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COOKIE & HAPPY HOUR! THURSDAY NIGHT \ 3 Cookies for $1.00 . Limit 3 Cookies per person! y| 8 PM 10 PM I —H • i Z 00 )W DARE VENTURE /jVTO Uj i i i —~ - - — * • By Lane Van Ham Staff Reporter __ "Welcome, ladies and gentle men to the Video Vault. I’m the Old Flick Fiend, your M.C. for the fes tivities ... or should I say, 'fleshtivi ties!' "No, it's not a porno - get your heads out of the gutter and hack on the guillotine where they belong! Actually, this week's selection re gards some nasty critters who want their din-din, which happens to be flesh. I nfortunately, they go up against some fairly resourceful people, who get away by the skin of their teeth (which actually exists - that's what happens when you don’t floss') ...” Oh fine, Mr. Fiend, justgoahel and give away the ending w( hopefully this will still be g0( even if you know some oft people escape. It seems like every week I thii the feature film here is the best oi ever, and “The Flesheaters”(l<* is no exception. Several qualiti makethis film work: a pseudo-Nj villain, cheap but neat special < fects, blood, gore and a beatnik As it opens, drunk actress Lau Winters and her secretary, j; Letter man, hire a cynical pil named Grant Murdock to fly the to a town where Laura has a sho opening. Of course, nothing go as planned. Because of plai troubles, they have to set downc one of many surrounding islanc As one might expect, they happ< to pick the island inhabited by mad scientist, Peter Bartel. No sooner have they landed th they have to tie down the plat and shack up in Bartel’s tent, for ferocious tropical storm is on tf way (actually it consists of 30 se< onds of ocean slock footage). Once that’s over though, it flesheater city. As they explore th Reach alter the storm, they di: cover the beach has fish skeletor scattered on it -- stripped bare b something in the water. Th “something” is never really d< fined, but it’s kind of an amoebi glowing silver stuff that was cr< ated by scratching the film wit pins! For the fairly standard plot an what there is to work with, it’sclea that the production staff of “Th Flesheaters” had at least some ide of how to make a movie As this scene progresses, fo example, we’re treated to a wel executed situation that goes be yond the tension achieved in mos movies like this. Laura, in pursuito her liquor suitcase, become stranded on some rocks danger ouslv near the rushing water, ant the flesheaters. Murdock venture onto the rocks and brings her bad to shore, but slips and exposes hi: leg to the w'ater. Boy oh boy, dc those flesheaters go to it! Murdoch survives, but his leg becomes the subject of the film’s first gore scene] I he intensity ot mis siiuauu.*•> followed by the welcome arrival1 o! the boating beatnik, Omar Ine group is standing on the beach, trying to figure out what to do about all these pin scratches on the film, when they hear jazz coming from the phonograph on Omars raft (don’t ask me how he’s playing a record with all those waves, or how it’s plugged in). Letterman’s line “It sounds like a Martian hymn,” in reference to the jazz, bears a strange similarity to the film “Zontar, The Thing 0°m Venus” in which a character hears a message from Venus and asKS i it’s “progressive jazz!’’ Omar yells to the people o shore: ‘i ley-hey! I dig you' You are See VIDEO on / W THE RADIATORS ZIG-ZAGGIN* THROUGH GHOSTLAND Including: ConfkJ*ntt*l/lt'» Alright Lov* Grow* On Vh/Squ**z* u* Ip/cassette.$6.37 compact disk . .$11.88 WENDY and LISA FRUIT AT THE BOTTOM Including: Am feu My Baby/Lolly Lolly/Sallatactton From Now On (Wo rn On*) fmt Fruit At Tho Bottom t' M k Ip/cassette.$6.37 compact disk . .$11.88 "FASADENfe TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN including: TVIbul# (Right On)/Riding On A Tl#ln Juilic# for Th# \Ro»ld Living In Th# Footitap# 01 Anoihai Man _tJ Ip/cassette.$6.37 compact disk . $11.88 r ' NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK HANGIN’ TOUGH PtMM Oool Go Glft/Th* Htflhl Slut Htnglo' Ibuqb Whafcha Oonoo Do (About H) My ftvorM* GM Ip/cassette.$6.37 compact disk . .$11.88 Oh Darling, just hush up and take me to Pickles. Tickle.^ MCCORDS-TAPES COMPACT DISCS 17 th & P • 237 S 70lh 0914 Normal Olvd Nobody Sells More Music For Less X. LIVING COLOUR ~ VIVID Including: Middle Men/Detperile People Memories Cent We" Open Letter flo A Lendl rd) CuN 01 Pereonellty izssbsB Ip/cassette.$6.37 compact disk . .$11.88 WARRANT fcj DIRTY ROTTEN FILTHY STINKING RICH Including: Down Boyt/BIg IMk/Hcavcn/Rldln' High Sometime* She CrlM Ip/cassette.$6.37 compact disk . .$11.88 HIROSHIMA EAST A Including: Eail/Thouaand Cranea/Tha Golden Age Tabo / Daydreamaf Ip/cassette.$6.97 compact disk . .$11.88 1C M inun rnc Ino prim I everything including: f.b hl **«• *oon'/Ul»>n»l F>um« >wb*« ju 1 rs'Som*ming fc In UTi» Ip/cassette.$6.97 compact disk .. $11.83