B-Movie Celebration 2008

Directed by Jim Wynorski, Debbie James, Rene Assa , Patrick O'Brian A seemingly harmless telephone service endows an evil teacher with powers from beyond the grave. Look, Daddy! Every time you hear a bell, a zombie takes us all to hell.

Director: Charles Barton. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert, Jane Randolph. Dracula wants to use Lou Costello’s brain for Frankenstein’s monster, while Larry Talbot tries to warn the boys of impending danger…..whenever he’s not turning into the Wolf Man. The first of the “A&C Meet…” series (They would later meet Boris Karloff, The Keystone Kops, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Mummy), this one has the horror elements played straight while the comedy is left to the comedians. The result is comic fireworks!

Directed by Jim Wynorski, Nancy Allen, Richard Grieco, Nick Mancuso Headed towards Hollywood, Rex is the "fastest fun in the West" --before long, he has a trail of dead policemen in his wake. Meanwhile, hard-drinking cop John Shepard is suddenly in the news after killing one of L.A.'s most notorious drug dealers in a shoot out. Word reaches Rex, who vows to challenge Shepard once he hits Los Angeles. In a final showdown as tense as high noon battles, Shepard and Rex come face to face.

Director: Roger Corman. Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson, Leslie Bradley, Mel Welles, Ed Nelson. A group of people are trapped on a shrinking island by intelligent crabs that eat brains in this early Roger Corman flick. Screenplay by Charles B. Pierce.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski. Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard, Michael Emmett, Gene Roth, Bruno VeSota. Giant leeches in a Southern swamp suck the blood from their victims, in this combination of white trash and monster movie genres. Screenplay by actor Leo Gordon. Produced by Roger and Gene Corman.

Director: Eugene Lourie. Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Woods, Ross Elliot. An atom-bomb blast thaws out a prehistoric monster who then sets out to wreak havoc. One of the earliest films to feature Ray Harryhausen’s special effects, this was suggested by a Ray Bradbury story “The Fog Horn.”

Director: Russ Meyer. Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, David Gurian, John LaZar, Charles Napier. Scripted by Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert, this in-name-only sequel to 1967’s “Valley of the Dolls” tells the whacked-out tale of an all-girl rock ‘n’ roll trio and the complications that arise along their way to the top. This one is filled with Meyer’s dazzling use of color and razor-sharp editing. And watch out for Z-Man, a.k.a. Superwoman.

Out at a petting park one night in Dowingtown watching the stars 17-year old Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) is wooing his girlfriend Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut) when they see a large meteor appearing to fall to Earth nearby so they go in search of it. Before they reach the meteor an Old Man (Olin Howard) finds it and sees that there is a gooey material oozing from the where the meteor has landed. The gooey material attaches itself to the old mans hand and begins crawling and expanding up his arm. Steve and Jane discover the man and take him to Dr. Hallen in town who cannot figure out what the thing is and asks Steve and Jane fore more information. Steve and Jane drive back out to the old mans house for more evidence taking with them some of the local bad boys led by Tony Gressette (Robert Fields). When Steve and Jane return to town, they discover that the Blob has consumed the doctor and try to convince the local police led by Sergeant Jim Bert (John Benson) of this horror but when they investigate they cant find anything. In the meantime Steve and Janes parents demand they go home for the night, but the two teenagers sneak out and investigate further and discover that the Blob has grown to enormous proportions. They manage to alert the Police and during the midst of stampeding teenagers and towns folk discover the secret to stopping the Blob.

A young woman attempts to escape her past by emigrating to the moon colony of Ganymede only to have her past catch up with her