To celebrate their 13th anniversary this year, the Melbourne Underground Film Festival is going green!
No, they’re not out to save the kookaburra or anything. Instead, they’re hosting a special tribute to the New Irish Low Budget Cinema, featuring two films by acclaimed filmmaker Ivan Kavanagh, plus work by Colin Downey, Gary Kenneally and Gerard Lough.
Muff will host a repeat screening of Kavanagh’s celebrated thriller Tin Can Man — it previously screened at Muff in 2008 — as well as his latest film, The Fading Light. The three other Irish films screening all fall into the horror/thriller genres, from Downey’s The Looking Glass to Kenneally’s Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman and Lough’s trilogy-ending The Shaken 3. And, in addition, the entire fest kicks off with the opening night Irish thriller Charlie Casanova by Terry McMahon.
But don’t think Muff is all Irish all the time this year,...
No, they’re not out to save the kookaburra or anything. Instead, they’re hosting a special tribute to the New Irish Low Budget Cinema, featuring two films by acclaimed filmmaker Ivan Kavanagh, plus work by Colin Downey, Gary Kenneally and Gerard Lough.
Muff will host a repeat screening of Kavanagh’s celebrated thriller Tin Can Man — it previously screened at Muff in 2008 — as well as his latest film, The Fading Light. The three other Irish films screening all fall into the horror/thriller genres, from Downey’s The Looking Glass to Kenneally’s Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman and Lough’s trilogy-ending The Shaken 3. And, in addition, the entire fest kicks off with the opening night Irish thriller Charlie Casanova by Terry McMahon.
But don’t think Muff is all Irish all the time this year,...
- 8/17/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
American filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler has died of heart failure, aged 70. Steckler, who gained a cult following as a low-budget auteur using the pseudonym Cash Flagg, died in Las Vegas, Nevada on 7 January.
He began his film career as a movie prop man, and later shot 1962 cult classic The World's Greatest Sinner as a cameraman before moving on to projects of his own.
In 1963 he co-produced his first solo film, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?, co-starring his first wife, actress Carolyn Brandt.
Often credited with inspiring the work of directors David Lynch, John Waters and Quentin Tarantino, his nearly two dozen film credits also include cult classics The Thrill Killers, released in 1964, and Rat Pfink a Boo Boo, in 1966.
He moved to Las Vegas in 1970, where he taught film classes at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, owned video stores and continued to make movies, including soft-core pornography.
Steckler's first marriage to actress Carolyn Brandt ended in divorce.
He is survived by his wife of 23 years, Katherine, two daughters from his first marriage, Linda Arnold and Laura Steckler, two daughters from his second marriage, Morgan and Bailey Steckler, his sister, Judy Conrad and two grandchildren.
He began his film career as a movie prop man, and later shot 1962 cult classic The World's Greatest Sinner as a cameraman before moving on to projects of his own.
In 1963 he co-produced his first solo film, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?, co-starring his first wife, actress Carolyn Brandt.
Often credited with inspiring the work of directors David Lynch, John Waters and Quentin Tarantino, his nearly two dozen film credits also include cult classics The Thrill Killers, released in 1964, and Rat Pfink a Boo Boo, in 1966.
He moved to Las Vegas in 1970, where he taught film classes at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, owned video stores and continued to make movies, including soft-core pornography.
Steckler's first marriage to actress Carolyn Brandt ended in divorce.
He is survived by his wife of 23 years, Katherine, two daughters from his first marriage, Linda Arnold and Laura Steckler, two daughters from his second marriage, Morgan and Bailey Steckler, his sister, Judy Conrad and two grandchildren.
- 2/1/2009
- WENN
Psychotronic filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler lost his battle with heart disease on January 7, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada; he was 70 years old. With his passing so goes Cash Flagg, his hoodlum alter ego and star of Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, The Thrill Killers, Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters and Wild Guitar. We also say farewell to Sven Christian, Wolfgang Schmidt, and Cindy Lou Sutters; other Steckler pseudonyms; there were 12 of them at last count and I am sure we will miss them all.
Steckler started his film career by finishing principal photography on Timothy Carey’s World’s Greatest Sinner. He then went on to capture Arch Hall Jr.’s delinquent delight in 1962's Wild Guitar, and after that he was off and running, shooting films without ever a finished screenplay in hand.
Steckler always did the best he could with what he had,...
Steckler started his film career by finishing principal photography on Timothy Carey’s World’s Greatest Sinner. He then went on to capture Arch Hall Jr.’s delinquent delight in 1962's Wild Guitar, and after that he was off and running, shooting films without ever a finished screenplay in hand.
Steckler always did the best he could with what he had,...
- 1/12/2009
- by Johnny Butane
- DreadCentral.com
Ray Dennis Steckler, the maverick producer/director/writer/actor/cinematographer (and-and-and) who created such cult flicks as The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-up Zombies!!? (1964) and The Thrill Killers (1964), died Wednesday night at age 70. At the beginning of his nearly half-century career, the rebel moviemaker was a fixture at Fairway International, the Burbank-based indie film company established by Arch Hall, Sr.
Steckler began as a camera assistant on Fairway’s caveman-on-the-loose-in-Palm-Springs campfest Eegah (1962) and then directed their next feature Wild Guitar the same year. Using his frequent nom de screen “Cash Flagg,” he also co-starred in the latter as the thuggish henchman of a record company executive (Hall Sr.).
The star of Eegah and Wild Guitar, Arch Hall Jr. knew Steckler from the Fairway days until what was his final public appearance on November 14, 2008: a special Los Angeles County Museum of Art screening of No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos,...
Steckler began as a camera assistant on Fairway’s caveman-on-the-loose-in-Palm-Springs campfest Eegah (1962) and then directed their next feature Wild Guitar the same year. Using his frequent nom de screen “Cash Flagg,” he also co-starred in the latter as the thuggish henchman of a record company executive (Hall Sr.).
The star of Eegah and Wild Guitar, Arch Hall Jr. knew Steckler from the Fairway days until what was his final public appearance on November 14, 2008: a special Los Angeles County Museum of Art screening of No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos,...
- 1/9/2009
- Fangoria
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