Cereal At Midnight

Steve Latshaw, the filmmaker behind such movies as Jack-O and Command Performance, is also the Director of the Museum of Western Film History. In this episode, he takes us behind the scenes of this year's Lone Pine Film Festival, including the films, the guests (including me), and the on-location events! Get the ad-free audio version of this episode everywhere you get your podcasts! lonepinefilmfestival.org museumofwesternfilmhistory.org **************************************************************** Commentaries:  https://www.cerealatmidnight.com/p/commentaries.html **************************************************************** Need collecting storage solutions? Use code CAM15 to save 15% on your order at  https://bit.ly/t3lshopCAM  and see how it works here:  https://youtu.be/GX0fTq_VYs4 **************************************************************** Become a Member and unlock exclusive and ad free videos, early access, and much more at  Patreon.com/Cereal...

What is it about regional horror movies that we find so compelling? Maybe it's because they're made outside the traditional Hollywood scene and offer a fresh perspective on old ideas from people who are--more often than not--a lot like us. Local actors replace movie stars, new landscapes stand in for the Southern California scenery that we know so well, and there's a hunger and drive from everyone involved because these low-budget offerings represent that one shot to get noticed. If everything works out, then maybe, just maybe , the filmmakers might get to do it again.  Ghost Riders (also known as Ghostriders ) is a 1987 micro-budget genre movie that is equal parts horror, action, and western; it's a real oddity among regional filmmaking, with westerns not being a profitable genre in the mid-eighties and the western/ghost story pairing being a particularly risky proposition. The film begins in the 1880s as a preacher spearheads the lynching of a ruthless outlaw and his ...