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Santa Claus Vs RetroStrange Movie Night: On Location

RetroStrange Movie Night returns to Niles, MI on December 21st

Happy holidays as we godless heathens say. The next RetroStrange Movie Night: On Location is December 21st, 2021, and will be coming to you live from the Niles Brewing Company in downtown Niles, MI.

This time we’re going all-in on the jolly fat man, Santa Claus, with a dynamic duo of festive features: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and Santa Claus Vs The Devil.

If you’ve never seen the Mexican-produced Santa Claus .vs. The Devil you are in for a real treat. Wikipedia:

On December 24, Santa prepares for his yearly journey at his Toyland castle in space. He plays the organ while his children helpers from all over the world sing. Meanwhile, in Hell, Lucifer instructs his chief demon Pitch to travel to Earth and turn the children of the world against Santa (or else he will, as punishment, eat chocolate ice cream).

We’ll be showing the slightly edited for the US version, simply called Santa Claus. Both of these features will be added to RetroStrange TV for the holiday season then taken down and put back into The RSTV Vault on January 3rd.

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LEFTOVERFEST II Date and Details

RetroStrange LEFTOVERFEST is this Sunday.

As we did last year, RetroStrange has reserved the weekend following US Thanksgiving to shine a light on the video content we don’t normally get to feature. Industrial shorts with odd durations, documentaries from Canada, you know the drill.

This year we’re adding a new series to RetroStrange TV with a special marathon later in the day. What will it be? You’ll just have to tune in and see.

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This Weekend, 11/20/21 – An Orson Welles Double Feature

An Orson Welles Double Feature- The Stranger (1946) and The Lady From Shanghai (1947)

The next virtual movie night is this weekend, Saturday the 20th starting at 7pm Pacific time. Join us in Discord, on RetroStrange TV and on Twitch, YouTube, Etc.

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RetroStrange Movie Night 11/23 featuring D.O.A. (1949)

A promotional poster for movie night. It is 16:9 formatted with the original poster for D.O.A. on the right side of the image, and a short description on the left. It reads: "Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him."

The next RetroStrange Movie Night is on November 23rd, 2021. We’ll be watching the film noir classic D.O.A. starring Edmond O’Brien and Pamela Britton.

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Next RetroStrange Movie Night IRL: 9/14/21

Thanks to Chuck at On Base Productions for pitching in on the poster.

The next RetroStrange Movie Night will be once again broadcasting live from The NODE in Downtown Niles, MI. We’ll be taking in the first in the classic Gamera films- Gammera The Invincible. Showtime is 7pm local Michigan time, and we’ll be broadcasting live on RetroStrange.TV.

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This Tuesday (8/31): RetroStrange IRL

Created with Leto Fonts

This Tuesday, the first ever RetroStrange IRL will be taking place at The NODE in downtown Niles, MI. This one is a long time coming! We’ll be showing the Starman feature __Atomic Rulers of the World__ projected live, and streamed at the same time on RetroStrange TV both at 7pm local Niles time, 4pm Pacific!

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RetroStrange Movie Night #21: Tokusatsu Returns w/ Gamera .vs. Barugon (1966) and Majin The Monster of Terror (1966)

The next movie night is 20 March 2021.

Howdy, Strangers! Thanks to all of you who joined us for Italian Space Opera night on Movie Night last night. It was a good one. We got up to 10 viewers at one point which is pretty good for our goofy little show.

Next episode we’ll be going back to Tokusatsu territory (see Episode 16 – ED) with American dubs of the second Gamera film Gamera .vs. Barugon (1966), and the giant monster revenge tale Majin the Monster of Terror (1966). These two were originally shown as a double-feature in the states back in 1966.

You can blame Sandy Frank for Gamera and American International Pictures for Majin. We hope to see you there.

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RetroStrange Movie Night #20: War of the Robots (1978), Star Odyssey (1979)

Poster for RetroStrange Movie Night #20

Howdy, Strangers. Thanks to all of you who showed up for last weekend’s Bruceploitation fest, and a big shout-out to RSMN regulars Joel and Hannah.

Next time, on the 6th of March 2021, we’ll be watching a pair of Italian Space Operas, War of the Robots (aka Reactor) and Star Odyssey (aka Space OdysseyMetallicaCaptive Planet). They’re 2 of a 4-part series of shameless cash grabs by Alfonso Brescia, who tried to Allan Smithee himself by using a pseudonym, but people figured it out.

We hope to see you there, same Bat time, same Bat channel.

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YouTube Channel and Archive Updates

I’ve been making some updates to our previously kinda-of empty YouTube channel. You can now watch a bunch of previously-watched public domain gems such as Horror Express, A Bucket of Blood, The Terror and Invaders from Space. We’ll be adding more as time and energy allow.

I’ve also gone back and updated the event pages for Movie Night #1 and Movie Night #2 to include these movies as embedded videos, too. You can expect the archives to expand this weekend while we put some elbow grease into it.

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RetroStrange Movie Night #18: The Werewolf of Washington (1973), All the Kind Strangers (1974)

RetroStrange Movie Night #17 was a rousing success, thanks to everyone who came the during out 6-hour live stream. We learned a lot about eye safety, gushed over the amazing 1933 Alice in Wonderland, and stumbled our way through Abbot and Costello’s Jack and the Beanstalk. You can view just my intro on the revamped Youtube channel.

For movie night 18, we’re going back to basics- Schlocky 1970s Horror. We’ll be watching The Werewolf of Washington, starring world’s greatest eyebrow actor Dean Stockwell, and All the Kind Strangers aka Evil in the Swamp (way better alternate title), a Stacy Keach made-for-TV movie about kids who kidnap adults and try to force them to be their new parents. Light viewing. You can sign up to be reminded on the Facebook event page.

We’re sticking with the 7pm PST start time, but we might do an early show for the benefit of our friends who got to bed early. We’ll see you there at the usual place, https://twitch.tv/extrafuture