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March 11, 2017 - 1:30PM, $10 at the door (Cast/Crew/Orchestra members are free!)

March 25, 2017 - 9:30AM–11:00PM

Directed by Ray Kellogg
Starring James Best and Ingrid Goude

A "hunky" boat captain (played by a young James Best who is best known as Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane from "The Dukes of Hazzard!") and his loyal sidekick hunker down on a mysterious island to escape an approaching hurricane. There they find a group of scientists engrossed in some rather questionable research. Naturally, the scientists' well-intended "science" involves atomic radiation that inadvertently creates voracious shrews the size of large dogs—which is exactly what the film uses to portray the mutated creatures: dogs wearing bad doggie-monster mutant shrew costumes! With the giant storm bearing down, the small group is stuck in the scientists' cabin/compound while the extremely hungry nocturnal beasties try to fight their way in! The rest of the plot is pieced together using nearly every cliché of the 1950s B-movie genre—including a beautiful blonde female scientist, her weasly, jealous ex-boyfriend who isn't very happy when she takes a liking to the new guy, science run amok, out-of-control mutated creatures, running, screaming, questionable acting, so-bad-it's-good writing, and a ridiculous resolution. All things considered, a movie this bad should not be this dang entertaining. At a forgiving 69 minutes, "The Killer Shrews" is a fun ride filled with all the things that make classic B-movies so enjoyable. It's one of my favorites, and I highly recommend this film for all connoisseurs of retro drive-in cinema!

Brain Freeze!

In honor of the next Mihmiverse film, "Demon with the Atomic Brain," which is now in production, we present some trivia that may or may not freeze your brain. See if you can identify these cold, cheesy classics—all with the word "brain" in the title.

1. (1955) Richard Denning starred in this film about an ex-Nazi mad scientist who uses radio-controlled atomic-powered zombies in his quest to return an exiled mob boss to power.

2. (1957) Legendary B-movie actor John Agar led the cast in this film about a powerful criminal from another planet who assumes the body of scientist Steve March in a quest to control the world. Val, a good guy from the same planet, works with March's future wife Sally to defeat the menace.

3. (1958) Parasites from the center of the Earth have invested the town of Riverdale, Illinois and taken control of the local authorities. It's up to a small band of unaffected townsfolk to stop the infestation. Ed Nelson starred, with Leonard Nimoy in a featured role.

4. (1962) A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive after it was decapitated in a car crash, and goes looking for a new body. Obscure hint: This is one of the few horror films that has been turned into a stage musical, along with "Little Shop of Horrors" and "The Monster of Phantom Lake."

5. (1971) Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, dies and is flown to the United States where the nefarious Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracy to save the day. Grant Williams led the cast.

There are many interesting moments in science. I'm going to give you a little trip into one moment that makes Pluto's re-classification look smooth! I am Dr. Bob Tesla and here is that moment.

On January 1st, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi from Sicily discovered what everyone thought was a new planet between Mars and Jupiter. It was named Ceres after the Roman god of agriculture. It was a little small, true, but it helped fill in the large gap all the astronomers had noticed between Mars and Jupiter and our solar system had a new planet...for about a year.

In 1802, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovered Pallas in the same orbital area and then Karl L. Harding found Juno out there as well! More and more of these "tiny planets" were being found impossibly sharing the same orbital area. That's when William Herschel came up with a new classification called "asteroid" and this region of space between Mars and Jupiter became known as an asteroid belt. These small hunks of rock never had a chance to coalesce into a planet because of the gravitational might of Jupiter. Unlike the asteroid belts shown to us in movies, the real asteroid belt has plenty of "space" between each asteroid and it's quite easy to fly between them, no matter what C-3PO will try to tell you. So little Ceres went from the newest planet in our solar system to being just the first asteroid out of many in just a few short years. And that's the way it stayed until 2006.

On August 24th, 2006, a new classification was created: the "dwarf planet" class. This term came about because of the rise of additional planetoids found out by Pluto. These objects were large (some larger than Pluto!) but they all were scattered about in orbits beyond Neptune. Everyone was in a hubbub about Pluto being "demoted" to a dwarf planet classification, but I think some people should have been cheering because Ceres got "promoted" to it! Truthfully, the planets don't care what we call them (if we wanted to start calling Ceres "Bob" instead, it would keep right on spinning) but I think we should be happy that Ceres got a little bump in status. Pluto got to be called a planet for 76 years and Ceres only got called that for about 3. Now, they are both founding members of the "dwarf planet" class and that's pretty special. And, just like Pluto was visited by the New Horizons spacecraft a couple of years ago, Ceres was visited by the Dawn spacecraft! It made interesting discoveries about this little round body, such as it used to have a water core and the possibility of microbial life. Ceres is proof that there are discoveries to be made in every corner of the solar system, no matter how small.

"The Monster of Phantom Lake," "It Came From Another World!," "Cave Women on Mars," "Terror from Beneath the Earth," "Destination: Outer Space," "Attack of the Moon Zombies," "House of Ghosts," "The Giant Spider," "The Late Night Double Feature," "Danny Johnson Saves The World" and "Weresquito: Nazi Hunter" DVDs are now available at SaintEuphoria.com, the online home of the films of Christopher R. Mihm.

In addition, exclusive movie posters, collectibles and other merchandise are now in stock. Everything is available in extremely limited quantities, so get yours today before they run out!