Synapse Films made many viewers happy last year with their Collector's Edition Steelbook Blu-ray release of Dario Argento's Phenomena, aka Creepers, and if you didn't pick up the Steelbook, you'll soon have a chance to purchase the film in a standard (but still extraordinary) two-disc Blu-ray this September, along with The Creep Behind the Camera.
Featuring three separate cuts of the film, the Phenomena Blu-ray will be released on September 12th, the same day of Synapse Films' Blu-ray and DVD release of The Creep Behind the Camera, which explores the stranger than fiction story of the making of The Creeping Terror (which is included in the special features with a new 2K scan). Below, we have official press releases with full details, as well as a look at the cover art for both films.
Press Release: One of legendary filmmaker Dario Argento’s most shocking...
Featuring three separate cuts of the film, the Phenomena Blu-ray will be released on September 12th, the same day of Synapse Films' Blu-ray and DVD release of The Creep Behind the Camera, which explores the stranger than fiction story of the making of The Creeping Terror (which is included in the special features with a new 2K scan). Below, we have official press releases with full details, as well as a look at the cover art for both films.
Press Release: One of legendary filmmaker Dario Argento’s most shocking...
- 6/20/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
It's that time of the year again, kids! One of the best damned film festivals in the world, Screamfest L.A. Horror, which is taking place in Los Angeles October 14-23, has announced its first wave of titles; and there's plenty of blood to splatter around!
From the Press Release
Screamfest®, from the festival that brought you such films as Trick ‘r Treat, Paranormal Activity, The Human Centipede and American Mary, announces the first wave of the 2014 festival. Screamfest® kicks off its 14th annual event in Los Angeles on October 14-23 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres.
First Wave Screening Highlights at Screamfest 2014
The Creep Behind the Camera (Us) – Directed by Pete Schuermann. The Creep Behind the Camera was an actual filmmaker named Vic Savage; a real scumbag whose only real skill was in his uncanny ability to convince the residents of 1960 Glendale, California that he was making the biggest, the Best monster movie ever made!
From the Press Release
Screamfest®, from the festival that brought you such films as Trick ‘r Treat, Paranormal Activity, The Human Centipede and American Mary, announces the first wave of the 2014 festival. Screamfest® kicks off its 14th annual event in Los Angeles on October 14-23 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres.
First Wave Screening Highlights at Screamfest 2014
The Creep Behind the Camera (Us) – Directed by Pete Schuermann. The Creep Behind the Camera was an actual filmmaker named Vic Savage; a real scumbag whose only real skill was in his uncanny ability to convince the residents of 1960 Glendale, California that he was making the biggest, the Best monster movie ever made!
- 8/19/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Halloween season is right around the corner and that means it’s almost time for another Screamfest. The L.A. film festival that showcased movies like the cult classic Trick ‘r Treat and the franchise-spawning Paranormal Activity is now entering its 14th year. The first wave of the festival’s films have been revealed and will feature zombies, ghosts, and the return of slasher Jacob Goodnight.
The 14th annual Screamfest runs from October 14th – 23rd at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres in L.A.:
Hollywood, CA., August 18, 2014 – “Screamfest®, from the festival that brought you such films as Trick ‘r Treat, Paranormal Activity, The Human Centipede and American Mary, announces the first wave of the 2014 festival. Screamfest® kicks off its 14th annual event in Los Angeles on October 14 through October 23 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres (6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028).
First Wave Screening Highlights at Screamfest 2014
· The Creep Behind The Camera (Us) – Directed by Pete Schuermann.
The 14th annual Screamfest runs from October 14th – 23rd at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres in L.A.:
Hollywood, CA., August 18, 2014 – “Screamfest®, from the festival that brought you such films as Trick ‘r Treat, Paranormal Activity, The Human Centipede and American Mary, announces the first wave of the 2014 festival. Screamfest® kicks off its 14th annual event in Los Angeles on October 14 through October 23 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres (6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028).
First Wave Screening Highlights at Screamfest 2014
· The Creep Behind The Camera (Us) – Directed by Pete Schuermann.
- 8/18/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Covering Fantasia for the first time was a hectic, enjoyable experience. They give you a badge with your name on it and everything. However, as for this year’s lineup, I have a little trouble being enthusiastic. With some major exceptions like Guardians of Galaxy, not listed here only because it’s appearance at the Festival seemed more coincidental than prestigious, a lot of the hyped up releases played weakly. Also, I’ve been no stranger to openly criticizing Fantasia audiences as a whole, more than willing to behave as sheep (or, in this case, cats) and applaud even the weakest of films due to a genre-note or laugh –however unintentional. So I found respite in some of the quieter films, and maybe a few major ones. No matter; Here are five things that truly deserve to gain wider audiences.
