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Topic: Hell House Documentary
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Scoot-core
Punk Posts: 264
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 09-18-2002 02:43 PM
   
"Hell House" is showing this Friday and Saturday at the Apache (in Colombia Heights?).
It follows a small church's production of a religious haunted house. There was a short segment with audio clips on a recent "This American Life" that was hilarious (in a creepy way), so the film sounds awesome.More info: http://www.heightstheater.com/ http://www.hellhousemovie.com/ IP: Logged |
UnstuckGus
Punk Posts: 266
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 09-18-2002 03:44 PM
This people piss me off so much. I mean, you can't take it completely as camp or kitsch because these people are so serious about it. Sure, you can laugh at them, and it may seem stupid to someone watching the film, but if this is what these people who do Hell House every year take as truth, I can't feel totally good about laughing at it, you know? Maybe the kids are so into it because it's the one chance they have to dress up or act out or whatever, but the vitriol they spew in their little skits that show why this segment of society is going to burn in hell, etc, is pretty appalling. Fuck 'em. IP: Logged |
The Big O
Punk Posts: 379
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 09-18-2002 06:18 PM
Hey Scoot-core,Have you been following the Atomic Shock Theator people lately (I think I rememebr you saying you were going to thier events). I wopnder if they are still doing shit at the Heights? The Big O IP: Logged |
Susan The Bear
Punk Posts: 324
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 09-19-2002 02:47 AM
The Atomic Shock Theater folks have gone
all fancy and shit.
Makin' their own films, and travelling around:
http://www.carschoolfilms.com/ (used to be great fun though, huh.) IP: Logged |
nunsoup
Punk Posts: 433
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 09-19-2002 10:00 AM
is this documentary locally based? i went to a christian haunted house 2 (or 3?) years ago, somewhere in the suburbs. i don't remember what it was called. i went with a friend and her brother who was in town from chicago. his halloween costume (the BEST HALLOWEEN COSTUME EVER) was Van Halen 1984 (the album). he made up this contraption with piece of cardboard on his back. he decorated said piece of cardboard like the album, except he dressed up like the cherub. he attached a little table thing with coathangers in front of him and had the cigarettes and everything. then to top it off he had a walkman with speakers playing the album as he walked around.
needless to say, these suburban mustache-and-mullet bible thumpers did not understand his costume, and made him remove it while he was in the haunted house.
the house itself was very well done. each room had some moral theme to it (the drunk driving accident room [they were holding bottles of root beer though], the arguing parents with daughter outside committing suicide room, the drug-addled burnouts rolling around in a corner room [which totally reeked of the simpsons 'california cheeseburger' scene, sans irony]) which were incredibly detailed. i don't remember the others, probably an anti-abortion room, and maybe something about pre-marital sex. anywho, the tour ended with a room with a nice jesus doll on the wall with a spotlight announcing he was there to save us, and as we walked out there were several members of the church there to talk about what we just saw. they hardly let us get out of there.
i'd like to go to one of those again. scary on so many levels.IP: Logged |
Scoot-core
Punk Posts: 264
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 09-19-2002 03:19 PM
I went to that one too. It was called "the Nightmare", but I forget which church put it on (does it matter?). I agree that they had great "production values" and I suspect that it was built by some national christian events company or something.Being a hardened atheist, I loved it. I've got a sort of soft spot in my heart for these guys, I don't know what it is. (even though I'm politically opposed to them on every issue.) It was a bit ballsy to charge $7 to be preached at. No, literally, as you exited a guy would come up an try to convert you. The poor kid who got us didn't know what he was in for. Hey, who says a BA in philosophy isn't good for anything? [This message has been edited by Scoot-core (edited 09-19-2002).] IP: Logged |
sonitus7
Punk Posts: 128
Registered: Dec 2001
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posted 09-19-2002 09:09 PM
there actually was a HellHouse down right before Shakopee down that huge massive hill by the minnesota river. TOTAL freak out house. it's all boarded off, you could go up the driveway and the house was massiv.e supposedly it was like a religious place that burned down and a bunch of people died and then it became a mental institution and the same thing happened. the place is just freakout out beyond belief, totally torn up and all these cell like rooms destroyed. we one time went down in the basement only to find, serious now, freshly curdled blood fucking EVERYWHERE, it was real blood no shit, and dudes freaked out so we had to go. rumor has it that there were some kind of satanic teenagers killing chickens and shit in the basement. i think they may have torn it down now, but it was totally freaky. looks like a mutilated insane asylum...IP: Logged |
nunsoup
Punk Posts: 433
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 09-20-2002 11:29 AM
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Originally posted by Scoot-core:
[B]I went to that one too. It was called "the Nightmare"
B]
YES! THE NIGHTMARE! are they doing it again? if so, i'm there. i do feel a bit guilty giving $7 to fundamentalist nutjobs, but i think it's worth it in the end. IP: Logged |
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