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:
THE CORPSE GRINDERS (1971) A cat food company looking to cut a few corners starts to buy bodies from Caleb, the local grave-robbing cemetery caretaker, and grind them up as pet chow. Cats eating the tasty and popular “premium” cat food become savage little beasts that attack their owners. A couple of veterinarians begin to investigate and discover the truth just in time to find themselves on the receiving end of a B movie corpse grinding! Classic Drive-In horror from our old pal, Ted V. Mikels, is must viewing for any Cinema Wasteland fan.
ELVIS’ 1968 COMEBACK SPECIAL - The famous TV special that led to Elvis’ live show and concert comeback features several early hits as well as an informal jam session with his legendary sidemen. How can you go wrong?!
THE FUNHOUSE (1981) Four teens decide to spend the night in a seedy carnival funhouse where a deformed albino psychopath hunts them down one by one in this enjoyable horror outing from director Tobe Hooper. A solid cast, nice set design, creepy lighting and atmosphere help ride over the plot bumps and make for a great ninety minutes of thrills and chills.
Please check back for the complete list...
Here are the movies we are showing on DVD or Video Projection:
THE FRIDAY NIGHT SHORT FILM BLOCK: A tradition since our first show, the Friday Night block of short films has always been a crowd favorite. Stay tuned to see what we come up with for our April 2009 “Spring Spectacular!”
HEAD CASE (2007) The story of mom and pop serial killers Wayne and Andrea Montgomery as told in psuedo-documentary style through an edited collection of their grizzly home movies. Andrea does her thing serving drug-laced ginger ale and manning the camera while Wayne gleefully grates, scrapes, and wire brushes the flesh from their victims before strangling, stabbing, bashing and blindsiding them into death before he hacks apart their corpses in the bath tub. When daughter Monica discovers just what mom and dad have been up to in the basement, both she and her brother soon become victims in their suburban spree of carnage. Well made and well acted, Head Case easily rises above most similar films made the past few years.
Please check back for the complete list of movies we will be showing in April.
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.