The Top Five Films of Fantasia
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- 8/14/2014
- by Kenny Hedges
- SoundOnSight
The Creep Behind The Camera
Written and Directed by Pete Schuermann
USA, 2014
After Tim Burton’s Ed Wood was released, Sarah Jessica Parker remarked in interviews that she had just played the worst actress of all time. Delores Fuller, Wood’s ex-wife and would-be starlet, responded, albeit quietly, merely stating, “That hurt” on a Plan 9 From Outer Space DVD.
The Creep Behind The Camera, Pete Schuermann’s docu-drama surrounding the making of 1962′s The Creeping Terror, retains as much class and care for its subjects are Parker did for Fuller. When it isn’t a straightforward documentary portrait of the swindling, scamming and whoring director A.J. Nelson did to put together a film considered one of the worst of all time, it’s using what could kindly be referred to as high-end Unsolved Mysteries re-creations.
Moving out to Hollywood to make the “best monster movie of all time,” director and star Nelson (a.
Written and Directed by Pete Schuermann
USA, 2014
After Tim Burton’s Ed Wood was released, Sarah Jessica Parker remarked in interviews that she had just played the worst actress of all time. Delores Fuller, Wood’s ex-wife and would-be starlet, responded, albeit quietly, merely stating, “That hurt” on a Plan 9 From Outer Space DVD.
The Creep Behind The Camera, Pete Schuermann’s docu-drama surrounding the making of 1962′s The Creeping Terror, retains as much class and care for its subjects are Parker did for Fuller. When it isn’t a straightforward documentary portrait of the swindling, scamming and whoring director A.J. Nelson did to put together a film considered one of the worst of all time, it’s using what could kindly be referred to as high-end Unsolved Mysteries re-creations.
Moving out to Hollywood to make the “best monster movie of all time,” director and star Nelson (a.
- 8/1/2014
- by Kenny Hedges
- SoundOnSight
Showing as part of the Fantasia Film Fest on July 24, The Creep Behind the Camera is a show-biz, insider biopic and comedy about Vic Savage, the director behind one of the worst monster B-movies ever made, the 1964 film The Creeping Terror. The website describes the film as “A hilarious and wholly disturbing look at human nature and delusional demagoguery.” Directed and written by Pete Schuermann, It’s got a wonderful period piece, ’60s vibe and what looks like an offbeat, screwball mentality. Check out the trailer for the film below, and look for it on the Fantasia schedule.
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- 7/18/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Following previous announcements of their film lineup, the Fantasia International Film Festival has released their full lineup of movies to be shown at the 18th Annual festival, starting July 17.
New additions to the lineup include 2014 Cannes Selection When Animals Dream, directed by Jonas Alexander Amby and the return of Fantasia’s showcase of animated films, Axis.
Tickets for the festival go on sale starting July 16, and the festival runs through August 5.
View the whole press release of additional announcements below:
Fantasia Celebrates Its 18th Birthday
With Over 160 Feature Films Montreal, Thursday July 10, 2014 – 2014 is the year that Fantasia turns 18. We can’t believe it either. Fantasia’s 18th birthday means over 160 features and something in the neighborhood of 300 shorts, many being shown for the first time on this continent, a good number screening here for the first time anywhere in the world.In addition to being stacked with a multitude of breathtaking debut filmmaker discoveries,...
New additions to the lineup include 2014 Cannes Selection When Animals Dream, directed by Jonas Alexander Amby and the return of Fantasia’s showcase of animated films, Axis.
Tickets for the festival go on sale starting July 16, and the festival runs through August 5.
View the whole press release of additional announcements below:
Fantasia Celebrates Its 18th Birthday
With Over 160 Feature Films Montreal, Thursday July 10, 2014 – 2014 is the year that Fantasia turns 18. We can’t believe it either. Fantasia’s 18th birthday means over 160 features and something in the neighborhood of 300 shorts, many being shown for the first time on this continent, a good number screening here for the first time anywhere in the world.In addition to being stacked with a multitude of breathtaking debut filmmaker discoveries,...
- 7/10/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
(When Charles Manson met the Carpet-Bag-Monster...) Is it a drama? Is it a comedy? Is it a documentary? It's... The Creep Behind the Camera! One of the World Premieres at this year's Imagine Film Festival Amsterdam, The Creep Behind the Camera tells the story of how the film The Creeping Terror got made. Or, rather, it casts its light on the nefarious exploits of the man who directed that movie, the irredeemable con-artist (and all-round asshole) Art Nelson aka. Vic Savage. Years ago, director Pete Schuermann came upon the story of The Creeping Terror by chance, and was amused enough to check and see if he could make a documentary out of it. After some digging and talking, he discovered wilder and wilder details, but...
