JAY WADE EDWARDS provides triple threat duty as producer/director/writer of the new ’60s-style beach party/monster musical STOMP! SHOUT! SCREAM!, playing in select theaters starting April 10 from Monogram Releasing. This fun, freaky flick is a perfect recreation/re-realization (but not “re-imagining”) of an AIP bikini-boppin’ beast-on-the-beach drive-in rock ‘n’ roll classic (read Will the Thrill’s review.) [...]

Demonsamongus is a dark and creepy horror set in rural Victoria, Australia on the eve of Christmas in the small isolated town of Miranda Falls. Joe Melton has just moved into town, retreating from the hectic life of the city to write his thesis on the dangers of advertising and mass consumption.
Miranda Falls is a [...]

 
“It’s hard to get ahead in this economy…”
STUART GORDON is one of the few current filmmakers whose work will be studied, with appropriate shock and awe, decades from now. His bold style and unique vision are thematically diverse, visually distinctive, graphically imaginative, pointedly satirical, socially relevant and unfailingly entertaining.  In anticipation of Thrillville’s 12th Anniversary [...]

Film Noir is a uniquely American product, but its influences over the decades have stretched far beyond Yankee borders - in fact, you can feel its resonance across the Atlantic, where the French coined the term and designated the genre in the early ’50s. Neighboring Britain is no stranger to the Dark World of gangsters, [...]

“Throw another leg on the barby,mate!”
Everyone was horrified by the recent wildfires that swept Australia. But few have heard of, or reckoned with, the other horrors afflicting the Outback these days, specifically the supernatural monster outbreak so grimly and brilliantly depicted in THE DEMONS AMONG US, maiden mutant madness from the delightfully demented mind of [...]

With Uncle Lloyd, B Movie Celebration, September ‘08
LLOYD KAUFMAN is to cult movies what Alpo is to dog food. He’s a recognized, celebrated brand name boasting a tried-and-true tradition you don’t mess with, reliable and undeniable. His underground film dynasty Troma Entertainment revolutionized the indie market in the ’80s and ’90s with tantalizing titles like [...]

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 the theater, wearing one his original mummy costumes and carrying a plastic axe. Predictably, one [...]

The late Robert Clarke appeared in a number of cult sci-fi classics including The Man From Planet X (1951) and Beyond the Time Barrier (1960), but the one he’ll be best remembered for is 1959’s THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON, which Clarke also co-wrote and co-directed. I vividly recall watching this as a little kid and being freaked [...]

The ’60s “beach party” craze briefly blended with monster movie mores in vintage classics like Horror of Party Beach (1963), The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965), and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966). Now there’s a 21st Century beach monster movie that looks, sounds and feels a lot like its predecessors from the [...]

New Jersey’s Elysee Productions has unearthed two tawdry, torrid treasures from the salt mines of sleazy drive-in cinema history: the complete and original scores for Al Adamson’s notorious monster-match Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) and Eddie Romero’s equally infamous tropical terror Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969). The former was originally released by Adamson’s decadent drive-in [...]

Juicier than a Georgia peach and wilder than a Georgia beach (during a hurricane), this retro-rocket blast of a soundtrack to the 2005 cult surf-monster movie Stomp! Shout! Scream! (now available from Monogram Releasing) is a ready-made party-time smash. The fourteen tracks include all five period pitch-perfect all-girl garage rock numbers by Catfight! (dubbing The [...]

KEVIN TENNEY made his name as a famous, favorite cult horror director with his ’80s classics WITCHBOARD (1986) and NIGHT OF THE DEMONS (1988). His other entertaining credits include THE CELLAR (1989), PEACEMAKER (1990), and ENDANGERED SPECIES (2002). Besides being a B Movie legend, Mr. Tenney, raised in an itinerant military family, also has “tiki [...]

Courtesy of MONOGRAM RELEASING…Kevin Tenney’s (literally) mind-blowing instant cult classic…
BRAIN DEAD
Coming March 20 to a theater near you (or someone you don’t know.)

SEE! Brains, beasts and breasts galore at the following fine establishments 3/20/09…more TBA!
Nova Cinemas
Moline Illinois
Nova Georgia
340 Tanger Drive
Commerce, Georgia 30529
Studio 10 Cinemas
1624 E. State Highway 44
Shelbyville, Indiana 46176
Movieline: 398-FLIX(3549)
Georgetown 14 Cinemas
3898 Lafayette Road
Indianapolis, [...]

The Moon-Rays are the B Movie Lounge/Surf/Jazz House Band. Their superior CDs so far include Thrills and Chills, The Ghouls Go West (featuring my theme song, “Thrillville”) and Sinister Surf, all amazing amalgams of sci-fi surf, hipster horror and drive-in delirium, retro-cool but timelessly toe-tapping sonic cocktails served straight up with a twang and sometimes [...]

David Hess may scare you on the screen but he’s a pussycat in person. He can roar and hiss, sure, but he can also purr like the talented tiger of many stripes he is. David was already an accomplished musician before he was offered the defining role of his film career, the amoral killer/rapist Krug [...]

B Movie Nation bigwig MR LOBO along with filmmaker ERNIE FOSSELIUS (Hardware Wars and publisher/musician/collector SCOTT MOON are proposing an ambitious new B Movie workspace honoring their late mentor, Bay Area Creature Features host BOB WILKINS. They are open to ideas and feedback. Contact info is below.
THE WILKINS BUILDING PROJECT:
The Wilkins Building Project: A creative [...]

If David Lynch teamed with George Romero to make a zombie movie - in Australia - it might look something like Stuart Simpson’s hallucinatory horror classic THE DEMONS AMONG US. Something supernatural and sinister is turning the family next door into ravenous, demonic, flesh-eating ghouls, and apparently, there is no escape from the sudden slaughter…a [...]

Part film noir, part psychological thriller, all action: this is the high octane story of a poor bloke who wakes up next to a bloody body and can’t remember how he got there…follow Jack’s quest for the truth through a murky, malicious maze of death, danger and discovery…femme fatales and flashbacks….seduction of the guilty, prosecution [...]

The immortal host of  the Bay Area TV show “Creature Features,” the late Bob Wilkins, will be honored at two upcoming events:
When: Saturday March 21st
Time: 1PM to 4PM
Where: AUCTIONS BY THE BAY
2700 Saratoga
Alameda, CA  94501
In attendance will be Bob Wilkins’ family, John Stanley,
Mr. Lobo and Ernie Fosselius. Video clips will be shown
on the big screen [...]

This is my favorite B movie. I first saw it on Doc Shock’s Mad Theater out of Philly in the early 70s. Michael Landon gives his hairiest performance as the troubled high school student Tony Rivers. Whit Bissell is the shrink who hypnotizes him and turns him into a raging lycanthrope. Yvonne Lime , who [...]