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Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – Spooktacular!

Spooktacular! Movie Review

SPOOKTACULAR! MOVIE REVIEW

This new documentary Spooktacular! is perfect for Fantastic Fest as it concerns the rise and fall of the first Horror Theme Park (which is a bit of a semantic stretch, but ok). Spooky World started as just a haunted hayride that was putting in considerably more effort than most, and ended up expanding to a horror museum, a wax museum, multiple haunts, scaryoke, and more with big horror celebrities like Alice Cooper, Kane Hodder, and Tom Savini getting involved. Of course, you know what they say about ‘all good things’ and eventually its time ran out but its legacy is far-reaching and on display across the world every October. Listen to Chris and Wright wax nostalgic for haunts, discuss Spooky World, and wonder at the huge presence of Tiny Tim in this doc.

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DIRECTED BY: Quinn Monahan

STARRING: Tom Savini, Alice Cooper, Jay Leno, Bill Maher, Linda Blair, Dee Wallace, Daniel Roebuck, Kane Hodder, Butch Patrick, David Naughton, Seth Meyers, Bruce Vilanch, R.A. Mihailoff, A.J. Danna, Anthony Timpone, Gregory Gast, Kevin Barbare, Corey Tourigny, Bruce D. Millet, Bonnie Marie Williams

 

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Photo on 2011-10-02 at 13.02Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

 

 

” width=Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)

Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.

 

 

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