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- 4/15/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Once upon a time in 1964, there was an excruciatingly bad alien invasion film, one made with legendary ineptitude. And it wasn't the famous Plan 9 From Outer Space. This one was worse. It was called The Creeping Terror. Pete Schuermann's film The Creep Behind the Camera is about the making of The Creeping Terror, and especially about its director Art Nelson: a violently psychotic sex-and-drugs-addicted con-man, who used the production to swindle loads of money out of loads of people. The Creep Behind the Camera takes an interesting approach to chronicling its subject: a large part of the film is a dramatized comedy, starring Josh Phillips and Jodi Lynn Thomas, but there are documentary inserts in which the real people involved are interviewed. There...
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- 3/17/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The trend of laughably bad but entertaining giant animal attack films has definitely become popular in recent years, but this sort of low-budget sci-fi and horror schlock is nothing new. The sub-genre of so-bad-they’re-good films featuring killer animals and crappy creatures goes back to the grandaddy of the art, Roger Corman. Even further, if you count the more suspenseful stylings of William Castle. Perhaps the most well-known purveyor of the worst films we love is Ed Wood, but a lesser known auteur of the awful was a man named Art Nelson, aka Vic Savage. Nelson was a con man, who among his many other methods of scheming, stealing and cheating, made filmmaking an art of illegitimate business. In 1964, Nelson set out to make a monster movie, the result of which would become the obscure and poorly made film The Creeping Terror, a film that owns a cult following and...
- 3/13/2012
- by Travis Keune
- Destroy the Brain
Art Nelson, was a con-artist looking to make a buck. Movie- making was just one of his weapons of choice. His worst offense might at first seem to be the 1964 flick the The Creeping Terror, where a giant carpet terrorizes the California country side. But the true violence was much, much worse.
A dark comedy/docu-drama feature film, Creep! chronicles the outlandish story of psychopath/ movie director Art Nelson in his audacious effort to make a monster movie in 1964. The result of those efforts was the obscure yet cultish film, The Creeping Terror. Considered to be the worst movie ever made, it also became one of the most mind-boggling scams in the history of celluloid.
At first watch most viewers find many of the sequences in The Creeping Terror so unbelievably awful and ineptly executed that the movie transcends the sci-fi and horror genres and delves into the realm of comedy.
A dark comedy/docu-drama feature film, Creep! chronicles the outlandish story of psychopath/ movie director Art Nelson in his audacious effort to make a monster movie in 1964. The result of those efforts was the obscure yet cultish film, The Creeping Terror. Considered to be the worst movie ever made, it also became one of the most mind-boggling scams in the history of celluloid.
At first watch most viewers find many of the sequences in The Creeping Terror so unbelievably awful and ineptly executed that the movie transcends the sci-fi and horror genres and delves into the realm of comedy.
- 1/19/2012
- by The DoorQus Maximus
- doorQ.com
This one's for you cult movie fans! Documentary filmmaker Pete Schuermann (Disneyland: Secrets, Stories, & Magic) is hard at work on film that will take us into the very bizarre world of bad movie making in the 60s. The target of this expose? Vic Savage and his 1964 cult horror movie The Creeping Terror (which currently holds a 1.9 rating on IMDb.
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- 12/7/2011
- QuietEarth.us
Usually, the most terrifying aspect of any horror movie is its creature. But as Pete Schuermann (pictured), writer/director of the forthcoming documentary Creep!, reveals, the most frightening facet of the 1964 camp classic The Creeping Terror wasn’t its human-gobbling alien visitors. It was in fact the director, 29-year-old con artist Art (A.J.) Nelson, a.k.a. Vic Savage, a.k.a. Arthur White.
- 9/10/2010
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Mark McLaughlin)
- Fangoria
While cult film The Creeping Terror has become an icon of shoddy film making and hilarious bad taste it turns out that the real life story of director Art Nelson was the sort of thing that makes for great cinema. And so writer-director Pete Schuermann is telling that story with upcoming doc Creep.
A dark comedy/documentary feature, Creep! chronicles the outlandish story of director Art Nelson in his audacious effort to produce a monster movie in 1964. The result was the obscure yet cultish film, The Creeping Terror. Considered to be the worst movie ever made, it also became one of the most mind-boggling scams in the history of celluloid.
At first watch most viewers find many of the sequences in The Creeping Terror so unbelievably awful and ineptly executed that the movie transcends the sci-fi and horror genres and delves into the realm of comedy.
But the story behind...
A dark comedy/documentary feature, Creep! chronicles the outlandish story of director Art Nelson in his audacious effort to produce a monster movie in 1964. The result was the obscure yet cultish film, The Creeping Terror. Considered to be the worst movie ever made, it also became one of the most mind-boggling scams in the history of celluloid.
