Join your host, filmmaker Mark Bessenger (BITE MARKS, NINJA ZOMBIE), and his guests as they delve into the exploitative, overlooked and under-appreciated side of cinema! Each week, Mark picks a film his guests haven't seen, then they watch and discuss it! Will they like it, love it or hate it? Listen and find out!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton.
WARNING: SPOILERS!
©2024 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text Does a mutated bear shit in the woods? Find out in this episode of Celluloid Cemetery as Bigfoot enthusiast Rob Carl joins me to talk about the 1979 Paramount Pictures release, PROPHECY, starring Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire and Armand Assante as an Indian! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Big, mutated SPOILERS! ©2024 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text My kingdom for a banana! Today, filmmaker Vito Trabucco joins me to talk about the fourth and darkest entry in the Apes franchise, CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES! Why did 20th Century Fox change the ending? How was this movie affected by the Civil Rights movement? Listen and find out! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS on the Planet of the Apes! ©2024 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Sit right back, and you'll hear a tale...of TV's most famous fictional castaways and how, after three years on the air and twelve years off, Gilligan, the Skipper, Mr. & Mrs. Howell, Ginger, the Professor and Mary Ann finally get rescued from their island home! Join me and guest Fangoria writer and playwright Sean Abley as we take a three-hour tour (condensed to 38 minutes) and talk about the most famous fictional rescue in TV history! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT S...
Send us a text It's Thanksgiving Day at Celluloid Cemetery, but the turkey isn't the only thing about to be carved up! Join actor and horror aficionado Peter Stickles and me as we chat about the identical twin slasher film BLOOD RAGE and its leading lady, Louise Lasser! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: It's not cranberry sauce, it's SPOILERS! ©2024 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text When actors die onstage, this isn't what they mean! Join actor David Pevsner as we talk about the 1987 Italian slasher/giallo production STAGEFRIGHT! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS! Between the EYES! ©2024 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text Splish! Splash! Die! as actor and psychotherapist Kellum Lewis join Celluloid Cemetery as we follow the rules: 1. No Running. 2. No Diving. 3. No Peeing in the 2001 internationally-cast slasher, THE POOL! Kellum and I try to solve the mysteries: WHO is the killer? WHEN will the police rescue the victims? And WHY the hell is James McAvoy in this thing? Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: DAMN SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Those damn Yankees! Why can't we beat 'em?? Celluloid Cemetery welcomes our guest, choreographer/actor/director Michael Weaver as we talk about the filmed version of the hit Broadway musical with dance sequences by Bob Fosse! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: DAMN SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text Rabies-infected meat pies and goblets of blood are the perfect snack! Join our guest actor Scott Sell on Celluloid Cemetery as we foam at the mouth discussing the Satanic silliness of I DRINK YOUR BLOOD! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: I DRINK YOUR SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text I'm gonna tell ya all a story about a Harper Valley widowed wife on this episode of Celluloid Cemetery! Join actor/director/producer and council member Nic Arnzen as we talk about that 1978 revenge comedy, HARPER VALLEY P.T.A., based on the famous song by Jeannie C. Riley! It really did, it happened just that way! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: HARPER VALLELY SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsvi\ctions...
Send us a text A cursed corn field, an abandoned house and forbidding scarecrows add up to a horrific good time for five young people and a wayward crow, as filmmaker Jakob Bilinski joins Celluloid Cemetery to discuss the hoedown horror that is HUSK (2011)! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SHUCKS, WATCH OUT FOR SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Robert Louis Stevenson rolls over in his grave as the famous comedy duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello meet his horrific creations! Join writer/comic book writer/producer Sam Park as we talk of mice and monsters in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE! Theme music by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Travel with Celluloid Cemetery into the bowels of Ape City as voice actor Aaron Veach and I ride along with the gorilla army as they hunt for mutants and sweaty men in loincloths in the ruins of post-apocalyptic New York City! Theme music by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Wanna date? Wanna go out? You bet you do, as actor/playwright Vince Gatton gets his purple nipples on and joins Celluloid Cemetery to talk about that explosive prostitutic comedy spin on the Universal classic, FRANKENHOOKER! Theme music by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: FRANKEN-SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text Slip on your snowshoes, grab your guitar and do your homework (eat a stick of butter) as we trudge out into the snowy wilderness of upstate New York to hunt for the elusive Yeti as actor David McMahon joins Celluloid Cemetery to discuss the tasty treats that lie within the twist-ending of SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED! Theme music by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS OF THE MUTILATED! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text When an old silver mine is reopened, creatures find their way into forgotten tunnels that lead to a house's basement where they attack four sex-starved young people and a dog! Join actor/director Dudley Beene and me as we stake our claim to THE BOOGENS! Theme music by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Dr. Jekyll drinks his famous potion and turns in his top hat and tails for petticoats and pumps as graphic poster designer Drusilla Abilene joins us to talk about the gender-switching Hammer horror film, DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE! Theme music by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: DR. JEKYLL AND SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text It's time to stop monkeyin' around as Celluloid Cemetery welcomes the return of marketing producer Patrick Falvey to chat about the first film in what launched four sequels, a TV series, a cartoon series, a reboot and three new movies (to date)! We're seeing no evil, hearing no evil and speaking no evil...just chatting about the 20th Century Fox juggernaut, PLANET OF THE APES! Theme music by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: PLANET OF THE SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville...
