
Mahoning Drive-In Theater - Lehighton, PA
Tonight's double feature was two of my favorite movies from the 70's.
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| Photo by Sergio Valentino |
In addition to the double feature, the drive-in hosted a book pre-release. Authors Michael Gingold and Chris Poggiali were in attendance to meet fans and sign advance copies of their upcoming book Armies Of The Night.
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| Photos by Sergio Valentino |
Artist Mayra Fersner (aka: Hagcult) was also in attendance. She did the cover art for Armies Of The Night, and she had a lot of her other incredible work available in the concession building.
Michael, Chris, and Mayra signed my copy of Armies Of The Night. I also bought a poster of Mayra's excellent interpretation of the vampire comic book from The Lost Boys. If they let me bring this into the Kirby Center next year, I'm going to ask Corey Feldman if he would autograph it.
The Warriors hit the screen when the sun went down. One of these days, I'm going to have to spend some time coming up with my personal top 20 favorite movies ever made. I'm not sure where this would rank, but it would definitely be on the list. I've seen it once before on 35mm at the Mahoning when it was screened three years ago at Action Fest, and I'll come to see it again every time it's being screened anywhere within a reasonable distance.
The second half of the double feature was the screening of a beautiful 35mm print that the Mahoning owns; the 1975 Jack Hill cult classic Switchblade Sisters. I saw this movie for the first time when I rented it from Hollywood Video when I was a teenager after Quentin Tarantino re-released through Rolling Thunder Pictures. It's a hell of a movie that I'd recommend to anyone who likes Tarantino's flicks. It's easy to see why he cites it as one of his influences.
A fun piece of trivia about this film is that Robbie Lee, who stars in the film as Lacy, went on to have a career in Saturday morning cartoons in the early 80's. Her biggest role was the voice of Twink in Rainbow Brite. She was also the voice of Q*Bert in Saturday Supercade, the voice of Brian in the Mad Scientist direct-to-video cartoons based on the toy line of the same name, and had various voice acting roles in The Smurfs, Pound Puppies, and The Get Along Gang, which was a far less violent gang than the Dagger Debs.
