Verna Fields
Verna Fields was an American film editor, film and television sound editor, educator, and entertainment industry executive. Fields edited more than thirty motion pictures, including Peter Bogdanovich’s golden period of What’s Up, Doc ? (1972), Paper Moon (1973), and Daisy…
Steven 101
This list was once known as “Spielberg’s Curriculum,” but Edgar Wright (co-writer of Spielberg’s upcoming film The Adventures of Tintin, as well as modern classics Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead) debunked it on Twitter. If this list…
The Music From Escape from New York
by Messrob Torikian Escape From New York is another movie in John Carpenter’s long line of work that has reached cult status. Although a mild hit upon its initial release, like most of Carpenter’s films, it found its audience on…
Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun: George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead -Beverly Gray
Novelist Colson Whitehead, recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant and a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, has devoted his latest novel to zombies. Is there a trend here? These days zombies are showing up in all the best places, including…
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…
A Brief Moment With Greydon Clark
GREYDON CLARK is a renaissance man of B movie cinema – actor/writer/producer & more over four decades of delectable decadence (and counting). Here is a brief but illuminating Q&A with this genre giant: Will the Thrill: Any standout memory or…
A Brief Moment With Kevin Tenney
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 Brief Moment With Stuart Gordon
“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…
The Queen B-Ida Lupino
If Samuel Fuller has a female counterpart it would have been Ida Lupino. A pioneering female filmmaker, she carved out her own world out of a raw cinematic wilderness . She took instead of waiting to have someone or some…
SERGIO CORBUCCI, THE DISORDERLY GENIUS
“If Sergio Leone was the ‘father’ of the SW than Sergio Corbucci was his ‘uncle”. This phrase by a critic sums up very well the distance between those 2 directors who are the most influential of the sub genre. Corbucci…
The Late Night of Joel Goodson: A Reflection on Risky Business
Now when I was a young boy, at the age of five My mother said I was, gonna be the greatest man alive But now I’m a man, way past 21 I had lot’s of fun I’m a man “Muddy…
Remaking A Classic-Giant Gila Monster
from Justin Beahm Famous Monsters of Filmland Indie legend and Corman go-to-guy Jim (CHOPPING MALL, RETURN OF THE SWAMP THING) Wynorski is helming a remake of the notorious 1959 Ray Kellogg creature feature THE GIANT GILA MONSTER. FAMOUS MONSTERS sat…
Asylum’s Music Master- Chris Ridenhour
By Osvaldo Neto 1 – How do you fell in love with music and how it became part of your life? The original Star Trek tv series. The music was so over the top and fun. It had a huge…
The Golden B Movie Sounds Of Virgil
A key part of our team is composer Virgil Franklin. Virgil is beginning work of the soundtrack for GILA!. In addition to having two degrees in music, a BA from Indiana State University and a Masters in Music Technology from…
Confessions Of A Horror Host
JOHN STANLEY is the legendary author of numerous articles, novels and books on the subject of johnstanley1fantasy cinema, and perhaps most famously hosted the popular Creature Features program in the Bay Area circa the early ‘80s. He is additionally a…
B Movies Rise Again
As a keen observer of the American psyche, I feel strong that a paradigm shift is about to occur. Large corporations inclusive of film studios and television networks have for the past decade been forcing contrived entertainment down the throats…
The Drive-In Is Here To Stay
About 400 permanent drive-ins presently operate in the United States, a surprisingly large number in this age of personalized, on-the-go media, but many people don’t even know they exist. A further 954 portable drive in theatre operators have aisen. Today,…
Wynorski, A Legend in Genre Cinema
A 25-year veteran in the Hollywood exploitation field, writer/producer/director Jim Wynorski is responsible for over 150 varied motion pictures in a myriad of genres. Leaving behind a successful commercial business in New York, Wynorski relocated to California in 1980 and…
Play Them Again Sammy-Tess Henson
It ’s late on a Friday n i g ht in 1 9 6 7 . I ’m a s ca red f ive – year-old sitting on my father ’s knee. The room is d a r k except…
Kelli Maroney: Killer Beauty
Kelli Maroney plays cute and tough, bad and beautiful better than anyone. In “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” her character intrepidly stands up for school spirit during a rally. In the cult zombie classic “Night of the Comet” she wields…