Castle Talk: Theresa Mercado on Programming Scream Screen and Her New Series Hell on Wheels

This episode we’re chatting with Theresa Mercado, curator of the Scream Screen film series in Denver. They’re in the middle of their fifteenth run for four Fridays at the Sie FilmCenter with a new series, "Hell On Wheels", which began February 7 at 9:30pm at the Sie FilmCenter, featuring some of the best terror on two, four, and ten wheels! Psychomania! Crash! Sorcerer!
Next up Feb 28 is Dead End Drive-In (1986) w/ director Brian Trenchard-Smith in person.

Previous series include: "Treasury of Terror: A Decade of Horror Anthologies", "The Psychosexual Films of David Cronenberg," "Journey Into a Damaged Brain," "The Horror Films of John Carpenter," "When Animals Attack!", "The Giallo Films of Dario Argento", "The Films of the New French Extremity", "The Non-Zom Films Of George A. Romero", "As Seen On TV!", "Beyond Elm Street: A Tribute To Wes Craven", "The Truth Is Out There!", "Welcome To The Funhouse: A Birthday Slash-ebration of Tobe Hooper", "Christmas In July", and "Petrified Woods".
Scream Screen is a four-time "Best of Denver" winner! Including 2019's "Best Live Music With A Horror Movie."

We chat about the challenges of programming a theater series in the day of streaming.

 

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The People That Time Forgot (Podcast Discussion)

This week we continue our series on Dinosaurs with the 1977 film The People that Time Forgot.

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Castle Talk: Daniel Kraus, Author of Bent Heavens

This episode we’re chatting with Daniel Kraus, author of Bent Heavens, a new novel from Henry Holt/Macmillan Books. Bent Heavens tells a harrowing story about a pair of teens who capture an alien creature and begin to take out terrible revenge for one of the teens' father's abduction. It's a book that asks tough questions about grief, paranoia, and torture. 

Hosted by Jason Henderson, author of Quest for the Nautilus, due in March from Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan.

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The Land That Time Forgot (Podcast Discussion)

This week we continue our series on Dinosaurs with the 1975 film The Land that Time Forgot. The film is based upon the 1918 novel The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The screenplay was written by Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn and directed by Kevin Connor. The cast included Doug McClure, John McEnery, Keith Barron, Susan Penhaligon, Anthony Ainley and Declan Mulholland.

(Episode 290)

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The Valley of Gwangi: The Dinosaur Retrospective (Podcast Discussion)

This week we kick off a new series on Dinosaurs with the 1969 film The Valley of Gwangi. The film is a 1969 American western fantasy film, produced by Charles H. Schneer and Ray Harryhausen, directed by Jim O'Connolly, written by William Bast,[1] and starring James Franciscus, Richard Carlson, and Gila Golan. Creature stop-motion effects were by Harryhausen, the last dinosaur-themed film that he animated.
(Episode 289)

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