B Movie Celebration wrap up

Timelord · **Posted:** Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:34 am

I had a great time at the B Movie Celebration! I'll be posting several reviews in the coming days but I wanted to give you all a quick description of what went on.

Night one was the premier of the film GILA!, a remake of the 1959 Ray Kellogg film The Giant Gila Monster. One of the best homage films I've seen. A fun story, great cast, and all around fun! Several of the stars were on hand to see the film themselves as well as the director Jim Wynorski and the producer (and founder of the Celebration) Bill Dever.
That was followed by Return of the Killer Shrews, a sequel to another 1959 Ray Kellogg film, The Killer Shrews. This brought back James Best as Thorne Sherman and also starred John Schneider. More on that one later.

Day two was one fun film or film short after another. Including a very interesting German film Tartarus, an very well done 5 minute short film Squid, than left me wanting MUCH more, a neat flick that took me back to the after school movie adventure type films called Lisl and the Lorlock, and another great homage film, this one from New Foundland, The Tentacles Claw. Writer/director Michael Rigler and star/producer Tara Manuel were on hand for that one as well.

Day three... I couldn't stay for day three.

Several more films and short films were scheduled that I would have liked to catch but alas, I had to go home. Next year, next year.

Check out a small photo album of the events on the Facebook page here

kbachelder · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:59 am

It was great to meet you and get to hang out together at the event. It was a lot of fun all around.

Kevin

Timelord · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:11 am

You as well! Now I know you REALLY exist!

Did you catch anything interesting on Sunday? A few titles sounded intriguing.

kbachelder · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:43 pm

Timelord wrote:

You as well! Now I know you REALLY exist!

Did you catch anything interesting on Sunday? A few titles sounded intriguing.

I only had about an hour to spend at the event before I had to leave for the airport. I hung out with Bill Dever, Avery Guerra and Henrique Couto. We discussed what went well at the event and some ideas on improving things for next year. A move back to the original location, more social events and more vintage films were some of things that came up.

Kevin

Timelord · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:06 pm

I heard Bill say this was a pretty low turnout so maybe a move back to the old locale would be best.

Some vintage titles would be fun, but I'd still prefer the majority to be the new stuff. I'd also like a better opportunity for some Q&A with the cast/crews that attend besides cornering them in the lobby.

kbachelder · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:49 am

Timelord wrote:

Some vintage titles would be fun, but I'd still prefer the majority to be the new stuff.

Agreed.

As long as there are multiple theaters available having some vintage titles up against new titles would give folks more options and those vintage titles also tend to draw more folks to attend than than just having newer unknown movies.

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I'd also like a better opportunity for some Q&A with the cast/crews that attend besides cornering them in the lobby.

Agreed. One of the items that was discussed was the importance of having a planned time for social interactions as well as Q&As.

Kevin

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