Deadly place to watch a movie
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Everyone knows that the best part of the movie theater experience is the atmosphere: the warm smell of popcorn and the quietness when the lights go down. This exciting energy is why movie theaters remain a mainstay in our cultural world, offering a completely different viewing experience that can never be captured at home. But around the world, some monitors are taking it to a whole new level, even six feet underground.
When thinking of movie theaters, the image that comes to mind is one of comfort and convenience. It’s a place you can go and hide out for a while until you can leave the real world and all its stresses behind. The big screen has a real sense of timelessness, as if the whole world stands still, and the audience is immortal for a while, letting life pass by while they focus their attention on the story.
And at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, they take that feeling even further as viewers sit next to the dead. The cemetery shows classic films on the side of the shrine as one of the most unique cinemas in the world.
As its name suggests, the cemetery is home to some of the biggest names in Hollywood. It’s the resting place of Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, the DeMille family, director Victor Fleming, and more. In fact, the mausoleum that serves as a movie screen houses the remains of silent film star Rudolph Valentino and actor Peter Finch. A place where fans go and pay their respects, it’s truly hallowed ground.
While the idea of sitting in a cemetery may seem bleak, there’s something beautiful about the pop-up cinema at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Even without the screen, people will undoubtedly visit the cemetery to see the resting place of their idols. It was always destined to become a tourist attraction, but events are making it even more so.
Film screenings, which change the atmosphere from mourning to celebration, are a way to reconnect the cemetery with its icons and their fans. He united past and present through mutual love and admiration for films.
Movie lovers flock to the events with lounge chairs, blankets, and picnic baskets to enjoy classic films, modern clips, and blockbusters at the historic location. Halloween horror movie showings at the cemetery are especially popular, adding to the spookiness of the location.
The cinema at Hollywood Forever Cemetery helps encourage a different view of death and a different interaction with cemeteries, and is a celebration of creative life. Perhaps the best way to honor its inhabitants is by making the movie screen immortal.