Send us a text Celluloid Cinema goes back to film school as director, cinematographer and New York Film Academy teacher Bart Mastronardi returns to discuss the horror film URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT! And may the best film win! Theme music by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text Lock your doors, bolt your windows, throw another log on the fire and toss away your Sears Christmas catalog, because this year, Celluloid Cemetery is having a very scary Christmas! Join our very special guest star...Santa Claus, himself, as we discuss the bizarre killer toy movie, SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 5: THE TOY MAKER! Special thanks to David McMahon! Theme music by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Grab your gas mask, your electric car and take your shrooms! Today, we watch the King of the Monsters, Godzilla, take on the monster of pollution, Hedorah, as Rob Carl joins us again to talk about that acid trip of a Japanese kaiju film, GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH...or, as it was known in the U.S., GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER! Theme music by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text There's something more to scream about at the mall than the prices, as actor and theatrical director Benjamin Lutz joins me to chat about the 1986 horror-comedy CHOPPING MALL! Listen in as we discuss robot security guards with lasers, being the wallflowers at a sex party and why 80s jeans were the best jeans ever! WARNING: SPOILERS Theme music by Rossano Galante Artwork by JT Seaton ©2023 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text BOOM! Celluloid Cemetery gets on the wrong side of the law as director and podcaster Vito Trabucco (BRITNEY LOST HER PHONE, BLOODY BLOODY BIBLE CAMP, "The Gates of Cimino") joins me to talk about dynamite, daisy dukes and everything in between as we chat about Claudia Jennings and THE GREAT TEXAS DYNAMITE CHASE (1975)! Car crashes and corrupt cops have never been so much fun! WARNING: SPOILERS Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton ©2023 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Welcome to Violence! Director, cinematographer, writer, producer, colorist, podcaster and sometimes actor Jakob Bilinski joins me on a first-time ride in this must-see-to-be-believed gem! Get your hot rods revved up for a disastrous time trial that leads to murder, stolen money, go-go girls from Hell and a truly twisted desert family in the campy dramatic action picture by Russ Meyer, FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS! ...
Send us a text Grab your guitars, your tight jeans and hide the white mice as Celluloid Cemetery joins actress, podcaster and Tapestry lead singer Emily Durchholz as we rock out with the Ramones in ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979)! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: There be Spoilers ahead! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text Nubile, naked young women get the ick when an army of mutated sex-crazed salmon creatures looking to spawn invade a small fishing town! Celebrated actor and fisherman Brian Sheppard joins us to talk about what lies beneath the surface of bodies...of water. Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton SPOILERS! ©2023 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text The thirst for blood and sex and moviemaking are all separated by thin lines, and we prove that today as Celluloid Cemetery welcomes Emmy award-winning director and writer Billy Clift who joins us to talk about the 1970 vampire flick COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE! Theme by Rossano Galante Artwork by JT Seaton ©2023 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text Celluloid Cemetery gets hot under the collar...and the belt, as special guest, writer and producer Lotti Pharriss Knowles (CHASTITY BITES) joins me to chat about symbolism and the subversion of horror genre tropes in the sexy 70s erotic desert bloodsucker flick, THE VELVET VAMPIRE! There's gonna be a whole lotta suckin' going on! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. ©2023 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Sword and sorcery take a backseat to a magical sense of humor in this episode of "Celluloid Cemetery!" Join me and my guest Patrick Falvey as we talk about how DEATHSTALKER II turns the 80s cheapo medieval magic movie genre on it head! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. ©2023 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text It’s Friday the 13th: A Space Odyssey! Don't be unlucky, celebrate the day that spawned one of horror's most iconic franchises with me and director/cinematographer Bart Mastronardi (TALES OF POE), as we discuss the series entry that divides a lot of the fans! Yes, I'm talking JASON X (2001)! So join us as Crystal Lake launches into space for some stellar slasher fun! Theme music by Rossano Galante. Artwork by J.T. Seaton. ©2023 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Celluloid Cemetery goes deep into the country of Spain for a little witch-hunting, as actor Benjamin Lutz (BITE MARKS, THE MEN NEXT DOOR, THE LOVE PATIENT) joins me to talk about the horror-comedy WITCHING & BITCHING (2013) aka LAS BRUJAS DE ZUGARRAMURDI! You don't need subtitles to understand us, so have a listen! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. ©2023 Thrillsville Productions....
