Three years ago, an East Lansing web designer, Steve Jencks, founded a site poking fun at the low budget horror and science fiction movies of the eighties.
Now Jencks has turned his B movie passion into an online magazine called Lost Highway Reviews and continues to build a growing online community.
Chris Bachelder works with Jencks designing web pages at GreenLite, a firm that designs sites for small to medium-sized accounts. He's also a Review contributor and is helping produce Lost Highway Reviews’ first event, “Lost Movie Night.”
It will feature a screening of “Return of the Living Dead,” what Bachelder calls an unbelievably bad movie—one of the corniest movies ever made.
The Friday, Nov. 13, event is offered with the East Lansing Film Festival at Wells Hall Theater on the Michigan State University (MSU) campus. The idea is to show B movies several times leading up to the next East Lansing Film Festival in 2010.
But the bigger idea is to bring some fun to the Capital region and build a community around it, Bachelder says.
The seeds are there. Jencks performed at Ignite Lansing 2.0 in September and took a prize for his presentation, “B Movie Survival Tips,” an extension of his regular tweet series of the same name.
Lost Movie Night will be more than a screening. It’s also a costume party, with prizes valued at over $1,000.
Bachelder says as the movement grows, Lost Highway Reviews plans a t-shirt line, an annual convention, and a web-based video series.
“We’re just getting rolling,” he says.
Source: Chris Bachelder, Lost Highway Reviews
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