Zombie Porn
I give you LA Zombie by Bruce Labruce.
Hrm…seems our new friend has only one post, so we know what he came for. BdoMcGrego, bless his heart, came in, woke up this slumbering zombie in the middle of the night, made his deposit and left.
And what a deposit it was eh!
Where was this theater? I only ask because I was aware of a couple in Tulsa in the early 80s. Sand Springs had the Capri Drive In, which was a drive-in Porn theater. I went there a few times with girlfriend, and a bunch of beer drinking buddies (um never at the same time).
Our paper used to run the ads but most titles were unacceptable; they’d just say “Call for title.” When I was young and naive I’d think maybe they hadn’t gotten the film in before the ad deadline so they didn’t know what they were going to show. Actually, in some cases I suppose that could have been true. Theatres are gone now anyway.
A friend of mine managed such a place in the 70s.
After they closed one night (like 2AM or so), a bunch of us went there for a party. It was great, we watched Deep Throat, and as a precursor to Mystery Science Theater 3000, we made a running commentary to the movie.
Pretty hysterical way to watch such stuff. We brought liquor too. Most fun I have ever had watching a movie.
The Olde Tyme Cinema, at, if memory serves, 31st and Harvard.
Yep. In the bad old days of White rule (well, up to '90 or so), *all *pornography was banned in South Africa (non-racehorse gambling, too). But it was legal in some of the “homelands” - specifically, Bophuthatswana, which was where Sun City was located. Sun City had an X-rated theatre. So when we visited Sun City as bright-eyed uni students far from home, of course we went to see a movie in theatre.
Tuned out to be the Traci Lords flick “It’s My Body”, which would probably get you done for kiddie porn in the US. Lucky us.
In college (late 80’s) there was a circular building on campus that was divided into three wedges, each of which was a pie-shaped lecture hall seating about 400 people. Every so often on a Saturday night one of them would double as a porn theatre- I remember watching Caligula there with some friends (male and female). No hanky panky in the place as far as I could tell, but I’m sure there was plenty of action back at the dorms after it ended. It was weird sitting in Psyche 201 on Monday morning in the same lecture hall & remembering what was going on on the screen in the front of the room a couple nights before.
When I attended Northern Illinois University from '81-'84, a couple of times a semester they would actually show porn movies in the auditorium at the Student Center. I remember seeing Deep Throat and Insatiable there, and some other lesser-known titles, all with a group of dorm buddies. As far as I know, nobody jerked it during the movies, but as I recall everybody kind of disappeared into their rooms for a while afterward. I’m going to go ahead and take a flying guess that schools don’t show porn on campus anymore.
There was also a second-run theater near campus that would have porn showing every now and then, but not as rule. I went to a couple of those, but they were always edited versions with all the actual penetration expunged.
ETA – Got distracted and didn’t see corkboard’s post covering some of the same points. Yeah, it was kind of a weird situation looking back.
We had a local drive in that showed porn up until around 1984. It was right on a main road too. They had bright lights that blocked the view of the screen from the road.