El Rey’s ‘MonstroCity’ Movie Marathon Starts Tomorrow!
El Rey Network never fails to provide pop culture geeks exactly the kind of entertainment they crave. Tomorrow (Saturday, April 25), the house Robert Rodriguez programmed will deliver its “MonstroCity” movie marathon, featuring the monsters of your nightmares that terrorize the urban jungle.
Get ready to sit back tomorrow with Curandero, Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead and Zombie, and C.H.U.D.!
The full schedule is below:
A marathon dedicated to celebrating the monsters that are worthy of your nightmares, MonstroCity will take over your evening with cannibals, zombies, and demons as they overtake cities from above and below ground! You have been warned, this marathon is not for the faint of heart. There will be gore, there will be violence, and most importantly, people will be eaten!
SATURDAY, April 25th
CURANDERO (12PM EST & 8:15PM EST)
Director: Eduardo Rodriguez
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (2:15PM EST & 10:30PM EST)
Director: Lucio Fulci
A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from the grave.
ZOMBIE (4:15PM EST & 12:30AM EST)
Director: Lucio Fulci
Strangers looking for a woman’s father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
C.H.U.D. (6:15PM EST & 2:30AM EST)
Director: Douglas Cheek
A bizarre series of murders in New York City seems to point toward the existence of a race of mutant cannibals living under the streets.
For America, cities were and still are a symbol of opportunity and hope. At the turn of the 20th century and well into the roaring twenties, the young and old flocked to make something of themselves… while the monsters dwelled outside the city limits.
The remarkable similarity that the majority of American horror films share is that they physically take place in remote or suburban locations. They almost never happen in cities. To know why, we only look at our own history.
When European settlers began to colonize the Americas in the late 15th century, conflict with indigenous tribes were, well, brutal. And bloody. You kind of expect now that every Thanksgiving your college roommate will bring up how much the pilgrims like, totally screwed over the Native Americans in terrifying fashion, man.
Well, your roommate isn’t wrong. America lost its humanity in the outskirts of society, in the total lawless wilderness. From murdering and grave robbing Native Americans and forcing them onto the Trail of Tears, to the slavery on the cotton fields and farms that built our nation, America’s worst sins happened beyond the roads.
Our folklore contain figures and spirits that lived beyond the cities. Bloody Mary, the Headless Horseman, the Jersey Devil and more. Seriously, peruse these tales yourself. How many of these tragic figures are said to haunt the most remote areas of our land?
Tomorrow, El Rey will prove that some monsters lurk just around the city block. Tune in at 12 PM ET and for an encore at 8:15 PM ET, as the MonstroCity marathon kicks off with Robert Rodriguez-executive produced Curandero!
