By Greg Lamberson

When I moved to NYC to study filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts, my uncle, who got me a job behind the candy stand at Cinema I (now Cinema 1, 2, 3rd avenue. Robert Craig Sabin—who would later star in my film SLIME CITY—worked there as well, and James Lorinz, the star of FRANKENHOOKER and STREET TRASH, worked for the same chain at the Beekman Theatre (immortalized in Woody Allen’s ANNIE HALL) a few blocks away. For my first few nights on the job, I worked with a young woman named Alice Martin, who trained me to replace her. I learned that she had acted in a low budget slasher movie called SPLATTER U.

Six months later—after deciding that film school wasn’t for me despite cool teachers like Roy Frumkes—I had climbed the corporate ladder of success and was working as an assistant manager at the RKO National Twin Theatre on Broadway and 43rd Street, one block away from The Deuce. At a really crappy six-plex called the Criterion, I actually paid money to see SPLATTER UNIVERSITY, directed by Richard Haines. I won’t say that I was impressed, but it was a fun movie to see in that theatre and neighborhood. I don’t remember exactly how Alice’s character was murdered—stabbed is a good guess—but I do remember her laying dead in a dumpster.

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