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Do you like geeky, weird TV shows? Does your strange TV knowledge surpass that of most normal humans? This is the trivia event for you!

Join us at 8pm on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, at The Way Out Club in St. Louis (2525 Jefferson) for “Strange TV Trivia.” We’ll quiz you on shows like Stranger Things, Doctor Who, The X-Files, Ash vs Evil Dead, The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, Marvel and DC shows, Star Trek, and more!

The cost is $15 per person, or $50 per team of four. Fifty percent of total ticket sales will be awarded to the winning team! (We will have a tie-breaker round if necessary.) We will also have some fun side games (like celebrity Dead or Alive) and other opportunities to go home with prize money. For more information, contact Raymond Castile at raycastile@aol.com.

This trivia event is a fundraiser for the annual St. Louis Krampusnacht twisted holiday celebration!

A Strange Night With Coffin Joe takes place Sunday October 9th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 E. Lockwood Ave.) beginning at 7:30pm. The event will consist of a double-bill of This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967) and Embodiment Of Evil (2008). There will be an appearance by Raymond Castile, who played the young Coffin Joe in Embodiment Of Evil

The Webster University Film Series is going to honor José Mojica Marins with ‘A Strange Night With Coffin Joe’ which takes place Sunday, October 9th beginning at 7:30pm at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 E. Lockwood Ave.) The event will consist of a double-bill of This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967) and Embodiment Of Evil (2008). This will be the first time these films have been officially screened back to back in the United States. Though made over 40 years apart, the first film directly leads into the second.

A Strange Night With Coffin Joe takes place Sunday October 9th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 E. Lockwood Ave.) beginning at 7:30pm. The event will consist of a double-bill of This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967) and Embodiment Of Evil (2008). There will be an appearance by Raymond Castile, who played the young Coffin Joe in Embodiment Of Evil

Unholy undertaker, evil philosopher, denizen of dreams and hallucinations, Coffin Joe, with his trademark top hat, black cape, and long talon-like fingernails is a horror icon in his native Brazil. Revered as a national boogeyman, Coffin Joe has been immortalized in films, TV shows, radio programs, and comic books. He is the creation of writer-director-star Jose Mojica Marins, whose perversely original and strangely personal filmmaking style has been compared to an unholy blend of Mario Bava, Luis Bunuel, and Russ Meyer.

Jose Mojica Marins took Brazil by storm with...

Today is Vincent Price’s 104th Birthday! Price was born here in St. Louis on this date in 1911 and is the most iconic movie star to hail from our city. Price, who died October 25th 1993, was also a gourmand, author, stage actor, speaker, world-class art collector, raconteur, and all-around Renaissance man. Vincent Price was simply one of the most remarkable people of the 20th Century. Four years ago we had the opportunity to celebrate his 100th birthday and St. Louis was the place to do it. I teamed up with Cinema St. Louis to present Vincentennial, The Vincent Price 100th Birthday Celebration, an event that lasted through much of the Spring of 2011. The following year Vincentennial won two coveted Rondo Awards, one for “Best Fan Event” and a second for myself as “Monster Kid of the Year” for directing the event. The Rondo Awards are prestigious Fan Awards given out...

Raymond Castile, the man who played the young Coffin Joe in the upcoming film The Embodiment of Evil, has continued to find his way through the world of filmmaking. Next up? Taking the director's chair for the Sasquatchploitation short The Devil at Lost Creek!

Dig on the entire short, starring Cara Barresi, Carlos Valenzuela, Carson Hackney, Sydney Hackney, and Castile himself as Bigfoot, below! For more information visit The Devil at Lost Creek website.

The flick has also been nominated for a Rondo Award so watch it, and if you like it, go vote!

Synopsis

Little Gary and Shelley live in a dismal world of poverty, trying to avoid their mother's abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend. Their mother, Susan, hesitates to seek help, afraid the state will take her children. Gary and Shelley escape into an innocent dream world, trekking into the woods to search for Gary's obsession - Bigfoot.

Children say,...

While it may not be the official Coffin Joe, director Raymond Castile has constructed a special fan-film for the evil mortician where Joe searches for the perfect mate via his own Reality TV dating show!

Will Coffin Joe's scheme fly or flop? Check it out below or over at Vimeo!

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