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'Don't Look in the Basement': It's Something to Bleed Over It's bedlam at the old asylum. The doctor has been given the ax literally. The nurse is so anxious to leave she's strangled when a suitcase 1 is closed on her thoughtless head. The old lady, who might have explained the mystery loses her tongue in the worst way imaginable. This prompts the query: "What's the matter with her? Cat got her Cruel, but one does try to keep up the spirits.

The remaining physician has so much to do and her assistant is driving her up the walls. The girl works hard enough but By Bill Morrison she's given to hysterics every time she stumbles over a dead body or is assaulted at knife point by one of the maniacs. Chinese Program Set A band of strolling players, the Chinese Youth Goodwill Mission from Taiwan, Republic of China, will appear at 8 p.m. Thursday in N. C.

University's Stewart Theater. Staged as an introduction to Chinese traditional culture, the program consists of folksongs, These diversions can be found in a dirty little exercise in violent obscenity entitled "Don't Look in the Basement." Currently bleeding all over the Forest Drive-In Theater screen, it should satisfy the bloodlust of the most demanding member of today's action audience. The exploitation film, cheap to make and market and reaping untold fortunes, has come to fill more and more movie hours, especially on the outdoor theater screens. Be forewarned if you're a parent of a movie lover or a person with a weak stomach. The rating in most cases stands for repulsion.

Sharing the double bill is a little thriller that does have merit. (Both films are released by American International.) "Sisters" has to do with Siamese twins, physically separated but emotionally joined. One girl (played very well by Margot Kidder) tries to cover up a murder apparently committed by her mentally ill. sibling. A sharp, young reporter (Jennifer Salt) is witness to the crime, and follows the scent of mystery down gloomy corridors and into the New York night.

Director Brian De Palma allows the film to wander. It can be asinine and obvious and you consequently doubt the director's sincerity. Then he confronts you with sequences weil honed and splendidly sinister. De Palma uses the split screen effectively, creating fine cat-and-mouse tension. A drug- induced nightmare is filmed in black and white like a television documentary with reality distorted just enough to make it truly frightening.

When he doesn't overdo it, the man does it very well. "Sisters' is of further interest for a Jovely score by Bernard Herrmann, whose notes added grace to more than one Hollywood gem (especially many of the Hitchcock films). It may be, as the moguls convinced Hitch, that Herrmann's writing has grown old fashioned, even melodramatic, but there's still something to be said for the handcrafted score as the most interesting of movie narrators. 'Enrico IV' Show Explodes with Feeling Run do not walk to the Pullen Park Armory any night this week to see Stage '74's newest offering, Luigi Pirandello's IV." It is an astounding production. In this Capital City, where other theaters play it boxoffice safe by sticking to warmed-over Broadway, Stage '74 dares to offer challenging theater.

Such shows as "Richard III," "Cyrano" and now "Enrico IV" provide for actors and audiences alike a feast for the eye and ear and an explosion of feeling for near-starved imagination. Robert Edmond Jones once wrote that the stage belongs totally to the actors, and directors Any Wood and Ira David Wood Ill (no relation) have followed this dictum. The set, a realistic recreation of a sumptuous Italian villa where time stopped 800 years ago (or was it 20 years is opulent but does not overshadow the actors and their task. And actors aplenty there are. David Wood, makeup and body movements are spectacular, is breathless and thunderous by turns as the tortured tyrant who thinks he is a -dead king.

Or does he? KANKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE We are expanding our present facilities Crabtree Valley Mall to accommodate private parties and meetings. For information call Mr. Jack Rice 782-9708. dances, selections from Chinese opera, kung-fu demonstrations and a demonstration of brush-pen painting. Admission is free, though limited seating demands that tickets be picked up or reserved at the information desk at the NCSU Student Center.

A Review Barbara Olschner and Allan Osborne lack that inner fire as the intruders into timelessness but their physical demeanor is well-nigh perfection. Al Simpson has been a villain for so long it is a wonder to me that dogs don't bark at him in the streets but then he is such a fine villain. And two youngsters trained in the Raleigh Children's Theater Sally Moore and Danny Norris show promise. But two examples of acting in "Enrico IV" are new and truly exciting. One is the cameo by director Andy Wood, as an incredibly old manservant a display of inspiration well worth studying closely.

The other is the teamwork of five young men (David Lawrence, Joel Haas, Jim Owen, Roger Cook and Larry Bliss). These young men began their stage within the past 18 months this same careers, theater, and since "Richard SHOCK THE DAY THE INSANE TOOK OVER THE ASYLUM! "DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT" -ALSOSIAMESE TWINS AT BIRTH "SISTERS" OPEN 7:30 STARTS 8:10 Non FOREST U.S. PH. I 876-7822 NORTH DRIVE-IN THEATRE I MISSION VALLEY MISSION VALLEY CINEMA! NOW! CINEMA I Thru NOW! LIE ON AI 00 A TE DON PO Thurs. A HIT SONG BECOMES A JOANNE WOODWARD HIT MOVIE! Once In BEST ACTRESS Lifetime OF THE Two touch people and YEAR! nothing else matters! N.

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