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CultRetro.comCheck out our site specifically for downloadable movies and DVD's! When, as a boy, I watched THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD in a darkened theater, I knew my life had changed forever. At the Saturday matinee, Westerns were giving way to sci-fi monster movies and I was intrigued by their imaginative narratives. By the end of the 1950's I strived to see every fantasy film I could. Many were great but I embraced even the worst of them harboring the idea that maybe even I could make a film as good as that. Buying a used movie camera I started making my own monster movies in high school and continued to do so at Florida State. Graduating from 8mm to Super 8 to 16mm, each production became more elaborate though all were extremely low budget. In the mid-1970's after I had completed location filming on my sci-fi superhero film, ASTRON, STAR WARS was released and in one fell swoop rang the death knell on ultra low budget movies. I spent the next decades in publishing but my love for low budget imaginative films never waned. In recent years I have returned to film making via digital video in an attempt to fulfill a life-long dream. CultRetro is a site through which I am able to release new digital video productions along side the old films of my youth. Here also are many of the old monster movies, action cliffhanger serials and black and white TV shows that inspired me to become a filmmaker. At an age when most slow down and retire, I am working harder than ever and loving every minute of it. Why? Because making movies is thrilling to me. It's a natural extension to my long career in art. Frank Zappa defined art as "making something out of nothing... and selling it." That's what I'm doing here. Nothing on CultRetro will be anything like STAR WARS and that's the way I like it. It is our goal to release a new, original production here every two months. We at CultRetro are working very hard at making something out of nothing and having a ball while we're at it. Hopefully you will find our efforts to be fun and entertaining. Bill Black |
