That Guy Dick Miller

We've written about Dick Miller before but you really can't say enough about him. That's likely why Elijah Drenner made a documentary about him!


If you aren't familiar with Dick Miller by name, you most likely would recognize him from any of his  175 roles. He sells guns to the Terminator, he's the town drunk/snow plow driver in Gremlins, in the Howling he sells convenient books on werewolfs. He pops up in Pirannah, Chopping Mall, The 'Burbs, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Innerspace, Matinee, Unlawful Entry, Small Solders, and he's got a (rare) starring role in A Bucket of Blood.

We seriously can't wait for That Guy Dick Miller so we can learn so much more about this iconic That Guy. But we only have to wait for Friday because Trylon is screening That Guy all weekend! Check it out and know so much more about a man you've seen in everything.

Fri, Apr 4th 7 & 9pm
Sat, Apr 5th 7 & 9pm
Sun, Apr 6th 5 & 7pm

Raw Force was a blast!

Thank you to everyone who stopped out last night, you were a fun crowd and many fun conversations were had!

If you didn't get there early enough to get one for free, Tim's posters will be up for sale in the next day or two. And as always, check back here to get clues about next month's movie!

Tape Freaks screening Tonight!

Tonight!
Come join us for another night of cinematic weirdness. There'll be some trashy VHS trailers (pulled straight from our collection) and a genre mashing movie that will make you wonder so many things...

The first 20 people that arrive at the Starbar (starting at 6:30) will get a limited number screenprint poster designed and printed by Tim just for this event. Come get a free poster and chat with your fellow movie nerds!

7:30pm, $5, Theatres at Mall of America.

Genre Mashing: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

Once upon a time, Hammer House of Horror and Shaw Brothers mashed together not only their production houses' talents, but eastern and western vampire lore, in a pretty unique martial arts movie. The only thing missing (sadly) is Christopher Lee, making this the only Hammer Dracula movie not featuring Lee as Dracula.

The plot unfolds something like this: Professor Van Helsing has traveled to China on his continuing quest to destroy all things vampire. While there, he meets a young man who's village is being tormented by seven golden-bat-medallion-wearing vampires. Together they journey to destroy the 7 Golden Vampires and their army of walking dead.

Things to watch for: The interesting takes on women and westerners that sometimes changes on a dime for some characters, strangely chosen makeup effects, a man being possessed by Dracula, and of course Peter Cushing.

A.K.A.: 7 Brothers and a Sister Meet Dracula

Things we learned: Run Run Shaw was alive until the 7th day of this year. He was 106 years old and had 329 producer credits under his belt.

Why did this interesting marriage happen?: During the end-times for Hammer, the studio head sold the company to his son who had some ideas on how to get audiences' faded interest back. Sadly those ideas didn't pay off and the studio eventually shut it's doors, but out of their death rattle came the Shaw Bros team ups for The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and Shatter (a more straight forward action move we've not yet seen).

Other strange Shaw Bros team ups: Shaw Bros, Roger Corman, and New World all joined up for the Cannonball Run precursor Cannonball, and Shaw Bros joined up with Warner Bros for Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold.

Other genre mashups worth mentioning.

Here are few more notable Genre Mashups. Enjoy!


Dead Heat (1988): Zombies/ Buddy cop.



Psychomania (1973): Bikers/ Undead/ Occult/ Mod



Near Dark (1987): Vampire/ Western



Ninja III the domination (1984) : Ninja/ Exorcist/ Flashdance


Blacula (1972) : Horror/ Blaxploitation


Wolfcop (2014): Werewolf/ Cop/ Comedy

Genre Mashing: The Cottage

The Cottage (2008)

This is a fun genre mashup in the same vein as Botched, as it starts out as a crime-gone-wrong movie. The Cottage is more up-beat than Botched, but still manages to be pretty dang gory.

The plot starts out like this: David (Andy Serkis) has recruited his brother (Reece Shearsmith of League of Gentlemen)
to help him with a kidnaping-for-ransom scheme. It doesn't seem to take long for things to go belly up and spiral completely out of control. And that's when things get exponentially worse...

Things to watch for: Andy Serkis playing an angry bad guy, fun twists all the way through, inventive gore.

Trailer Trash V!

The next installment of Trailer Trash will be like no other! That's because this round of Trailer Trash will be exclusivly VHS content! We scoured our expansive VHS collection and captured the best of the worst, and on April 9th you can bask in the VHS trailer glory. (If you're curious about what we'll be screening, we'll be serving up a taste on March 26th before the super secret Tape Freaks movie!)
Trailer Trash Vhs, Theaters @ MOA, April 9th, 7:30pm, $7.