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Promo for the limited-run webseries BIG RETRO VIDEO.
Video Vinnie is a lonely clerk at a video rental store, helping the newly-quarantined populace of 2020 recreate the feeling of the family-owned video rental shop right at home. Tracking down retro content on streaming services from Amazon to YouTube, Vinnie makes his picks for ultra-rare finds and unknown oddities. Produced in Adobe Character Animator and starring Michael J Heagle as Vinnie. Heagle did work in a video rental store (Best Buy #25 in Greenfield Wisconsin) while in college, and the experience inspired not only this series but the Big Retro Video book series. |
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Transylvania Television, the Retro Monster Comedy That's Really Not for Kids: an adult puppet sitcom in which a misfit band of monsters try not to kill each other as they run a television station in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains.
In addition to writing and directing on Transylvania Television, Michael Heagle is known for playing the role of Dwayne Frankenstein, the lovable "village idiot" of the station. And if you dig that, you can get a lovely little autographed glossy 8x10 picture of Dwayne in our SHOP right now!
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When a military transport crash lands on a war-torn planet, competing factions seek the last, lost stockpile of the illicit psychic-power enhancing drug Psylenol. Set against a backdrop that combines the apocalyptic worldview of the Mad Max trilogy with the lawless antihero psychology of the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, Planetfall packs a visual effects-packed science fiction punch. Starring Leitha Matz and Heidi Fellner, the film has appearances from cult movie auteur Ted V. Mikels (Astro Zombies, Doll Squad) as Zitan President Arch Stanton, Jesse Ventura’s son Tyrel Ventura as shady dealer Syrus Theed, and the voice of John Levene (Doctor Who’s Sgt. Benton) as a pissed-off alien!
The loaded DVD includes an in-depth documentary on the film’s making, which “packs everything you’d ever need to know about the movie, from its origins as a barely-there idea based on a set of costumes owned by the producers to its sold out screening at a Minneapolis theater. A mountain of on-set footage compliments honest interviews that discuss the best and worst of homegrown cinema. If you didn’t love – or at least admire – the movie before this documentary, you will after.” (David Cornelius, DVD-Talk) |
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Distributed by Troma (purveyors of such classic films as Class of Nuke 'Em High and The Toxic Avenger)! Steeped in drive-in culture and exploitation filmmaking lore, Go to Hell centers around tabloid news reporter Dario Dare, who, in the search for the ultimate supernatural cover story for his Weekly World News-esque paper the National Explainer, becomes embroiled in a supernatural assassination plot that reads like JFK but screams like The Exorcist!
Transported to Hell by the minions of subdemon Bob Beezly, Dare is blackmailed into assassinating Cardinal Ponti, who is actually a Vatican turncoat who traded his soul for super powers and refuses to pay up. Beezly holds Dario’s soul prisoner in Hell to insure his complete cooperation, his new job: kill Ponti and retrieve his soul. On his mission, he must team up with Vatican secret agent Marion Tango, Ponti’s bodyguard and advisor. But Marion has problems of her own. Captured by two renegade Vatican agents who look like Elvis Presley and Andy Warhol respectively, she is subjected to a variety of perverted interrogation techniques. Unable to prevent the assassination of Cardinal Ponti, she tries her best to capture the man responsible for his death: Dario Dare! |
