Well, this is a hoot. According to the following link, William Shatner is going to undertake the sort of role that has heretofore been left to everyone from Vampira to Elvira: He’s going to introduce a series of horror flicks, in this case for the Sci-Fi Channel. Apparently they’re all from the low-budget vaults of Charlie Band’s Full Moon Productions. The reason it’s pertinent to this particular board is that at least one of them is going to be by yours truly: “Oblivion,” the science fiction western spoof that represents one of the few films Band actually spent some serious money on. I hear tell “Trancers” will also be represented, and if the fourth and fifth entries in the series are there, then those will be mine as well. Although the only “horror” in the Trancers films I wrote was the budget slashing that caused them not to film the majority of the action scenes, and wildly scale down those that were filmed.
Supposedly Shatner will be interviewing people in conjunction with the films. I can’t wait to see who he talks to for “Oblivion.” It’d be a hoot if it were George Takei, wouldn’t it?
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Well, you know he’s going to comment on Takei’s “Jim Beam me up” line…
Is “Oblivion” at my local Blockbuster store?
You might be able to find Oblivion and Oblivion 2:Backlash at Blockbuster. They have a policy that if a video isn’t rented within a certain time period it’ll wind up on as a PVT (Previously Viewed Video). Good luck!
The Full Moon Fright Show is something that Full Moon tried to sell to local stations at the 2001 NATPE convention in Jan 2001. I imagine they went ahead and filmed the Shatner bits way back then and finally found a buyer in SciFi. They originally were also supposed to have contests where you could win a date with a Full Moon Scream Queen or even get to co-host the show with Shatner. I don’t think that stuff will be happening with the SciFi edition, though. The Collosseum series that was also pitched way back then is also turning up on SciFi asa movie, although it will be without Andrew Dice Clay.
Lee Whiteside
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Much as I do like Shatner, and I saw him once in his first movie, the Brothers Karamazov, I really wish he wouldn’t waste his time dealing with horror movies. Nope, I just don’t like horror movies.