Cinema

cLASSIC MOVIES

That's cLASSIC with a lower case "c"

The history of cinema is filled with forgotten, or almost forgotten films. We've cataloged some of our thoughts in four movie theaters of the narrow mind – Monster Island Theater, Crime Street, The Skyland Drive-In Theater and Ancient Fantasies. An evergrowing list of these too weird to be forgotten films can be found below. Click on each title for insight into the lower depths of film.


Monster Island Theater

In the Golden Age of TV, old, horrible, horror movies brought hideous surprises right into your living room. At times, though, certain ones actually reached for the heavenly heights (or more fittingly, the Depths of Hell). Monster Island Theater reminds you to seek out the terrible treasures.

Monster Island Theater

As Raymond Chandler said, "But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid." Walk down Crime Street into the forgotten neon city crowded with tough guys and curvy dames looking to make a big final score.

Monster Island Theater

Imagine imagine yourself in a beautiful Chevy Bel-Air, gazing through the windshield of your mind for the most surreal Science Fiction cinema and the coolest and craziest Teenage Juvenile Delinquent movies at the Skyland Drive-In Theatre.

Monster Island Theater

From the late fifties until the mid-sixties, gladiators roamed the wide wide world of cinema, and an international smourgasbourd of dubbed actors and actresses, in countless epics of mighty splendor, were served up in savage stews of Greco-Roman mythologies, Biblical stories, folk-tales and melodramatic adventures of Ancient Fantasies.

More Than Meets the Eye

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Ingmar Ozu-Bresson

A mad post-capitalist renegade director, Ingmar Ozu_Bresson rejected all forms of production, distribution, and exhibition, subverting the conventions of Hollywood formula to create "anti-seeing." His statement, "The best viewer is the non-viewer," is a succinct challenge to all theories of cinema. Learn more...

Monster Island TheaterCookbook

One of the joys of watching movies at home is the freedom to extend your menu past popcorn and soda. The Monster Island Theater Cookbook offers up recipes to enhance your viewing pleasure. Take a look at the recipes right now!

Edison J. Nello

Dramaturg and host of Ancient Fantasies, Professor Edison J. Nello is an accomplished actor/writer/director. He has also been characterized as an intellectual-raconteur-scientist-playboy. His long show business career covers a vast distance - from local game show host to European art film actor. His pioneering talk show program - Night City Beat - introduced America to cutting edge topics such as "energy management as an expressionist art form" and "bounty hunting poetry."