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Alpine
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zz ward
2:00
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Nico Vega
Same Sex Mary
Room 8
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Ekoh 3:05-3:45
3:15-4:00
Eric Sharp
Dawes Human Life Andrew McMahon 4:30-5:20
Youngblood Hawke
Capital Cities
Earl Sweatshirt
5:55-6:45
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Tink
Ricky Reed
Moon Boots
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Treasure Fingers 8:00-9:00
Beck 8:30-9:40
4:20-5:25
the dig
hubert keller
tony horton
5:25-5:55
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5:30-6:15 with rock photographer robert knight 6:15-7:00
the buried life 6:15-7:15
cat cora
Cults 7:45-8:30
3:50-4:20
grant macpherson 7:00
A crowd of small adventures 7:25-7:55
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Purity Ring 7:20-8:10
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Shalvoy Music
jet tila
with ben mckee of imagine dragons 4:45-5:30
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Crazy Chief Children of the night
Imagine Dragons
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of Wallpaper. 6:00-7:00
cirque du soleil panel
4:00-4:45 4:40-5:10
5:00-6:00
5:10-6:00
jonathan waxman Beau Hodges Band
6:00
dj zo 3:00-3:50
dreamers
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4:00-5:00
zz Ward
Knocked up Kids 2:30-3:00
3:15-4:00
4:00-4:30
4:30-5:10
Alabama Shakes
2:30-3:15
Todd english
3:20-3:50
RNR
3:45-4:30
5:00
Goldboot
3:00-4:00
dj zo 1:40-2:30
aarón sánchez
3:00
2:45-3:15
Cayucas
mary sue milliken & susan feniger 1:45-2:30
2:05-2:35
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Poolside 4:00
1:05-1:35
Wallpaper.
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Turner
Sean Glass
1:00-1:40
with youngblood hawke 7:00-7:45
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rick moonen
“13 most beautiful” Songs for andy warhol’s Screen tests 7:45-8:50
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Chancellor Warhol 8:10-8:40
Rusty Maples
Childish Gambino
jason tuley
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Pig & Wiskey Hosted by: Kim Canteenwalla & Sven Mede Drinks by: Marcel Vigneron Location: The Flame Steakhouse
Poolside 9:00-10:00
Portugal. the man
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Joey Bada$$
9:40-10:25
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5:00-8:00
Rhyolite Flight 12:00-3:00
Tickets available at the box officE
Aurora Flight
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Kings of Leon
Pretty Lights
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Amaro & Amare Hosted by: Richard Camarota & Megan Romano Drinks by: Michael Shetler Location: EAT
10:30-11:40 Tickets available at the box officE
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Berkshire Grand Pix Hosted by: Nicole Brisson & Jason Neve Drinks by: Kirk Peterson Location: Park on Fremont
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five knives living colour 2:00
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the dirty hooks
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robert delong 2:10-2:50
Doc Hollywood
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cc sheffield twenty one pilots 3:40-4:30
kerry simon
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michael jackson one
donald link 1:45-2:30
dusty sunshine
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allen stone 2:50-3:35
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haleamano
Jean Raw
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charli xcx 3:00
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cosmic suckerpunch
american cream
elias cairo & josh graves
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jordan kate mitchell
haim
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3:15-4:00 bruce & eric bromberg with vernon reid of living colour 4:00-4:45
sean glass 4:00-5:00
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jurassic 5
moondog matinee 4:30-5:00
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janelle monáe 5:05-5:55
most thieves
baio danny brown 5:25-6:05
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wildcat! wildcat!
