For the Folks at the Trash Film Orgy, Season Draws to a Close

With the summer slowly winding down, midnight movies at the Crest Theatre are coming to a close, too. The zookeepers at the Trash Film Orgy film festival still have two Saturday night events before the end of this summer’s 11th festival season.

“ Werewolves on Wheels ,” probably the only biker-werewolf film ever made, will see its midnight screening this Saturday. The film can best be described as the love child between “Easy Rider” and “Rosemary’s Baby,” with some early reality film thrown in for good measure. It stars “Bud” Anderson and Barry “Eve of Destruction” McGuire.

If bikers who become blood-thirsty werewolves isn’t your bag, how about wrestling? Especially the luchadors in “ Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters. ” Santo is a product of the Mexican wrestling industry and has made dozens of films over his career, which spanned from the 1950s to the early 1980s. “Santo” will be presented in Spanish with English subtitles.

Earlier films this season included “Return of the Living Dead,” “Humanoids from the Deep,” “Heavy Metal” and “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Each night's screening includes fun and games in the Crest's lobby, live stage shows before each film and a fun, bizarre mix of video clips and trailers leading up to the night's feature presentation.

Attendees are encouraged to heckle the movie, à la “Mystery Science Theater 3000” or “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” They receive a discounted admission if they dress up in an appropriately themed costume.

The final two installments of the Trash Film Orgy’s summer season are this Saturday and Aug. 13, with doors opening at 11 p.m. at the Crest Theatre.

Music Gates: Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction

McGuire mentioned that "Eve of Destruction" was recorded in one take on a Thursday morning (from words scrawled on a crumpled piece of paper), and he got a call from the record company at 7:00 the following Monday morning, telling him to turn on the radio - his song was playing. The recording includes an "ahhh" where McGuire couldn't read the words. In the first week of its release, the single was at number 103 on the Billboard charts. By August 12, Dunhill released the LP, Nick Featuring Eve of Destruction. The LP reached its peak of number thirty-seven on the Billboard album chart during the week ending September 25. That same day the single went to number one on the chart, and repeated the feat on the Cashbox chart, where it had debuted at number thirty. McGuire was never again to break into the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100. It went to number one in Norway for two weeks. Barry McGuire updated the lyrics when he performed at a reunion of folksingers, with the line "Selma, Alabama", replaced by the words "Columbine, Colorado", referring to the student massacre of 1999. On March 12, 2008, McGuire appeared on the Australian music comedy/game show Spicks and Specks, performing an updated version of "Eve of Destruction", with new lines such as "You're old enough to kill/ you just started voting" and "...can live for ten years in space". The reference to "Red China" was also removed. Barry McGuire (born 15 October 1935) became a born-again Christian in 1971 and as a result renounced the song for many years, refusing to perform it. Though he is now known primarily as a singer of contemporary Christian songs, McGuire has continued to sing "Eve Of Destruction" in recent years, often updating the lyrics to refer to such events as the Columbine High School massacre.

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