Viva La Grindhouse

If you’re in Las Vegas on July 2, give the craps tables a rest and get yourself a good dose of drive-in fun at the Tropicana Cinemas. Eric Caidin and Brian Quinn of Hollywood Book and Poster, the fine folks who run the monthly Grindhouse Film Festival at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles will be trekking west to Las Vegas for a knockout double bill of classic exploitation. Ray Dennis Steckler, the man who gave the world The Incredibly Strange Creatures who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, will be on hand to introduce his jaw-dropping 1964 psycho noir The Thrill Killers, and Corpse Grinders director Ted V. Mikels will present The Astro-Zombies, starring a visibly drunk Wendell Corey, a very cranky John Carradine and Tura Satana from Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. The Thrill Killers star Liz Renay (a one time girlfriend to mobster Mickey Cohen, and later the star of John Waters Desperate Living) will also be on hand. The movies start at 7:00 p.m., and admission for the whole shooting match (which includes a reel of rare exploitation trailers and a free raffle) is only $7. You can’t get that much entertainment in Vegas for that little dough without having to endure a ventriloquist act, so don’t miss out.

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

Eric Caidin and Brian Quinn present
The Grindhouse Film Festival
Tropicana Cinemas
3330 E. Tropicana Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89121
(702) 450-3737
Admission: $7.00

Special Guests: Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted V. Mikels and Liz Renay

7:00pm
The Thrill Killers (1964)
Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler.
Starring Cash Flagg and Liz Renay.

9:00pm
The Astro-Zombies (1968)
Directed by Ted V. Mikels.
Starring Wendell Corey, John Carradine and Tura Satana

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