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NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR B-MOVIE HALL OF FAME
Edited from a B-Movie
Theater press release. [May 9, 2003]
[HollywoodInvestigator.com] B-Movie
Theater, a retailer of low budget exploitation genre videos, invites
fans to submit nominations for their 6th annual inductions to their B-Movie
Hall of Fame.
To avoid nominees
either already in the Hall of Fame, or who are not technically eligible,
the site features two comprehensive ballots with 100 B-movies and 100 B-movie
icons. Ballots can be accessed at http://www.b-movie.com/hof/vote.html. Voters may select up to 10 choices per category. Voting is open through
August 15, 2003. Winners will be announced in early September.
Nominees for Hall
of Fame induction cover a broad range, including A-list stars who began
their careers in B-movies (e.g., Mel Gibson, Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan
Demme, Peter Fonda, and Argentine first lady Eva Peron), famous players
whose careers continued in B-movies after A-list stardom evaporated (e.g.,
Joan Collins, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Buster Keaton, John Carradine, and Jack Palance),
celebrated performers whose stardom was strictly within B-movies, (e.g.,
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Sonny Chiba, and Tom Neal), contemporary B-movie
stars (e.g., Mark Dacascos, Debbie Rochon and, the Olsen Twins), and even
industry supporters including the critic Joe "Phantom of the Movies" Kane.
B-movie choices
cover all genres from the past seven decades, from 1933's "White Zombie"
to 1999's "Razor Blade Smile."
"B-movies have long
been ignored by the critics and award-givers, but audiences love them and
have kept them alive all these years," says Ron Bonk, founder of B-Movie
Theater and curator of the B-Movie Hall of Fame. "That's why we open
voting to film lovers around the world. The B-Movie Hall of Fame
is the moviegoer's way of saying thanks to great films, and the great people
who created them!"
During the first
five years of voting, the B-Movie Hall of Fame inducted: Dario Argento,
Forest J. Ackerman, Samuel Z. Arkoff & James H. Nicholson, Mario Bava,
Joe Bob Briggs, the Bowery Boys, Hillary Brooke, Bruce Campbell, Jeanne
Carmen, William Castle, Jackie Chan, Lon Chaney Jr., Roger Corman, Wes
Craven, David Cronenberg, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Cushing, Divine, Tamara
Dobson, Godzilla, Pam Grier, Ray Harryhausen, George "Gabby" Hayes, Inoshiro
Honda, Joseph Kane, Boris Karloff, Lloyd Kaufman & Michael Herz, Bruce
Lee, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Arthur Lubin, Bela Lugosi, Jayne Mansfield,
Russ Meyer, Jack Nicholson, Bettie Page, Parker Posey, Elvis Presley, Vincent
Price, Ronald Reagan & Nancy Davis (Reagan), George Romero, Tom Savini,
Emil Sitka, Barbara Steele, the Three Stooges, Lee Van Cleef, Mamie Van
Doren, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Waters, John Wayne and Edward D. Wood
Jr.
B-Movies previously
voted for honor are "Assault on Precinct 13" (1976), "Attack of the Killer
Tomatoes" (1978), "The Blair Witch Project" (1999), "Blood Feast" (1963),
"Blood of Jesus" (1941), "Carnival of Souls" (1962), "Cat People" (1942),
"Clerks" (1994), "Dawn of the Dead" (1978), "The Day of the Triffids" (1965),
"Death Race 2000" (1975), "Detour" (1945), "El Mariachi" (1994), "Enter
the Dragon" (1973), "Eraserhead" (1977), "The Evil Dead" (1982), "Faces
of Death" (1978), "Faster, Pussycat...Kill! Kill!" (1965), "A Fistful of
Dollars" (1965), "Flash Gordon" (1936), "The Flying Deuces" (1939), "Friday
the 13th" (1980), "Glen or Glenda?" (1953), "Godzilla" (1954), "Gorgo"
(1961), "Halloween" (1978), "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" (1980),
"Hercules" (1957), "High School Confidential!" (1958), "The Hills Have
Eyes" (1977), "I Spit on Your Grave" (1978), "Kentucky Fried Movie" (1977),
"Killer Klowns from Outer Space" (1988), "The Killing" (1956), "The Leopard
Man" (1943), "The Little Shop of Horrors" (1960), "Mad Max" (1979), "Martin"
(1977), "Mondo Cane" (1963), "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975),
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1978), "Night of the Living Dead" (1968),
"Pink Flamingos" (1972), "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959), "Reefer Madness"
(1936), "Repo Man" (1984), "Shaft" (1971), "The Texas Massacre" (1973),
"The Toxic Avenger" (1985) and "X, the Man with X-Ray Eyes" (1963).
The B-Movie Hall
of Fame can be visited at http://www.b-movie.com/hof/hof.html.
Media inquiries:
Open City Communications, 212-714-3575, Opencity@aol.com.
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