It’s our favorite day of the year, and as always we’d like to kick off the last day of “Halloween Horror Month” with a partaking in our favorite music video of all time: 1983’s Thriller!
Rick Baker, Jon Landis, Vincent Price, Micheal Jackson, Ola Ray, Werewolves, Zombies, Dancing Zombies, Break Dancing Zombies, Dream Sequences, what more can you ask for?
Now Available on Paperback and Kindle, in the 1990’s the concept of superhero entertainment was still considered a big gamble for major studios like Sony and Warner Bros. Superheroes and their live action counterparts were confined to television series, and low budget productions, giving way to a slew of colorful, odd, and obscure crime fighters. “Super Schlock” takes a tongue in cheek but loving look back to a decade where Blank Man and the Planet Patrol walked so that blockbusters like “The Avengers” and “Black Panther” could run.
This October on Friday the 13th Weekend, don’t miss the grassroots horror event of the year as Barry Kaufman of House of Monsters and John McDevitt of FACETS present SUPER-HORROR-RAMA!, three days of movie madness recalling the halcyon days of drive-in horror marathons!
Screenings will be held at FACETS, located at 1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614. Full series description and ticketing can be found on Eventbrite here. Single Tickets are $12, Triple Feature tickets are $20, and Series Passes (which include all 8 films) are $40.
This October on Friday the 13th Weekend, experience three nights of supershockers with a focus on meta-horror, witch flicks, and video nasties!
American Tortoise Rescue, the first national turtle and tortoise rescue, is sending a plea to parents – buy toys, not turtles. Seth Rogen, a producer on the film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” saw the first Ninja Turtles movie as a youngster in 1990, the same year ATR was founded, and is expected to draw more crowds than in the past. History shows that after the release of a series of these successful Ninja Turtles movies, turtles lose their lives through the pet trade. Most of the turtles have been scooped out of the wild to be sold in pet stores or over the internet.
As a nod to Turner Classic Movies (TCM)’s “Silent Sunday Nights,” hosted by Academy Museum Director and President Jacqueline Stewart, the museum is launching a series of silent film screenings this summer. Historian David Pierce has concluded that only 26% of American silent features survive in complete form.
Both TCM and the Academy Museum are dedicated to showcasing the films of this important period in filmmaking history as part of our cultural heritage. Taking place on Sundays at 2pm, Silent Sundays will showcase iconic movies from the silent era as well as forgotten gems and international classics.
Among just some of the films being screened are Earth (Zemlya), the ever first screening of the film outside of Europe with a new soundtrack for the film created by Luke Corradine by order of the UFACE association, Flesh and the Devil with Live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla, and the 100th Anniversary screening of the Harold Lloyd masterpiece Safety Last!
“Silent Sundays” will screen at the Academy Museum at Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, for more information on the programming, movie times, and purchasing tickets, visit the Academy Museum Website.
Once again Cinema Crazed has the honor of covering Fantasia Film Festival, and we’re getting in our choices for movies we’re looking forward to seeing. Every year we try to cover as many films as possible, and every year we accumulate a list of movies that we’re anxious to seek out in the festival. Fantasia has already released a list of their first and second waves and we compiled a list of five movies that caught our attention the most.
This year Fantasia runs from July 20th to August 9th at Montreal!
This week on WAPJ-FM’s award-winning “Nutmeg Chatter,” Phil Hall is joined by Cinema Crazed’s publisher and editor Felix Vasquez Jr. for a discussion on the 85th anniversary of Bugs Bunny’s debut.
(And listen carefully because we make a mistake in discussing Bugs’ history – can you guess where we went wrong?)