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Even though it is so affordable, I don’t often go to the One dollar movie theatre at Restaurant Row. Today was one of those days. If you want to see a movie in a theater for cheap, this is the place to go. Movies indeed cost only one dollar and this price has not changed since I know the place (which is for the last 5 years).

One thing you should know though, on their website it says that if you attend a movie before 3 pm, the price is only $0.50 per movie. I did attend a movie before 3 pm (it started at 2:45), but the price was $1, not $0.50. So maybe the movie has to end before 3 pm to get the discounted rate. Of course this is not a big issue. It is just bit confusing.

If you plan to go there, note that outside food and drinks are not allowed. You can buy food and drinks inside. There is even an entertainment center where you can have some fun before or after the movie. There are various video and computer games you can try out (something like in Dave and Busters).

Anyway, today I felt like watching a suspenseful movie, so I decided to watch “The Strangers.” In fact, this movie turned out to be much more than suspense. It is a psycho-thriller horror movie where the audience, including me, was spooked all the time. The scenes were very cruel and bloody. I would not recommend this movie to people who are scared of blood. People quite literally get butchered in this movie.

What also surprised me was that there were several couples with small kids – between 3 and 8 years of age – who were also watching the movie “The Strangers.”

Why is a small kid allowed to watch a horror movie, even if an adult accompanies it? If an adult gets scared from a movie like that, what about the tender child’s mind? After all, children believe what they see on the screen and often times copy what they see… and then we complain why there are so many young adult crimes in the United States…and school shootings and the like.

At the beginning of the movie “The Strangers,” it was stated that it is inspired by true events. When I came home I researched the story because I wanted to know more about what really happened to Kristen McKay and James Hoyt, who were said to be slaughtered in their remote house on the night of February 11, 2005. Well, guess what? It turned out to be all fiction! There has never been a murder like the one shown in the movie. I wonder why the filmmakers play with people’s minds and make exaggerated claims. I doubt that everybody who sees the movie goes home to research the story to find out that it’s all but fiction.

This is the one dollar movie theatre at Restaurant Row.