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Weekend of
August 8th
(Color) 1967
When Playmate Magazine publisher Mr. Funazu decides to develop an animal-themed park, he dispatches a crew to a remote Pacific island in search of exotic species. Crew members Hiroshi Kurosaki and Itoko Koyanagi run afoul of some natives who worship a god named Gamma. Then they discover a giant egg that hatches into a strange creature. They take it to Tokyo against the natives’ wishes and soon incur the wrath of the creature’s parents.
Weekend of
August 15th
(B&W) 1962
Zelda, Bird, and Theo prove once again that two heads are better than one, or maybe not when it comes to this flick! “The Manster” ( also known in some cinema circles as “The Two Headed Killer”) is an American sci-fi horror flick that was shot in Japan. A foreign correspondent is given an experimental drug that causes a second head to grow from his shoulder. Can a mad scientist stop the madness? Pass the conditioner!
Weekend of
August 22nd
(B&W) 1957
Zelda, Bird, and Theo screen the perfect Corman classic for a hot summer night! Swing with music from The Platters, Bob Luman and His Shadows, and the Blockbusters. A nightclub owner, Christopher ‘Christy’ Cristakos, falls in love with the club’s singer, Natalie Cook. However, the singer is in love with Stanley, a local businessman/gangster. After the gangster wins control of the club, Cristakos, the previous owner, begins to perform comic routines between the acts at the night club as part of his (Cristakos) plan to win Natalie back. Will she return?
Weekend of
August 29th
(B&W) 1950
Edmond O’Brien stars in one of the best film noir tales of all time. A fatally poisoned man tries to find out who has poisoned him and why. It was the film debuts of Beverly Garland (as Beverly Campbell) and Laurette Luez. In 2004, D.O.A. was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
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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.
