Creature from the Rock 'n' Roll Lagoon BY DAN HOYT Picture this, if you will: Bela Lugosi strolling down the stairs in 1931's Dracula, glaring down with those beady, hideous eyes and opening his mouth to speak. The words coming out of his mouth are not "I am Dracula. I bid you welcome," but rather John Goodman in The Big Lebowski yelling, "You are entering a world of pain!" — spun with a hip hop beat. OK, you probably won't see something that freakish in Diablo's Reels and Wheels, but the festival is going to be a crazy night filled with movies you've never heard of, their "soundtracks" remixed to hell by turntables. "Most of the movies are really obscure horror and comedy flicks with weird titles that caught my eye," says Diablo's owner Troy Slavkovsky. "Since a lot of the films are silent films, I got together with my DJ, Joe Morales, and we synchronized songs that we thought would go well with the movies." This mash-up of image and sound leaves a lot to the imagination of the viewer, and Slavkovsky wants to capture the film's essence through this audiovisual remix at the monthly event. "If it's a sci-fi film, we might put on David Bowie or a song that has something about space," he says. "I put up four projectors so that I can see what's being mixed with the films in the same way a DJ looks at his records. It's a pretty good spectacle." The four-hour performance will have snacks, theater-style couch seating and drinks galore along with the extravaganza of 8 mm B-movie schlock and quite a few rockin' beats. If a '50s-style drive-in theater could ever be "remixed," this would be the result. Reels and Wheels starts at 10 pm Monday, August 7 at Diablo's. 21+ event. No cover.
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