Films and Events
SPECIAL EVENTS & NOTEWORTHY ATTRACTIONS ALWAYS INCLUDE:
* MOVIE, MOVIES and more MOVIES! We cram in as many classic Drive-In movies, independent films and shorts as we can pack into a weekend. You’ll find movies and shorts on real 16mm film in our 200 seat “Film Room” and all kinds of indy films, shorts, and guest related features in our smaller, 100 seat “Video and DVD projection Room” all weekend long.
* Q&A Sessions, Live Movie Commentaries, Guest Talks and Movie Introductions... Our guests are always willing to interact with attending fans, and we’ve come up with all kinds of fun stuff for them to do over the years. Let’s see what we come up with for the next show shall we?
* Join us for “A GHASTLEE NITE AT THE MOVIES” every Saturday Night beginning at 8:00pm. Hosted by Dayton, Ohio’s very own A. Ghastlee Ghoul and featuring any number of our attending Horror Hosts from the Horror Host Underground, “A Ghastlee Nite at the Movies” isn’t really a film screening at all. It’s more a night of “live entertainment” and laughs. Join us for an evening of silly skits, bad music, interactive games and contests, surprise guests or anything else Ghastlee and the attending Horror Hosts come up with.
* SURPRISES and MORE SURPRISES! With most of the shows we run, things fall together at the last minute and we are able to cram in even more than the posted schedule will let you know about. It may be a surprise guest addition, extra film screening, a special event, movie introduction from a guest... You just never know until you arrive at the show and see if something extra fit into the schedule, but everyone likes surprises, right? Fortunately for you, we like springing a few on you every chance we get!
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AND WHAT ABOUT THE MOVIES YOU ASK?...
You can't have a "Movie Convention" without them, can you? ABSOLUTELY NOT! And we plan on showing plenty of films on both 16mm Film and Video at Cinema Wasteland - Many of which may be hosted by the Stars and Directors appearing as Guests at the show. Our evening film show is Free to all attendees and hotel guests.
Here are the movies we are showing on 16mm film:
BIGFOOT (1969) A couple of bikers fooling around in the local Bigfoot graveyard must really piss off the Bigfoot population because Mister Foot interrupts and promptly makes off with one of the biker chicks. Her old man trails the creature with the help of aging con man John Carradine, who sees money in capturing the creature. It turns out that the Bigfoot creatures are kidnapping women in order to breed with them and save their race. One of the creatures has to battle a bear to protect a kidnapped biker chick and the sheriff finally shows up long enough to blow away one of the larger creatures so everyone can call it a day. Watch for former Wasteland Guest, Haji, as one of the kidnapped biker chicks. It’s been a few years since we screened this crowd favorite, so get ready for a real treat when we present the Drive-In classic, Bigfoot, complete with a bunch of original TV commercials from the era spliced into the film for added fun.
EEGAH! (1962) Tom (Arch Hall, Jr.) and his girlfriend Roxy discover Eegah the caveman, (Richard Kiel, “Jaws” in the Bond films), living in a cave outside Palm Springs. Roxy befriends the simple-minded caveman and gives him a shave. The caveman, in turn, falls in love with Roxy and follows her to Palm Springs where the poor schlub is shot by police while Arch Jr. and his band plays. Incredible. Look for Arch Hall, Sr. as Roxy’s dad, Ray Dennis Steckler as the guy Eegah throws in the pool, and Steckler’s then wife, Caroline Brandt, as part of the cast.
STANLEY (1972) Chris Robinson is a Seminole Indian veteran with a chip on his shoulder and a rattlesnake named Stanley. Chris forces his reptile friends to do his dirty work and get revenge against some poachers who work for a snake-product tycoon that was involved in his father’s death until one day, Stanley and his reptile friends draw the line and have enough of being told what to do. Yeah, it kind of like “Ben”, only with snakes. Drive-In horror from “Death Curse of Tartu” and “Sting of Death” director, William Grefe.
SUPERARGO AND THE FACELESS GIANTS (1967) Superargo, the wrestling spy in tights, teams up with an ex-lama who teaches him to levitate so he can save the world from a mad scientist who is turning athletes into his own personal robot army. This Spanish/Italian co-production came hot on the heels of the popular Mexican wrestling hero movies of the sixties and has all the same bizarre charm as any El Santo movie made. A must see movie experience!
Here are the movies we are showing on DVD or Video Projection:
BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (1978) The Great Sardu runs a Grand Guignol theater in SoHo where he tortures and decapitates women on stage. The theater is actually a front for a white slave operation, but Sardu actually sees himself as some sort of theater genus. He has his dwarf assistant Ralphus tend to a cage full of cannibal women while he kidnaps a ballerina to brainwash into joining his show and slowly kills off a critic of his work. Yes, even with the budget effects work, it is sicker than anything H.G. Lewis ever made. The acting might be better than a Lewis film fan would expect as well. To me, Joel Reed’s cult exploitation film is one of the funniest and most tasteless black comedies ever made. To others, it’s so nihilistic and misogynistic, they find it hard to watch. Pussies. Never seen it? Then you be the judge when we ask writer/director Joel M. Reed to do live running commentary over the film on Friday or Saturday night.
SEIZURE (1974) Oliver Stone’s first feature film was a Canadian production that stars “Dark Shadow’s” Jonathan Frid as a writer and artist who’s latest dreamed-up creations - The Queen of Evil (Martine Beswicke), The Executioner, and an evil dwarf known as “The Spider” - come to life and begin to kill off his house guests. Watch for Joseph Sirola and Mary Woronov as Frid’s friends “Charlie and Mikki Hughes.” Woronov’s long chase and death in her underwear is worth the price of admission alone.
Check back we are still adding more movies....
AND DON’T FORGET ABOUT ALL THE OTHER “WASTELAND” VIDEO AND FILM BITS WE SCREEN ALL WEEKEND LONG. PLENTY OF HORROR MOVIE TRAILERS, ASSORTED SHORT FILMS, AND EVEN SOME CLASSIC THREE STOOGES ARE GENERALLY ALWAYS RUN SOMEWHERE DURING WEEKEND!
Please consult the Cinema Wasteland Program Guide upon checking in for a complete film show listing and their approximate starting times. The film line-up is subject to last minute changes.