Silver Scream

Tonight Anna, Amanda and I went to the Plaza Theatre to see the once-a-month Silver Scream Spook Show. If you have never been to one of these, well, you are missing out my friend.

It's a very fun time; kind of a "ghouls, girls and gags" event with a cheesy old time movie at the end. The skits deal with the main characters Professor Morte, his assistant Retch, Professor Morte's lovely spokesmodel Pandora, her young protege Persephone, and a gang of male and female dancers from Blast-Off Burlesque. Their show is always interrupted by Dr. Wetham, who continuously fights a losing battle to get the Show shut down.

The skits usually have some reference to the movie: tonight, the film was "It Came from Beneath the Sea," and there were tentacles all over the stage at one point, dragging away Dr. Wertham.

After that, they then auctioned off some memorbilia, and it was time to settle down and watch the film.

"It Came from Beneath the Sea," is most notable for its' six-tentacled octopus, created by special-effects creator Ray Harryhausen (The budget only allowed for six, but you really wouldn't notice them missing). The plot is pretty standard; creature from the depths of the sea attacking through some radiation thing, blah blah blah. Like a lot of scripts written on the quick, there are a lot of lines that are (probably) unintentionally funny, and lots of things going boom.

Below are some links to the Silver Scream, Blast-Off Burlesque, and the Plaza theatre. Next month is "The Creeping Demon." You can bet I'll be in line for that.

http://www.plazaatlanta.com/

http://silverscreamspookshow.com/HOME.html

http://profile.myspace.com/silverscreamspookshow

http://www.myspace.com/blastoffburlesque