Forry was a good friend and will be missed.
We've won a Craggy Award!
We're honored to announce that Kevin Sean Michaels and Vampira: The Movie have won this year's Craggy award for Best Independendent Artist. The Craggy Awards are hosted by Cult Radio A-Go-Go! (C.R.A.G.G., get it?), "Your only cult genre internet radio station, featuring 24 hours of rare unique cult programming, on 365 days a year!" The Craggy Awards' "Best Independent Artist" category is broad and includes "any independent film directors, writers, artists, convention organizers, actors, or websites who were on CRAGG Live as a guest over the year."
Winners were announced live on Cult Radio A-Go-Go!, and the Craggsters assure us that a "website post complete with pics will be up soon." In the meantime, here's the complete list of winners:
Controversy of the Year:
Runner up: Borloff in the Dust (Karlos Borloff gets lost in the desert
on the way to the studio and has to be rescued)
Winner: Fraud De Madame (Phoney director convinces Terry, Tiffany and
the CRAGG audience to help him make a movie that never existed.)
Best Independent Artist of the Year:
Runner up: www.mynerdgirl.com
Winner: Vampira: The Movie by Kevin Sean Michaels
Best Band / Musician of the Year:
Runner up: Astro Al
Winner: Rob Zombie
Biggest Contributor to Cult Radio For the Year:
Runner up: Clint Lewallen
Winner: Karlos Borloff
Favorite HHRN Horror Host of the Year:
Runner up: Ormon Grimsby
Winner: Dug Graves
Best Celebrity Interview of the Year:
Runner up: Elvira
Winner: Geri Reischl
Ms. Cult Radio A-Go-Go!
Runner up: Brinke Stevens
Winner: Dita Dirt Nap
Thanks to everyone who voted, and congratulations to all the winners!
New video: Thee Merry Widows
Thee Merry Widows rocked Landmark's Clay Theatre in San Francisco on September 19, performing their song "Grave Robbers (From Outer Space)." The studio version of this song can be heard in Vampira: The Movie and on the new soundtrack CD. Here's some footage of them rehearsing for the show:
For this and all the other songs heard in Vampira: The Movie, be sure to pick up a copy of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, now available
from Collectables at Oldies.com,
from Amazon.com
Michaels interviews Mikels
in Screem Magazine #17
Screem Magazine #17 features an interview with film director Ted V. Mikels conducted by Vampira: The Movie director Kevin Sean Michaels. This special issue features two alternate Creature from the Black Lagoon covers in celebration of the new documentary Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man. A tribute to Ben Chapman and an interview with the underwater Creature, Ricou Browning, round out our Blackie coverage. Other goodies in the Fall/Winter edition of Screem include: a look at the Brother Theodore story To My Great Chagrin; a filmbook on The Pharaoh's Curse by Tom Weaver; Mexican fantasy films; Richard Elfman's Forbidden Zone; Benicio del Toro speaks about Universal's new Wolfman film; The Dead Matter; plus plenty of DVD and Blu-ray reviews.
