Justin Savage loves good – or some might say campy – horror films, and he loves sharing them with others.
After opening Lo Main Bodega bar and restaurant in the Ridgedale area on East Main Street, he went looking for a new place to screen some of his favorite films. He found a more than willing partner in Charlotte Caldwell, owner of the recently opened Stove Works, an art space and residency program nearby on Holtzclaw Avenue just off of Main.
The two have partnered for a new venture called Electra Drive-In and will host the first of what they hope will be a series of many bike-in and drive-in experiences in the complex’s huge courtyard. The first two films will be screened Saturday – the classics “Night of the Living Dead” and “Bubba Ho-Tep.”
The evening will begin around 6 p.m. with music provided by Savage, and the first film will start around 7:30 p.m.
“[The event] is named after my first guitar,” Savage said. “I’ll be playing records, and it will be like tailgating at an old-school type of drive-in. Very loose.”