Fantastic Planet

I have a good ear for BATMAN.

Adult Films Inspired by Science-Fiction

Pretty self-explanatory. This was the first episode that had to be significantly re-written. There were some dirty jokes that got cut. I will save them for my memoirs.

Thanks for THE APPLE Night!

Thanks to everyone who attended The Sci Fi Screening Room's presentation of THE APPLE. For those of you who couldn't make it -- you missed out on a lot of fun. We opened the show with a musical number from BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. Co-host Raven Snook stole the show. She read an excerpt from ICED (written by APPLE cast-member Ray Shell), shared an email exchange with APPLE actress Miriam Margolyes (who says "the film was made by a madman") and delighted the crowd with a rousing sing-a-long of SPEED. (see video.)



I did trivia, prizes and actually convinced the audience to eat complimentary APPLE JACKS cereal.

Before the night was over, we gave an audience member an APPLE-style glitter-glam makeover (I'm only sorry I don't have before and after photos.) And we gave everyone in the audience free glitter and B.I.M.s to wear. I've never seen a more attractive audience in all my life.

Thanks audience. This is not the kind of movie one should see alone.

Join us for THE APPLE Night!

After the success of HULK Night and KISS Night, THE SCI FI SCREENING ROOM is proud to present...THE APPLE Night!…

This Wednesday (May 14th @ 7PM)
at the Theater Under St. Mark’s
94 St. Mark’s Place, btw 1st Ave and Avenue A
L-train to 1st Ave, F/V to 2nd Ave, R-train to 8th St, 6 to Astor Pl.
Just 7 bucks!




THE APPLE: it’s Xanadu meets George Orwell in this flamboyant, dystopian Adam & Eve story set in the nightmarish future of 1994 (as imagined in 1980.) Audiences will love to see naïve Catherine Mary Stewart mutate into a drug-fueled glam-pop super-star (Hubba-hubba!) THE APPLE invokes the spirit of Frank Zappa’s concept-album Joe’s Garage, albeit in a non-satirical way. If you like Phantom of the Paradise, but wished it was dumber, gayer and made in Berlin by one-half of Golan-Globus, this is the movie for you!

The show is hosted by Kevin Maher (American Movie Classics’ The Sci Fi Department) and Raven Snook (www.ravensnook.com) providing trivia, prizes, drinking games, free glitter and a sing-a-long.

After the movie the evening continues with Atomic X @ Beauty Bar (231 E. 14th Street, btw 2nd and 3rd Aves) It’s an all-night glam-rock party hosted by Joey Nova. Expect the DJ to be playing plenty of David Bowie, New York Dolls, and selections from The Apple soundtrack. There will be a makeup artist doing glam makeovers and glitter manicures to get you feeling like a glam-pop super-star. Plus there’s an open bar from 10 – 11 and apple-flavored drink specials throughout the night!


Watch the Sci Fi Department’s episode about THE APPLE:

The Lost Subgenre: Sci Fi Buddy Cop Movies

In this action-packed episode I team up with funnyman Andres du Bouchet. Also appearing are Will Carlough and James Moles.

Obligatory Comic Con Episode

Here's a video from the 2008 New York Comic Con. Thanks to everybody who talked to us - we had a swell time.

Beware of Your Computer

To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of WarGames we're looking back at the Golden Age of evil computer movies.

Sequels I Still Wanna See

Sci Fi Auto Show

Return of the Superhero Parody

For the children...

This is the children's guide to the Apocalypse.

Time Travel Movie Guide

We round of some time-travel movies that are worth watchng and worth skipping.

Also -- I have to give a shout-out to two TV shows: One of the most moving stories from "The Twilight Zone" is "Walking Distance." The episode is rumored to be Rod Serling's favorite, it's about a burnt-out ad-man who longs for the simple pleasures of his childhood.

