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5 Quick Questions with Whitney Moore – Birdemic

Anyone that can put a movie together deserves tons of credit, the blood, sweat and tears that go into making a movie must be praised no matter what….usually. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxZblVUkMU ‘Birdemic Shock and Terror’ was the most recent Rifftrax simulcast and…

’40 Days and Nights’ Coming Soon

’40 Days and Nights’ is the newest disaster film by The Asylum due out November 27th. “When a colossal tectonic shift causes the sea level to start rising, a microbiologist gathers the DNA of as many species as she can,…

Five Quick Questions with Writer Mike MacLean

The instant classics ‘Sharktopus’, ‘Dinocroc vs. Supergator’, ‘Piranhaconda’, and ‘Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader’ began with the screenplays written by Mike MacLean.    Mike is a family man and a talented writer that can write hybrid horror creatures, a comical giant…

THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES (1963)

My dear, departed friend, cult movie god RAY DENNIS STECKLER was a frequent guest at my live Thrillville show. One of the highlights of my so-called career, and life, was chasing Ray (in his trademark screen alias “Cash Flagg” hood) around…

Five or so Quick Questions with Fred Olen Ray

It’s no wonder why Fred has so many credits because once he says “That’s a wrap” he’s screaming “Roll cameras” in the same breath.  That has been his lifestyle since the late 70’s and we’re lucky that Fred has provided us…

5.5 Quick Questions with Gerald Webb

Gerald Webb, originally from New Jersey, a renowned DJ and acting career that began in Philly, an actor in numerous Asylum films and films directed by Fred Olen Ray ‘Super Shark’ & ‘Turbulent Skies’ Chris Olen Ray ‘2 Headed Shark…

Five Quick Questions w/ Bill Rebane (THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION)

Baron Bill Rebane is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for low budget horror movies such as Twist Craze and The Giant Spider Invasion. Rebane also ran for Governor of Wisconsin in 1979 and 2002…

Actresses You Should Know

With so many talented actresses in B movies it’s difficult to stand above the rest.  These four young actresses have been in many recent movies and are booked for a lot more and they are quite talented. Frankly it’s time…

The Cheetah Whores – Sharktopus theme music

I love theme music and when you watch ‘Sharktopus’ and the theme song begins your excitement for the movie elevates and you may even cheer on the Sharktopus.  If I enjoy a song that much I need to find more…

Marie Westbrook

Marie Westbrook has been in several B movies including ‘Evil Angel’ with Ving Rhames, and multiple movies by the Asylum, “100 Million B.C.”, “Hillside Cannibals”, “Dracula’s Curse” and “Titanic II”. In addition to acting she has a Physics/Chemistry degree from…

Interview with actor Darin Cooper

Darin Cooper plays Colonel Chadwick in ‘Super Cyclone’ who also had military roles in ‘Air Collision’, Battle of Los Angeles’, Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus’ and was a gun dealer in ‘Adopting Terror’. Some actors are born to play certain roles…

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Greenfield’s only movie theater is expected to receive a favorable recommendation to extend its current lease with Greenfield Highlands through July 1, 2014, years after it was expected to be razed for redevelopment. At Tuesday’s Planning Commission meeting, Greenfield’s only…

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Five Easy Questions: Amazing author/historic horror host JOHN STANLEY

JOHN STANLEY is the legendary author of numerous articles, novels and books on the subject of fantasy cinema, and perhaps most famously hosted the popular Creature Features program in the Bay Area circa the early ‘80s. He is additionally a…

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Five Easy Questions: THE CZAR OF NOIR, EDDIE MULLER

EDDIE MULLER, author, bon vivant, cultural archeologist and founder of both the Noir City Festival and the Film Noir Foundation, is indeed the Czar of Noir. You couldn’t find a nicer guy for such a dirty job, either. His many…

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Five Easy Questions: B movie artist MITCH O’CONNELL

Chicago based artist MITCH O’CONNELL has been wowing the world with his pop culture portraits for many years.  Monsters, zombies, pinups, flying saucers, robots, tikis, comic book heros and especially B Movies all inform his eye-popping  portfolio. Check out his…

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Five Easy Questions: B MOVIE NATION LEADER/FILMMAKER BILL DEVER

BILL DEVER is the B Movie Mogul of the 21st Century. His various enterprises include this very web site, the annual B Movie Celebration, Monogram Releasing and various other ventures promoting, perpetuating and preserving B Movie Culture. He is a…

Five Easy Questions: “CYXORK 7” MASTERMIND JOHN HUFF

CYXORK 7 , the hilarious and inventive movie about making a movie in a fading sci-fi franchise, coming May 15 from Monogram Releasing, is one of the Best Movies of 2008 you’ve never heard of, according to Popmatters and according…

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Five Easy Questions: TURA SATANA

There are Legends, there are Icons, there are Super-women – and then there is TURA SATANA, the immortal star of Russ Meyer’s masterpiece Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! (1965) as well as many other cult classics, who boldly embodies all three…

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Five Easy Questions: ZOMBIE MUSIC MAKER CHIP GUBERA

CHIP GUBERA is an educator, filmmaker, zombie song-writer and masked wrestler enabler, not necessarily in that order. In anticipation of the May 8 2009 regional theatrical release of his astounding zombie musical Song of the Dead, we caught up with…

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Five Easy Questions: FRED OLEN RAY

FRED OLEN RAY is a man of and for the people. People like us. He knows what we want, and he delivers, again and again, dedicating his own considerable talents, sweat, money and energy to one thrilling film project after…