IT'S the goo that just keeps on giving.
Filmmaker Gregory Lamberson is spreading his sticky celebration of 80s cult movies even further.
Slime City Massacre, which stars Debbie Rochon and Brooke Lewis and features cameos by Roy Frumkes and Lloyd Kaufman, is heading for Buffalo's Beyond Ghosts ParaHorror Weekend on May 26 following this month's screenings in Tampa and Las Vegas.
After slithering around the horror film festival circuit, SCM - which sees bomb survivors transformed into murderous slime creatures - was released on DVD in 2011 by Media Blasters and enjoyed a limited theatrical release from Indie Film Net.
"This is what it takes to make the audience aware of a film that defies easy categorisation," says Lamberson. "SCM is horror, it's sci-fi, it's action, it's bizarro comedy."
He added: "It took the original Slime City about 18 years to develop its reputation as a cult film; it needed to fade away and be rereleased and rediscovered.
"Our goal with SCM is to keep it out there in public, so that the people it was made for have a chance to see it on a big screen, with an audience. I'm glad that promoters keep contacting me to screen it, and not the other way around."
The May 26 screening is at Central Terminal in Buffalo, where SCM was filmed in abandoned buildings surrounding the historic Art Deco tower in 2009. It will be part of the Beyond Ghosts ParaHorror Weekend, a three-day event in aid of the restoration of the terminal.
Lloyd Kaufman will also be on hand to show the 2006 horror comedy Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, which was also filmed in Buffalo.
Lamberson has three new horror books being published this year, including the zombie novella Carnage Road from Creeping Hemlock Press in April; his werewolf sequel The Frenzy War from Medallion Press in June; and Tortured Spirits, book four in The Jake Helman Files, from Medallion in October. Slime City Massacre was co-produced by Medallion Movies, a divis...
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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]
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