Matinee (Blu-ray) PG

Lawrence Woolsey presents the end of civilization as we know it. Make that... Proudly Presents!
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  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: January 16, 2018
  • Originally Released: 1993
  • Label: Shout Factory

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User Ratings: 6,998
A wonderful message about the power of the horror director, and what treasures they can bestow on their audiences. Full Review
Cinema Crazed
Oct 14, 2013
Rating: 4/5 -- Matinee is such an earnest film lacking in cynicism about the gimmickry of old that its warmth is infectious. Full Review
FanboyNation.com
Oct 29, 2018
...MATINEE is a sweetly resonant little movie-lovers' movie...
USA Today
Jan 29, 1993
Rating: 9/10 -- [Dante's] delirium is both hilariously absurd and terrifyingly convincing. Full Review
The Young Folks
Aug 3, 2018
Rating: 3.5/4 -- One of director Joe Dante's finest achievements. Full Review
Creative Loafing
Jan 13, 2018
...A delightful comedy and one of the most charming movies in a long time....There are plenty of big laughs in MATINEE...
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 29, 1993
Rating: 4/5 -- Something of a forgotten gem, 1993's Matinee sits between Gremlins and Toy Soldiers in director Joe Dante's oeuvre. Full Review
CineVue
Jan 16, 2017

Product Description:

It's 1962 and 15-year-old horror film fan Gene Loomis (Simon Fenton) is the new kid in a small Key West town; the Cuban Missile Crisis is happening in his own backyard; an intriguing girl (Lisa Jakub) is actually looking his way, and best of all, master showman Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) is in town promoting his latest sci-fi horror flick. Gene and his friends eagerly gather at the local theater for the debut of MANT!, a terrifying tale of one man's mutation into a demonic ant. At the theater they experience the thrill of a lifetime, as the threat of nuclear war looms overhead. John Goodman is at his uproarious best as the larger-than-life horror promoter who revels in the creation of one-of-a-kind shock and terror as the nation waits for its fate to be revealed. MATINEE is a masterful homage to B-movie science fiction classics of the 1950s and '60s that ingeniously combines science fiction shock and suspense with the real life horror of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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