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ZOMBIE WALK - FRIDAY, MAY 10! 2PM @ TOWN CENTER!

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The Batmobile is hands-down the most famous vehicle on planet Earth. Seeing this amazing replica of Batman’s car displayed during 'Blood at the Beach', will make superhero fans think they’ve slipped into the Batcave.

Fans can even channel their inner superhero while sitting inside the 1966 replicar and have their photo taken with the iconic machine.

Batman’s first appearance in “Detective Comics” no. 27 in May 1939 makes no mention of a crime-fighting car. It wasn’t until issue no. 48 in February 1941 that the Dark Knight drove a powerful red convertible the narrator refers to as the “Batmobile.” Over the next 71 years, comic book readers saw more than 100 different versions of Gotham City’s rolling arsenal, each representing cutting-edge technology and styling for the period. Comic artists were not always designing from scratch. That first Batmobile looked exactly like a six-year-old Cord 810, and later cars resembled a Studebaker, a few Jaguars, two or three Porsches, several Corvettes, a Mustang Mach 1 and even a Lamborghini.

Its first depiction on the silver screen was not memorable, owing to extremely low budgets of the 1943 and 1949 Columbia movie serials. In the first installment, Alfred the butler ferried Bruce Wayne around Gotham in a factory-stock 1939 Cadillac Series 75 convertible with the top down. When danger threatened, Robin chauffeured Batman around in the same car, but with the top up. The second movie featured the same Batman/Bruce Wayne, top-up/top-down carpool act but with a 1949 Mercury convertible.

The Batmobile spectacularly came to life with the debut of the 1966-’68 television program starring Adam West as the Caped Crusader. “Batman” producers hired California car customizer George Barris to build a fully functional vehicle on a near-impossible deadline. To meet their request, he transformed a retired Lincoln concept car from the 1950s into the Batmobile. This was the beautiful 1955 Futura. So popular was the TV series (and 1966 feature-length movie) that Barris made three Batmobile replicas to tour the country while the original stayed on the set.

Recently the #1 Batmobile from the 1966 TV series sold at auction for $4.2 million dollars. The sale included many memorabilia items from the George Barris collection.

When Michael Keaton wore the cowl in 1989’s “Batman” and 1992’s “Batman Returns” films, his Batmobile looked like a combination battering ram and land-speed-record challenger. Like the TV version from two decades earlier, it was powered by a jet turbine; unlike its predecessor, it could jettison its fenders and travel in a narrow “Batmissile” mode. Director Tim Burton wanted the car to represent strength, mystery and the kind of technological prowess a billionaire like Bruce Wayne could muster.

When director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale restarted the entire Batman history in 2005 with “Batman Begins,” production designers imagined a new Batmobile free of any previous influence. To complement the gritty urban conditions of Gotham City in the 21st century, Nolan suggested the Batmobile combine the durability and weaponry of a military tank with the agility and silhouette of an exotic sports car. Special effects trickery would give the bat-black car a pair of autocannons, a rocket launcher, downforce flaps and jet propulsion, but Nolan wanted a real vehicle able to race through streets and perform stunts for the cameras. Once the computer-aided engineering plans were approved, a 30-person crew built six functional cars at a cost of a quarter-million dollars apiece. Batman drove the “Tumbler,” as it was nicknamed, in “Batman Begins” and 2008’s “The Dark Knight,” but the bad guys managed to steal several of the military-grade Tumblers for their own misdeeds in the 2012 blockbuster “The Dark Knight Rises.”

BLOOD AT THE BEACH 3 SCREENING SCHEDULE

FRIDAY (6pm-10pm)

6pm: The Playground – 8 min. – Ron DiPrimio

6:10pm: Chick n’ Head/ Lookin’ for a Date? – 45 min. – Robert Elkins

7pm: Slaughter Daughter – 80 min. – Dustin Hubbard

8:30pm: Backwoods – 90 min. – Robert Elkins

SATURDAY (10am-Midnight)

10am: Contact – 11 min. – Jeremiah Kipp

10:15am: Vengeance is a .44 Magnum – 90 min. – Robert Elkins

12:00pm: (Traci Lords movie) – 2hrs. – Traci Lords

2pm: The Perfect House – 2 hrs. – Jonathan Tiersten

4pm: Words Like Knives – 20 min. – Kelsey Zukowski

4:20pm: Found – 2 hrs. – Scott Schirmer

6:30pm: The Good Sisters – 1hr. 30 min. – Jimmyo Burril

8:00pm: Chainsaw Sally – 1hr. 30 min. – Jimmyo Burril

9:30pm: Pot Zombies 2 – 1hr. 30 min. – Justin Powers

SUNDAY (11am-3pm):

11am: The Last One/ Capture and Kill – 15 min. – Angela Pritchett

11:15am: The Pledge/ Unlucky Night/ Backstabber – 30 min. – Jonathan Moody

12pm: Imagination – 15 min. – John Angel

12:15pm: Dream about Angels – 30 min. – Ernie Smith

Blood at the Beach is Terrified to announce a Frightful Class!!

Learn to Act in a Horror Movie!!

With Lar Park Lincoln

Have you ever wanted to be in a horror film? Do you have what it takes to scream, run,

defend yourself or fight with a computer generated monster you can’t see?

Join me, Lar Park Lincoln, for a fun, informative and exciting acting class!! Being in a horror movie can

be a lot of fun, but it also a lot of work!! Screaming on cue while staring at nothing requires more than

a pretty face or big strong shoulders! And what if you have to repeat the scream? Could you match your

“take” for continuity and editing?

Lar will be holding two classes during the weekend of Blood at the Beach!! “Acting in a Horror Movie”

and “Getting Started as an Actor” For the first time, you will have the opportunity to study with Lar

personally! Lar owns a film and TV acting Studio in Dallas and is thrilled to bring a class to you!!We will

meet at the convention in a private area and create movie magic!!

This class consists of preparing a scene and shooting it “Audition Style” on camera! We will play back,

review and if time allows redo!! Each student will receive a scene geared for a male or female actor. The

scene will contain the usual suspects in a horror movie, from screaming, acting with an “invisible foe”

and interacting with another character. The scenes are between 2 & 3 pages long and you will have time

to look over them, memorize or prepare any way you like. From there we will shoot your scenes and

watch in class!!

Each student will receive individualized attention and coaching with Lar!

If you were studying with Lar in Dallas, a 90 minute class is $265.00.This class, designed especially for

Blood at the Beach Fans, is just $50.00

(Horror class)Saturday 9-1030 am (Get started class) Sunday 9-1030am $50.00 for one class,

$75 for both. Credit cards accepted .Lar has space for only 10 students per class

“Get Started in Acting “will cover all the important info you need to create a career in acting.

From headshots to agents to learning to “slate” for your first audition, this on camera class will

give you tons of info and on camera time! After a lesson, you will be shot on camera “slating”

the basics of any audition.

Email lar@larparklincoln.com Please put “horror class”,”getting started”, or “both” in the subject line for

registration and payment.