Today we received a press release in our inbox concerning a B-movie film festival that I personally wouldn’t mind checking out (Death Race 2000? Hell yeah!). While I probably won’t be in Franklin, IN, anytime soon, I figured I’d post it here for our friends in the midwest.

Franklin, Indiana, will be hosting the Second Annual B-Movie Celebration September 26th thru 28th, 2008. The Celebration will feature screenings of more than 50 classic B-movies, 20 educational seminars and the “world’s largest beach party,” featuring the music of The Moon-Rays.

The celebration’s line up, has reportedly been curated by B-movie Legend Jim Wynorski. The films include:

• SHOGUN ASSASSIN
• FORBIDDEN WORLD
• DEATH RACE 2000
• HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD
• THIS ISLAND EARTH
• TARANTULA
• CARNIVAL OF SOULS
• NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
• NIGHT OF THE COMET
• BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
• THE GIANT BEHEMOTH
• QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE
• WORLD WITHOUT END
• RUSS MEYER’S UP
• FROM HELL IT CAME
• ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS
• NOT OF THIS EARTH (the black and white original)
• THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS
• THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD
• EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS
• WITHOUT WARNING
• SCREWBALLS
• GALAXY OF TERROR
• HOUSE
• THE CRAWLING EYE
• ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN
• PSYCHO
• JOURNEY TO THE SEVENTH PLANET
• INVISIBLE INVADERS
• ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES
• TERMINAL ISLAND
• NIGHTHAWKS
• MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1961)
• ONE MILLION B.C.
• INVADERS FROM MARS (1953)
• TO TRAP A SPY
• HOLD THAT GHOST
• ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
• TWINS OF EVIL
• THE VAMPIRE LOVERS
• LUST FOR A VAMPIRE
• THE TIME MACHINE
• WAR OF THE WORLDS
• Plus The First Edition of Summer TromaDance

A Lifetime Achievement Award to Stuart Gordon
From his 1985 debut as a cult director with Re-Animator to his 2002 H.P. Lovecraft film, Dagon, Stuart Gordon has consistently delivered quality horror to the masses, and is now considered by many of us to be one of the most important exploitation filmmakers of the past 30 years.

Other great guests
Tom Savini, Jim Wynorski, Conrad Brooks, Tom Holland, Andrew Stevens, independent horror Director Jim O’Rear and many many more.

The World’s Largest Beach Party With the Moon-Rays
The planet’s greatest B-movie surf band will turn Franklin into a rockin’ hepcat beach party. The Moon-Rays were born of a concept brought on by the recording of the theme from WGN’s Creature Features TV show and the rest is legend.

For more information
For further information please go to www.bmoviecelebration.com or e-mail the organizers at info@indyfilmco-op.org.