Big Gigantic 8:50-9:35
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the killers 9:40-11:10
empire of the sun 9:50-10:50
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8:00 joey pero & his band
bob moses
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with greg ehrlich of allen stone 7:00-7:45
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smith westerns 9:05-9:45
kid meets cougar
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Belmont Flight 12:00-3:00 Candelaria Flight
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ufc fighters forrest griffin, miesha tate, & pat berry 6:00-7:00
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robert delong 7:00-8:00
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vampire weekend
5:30-6:15
carla pellegrino
sabriel
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tony hsieh
4:45-5:45
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The joy formidable
4:50-5:05
steve martorano with nico vega
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the kingston springs
codes
passion pit
dj 88 3:20-4:50
rock of ages
scott conant
with zz ward 4:45-5:30
5:10-5:40
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dj supra 2:00-3:20
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Tickets available at the box officE Patrons must pick up their wristbands at the box office before 4pm on day of event
Rare & Rosso Hosted by: Jonathan Waxman & Nancy Silverton Location: EAT Tongue & Cheek Hosted by: Rick Moonen & Gerald Chin Drinks by: Marcel Vigneron Location: Le Thai Bones & Bews Hosted by: Iron Chef Cat Cora & Jason Tuley Location: Park on Fremont
The glorious schedule
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Oct. 31 Las Vegas Halloween Parade (TheLasVegasHalloweenParade.com) Nov. 2 Cards for Kids Under the Stars to benefit Children’s Heart Foundation (CardsforKidsUndertheStars.com)
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October 24–30, 2013
Lake Las Vegas turned back the clock on Oct. 19 as the setting for Shakespeare in the Park’s final installment of the season. Before the main farce, students from Coronado High School entertained the crowd of about 2,000 with a traditional Green Show. Afterward, Henderson Councilwoman Gerri Schroder introduced the Las Vegas Shakespeare Company’s (LVSC) production of the Bard’s The Comedy of Errors. The show was free for all, but donations collected will benefit LVSC workshops at local high schools and the Clark County School District’s School-Community Partnership program.
Gastro Fare. Nurtured Ales. Jukebox Gold.
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October 24–30, 2013
Once Upon a Midnight Dreary A lady and her ravens. Karen Cornejo custom costume, KarenCornejo. com. Model: Chelsea Crews
HOW TO GET THE LOOK
1. Apply a skin tone cream foundation on exposed skin (face, neck, body). Follow with powder. 2. Insert “blank” colored contact lenses. 3. Glue on false fashion lashes and apply beauty makeup as desired. 4. Mix glitter with a glitter adhesive and apply to lips using a brush, creating blood drips from the hairline. 5. Using liquid latex or face
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paint, draw on gloves.
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Welcome to the Doll House A twisted collision of youth and horror serve as the playground for this doll. Fetisso latex gloves, latex boy shorts and latex bra, FetissoLatex.com. Ellie shoes, EllieShoes. com. Karen Cornejo latex skirt and capelet, KarenCornejo.com. Model: Sierra Sapunar
HOW TO GET THE LOOK
1. Use a pre-made prosthetic “cracked” piece and apply with prosthetic adhesive or latex. Glue onto a clean face. 2. Apply white cream makeup over face and neck with a disposable sponge followed by translucent loose powder. 3. Using pink lipstick and lip liner, draw a small lip shape and fill in. 4. Apply black eye shadow into cracks with a small brush as well as around the eyes. Follow by drawing stitches around the eyes. 5. Glue on false lashes—the
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A Monster and His Muse Bear traps line the floor of this gruesome dining room. Her: RuBen Permel custom ballet dress, KarenCornejo.com. Jenny Leigh DuPuis custom ballet shoes. Him: Karen Cornejo custom costume, KarenCornejo.com. Models: Amber Voss and Michael Tushaus.
HOW TO GET THE LOOK
Ballerina 1. Apply a skin tone or slightly lighter colored cream foundation on exposed skin (face, neck, body). Follow with powder. 2. Insert red colored contact lenses. 3. Glue on false fashion lashes and apply beauty makeup as desired. 4. Use a prosthetic adhesive to attach sewing “hooks” onto face. 5. Affix lace or netting onto hooks and pin into hair if needed. The Monster 1. Use a pre-made prosthetic mask and apply on clean skin with prosthetic adhesive or latex. 2. With a disposable sponge, smooth a skin-tone cream on the face and neck. Follow with translucent powder. 3. Fill in the outline of the mask and around eyes with a burgundy or maroon color eye pencil to create depth. 4. Add fake-blood where desired. 5. Insert false teeth.
