The Warner Cinerama Theatre in New York, originally The Strand Theatre, opened in 1914. It was demolished in 1987.
Don’t Go in the House is a very low budget slasher about (the IMDb description is brutally succinct) “a victim of child abuse… who grows up to become a maniacal construction worker. He stalks women at discos, takes them home, then hangs them upside-down in a special steel-walled room and sets them on fire.” The trailer is here.
Below is the same theater seen from the opposite side. You can see a Howard the Duck poster to the left of the marquee.
I saw Aliens four or five times at the theater in the summer of ’86. It was a perfect movie then, and it’s a perfect movie now.
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I remember going to the drive in to see Howard the Duck and spent quite a bit of time looking the other direction and watching Aliens on the other screen. Howard the Duck was one of the worst ever.
We also saw Aliens at the Drive-In.
I distinctly remember the super dark trailer for Alien but never got the chance to see it until after I saw Aliens in ’86. It seemed like I was the only one in my circle of friends that hadn’t seen the first movie. They’d talk about the chest-bursting scene and I’d be totally clueless. Intrigued, but clueless.
I did, however, read one of those books-based-on-the-movie things for Alien at the local library when I was a kid (probably ’79–’80). It was one of those super simple, condensed books for young readers. When I saw the scene when they discovered the remains of that huge alien creature I was totally blown away, and imagined myself being there and how I’d react.
I’d say both those movies are awesome. I only started really appreciating Alien pretty recently, actually.