Five Easy Questions: TED V. MIKELS
Monica Tiki Goddess, Ted V Mikels, Will the Thrill, Vegas, October 2001 The term “living legend” tends to get overused, but in the case of TED V. MIKELS, it can’t be overstated. Ted is the Energizer Bunny of grindhouse…
The British Invasion “Jack Says” Opens Friday
This film is one of the UK’s best indie features to come out in a long time, and Guy Ritchie had better watch out – because these guys have got plenty of raw talent to back everything up! Not to…
Five Easy Questions: JAY WADE EDWARDS
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”)…
Now Playing At The B Movie Nation
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…
Five Easy Questions: SIMON PHILLIPS
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…
Five Easy Questions: STUART SIMPSON
“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…
Five Easy Questions: LLOYD KAUFMAN
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…
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…
THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON (1959)
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,…
Monogram Releasing presents STOMP! SHOUT! SCREAM!
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…
DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN/MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND (Original Soundtracks)
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…
Stomp! Shout! Scream! (Original Soundtrack, Various Artists)
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…
Five Easy Questions: 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…
BRAIN DEAD is unleashed! 3/20/09
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…
Swingin’ at the Seance (The Moon-Rays)
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…
Last House on the Left (Original Soundtrack, David Hess)
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…
Mr Lobo’s WILKINS BUILDING PROJECT
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…
Monogram Releasing presents THE DEMONS AMONG US
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…
Monogram Releasing presents JACK SAYS
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…
Bob Wilkins Memorial Tributes
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…