MOVIES - Aug. 31, 1988

From our “Won’t Get Fooled Again” file: Mount Dora, Fla., Mayor Joseph Book--who once had the town’s center painted pink for a scene for “Honky Tonk Freeway”--is now turning into a nasty film critic over an Italian horror movie that’s due to be filmed in his town. “Some horror films, like some of Hitchcock’s or ‘The Shining,’ are made with great style. But (“Witch Story”) is just garbage,” said Book. Book said Tuesday he liked the idea of all those Italians in Florida until he got a copy of the script. According to the mayor, the movie opens with a gang rape and contains enough violence and gore thereafter to make it “revolting and offensive.” “There are some things we might be able to do with the script,” said United Entertainment Corp. spokeswoman Clara Pascal. “We’d love to stay in Mount Dora, but it is a horror movie.”