Silent Movie Theatre
611 N. Fairfax Avenue,
Los Angeles,
CA
90036
611 N. Fairfax Avenue,
Los Angeles,
CA
90036
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This silent movie shrine was built in 1942, when silents seemed like ancient relics to the masses.
Though it has gone through hard times over the years, including having to close its doors for a few years (due to the infamous murder of the owner in 1996), it has never ceased to pay homage to the films that built the entertainment capital of the world.
With the switch to its current owner, it was completely renovated, and now beautifully captures the look of old time movie theaters.
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OK, I guess the name stays the same. Easier to find it under Silent Theater anyway.
The Related Websites link still works and shows the same information as the link that you posted.
Intersting concept.
2010 photo of the Silent Movie Theatre.
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Exterior photo of the Silent Movie Theatre.
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Auditorium
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Thanks Chuck1231.
Back in 1959, William Castle used the Silent Movie Theatre to film one of the more crucial segments of
The Tingler"
in October of 2010, William Castles’s films will play at the Silent Movie Theatre on Saturday nights.
it kicks off 10/2 with 13 Ghosts and wraps up on Halloween night with “The Tingler”
I had the great pleasure of attending the screenings at the Film Forum in NYC and had a blast. If you have the chance, you owe it to yourself to experience Emerg-0, Percept-o, Illusion-O, vote in the Punishment Poll and well sitting in the Coward’s Corner is on you.
Tickets are now on sale, you’ll need to scroll down to get the information. Get tickets early. The Film Forum sold out.
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to give this thread another bump and also get this theatre packed in tribute to the “king of ballyhoo” William Castle
Here’s the link (updated to take you directly to the Castle films)
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William Castle’s daughter will be in attendance on Halloween for the Tingler/House on Haunted Hill.
Any “reports” last night from 13 Ghosts?
Ghosts seen with or without viewers?
stale cigar smoke wafting through the theatre?
Great press release about the screenings at the Silent Movie Theatre of the William Castle films, direct from
www.williamcastle.com
I apologize in advance if actually giving out information about an upcoming film series at a particular theatre and not drivel is acceptable for this fine site.
“FROM THE GRAVE: A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE “MASTER OF THE MACABRE†WILLIAM CASTLE
“Yes, I am fully aware that I died in 1977. But you didn’t think a little thing like rigor-mortis would prevent me from attending the upcomingWilliam Castle’s Shockers retrospective in Los Angeles did you? Of course you didn’t.
William Castle’s Shockers, presented by the very undead folks from Cinefamily at Hollywood’s iconic Silent Movie Theatre, has been running Saturday nights in October. But, of course, there’s also a Halloween double feature on Sunday night, October 31st.
I’m looking forward to seeing my daughter Terry there that evening – we’ve been having a little trouble connecting these past few years. (She always loved my story about coming up with the idea for The Tinglerwhile standing in line outside … The Silent Movie Theatre!) Terry’s got a few tricks of her own up her pretty sleeves. It’s in the genes.
Maybe I’ll see you there too.
You know, getting ready for Halloween was always one of my favorite things when I was alive. Still is. This year I decided to write a horror novel … with a little help from 30 writer friends. I wrote Chapter One ofScare It Forward and posted it on October 1. Every day this frightful month one of my friends is posting a new, sequential chapter. The final chapter, 31, will be posted on Halloween night. I guarantee it will scare a corpse out of his own grave.
If you dare, you can read each day’s installment of Scare It Forward at http://williamcastle.com/blog/scare-it-forward/
I made over forty B movies following a formula for box office success: low-budget chillers geared to the burgeoning boomers. The Tingler, House on Haunted Hill, Thirteen Ghosts, Macabre, Strait-Jacket (scripted by Psycho’s Robert Bloch), and Homicidal â€" which TIME magazine liked better than Psycho.
But some called me a master of ballyhoo who shamelessly promoted his pictures with gimmicks like The Coward’s Corner and Percepto seat buzzers.
Gimmicks!! What utter nonsense."
To read the latest messages from, leave a message for, or buy William Castle’s recently re-released autobiography, Step Right Up! I’m Gonna Scare the Pants Off America:
http://www.williamcastle.com