DVD Tuesday Shocking Grindhouse Double BillIn honor of this Fridays opening of Grindhouse Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguezs loving tribute to the good old bad old days of exploitation double features this DVD Tuesday column is a double header of two films I first saw in real Times Square grindhouses David Cronenbergs They Came from Within 1975 and Guerdon Truebloods The Candy Snatchers 1973 My favorite CronenbergTimes Square story is actually about Scanners 1981 I saw it in a super-rowdy theater packed to the balcony with the kind of people you didnt ask to be quiet because odds were they were crazy or high out of their minds In fact prudence dictated avoiding eye contact being careful not to bump their seats and never ever walking in front of them they may have been carrying on as though they had no idea there was a movie playing but god help you if you blocked the screen for even an instant They talked all the way through the coming at
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