At first watch most viewers find many of the sequences in The Creeping Terror so unbelievably awful and ineptly executed that the movie transcends the sci-fi and horror genres and delves into the realm of comedy.
But the story behind...
- 7/8/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Luke Goss has scooped the Ultimate Badass gong at a newly-launched sci-fi and horror film festival in Las Vegas.
The former Bros boy band star won Markowitz the Amazing Thug Armadillo's Ultimate Badass Award at the first Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest, known informally as PollyGrind.
PollyGrind is dedicated to cult, horror, sci-fi, exploitation and arthouse films and took place in the city earlier this month. A rundown of all the winners was released today and is included in full below.
Luke - who's also had roles in Blade 2 and Hellboy II: The Golden Army - was recognised for his role as a vampire commando (see above and below right) in horror flick The Dead Undead.
The movie, released in the USA a year ago, centres on a fanged fighting force trying to stop the evil spread of a plague of vampire zombies. Caught in the middle of the battle is...
The former Bros boy band star won Markowitz the Amazing Thug Armadillo's Ultimate Badass Award at the first Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest, known informally as PollyGrind.
PollyGrind is dedicated to cult, horror, sci-fi, exploitation and arthouse films and took place in the city earlier this month. A rundown of all the winners was released today and is included in full below.
Luke - who's also had roles in Blade 2 and Hellboy II: The Golden Army - was recognised for his role as a vampire commando (see above and below right) in horror flick The Dead Undead.
The movie, released in the USA a year ago, centres on a fanged fighting force trying to stop the evil spread of a plague of vampire zombies. Caught in the middle of the battle is...
- 5/25/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
In Dread Central's effort to promote independent horror, have we got the goods on a great horror film festival in Las Vegas! From May 12-16th Sci-Fi Center at 2520 State Street, Las Vegas, Nv 89109, will be hosting The Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest (aka PollyGrind), which includes 30 different films with five world premieres, seven Las Vegas premieres, and one U.S. premiere. There will also be a ton of music videos and trailers and more horror-related goods for you to feast your eyes on.
Read on for the full line-up, and look for more from Dread Central on PollyGrind (click here for the official site) soon!
Wednesday, May 12
Post-apocalyptic Nightmares (Double Feature)
Hosted By Heather Wixson Of Dreadcentral.Com
5:30 p.m.
Vendor tables open
7 p.m.
Trailer - Michael Ramova’s Soldier Killer (30 seconds) (World Premiere)
Trailer - Michael Ramova’s The Texas Chainsaw Champion (1:23 minutes) (World Premiere)
Trailer...
Read on for the full line-up, and look for more from Dread Central on PollyGrind (click here for the official site) soon!
Wednesday, May 12
Post-apocalyptic Nightmares (Double Feature)
Hosted By Heather Wixson Of Dreadcentral.Com
5:30 p.m.
Vendor tables open
7 p.m.
Trailer - Michael Ramova’s Soldier Killer (30 seconds) (World Premiere)
Trailer - Michael Ramova’s The Texas Chainsaw Champion (1:23 minutes) (World Premiere)
Trailer...
- 4/20/2010
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
New York -- SnagFilms.com has snagged two high-caliber documentaries fresh from their Hamptons International Film Festival world premieres.
In an unusual move, Pete Schuermann's frat hazing film "Haze" (featuring an introduction by Robin Wright Penn) will premiere simultaneously on Oct. 16 at the fest and via free, ad-supported streaming online. And within days of its Hamptons bow, Oscar-nominated Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern's civil liberties study "The End of America" (based on Naomi Wolf's book of the same name) will also have its first nonfestival distribution.
To further founder Ted Leonsis' "filmanthropy" initiative, his site also is partnering with the fest on "Hamptons Extra," a collection of several Hiff docu feature submissions that will be screened exclusively online.
SnagFilms CEO Rick Allen announced these and other projects at an Independent Film Week panel Wednesday afternoon in New York. Since its launch two months ago with its purchase of IndieWire.
In an unusual move, Pete Schuermann's frat hazing film "Haze" (featuring an introduction by Robin Wright Penn) will premiere simultaneously on Oct. 16 at the fest and via free, ad-supported streaming online. And within days of its Hamptons bow, Oscar-nominated Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern's civil liberties study "The End of America" (based on Naomi Wolf's book of the same name) will also have its first nonfestival distribution.
To further founder Ted Leonsis' "filmanthropy" initiative, his site also is partnering with the fest on "Hamptons Extra," a collection of several Hiff docu feature submissions that will be screened exclusively online.
SnagFilms CEO Rick Allen announced these and other projects at an Independent Film Week panel Wednesday afternoon in New York. Since its launch two months ago with its purchase of IndieWire.
- 9/17/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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