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Comedy, Drama
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy affectionate period comedy, handmade genre spectacle, and stories that turn public anxiety into communal entertainment.
- Tone
- nostalgic, playful, satirical
- Payoff
- amusement, comfort
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- spectacle, fear and escapism, adolescence, community, filmmaking
- Setting
- early 1960s, coastal Florida town amid Cold War anxiety
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