Cereal At Midnight

Film journalist, broadcaster, and genre movie fan DAN PERSONS stops by Cereal At Midnight to talk about his new venture: converting classic 2-D cult films into 3-D! Along the way, he also talks about his 3-D manifesto and why he believes that there's something truly magical about entertainment in the third dimension.  Space Brains 3D on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/spacebrains3d/?etsrc=sdt Dan's column at Tor.com: https://www.tor.com/2023/02/22/zoom-and-bored-transports-the-road-runner-and-coyote-to-a-realm-of-funhouse-physics/ Catch Hour of the Wolf at WBAI.org The Hour of the Wolf Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hour-of-the-wolf-reviews/id1647104141 Review Archive: CerealAtMidnight.com/p/reviews.html Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight TikTok: OfficialCerealAtMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

 In his essay that's included with the new Blu-ray for 1957's Monster from Green Hell , Don Stradley asks "Would the hardworking souls who made B movies back in the 1950s believe we'd still be discussing their work 70 years later?" It's a reasonable question: these movies were made on the cheap and were never intended to be anything more than disposable entertainment, created for quick thrills and the hopes of making a couple of bucks so the filmmakers could do it again. But something happened that these entrepreneurs never could have predicted: we fell in love with their movies. We didn't fall in love with them because they were slick and polished, we fell in love with them because they were rough and raw. They featured actors that didn't feel like gleaming stars of Tinsel Town, but real people. The films offer unabashed spectacle, or the dime-store equivalent thereof. We love these movies because we can see the fingerprints of the creators who made t...

Book talk! In this episode, let's discuss TEENAGERS AND TEENPICS, a deep look at the teensploitation movie cycle of the 1950s! Buckle up for monster mayhem, youth-gone-wild flicks, and rock and roll riots! If you love cult, low budget, and exploitation movies, you won't want to miss this episode! Order the book here Stay up to date on everything happening with Cereal At Midnight with these links: CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

1955 was a big year for Roger Corman. He made his directorial debut (the western Five Guns West ) and proceeded to direct or co-direct no less than four films that year, culminating with Day the World Ended  at the end of '55. There are no shortage of post-nuke movies to come out of the Cold War paranoia of the 1950s, but this is Corman's mid-fifties take on the same subject matter that would soon be revisited in movies like The Last Man on Earth  and The World, The Flesh and the Devil .  In the film, humanity has largely eradicated itself with the atomic bomb. A few survivors remain in the post-nuclear fallout; some huddle together, trying to isolate themselves away from the dangers of the outside world and the mutants that wander the ruins. Others travel in search of shelter, provisions, and maybe finding others who can help.  It's here that our story begins and we meet our small cast of characters. Paul Birch ( Queen of Outer Space, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valanc...

Witness the dangers of expired breakfast foods! Beware, o cereal connoisseur, the pitfalls of greed and gluttony! Woe to the mortal that suffers the revenge of Count Chocula!!!