An awful TV entry was "Fonz & the Happy Days Gang" -- a 1980 cartoon in which Fonz, Ritchie and Ralph Malph accompany a sexy alien named Cupcake as they travel through history. Also don't forget The Fonz's dog, Mr. Cool. And did I mention it was narrated by Wolfman Jack? This show was one-half of an hour-long block on ABC adapting hit sitcoms. it was coupled with a show about Laverne & Shirley in the army where they were beated by a pig drill sergeant (voiced by Horshack from Welcome Back Kotter.)

KISS NIGHT rocked

Thanks everybody who came out to KISS NIGHT! I had a blast and I hope you did, too. For those of you who missed it -- we watched KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK, we screened clips of Gene Simmons in the 1984 robot-spider movie RUNAWAY and, in keeping with the movie's story (KISS fights robots), we got an audience member to compete with Rob's robot-clone in a beer-guzzling contest. (watch the video below)




Now here are some KISSKUS (KISS Haikus) by Rebecca Maher, Mike Whalen, M. Sweeney Lawless and Kevin Maher


How many girls you ask?
Don’t know. How many grains of
sand on the beach?

~

Girls, booze, drugs, fame.
That’s not why KISS does it.
They do it for the money.

~

I checked on YouTube
But no one has made KISS Meets
The Phantom Menace

~

I have a sex dream
Where the members of KISS fuck
The Facts of Life chicks.

~

When Geraldo said,
Stick out your tongue Gene, he said
“Can’t, the floor’s not clean”

~

Want to find world peace?
Don’t send Marines to Iraq
Send the KISS Army

~

We begged them – begged them
“Take off your makeup!” They did.
By that time, who cared?

~


PAUL STANLEY
Do you take requests?
Here’s a request for you:
Could you wear your shirt?

~

Gene Simmons' "Love Gun"
is the children's toy I pine
for every Christmas.

~

Only place you’ll find
death before disco is in
the dictionary.

KISS NIGHT is March 11th

I'm hosting KISS NIGHT! at the next SCI FI SCREENING ROOM

WHAT: Screening of KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK (1978)

WHEN: Tuesday March 11th @ 7 PM

WHERE: The Theater Under St. Mark's
94 St. Mark's Place (between 1st Ave and Avenue A), NYC

HOW MUCH: 7 bucks (free if you wear KISS Make-up)

* A TIME OUT NEW YORK BEST BET and a VILLAGE VOICE CHOICE




The screening includes trivia, prizes, and KISS haikus. There'll be cheap beer and free snacks.

It's co-hosted by Rob Gorden, the host of Spike TV's Geek Ray Vision



After the movie join us for REBELREBEL at LIT LOUNGE
(93 Second Avenue, between 5th and 6th Streets)



It's an all-night KISS PARTY hosted by Joey Nova, including:

• An hour of KISS music from 10-11 at the upstairs bar

• An open Vodka bar from 11-12

• KISS videos projected on the downstairs dance floor

• Make-up artist Mistress Harlequin doing KISS make-overs

• The KISS tribute band CREATURES OF THE NIGHT @11 PM featuring the LOVE GUN GIRLS

• A KISS costume contest at 2 AM with the Grand Prize of a KISSOLOGY DVD set





ABOUT THE FILM:

The 1978 made-for-TV movie was produced at the height of KISS-mania. The movie follows Starchild, Cat Man, Space Ace and The Demon as they battle their robot clones while saving a California amusement park. The film was produced by Hanna-Barbera studios, so all the violent fight scenes are peppered with cartoon sound effects. Also, many of Ace Frehly's scenes are performed by a stunt double who was African American. And the band has super-powers (they can fly and shoot laser-beams out of their eyes.)

KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK is NOT ON NETFLIX (WATCH THE EPISODE ABOUT MOVIES NOT ON NETFLIX)

And it's been called THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE (WATCH THE EPISODE ABOUT THE WORST WHATEVER EVER.)

The Asylum's Bread & Butter

I love a good underdog story. These guys are West Coast Troma.

Sci-Five: Oscar-Winners in B-Movie Trash

The Sci Fi Department reviews some of the B-movies made by Oscar winners.