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By Laurie Boeder, About.com Guide to Classic Movies

Classic B-Movies in Indy-Indiana

Monday May 7, 2007
Haven't you just been waiting for an excuse to go to Franklin, Indiana and watch some truly awful movies? Of course you have.

Actually, it turns out there's a great reason to go to this college town south of Indianapolis in August. It's the first annual B-movie celebration, with films so bad they belong in the so-bad-they're good category, like The Terror of Tiny Town.

The festival also has B-movies that are just plain good. They're offering up two of my favorites in the sci-fi category. The Day the Earth Stood Still is the great-grand daddy of invasion movies, and Forbidden Planet is a fanciful retelling of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" in space. (Complete with the best mechanical marvel ever: Robby the Robot. The "Lost in Space" robot was just a pale imitation, believe me.)

Plus, it's a chance to meet legends like Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Studios, and gross special effects wizard Tom Savini -- all while supporting the Indy Film Co-op. I guess Indiana wants us!

Forbiden Planet DVD cover - MGM

Comments

May 10, 2007 at 2:55 pm
(1) Gwen says:

This is great news! what is the title of the festival? Is there a website with more information?

May 11, 2007 at 10:13 am
(2) classicfilm says:

Yep — it’s bmoviecelebration.com.
Lots of fun!

June 12, 2007 at 3:25 pm
(3) Andy says:

Thats a great news!!! looking forward to watch the movie :D , hey have a look at http://www.badmovieknights.com/ when you get time ;) !

December 23, 2008 at 11:07 am
(4) cwxwwwxwwxwx says:

well, hi admin adn people nice forum indeed. how’s life? hope it’s introduce branch ;)

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