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Weekend of
June 6th
(B&W) 1963
Dennis Hopper stars in his first film with Linda Lawson and Luana Anders in a macabre fantasy. Hooper falls for a girl while on leave from the Navy in Santa Monica Is she really a mermaid that seduces and drowns her boyfriends? And is that creepy Captain of the boardwalk side show involved? Bird, Zelda, and Theo serve us some sushi with this classic!
Weekend of
June 13th
(Color) 1972
This one is made for drive-in season! Known as “Revenge of the Living Dead,” and “Zreaks,” his 1972 comedic horror film directed by Bob Clark is a cult classic. This low budget zombie epic was shot in 14 days for $50,000. Clark employed his college pals where they embark as a theatre troupe who travel by boat to a small island off the cost of Miami that is a cemetery for deranged criminals. There they look to have a night of fun and games, but will the island’s buried inhabitants take revenge? The beatkinks break out the fondue to find out!
Weekend of
June 20th
(B&W) 1958
After exposure to radiation, an atomic research scientist finds himself changing into a murderous, lizard like creature every time he is exposed to sunlight. Zelda, Bird, and Theo warn that you may need to wear some sunscreen for this one!
Weekend of
June 27th NEW
(B&W) 1959
Celebrate the 100th heavenly birthday for one of the directors who made the movies Off Beat Cinema loves to show – Roger Corman! In this flick, Corman brings beatniks together to sip java and converse about art. Sound familiar? It is one of the inspirations for our show! Plus, we celebrate some of Corman’s other classics!
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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.