Tease Hollywood makeup artist, Brittney D’Anelli will be at Tease Boutique Salon on Oct. 30-31 to help customers amp up their looks. Spaces are limited. Prices start at $100. 9540 W. Flamingo Rd., 702489-4000, TeaseRocks.com
Era by Ciara From Oct. 24-31, the cosmetic boutique in the Market LV at Tivoli Village offers a Halloween special including a theatrical-grade makeup session for $50. 420 S. Rampart Blvd., 702-715-2013, EraByCiara.com
COLOR Salon by Michael Boychuck This salon at Caesars Palace offers its Spooktacular Beauty Package for $185 from Oct. 25-31. Guests will be transformed with makeup, lash application, hairstyling, a nail buff and polish change. In Caesars Palace, 702-7317880, CaesarsPalace.com
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October 24–30, 2013
DON’T HAVE TIME TO DO IT YOURSELF? CHECK OUT THESE MAKEUP EXPERTS OFFERING HALLOWEEN PACKAGES
The high priest of low-end will make the earthlings move at Surrender
October 24–30, 2013
By George Peele
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LORIN ASHTON WAS in sixth grade when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake hit his hometown of San Francisco. He was riding shotgun with his mother when they heard the Godsynthesized sub-bass. The car bounced. Trees appeared to sway and melt. His mom screamed. Ashton remembers thinking to himself, “Wow ... this is power.” “I was emotionally seized by the pure force of that low frequency. I didn’t understand or rationalize it at the time, but that was the frst time I remember feeling terrifed and overwhelmed by a
natural power much greater than myself. And much more in control.” It quite literally rocked his world. “Humans were tossed aside like leaves,” remembers Ashton. “Roads bent in impossible ways, and trees and houses distorted. I sensed immense fear and vulnerability. It wasn’t so much the destructive power I liked, it was the raw power.” That theme has stayed with him “in every form of music that’s caught me, whether it was NWA or Ice Cube, Nirvana or Metallica, death metal or rave music. It was always the heaviness, that rawness that
crossed over the edge. It was potentially dangerous, yet all-powerful—when you can measure sound in terms of weight, not volume.” An award-hoarding screenwriter couldn’t have conjured a better backstory for the man who now moves thousands of earthlings regularly as Bassnectar. Twentyfve crewmembers and two semitrucks crammed with gear follow the longhaired Surrender resident around the continent, manifesting his tectonic sonic vision. “I have high fucking standards,” he says.
Witnessing Ashton choreograph bassheads into a hand-swatting, head-banging throng as he thrashes about behind his laptop is a sight to behold. “I stretch almost every night before I go on. I learned exercises from Slayer’s ex-monitor engineer. We were playing Memphis. He showed me what they did [to warm up]. Those dudes
Will Bassnectar DJ in his birthday suit or a hooded cloak? “I need something I’m able to lose my mind in,” he says. See for yourself Oct. 31 at Surrender. Tickets available at WynnSocial.com.
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NIGHTLIFE
The Quake That Changed Bassnectar
have been windmilling and whiplashing for 25 years. I learned from the best.” Performing electronic music with the physicality of a metal shredder certainly sets Ashton apart from his Jesusposing peers. His eclectic taste is another quintessential facet of his allure. Ashton has reimagined everyone from Primus and the Pixies to Ellie Goulding and Fever Ray. A mammoth digital library is at his fngertips at any given moment. “I run a program called Ableton Live, which allows me to play any and every song, loop or sample in any combination—from any start point. And to layer it all in an improvisational and limitless grid. I have this new technology called the Ultimate Nerd Server. It has a video clip synched to every single sound or song in my arsenal. That’s all triggered by me and layered real-time. It is literally immersive.” Each performance is a mindaltering experiment in fresh fusions, an electric Kool-Aid acid test fueled by aural ambrosia instead of LSD-laced sugar water. Despite Ashton’s colossal appeal, there are those who don’t initially think of Las Vegas as a natural fit for a yearlong Bassnectar residency, including Ashton. “I’m an unusual DJ for Vegas,” he says. “I don’t play stereotypical dance music. I don’t even usually go to clubs. I don’t abide by a dress code. Yet, I love humans, and I love approaching music as an art form. Surrender gets so packed that it feels like an old party from 2001. I actually get more creative and have more fun than I would at a normal Bassnectar show. Does it feel like a casino? It feels like a madhouse.” Ashton plays his fnal 2013 residency appearance October 31 at Surrender’s masqueradethemed party. “And there’s no dress code because it’s Halloween. It’s the frst time I’ve ever thrown a true masquerade. Think Eyes Wide Shut.”
