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Dear listeners, this week Melissa brings you to the wilds of Evanston, Illinois for the 40th anniversary of B-Fest, a 24-hour film festival of bad movies, cult movies, and other mayhem. Killer children! Aliens resurrecting the dead! Space Camp!
Show notes behind the cut!
Movies discussed:
Gator
Big Man Japan
The Adventure
X the Unknown
Wizard of Speed and Time
Plan 9 from Outer Space
The Children of Ravensback
Fiend Without a Face
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
American Ninja
Thrilling Bloody Sword
SpaceCamp
Streets of Fire
Xanadu
Bloodrayne
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I think the reason Wizard of Speed and Time was shown upside down and backwards immediately after it was shown forwards was an artifact of the analog age. That’s how they rewound the reel so they could show it again. If you show it digitally and do the same thing, you’re just mimicking the old experience but without the vital context of the nature of 16mm celluloid film as a physical object (see “Q.U.R.” and “Robinc”, both by Anthony Boucher, for an explanation of mimickry as a dead end in design and aesthetics).