Texas Chainsaw Massacre - live!

ObeyGiant

Well, sort of live anyway...

Was talking to someone who's helping organise DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) this year, and he pointed this out to me:

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE WITH LIVE SCORE @ Meeting House Square
Live Score performed by Electronic Sensoria Band.
Keeping with the approaching Halloween season there will be a screening of Tobe Hooper's classic horror The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with a live score provided by the Electronic Sensoria Band.

Five bucks in.

Crash

any news on a date obeygiant?

spooky donkey

ALso where is this meeting house?

Senor_Fudge

cool idea

Crash

the meeting house square is, iirc, the place where they hold the food market in temple bar spookey.

Slane

Sounds Good. And is there a date for when this blessed event shall take place?

ObeyGiant

Oops.. thought the bit I pasted would have had the date on it.

Anyway, it's Thursday, 23rd of ROCKtober. I'm talking to a girl from DEAF to find out exactly how one gets tickets for this bad boy.

More info on http://www.deafireland.com.

ObeyGiant

It looked like such a good idea written down, shame it just didn't work.

We got lucky with the weather - a day earlier, and we would have been sitting in meeting house square, in the middle of an electrical storm, trying to watch a movie and not get blown up by nature.

Come to think of it, that would have been pretty badass. Watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre with occasional lightning flashes? Intense. Anyway.

The music itself was pretty good. The Electronic Sensoria Band did a reasonable job of putting a soundtrack to the movie, but nothing special. A lot of cymbals with a lot of 'odd' noises here and there. And giant, oppressive synth to build up tension for certain scenes. They seemed to put a lot of effort into it, hitting all their marks.

But where it was let down was with the audience. I'm a firm believer that this is not a 'group' movie, it's best experienced on your own, in the dark, with noone around you for any sort of comfort. Other movies do benefit from being a 'shared' experience - stuff like Halloween are just more 'fun' to watch with other people, because they're based around simple shocks and thrills.

This wasn't helped by the fact that almost noone in the audience had apparently seen the movie before. As a result, there was giggling during every scary bit. I can understand a certain amount of giddiness, but not during every scary bit, which absolutely ruins any bit of atmosphere the film tries to build up. For example, when Sally runs into the petrol station, and the dude comes back in with a rope and a sack. That's not funny, guys, that's FUCKED UP. Assholes.

Uh.. anyway.. it could have been a lot better.