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PHOTOS BY DANNY MAHONEY
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Oct. 25 Bobby French spins Oct. 26 Jessica Who spins Oct. 31 Heroween 2 with DJ Konflict
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PHOTOS BY AMIT ADADLANEY AND TOBY ACUNA
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Oct. 25 Sebastian Ingrosso spins Oct. 26 Nicky Romero spins Oct. 30 Alesso spins
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Oct. 24 Work Hard, Play Hard Thursdays Oct. 26 Back 2 the Future Oct. 31 Zombie Prom
DINING
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MixMyOwn.com lets you build your own muesli, and delivers it right to your door By Jen Chase
October 24–30, 2013
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it granola. You may think it looks like granola, and that it even tastes like it. But Klara Charvatova and David Filipi hope that once you get the swing of perusing and choosing from the more than 100 ingredients at MixMyOwn. com, customizing your own blend of muesli will keep you from ever making that cereal faux pas again. “People [in Europe] know there’s sugar in granola, that it’s made differently,” explains Filipi, a 31-year-old former
software developer who in April 2012 moved to Las Vegas from the Czech Republic with his business partner and fancé Klara Charvatova. In Europe, several companies promote mail-order muesli online, he says. And while the couple was inspired by DIY muesli’s success back home, Charvatova (which sounds like “car-VAH-toe-vah”) says she and her love are now “trying to do it our own way” on Western soil, catering to America’s bounty of specialtyfoods consumers.
Hot or cold, mixed with yogurt, dairy or nut milks (and sometimes even baked), muesli is a European breakfast staple, a raw, unsweetened mishmosh of dried fruits and grains, but mostly oats. Swiss doctor Maximillian Bircher-Benner invented muesli about 1900 as part of a raw, clean-eating diet to help heal his patients of what ailed them. Launched in July, MixMyOwn.com’s concept is simple: Within minutes of landing on the site you can be selecting components such as puffed rice, oat fakes, raisins, apricots, cacao nibs and hemp—variety for even the pickiest eater. Cinnamon powder and the whole vanilla bean are two of the most popular ingredients, along with chia seeds, matcha, quinoa puffs and
fakes, açaí powder and all 13 freeze-dried fruits, especially berries. But with 100 ingredients from which to choose, there are close to a million possible combinations! Doing it “their own way” has meant Charvatova and Filipi ensure for health-conscious Americans that MixMyOwn. com’s ingredients are organic, not genetically modifed, have no added sugars or preservatives, and are healthy … with the possible exception of the bitty marshmallows you can add. Nutritional labels give all the necessary information, and cost can be controlled by adding or subtracting ingredients as you go along (a 1-pound bag might run you $10-$20, depending on your taste). And if all of this sounds like way too much like work, there
are a variety of premade mixes: One is gluten free, and future plans include adapting a mix for Paleo diet followers, which Filipi and Charvatova have noticed is popular in the U.S. Although the couple’s plan was to launch the business in California, Nevada’s tax structure for startups (i.e., there is none) made Nevada a nobrainer. And after a decade of vacationing here and loving it, they’re far from disappointed to be creating one of the city’s newest exports. However, there is just one little occupational hazard to packing and shipping in the desert. So if you had your heart set on lacing your breakfast cereal with some rich, chocolate chips, you might have to stick to Cocoa Puffs. They just can’t take the heat.
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Bespoke Breakfast
Building a batch of MixMyOwn muesli begins with one of nine different bases. Vegas Seven’s custom cereal started with a five-grain blend of raw, high-fiber oats, whole wheat, rye, barley and triticale, as well as flaxseed. We added goji, mulberries and cranberries for energy; chia seeds for extra protein; walnuts for omegas; and cacao nibs for crunch and, well, for fun!
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POP CULTURE
Bet on (Blood) Red
Foreclosed zombie houses aside, can Las Vegas fnd a home in horror?
