Wednesday 22 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: hALLOWEEN
Hatchet II
Readymade for slasher junkies
Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer
Unpleasant on many levels
Bio-Dead
There’s something out there. Yawn.
Bad Dreams / Visiting Hours
Mental hospitals, regular hospitals — is no place safe?
Horror
Rod Lott
Earlier this summer, I read a book about the history of slasher movies, and kept a list as I went along of movies I've somehow managed not to see. As if by sheer coincidence, Shout! Factory plops two of them together in one "Killer Double Feature
": 1988's "Bad Dreams" and 1982's
"Visiting Hours," each on their own disc.
Killer Party
I'm dying to RSVP again.
Horror
Rod Lott
Immediately, I understood why 1986's "Killer Party" enjoys such a cult following: The unconventional slasher opens with a stereotypical flaming priest quoting "The Wizard of Oz" as he presides over a funeral. It's all a goof — part of a movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie joke.
Horror on the frontier ... kinda
If it’s October, it must be FrightFest at Frontier City.
Tower of cower
Of the Tower, the metro’s most adventurous post-punk act, builds a show aimed to blow minds and alienate the weak at heart.
Music
Charles Martin
Of The Tower with Kill The Reflection and The Secret Post
8 p.m. Saturday
VZD’S Restaurant & Club
4200 N. Western
vzds.com
524-4203
$5
Storytime, kids!
Humpty Dumpty and other “eggs-citing” characters await kids at Storybook Forest.
Do I hear a pub crawl?
Because what better, more appropriate way is there to support Norman Music Festival?
Five downtown Norman bars have teamed up to host a pub crawl benefit for Norman Music Festival Friday night. And you’re invited!
All it costs to hop from bar to bar before winding up at a show by one of Norman’s loudest, heaviest rock bands, Rainbows Are Free (pictured), is $15 before Friday ($20 the day of). The crawl starts at 9 p.m. and the show starts at 11.
Participating bars are Abner’s Ale House, Bill and Dee’s, Bison Witches, The Garage and The Blue Bonnet Bar, which also will host the show. Patrons may also redeem their tickets at the Blue Bonnet for a pub crawl finisher T-shirt, once it’s validated by all five bars.
It being Halloween, costumes are strongly encouraged. For those dressing up, there’ll be contests and prizes awarded. Proceeds go to support NMF, which is of course, a free music festival. So go drink a few beers and help keep it that way!
Photo by Kevin Pyle
by Matt Carney
10.25.2011
1 year ago
Participating bars are Abner’s Ale House, Bill and Dee’s, Bison Witches, The Garage and The Blue Bonnet Bar, which also will host the show. Patrons may also redeem their tickets at the Blue Bonnet for a pub crawl finisher T-shirt, once it’s validated by all five bars.
It being Halloween, costumes are strongly encouraged. For those dressing up, there’ll be contests and prizes awarded. Proceeds go to support NMF, which is of course, a free music festival. So go drink a few beers and help keep it that way!
Photo by Kevin Pyle
This year's Grand Marshall: THE SPYFM.COM
Halloween Parade
Gazette staff
Past grand marshals of Gazette’s Halloween Parade have included some real characters — like a couple of vampires and a Flaming Lip — but for the first time, that honor goes not to a person, but an intangible thing.
