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Weekend of
October 10th
(B&W) 1961
Bird, Spectra, and Theo visit our Erie County Fair to enjoy the carnival…while presenting one of the most terrifying films from our library. The 1962 independent horror film was produced and directed by Herk Harvey, starring Candace Hilligoss. The plot follows a young woman whose life is disturbed after a car accident. She relocates to a new city, where she finds herself unable to associate with the locals, and becomes drawn to the pavilion of an abandoned carnival. Director Harvey appears in the film as the ghoulish stranger!
Weekend of
October 17th
(B&W) 1965 NEW
The incredible Barbara Steele has a dual role in this Italian horror classic, shown for the first time on Off Beat Cinema. This one has it all…a gothic feel, castles, fiendish subplots, bloody mayhem…and did we mention, Barbara Steele? Boil up the pasta and dig in!
Weekend of
October 24th
(Color) 1963
Zelda, Bird, and Theo serve up this unique Japanese horror film (also known as “Mantango”) directed by Ishirō Honda. The film is partially based on William Hope Hodgson’s short story “The Voice in the Night” about a group of castaways on an island who are unwittingly altered by a local species of mutagenic mushrooms. Upon the film’s release in Japan, it was nearly banned due to scenes that depicted characters resembling victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This one will definitely “shock” you!
Weekend of
October 31st
(B&W) 1968
This was the movie that started it all for Off Beat Cinema 33 years ago on Halloween night! This is George Romero’s zombie epic starring Duane Jones and Judith O’Dea. The story follows seven people who are trapped in a rural farmhouse in Western Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. The area is under assault by a growing group of flesh eating ghouls brought back to life. Can they be stopped? Find out! Beatniks Bird, Spectra, Lana, and Theo also welcome a fan of the show who started watching in 1993, and visit the cemetery where the movie was made. Far out!
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Off Beat Cinema is a two-hour hosted movie show that airs on television stations throughout North America on the retroTV Network along with a series of independent stations. Off Beat Cinema promises to show you “the movies that must be shown” – the good, the bad and the foreign (in their original languages, of course!)
Off Beat Cinema began on October 31, 1993 as a diversion from the flood of late night infomercials that seemed to consume the available airwaves of television’s last cool frontier: late night! Once a hip haven for insomniacs, second shifters, beatniks and kids who would sneak back to the TV when their parents were solidly in dreamland, late night television had become a vast wasteland of hucksters hawking everything from cooling systems to spray-on hair in a can.
The show is filmed in the Hungry Ear Coffee House, a whacked-out poetry basement located somewhere in downtown Buffalo, NY. The Hungry Ear Coffee House is a mad pad, Dad… and the kind of place where Boris Karloff could sit with Ed Wood and discuss the transcendence of the ego and how that applies to Moe Howard getting a cream pie in the face. A comfortable pad where former Beatle Pete Best could sit with the Goo Goo Dolls and discuss the merits of 3D giant insect fear films. I think you get the picture.