October 24–30, 2013
By Jason Scavone
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OH, WE’LL DO comedies for days. Heist movies? Obviously. Where else are you going to rob casinos—Atlantic City? We’ll even dabble in your Oscar-baity miserablist drama occasionally. But when it comes time to roll up the sleeves and get down to the gritty business of disembowelment, Las Vegas is notably lacking from the horror landscape. We’ve only had one recent major horror movie set here: 2011’s Fright Night remake. The less said about apocalyptic SyFy original Blast Vegas the better, and Hostel III—about a bachelor party gone bloody—was a direct-to-DVD dead-horse franchise beater. Yet we’re a town willing to fully embrace terror-based attractions such as the Las Vegas Zombie Run, Fright Dome, the Freakling Brothers haunted houses, Evil Dead: The Musical and regular Jay Leno bookings. But is Las Vegas really a good ft for horror? There’s nothing inherently spooky here. No crumbling, Victorian mansions, no century-old cemeteries, precious few abandoned mental asylums where mad scientists conduct experiments best left unspoken. If a shambling, reanimated monster that’s an affront to God Himself started terrorizing Summerlin, I’m not even sure you could rally more than a dozen pitchforkwielding villagers. Still. What casts a darker shadow than the brightest light of the Luxor? There’s a natural juxtaposition in Vegas-based chillers that would ft well with, say, Rob Zombie’s trash-horror sensibilities. The Jenna Jameson vehicle Zombie Strippers at least taps in to the spirit of that aesthetic, even if it was set in Nebraska. It’s workable. More than workable, if you think the horror fan is driven
by the same thrill-seeking impetus that fuels half of our cultural institutions. Maybe it just takes time. Horror deals in the eternal— the deathless zombie, the ageless vampire, the … timelessly moistened … creatures from various black lagoons. Which is something we’re on short supply of (both longevity and moisture, really). If the departure of Goretorium taught us anything, it’s that we’re not exactly ready to support horror year-round (though a 365-day haunted house is, admittedly, a tough nut to crack). But aside from the 2009 Fangoria Trinity of Terrors, we aren’t even getting much in the way of horror conventions, despite Las Vegas’ role as a go-to destination for cons great and small. Most of that action is in the Midwest and on the East Coast. What may not thrive as big headlining pieces can always fnd a home in niche, lowbudget entertainment. For the last 10 years, there’s been The Midnight Massacre Theatre, a
Haunted Vegas: (clockwise from top) The Sinister Minister with his Altar Girls, Hostel III and Fright Night.
cleavage pushed up to their chin,” he says. “Me being a native of Vegas, that’s just how I think. I wanted something eye-appealing like Elvira. So I took two girls.”
phenomenon is at its best when it wallows in the public access ghetto. That’s when it gets delightfully weird, regionally specific and where it serves as a bellwether for
WHAT CASTS A DARKER SHADOW THAN THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT OF THE LUXOR? THERE’S A NATURAL JUXTAPOSITION IN VEGAS-BASED CHILLERS THAT WOULD FIT WELL WITH, SAY, ROB ZOMBIE’S TRASH-HORROR SENSIBILITIES. good old-fashioned late-night creature feature hosted by The Sinister Minister. Sean L. Smith plays the Minister— a gruff-voiced wiseass who dresses like the devil-worshippingest member of KISS. He’s accompanied, movie to movie and location to location, by his Altar Girls, a pair of Gothedup, corseted ladies. Because Las Vegas. “My character fts Vegas well because of the adult-theme humor, and the girls with the
There’s a grand tradition of horror hosts, going all the way back to Vampira in the 1950s. They’re the late-night kings and queens of the basic cable interstitial, popping up at opportune moments with a well-placed eye roll that undercuts the sometimes grisly, frequently corny fare they can get their hands on. The horror host holds your hand through the haunted house. While Elvira stands alone as the titan of the field, the
the health of the genre. Like most horror hosts, Smith combs the ranks of public domain films to give them the Mystery Science Theater treatment. His show goes further than other regional hosts are often willing to do, trading in ’70s Eurosleaze flicks and the like. After a couple of years of Halloween one-offs, Smith started doing regular Midnight Massacre shows in 2005. He bounced around
networks, even picking up some national distribution in 40 markets in 14 states until landing on KTUD, Vegas TV, six months ago. Which was unfortunate, given that KTUD shut down on October 10, just a few weeks before Halloween. Still, Smith said he’ll fnd another outlet for the show, and KCLV Channel 2 will air an episode on Halloween night. In the past, he’d done a live event at Underworld—now the recently renovated-by-Bar Rescue zombie apocalypse-themed The End. He’d intended on doing another one this year until the Vegas TV departure. There’s a natural marriage there—classic horror staple paired with au courant boozy manifestation of our zombie Renaissance. If we’re not going to get a regular infusion of high-profile horror treats, the least we can have are a couple of torch-bearers. You might need to borrow one when we all go chase the Summerlin Frankenstein.
