In a shabby old cinema with red velvet seats, the screen is a real opening onto a misty forest staircase lined with jack-o’-lanterns, and leaves blow out into the aisle. No refunds once you’re in.

Cinema doorway to the haunted forest

The film has stepped off the screen.

In a shabby old cinema with red velvet seats, the screen is a real opening onto a misty forest staircase lined with jack-o’-lanterns, and leaves blow out into the aisle. No refunds once you’re in.

Field noteA screen shows a place it isn’t. This one is the place, and leaves are blowing in.

Specimen: No. 346
Genus: Generated
Kind: Impossible (the round square kind)
Breaks: Category
Where it doesn’t exist: An old picture house.
Nearest existing relative: A cinema screen.
Filed in Fresh slop as: Spaces
Season: Slopoween. In season in October: the walk only passes it then.

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