This happened three years ago tonight.
I didn't know anything about it until that morning, when it popped up on my Facebook feed. I shot off a message to the event and to my astonishment, someone connected with the event answered me back immediately, and even told me where the best parking was. So I bought tickets and off we went; the parking garage was right across the street from the venue and we had no trouble getting to it with James in the power chair. (The person later messaged me back and asked if we'd gone and if we had a good time!)
It was a lot of fun although we felt a bit out of place and underdressed; there were folks there in suits and evening gowns. I was stupid and didn't bring a real camera, just my phone, or I'd have a lot better photos of Vincent D'Onofrio and George R. R. Martin!
The film was very funny and I wish that it had been released on DVD or something...we got stuck in road construction on the way home and were quoting lines from it to amuse ourselves. I asked VDO about it last year at DragonCon and he sort of sighed and said it "was in the wind."
NIGHT OF THE COOTERS revolves around a sleepy Old West town at the time of the Martian invasion in WAR OF THE WORLDS. It is stated that the Martian cylinders fell all around the world. One of them falls in Pachuco, Texas, and D'Onofrio plays the town sheriff. It's about what the townsfolk do to fight off the Martians and finally defeat them.
Afterwards they did a Q&A which was very entertaining and we were both glad we took the chance of driving into downtown Atlanta!
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