NOW PLAYING
Weekend of
March 7th
(Color) 1960
The beatniks always warn to “Keep Watching The Skies” – and for good reason! This movie was known as an international science fiction event, bringing East German and Polish cultures together. It is based on a 1951 novel “The Astronauts” by Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lam. The film was first released in East Germany, then shown in English under other titles…including “Planet of the Dead,” and “Spaceship Venus Does Not Reply.” After finding an ancient, long buried flight recorder that originally came from a spaceship thought to be from Venus, a ship with humans is dispatched to the Morning Star. The crew discovers a long dead Venusian civilization that had constructed a device intended to destroy all life on earth prior to invasion. What will the astronauts find?
Weekend of
March 14th
(B&W) 1959
In our 30 years, this one is an all time fan favorite! Yvette Vickers stars in this creature feature, produced by Gene Corman. Were leeches exposed to atomic radiation making them monstrous mutations? Same could be said for some of the cast in this classic! Wear your hip waders as the beatniks jump into the swamp.
Weekend of
March 21st NEW
(Color) 1966
An all star cast including Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hopper, and Judi Meredith are cast as alien space creatures looking to visit Earth in search of their favorite drink, real “Bloody Mary’s!” It’s a psychedelic sci-fi flick.
Weekend of
March 28th
(B&W) 1957
Russell Johnson, who played the Professor on “Gilligan’s Island,” is part of a team of scientists who land on a Pacific island, only to find a pair of radiated giant monster mutant crabs. Will Johnson figure out how to tame these crustaceans? Pass the drawn butter!
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ABOUT OBC
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.
