Posted on: July 22nd, 2008
Shock It To Me! Film Festival 08 trailer-
(Ad for Shock It To Me! 2008)
Online since: February 20th, 2006
Article posted by: Nightmare Child
It's back, and it's more shocking than ever! The SHOCK IT TO ME! Film
Festival is back this year at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. The
teaser trailer for the local film festival is up online, and it shows off some
classic (and not so classic) films. Like some Frankenstein Monster,
SHOCK IT TO ME! was conceived by the mad minds of author/promoter
August Ragone and writer/walking movie encyclopedia, Michael Monahan,
who felt that there was a serious chasm left by the disappearance of the
traditional Halloween Horror Movie Marathons which once ran at various
San Francisco grindhouses in Octobers past, compounded with the loss
of hosted horror shows from local TV stations.
After wrapping up "Godzillafest" at the Castro Theatre in November 2004,
August and Michael approached Bill Longen (a former film editor at
KTVU-2 for the "Creature Features" program), the theatre's events
producer, who thought that a weekend of classic horror films was a
horrible idea... but horrible in a good way. But, SHOCK IT TO ME! is more
than a mere film retrospective--it's a horror event, with hosts, celebrity
guests, and a dealer's area--part horror film fest/part horror convention!
Festival is back this year at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. The
teaser trailer for the local film festival is up online, and it shows off some
classic (and not so classic) films. Like some Frankenstein Monster,
SHOCK IT TO ME! was conceived by the mad minds of author/promoter
August Ragone and writer/walking movie encyclopedia, Michael Monahan,
who felt that there was a serious chasm left by the disappearance of the
traditional Halloween Horror Movie Marathons which once ran at various
San Francisco grindhouses in Octobers past, compounded with the loss
of hosted horror shows from local TV stations.
After wrapping up "Godzillafest" at the Castro Theatre in November 2004,
August and Michael approached Bill Longen (a former film editor at
KTVU-2 for the "Creature Features" program), the theatre's events
producer, who thought that a weekend of classic horror films was a
horrible idea... but horrible in a good way. But, SHOCK IT TO ME! is more
than a mere film retrospective--it's a horror event, with hosts, celebrity
guests, and a dealer's area--part horror film fest/part horror convention!
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