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Held-back Horror This Carrie re-make is almost too tasteful for its own good By Michael Phillips Tribune Media Services
With her wide-eyed glare of grave intensity, the actress Chloë Grace Moretz appears destined for her share of artfully crafted, slightly unnecessary horror remakes. She starred in Let Me In, the American version of the terrifc Swedish vampire picture Let the Right One In. And now she takes on director Kimberly Peirce’s remake of Carrie, a work of smooth confdence and a humane, dimensionally human brand of horror. You’d expect this from Peirce, who made Boys Don’t Cry, among others. The director puts Moretz in the sad, ferce role of Carrie White, the put-upon telekinetic high school student introduced in the 1974 Stephen King novel. Carrie’s psychotically fundamentalist mother, played in the new flm by Julianne Moore, goes beyond the usual notions of “helicopter” parenting, and makes the concept of Bible-thumping literal. Moore seizes the day without going crazy with excess; like the rest of the flm, her portrayal takes care
to humanize the demonic cruelty onscreen. Those with little or no personal relationship to the 1976 Brian De Palma-directed Carrie will find themselves in a different situation than I am on this one. I admit it. If I didn’t love Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie quite so madly in that movie—a film representing drive-in schlock elevated to Himalayan heights, with two of the great 1970s performances leading the way—I might’ve fallen further into the world of the remake. With all movies, really, we bring the baggage we bring. Some things are different, others are the same. Peirce delivers none of the voyeuristic nudity of the ’76 edition. Even with the various killings in the prom-night climax, when Carrie, slathered in pig’s blood poured by her enemies, takes revenge, Peirce stages and shoots the action tastefully by R-rated horror standards. Even this remake’s arresting prologue, depicting the bloody birth
Chloë Grace Moretz makes pigs blood look good.
of Carrie into the conficted, scissors-wielding hands of her unstable mother, has an air of restraint. The director, in other words, isn’t an showboater or a sadist or a combination of the two, the way De Palma was behind the camera in the first Carrie movie, or the way Steven Spielberg tortured audiences with élan in
that other ’70s black-comic thriller classic, Jaws. The question is: Is tasteful better with this material? In its story contours the screenplay credited to Lawrence D. Cohen and Roberto AguirreSacasa (Cohen wrote the ’76 version) hits its marks. It stays faithful to King and (relatively) to the De Palma flm and gets the job done in
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The Fifth Estate (R) ★★✩✩✩
Try as they might, filmmakers just continue to have a tough time dramatizing the Internet. This tale about the formation of WikiLeaks and its mysterious founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) doesn’t quite achieve the quality of The Social Network. Much of the picture is a clash between new-school hot dog Assange and old-school journalistic types, embodied by The Guardian and The New York Times. Cumberbatch is good but just doesn’t have a whole lot to work with here.
Captain Phillips (PG-13) ★★★✩✩
Director Paul Greengrass brings us this docudrama about the famous incident in 2009 when a U.S. Merchant Marine commander (Tom Hanks) encounters a gang of Somali pirates. Knowing what dangers they were in sailing through those waters, Capt. Phillips winds up on a lifeboat with his captors, on dwindling rations, waiting for the Navy SEALs to resolve a highly pressurized situation. This is all Greengrass action and Hanks, and the result is pretty entertaining. Sure to be remembered come awards season.
Machete Kills (R) ★★✩✩✩
The latest grindhouse sequel from director Robert Rodriguez is, well, a played-up joke. Danny Trejo returns as the avenging, hacking and cutting Mexican known as Machete. He’s got catchphrases galore: “Machete don’t smoke”; “Machete don’t joke”; etc. He survives a hanging, battles with a drug lord (Demian Bichir), and an assassin named “El Cameleón” played by Cuba Gooding Jr., Antonio Banderas and Lady Gaga. There are cameos and violence galore, very little of it truly amusing, as it’s meant to be. And there are trailers for yet another film that hopefully does not get made.
workmanlike fashion. The acting’s strong; in addition to Moretz and Moore, Judy Greer is a welcome presence in the Betty Buckley role of the sympathetic gym instructor. But something’s missing from this well-made venture. What’s there is more than respectable, while staying this side of surprising. Carrie (R) ★★★✩✩
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Runner Runner (R) ★★✩✩✩
In this thrill-free thriller, we meet Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake), a Wall Street dropout who’s trying to hustle his way through grad school at Princeton through online gambling. Turns out, he gets cheated, and after some digging, he heads to Costa Rica to confront the online gaming kingpin, Ivan Block (Ben Affleck). Ivan likes his moxie, and next thing you know, Richie’s his right-hand man, crunching numbers, recruiting “affiliates” and making eyes at the boss’ babe (Gemma Arterton). This is a bad film, and not what we expect of its stars.
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