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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: B MOVIE NATION’S EAST COAST REP AND HOLLYWOOD THEATER MOGUL BRUCE LENTZ, AKA MR. SCHLOCK

BRUCE LENTZ, AKA “MR. SCHLOCK”, is about to take the reins of the B Movie Nation’s latest acquisition, the classic Hollywood Theater in the Pittsburgh suburb of Dormont, PA. Bruce was already a local legend due to his zany horror…

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Five Easy Questions: “CINEMA INSOMNIA” LEGEND MR. LOBO

MR. LOBO is the world’s leading TV horror host, at least of the New Generation. His nationally syndicated TV show Cinema Insomnia has a rabid fan base and has been seen by dozens of people coast to coast. Just kidding….

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Announcing the 2nd Annual Golden Cob Awards!

For the second year, The B Movie Celebration will be hosting the coveted Golden Cob Awards for Excellence in B Movies. This year The B Movie Celebration  is asking your help in determining who gets the Cob. Help us nominate…

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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 Nation’s Southwest Rep MIDNITE MOVIE MAMACITA

ANDREA BEESLEY-BROWN, better known around her Arizona haunts as MIDNITE MOVIE MAMACITA, is the B Movie Nation’s official Southwest Representative. We were email pals for years before she invited me to her show (at the now sadly defunct Chandler Cinemas)…

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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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Out in The Theatres June 5th CYXORK7

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: 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…

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The 2009 B Movie Celebration Line Up

Announcing the great film line-up at this years B Movie Celebration Abby Black Christmas Black Horizon Blacula Chopping Mall Creature from the Black Lagoon Cyclone Dark Star Dire Wolf Dr. Goldfoot and the The Bikini Machine Forbidden Planet Gas! Godzilla…

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…

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Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead Starts April 17th

“Makes Borat look like The Sound of Music… very guilty and gross pleasures!” KEVIN WILLIAMSON, THE CALGARY SUN (CANADA) Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is cinema’s first chicken-zombie horror-comedy… with musical numbers! When well-meaning but somewhat dim Arbie (Jason…

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MIL MASCARAS VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY: Monsters in Margaritaville

“These are not my pajamas” As impressive as Mickey Rourke was in The Wrestler, the true macho mangler comeback story of late is Mil Mascaras. The 60something Mexican icon gained international fame for his innovative wrestling techniques and flamboyant costumes…

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Five Easy Questions: LUCHA RESURRECTOR JEFFREY UHLMANN

JEFFREY UHLMANN is not an idiot, to put it plainly. He has a PhD in robot engineering from Oxford (the one over there, yes) and a M.S. in computer science and to top it off, a B.A. from the University…

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Five Easy Questions: JIM WYNORSKI

JIM WYNORSKI , International B Movie Man of Action and a native of Long Island, is a multi-talented writer/producer/director with over 70 genre films to his credit. His many B classics combining the Basics of Breasts, Blood and Beasts include…

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Lloyd Kaufman’s POULTRYGEIST: Not for chickens

  GRAB YOUR SURF BOARDS AND SKUNK APE REPELLENT STOMP SHOUT SCREAM OPENS APRIL 10th   Lloyd Kaufman has a nose for gory social satire…or he used to…it’s around here somewhere… If you stayed up late in a cheap motel…

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Help Us Get BRAIN DEAD and JACK SAYS in Theatres

Hello one of the B Movie loving folks at Monogram Releasing here, we are working hard to make sure Brain Dead, a great horror film by 80’s auteur Kevin Tenney and Jack Says, a super British Noir Thriller get the…