Whoever programmed the series of drive-in films at the Steve Allen Theater (titled “Humans Are Such Easy Prey”) deserves to be commended: The series contains none of the stagnant hipster irony one might expect from such a retro-schlock enterprise.
The theater presents us with a near-perfect slate of the low-tech horror/sci-fi gems, projected on an exterior wall and audible through your car’s speakers. This includes this Friday’s screening of “Village of the Damned”—the 1960 one, of course, so tough luck to any Kirstie Alley fans. A story of a group of menacing, super-powered children born simultaneously to all the women of a small English town relates, in its subtext, to something we all wish we had known when we were younger: namely, that our parents were terrified of us. So unleash your bitter, malevolent inner child and let it spend a couple hours in a fantasy world where you can make your mean neighbor shoot himself in the head. Or bring a hottie and make out in your bucket seats; the setting is more than appropriate for both.
