AMC Classic Antioch 8
901 Bell Road,
Antioch,
TN
37013
901 Bell Road,
Antioch,
TN
37013
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Yep, just as I figured after checking the photo section - not only were the space-consuming luxury recliners put in (the reason for the seating being reduced), the auditoriums also got black-boxed. And the theatre chains wonder why attendance is going down (among other reasons).
Metro Nashville Police identified 29-year-old Vincente David Montano as the suspect after confirming his identity using an identification card found on his body and through his fingerprints, which matched an arrest record dating all the way back to 2004.
Montano was born in Rockford, Illinois on December 28, 1985, but moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, at the age of 18 in 2003 because of his mother’s job translation. Shortly afterward, he began having his arrest history, and throughout the following few years, he was arrested three times in 2004 and twice in 2007.
In February 2004, officers arrived at Montano’s home on Briar Bend Drive after his mother called 911. He told them that her son “has been having thoughts of suicide, as well as homicide,” according to the police report. Pruett said he had been hearing voices, and broke both a coffee table and a jewelry box.
Six months after the first incident, police were called back to the same home that August. She said that she asked Montano to mow the lawn. But he wouldn’t get out of bed, so she threw a bucket of water on him. Then he went into the bathroom and attempted to flood the house. Both each claimed that they were hit by the other, but they both calmed down and the officers eventually left. But police were called back two hours later and Montano was arrested, booked with simple assault on an officer and resisting arrest. The court ordered a mental evaluation. He was then committed involuntarily several other times over the following three years according to a Nashville police spokesman.
Prior to the shooting, he was homeless and had a history of mental illness. Montano was a paranoid schizophrenic according to an interview, and had been institutionalized at least three times in his past 11 years of life. Montano’s mother said that she left her son after he threw a cup into her car window. His mother had been out of touch with him throughout his last two years of life.
This theatre made world news when on August 6, 2015 a man entered the theatre carrying two backpacks armed with a pellet gun, hatchet and pepper spay and began the assault before a screening of “Mad Max”. He managed to cut one patron multiple times with the hatchet. He had a shootout with SWAT before he was killed by Police. The police did not know the gun was a pellet gun. The bomb squad was called to remove the backpacks in case they were bombs inside. The one sliced survived the attack. Picture posted.
New seating capacities at this theater following an extensive renovation:
Theaters 1 & 8 – 69 seats
Theaters 2 & 7 – 54 seats
Theaters 3 & 6 – 85 seats
Theaters 4 & 5 – 98 seats
This location has it’s AMC sign installed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3dSRPAIOHo
April 25th, 1997 grand opening ad in photo section.
Seating capacities at this theater:
Theater 1 – 145 seats
Theater 2 – 119 seats
Theaters 3 & 6 – 169 seats
Theater 4 – 200 seats
Theater 5 – 193 seats
Theater 7 – 108 seats
Theater 8 – 142 seats
Next time I search a movie house in Antioch, TN, I will do that.
Of course, most news reports identified the location as Nashville, so you may see how that would impact a search…
The Carmike website lists this theatre as the Hickory 8. So the name in the header is correct. Next time you do a search just search for the city and state.
Wow, this is. Good old-fashioned second run cinema. All seats $2.00…!
But why is it listed as Hickory 8 when the front of the building says Hickory Hollow Cinemas? It took longer than it should have to locate this place via the search engine.
http://www.wsmv.com/story/29717483/active-shooter-reported-at-antioch-theater
Here is a 2005 photo of the theatre.