Cinema Bizarro - The Weird Kid’s Guide to Particularly Odd Horror and Sci-Fi Movies Paperback – February 18, 2025

THE THIRD ENTRY IN THE RONDO AWARD NOMINATED MONSTER MOVIE BOOK SERIES!From the creators of Giant Bug Cinema - A Monster Kid’s Guide and Giant Beast Cinema - A Monstrous Movie Guide, both of which reached the Top Ten on Amazon for Horror Movie Books, comes Cinema Bizarro — a celebration of killer plants, eccentric aliens, and weird westerns!Featuring insanely insightful reviews of 38 movies (plus 30 capsule reviews of Weird Westerns of the 1930’s and 1940’s), take a very unsafe tourbus through a terrifying terrain filled with sight-stealing triffids, alien gorillas in diving helmets, and the vampires ’n’ dinosaurs that vexed the wild west. Let Cinema Bizarro envelop you in its loving embrace like the cool, slimy clutches of The Blob!The contributors are:Larry Blamire - Rondo-Award winning film historian and cult filmmaker of Sony’s The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Giant Beast CinemaDan Madigan - former Writer for WWE, screenwriter/creator of See No Evil franchise.Tracy Mercer - Giant Beast Cinema, Host, My Favorite Shtty Movie podcastMike Peros - José Ferrer: Success and Survival, Dan Duryea: Heel with a Heart, Giant Beast Cinema, film critic for Noho Arts DistrictSteven Peros - Co-Editor/Contributor to Giant Beast Cinema, screenwriter of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Cat’s MeowNadia Robertson - Articles in We Belong Dead, Delirium, Cinema Macabre; Host of Cinema Chats podcastBrian R. Solomon - Godzilla FAQ, Giant Beast CinemaPhoef Sutton - Two-time Emmy winning writer for Cheers, co-host of Films Freaks Forever podcast.Mark Bailey - Conceived, designed, and co-edited entire monster book trilogy.Steven B. Orkin - Copy editor for monster book trilogy, Winner of Stephen King’s On Writing contestAs with the two earlier books, Cinema Bizarro explores this arena up until the accepted end of the “Monster Kid Era” — 1968 (although we did sneak in one entry from 1969 because, hey, it was from The Master, Ray Harryhausen!). But rest assured, plans are afoot to bring our readers second volumes of Giant Bug Cinema, Giant Beast Cinema, and Cinema Bizarro, which will take readers into the gonzo 1970’s, 1980’s and beyond. Read more