TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK: Killin' to the oldies, but just bear-ly

Monday, June 15, 2009

Killin' to the oldies, but just bear-ly

Last week I was going through some boxes of ads and the date on this sleazy one jumped out at me. Twenty-five years ago today!

9 comments:

Tim Mayer said...: Originally known as "The Scaremaster".
Produced by two rich kids from Columbus, OH that thought it would be fun to get into the movie business. I attempted to interview both of them back when I was still doing my Zine and quickly discovered that neither had the slightest knowledge of horror movies.; 6/15/2009 07:39:00 PM
Temple of Schlock said...: Their parents must've been connected to Buddah Records. Why else would college students in 1982 be playing nothing but the Lovin' Spoonful and Ohio Express?; 6/15/2009 08:00:00 PM
Kris Gilpin said...: I thought Rutanya Alda was Alan's sis--wrong.

but she was married to the great character actor Richard Bright for almost 30 years! ;-); 6/16/2009 08:28:00 AM
Tower Farm said...: Wow...that is so great. I, too, have some pretty awesome ads saved up in a box somewhere. I acually just recently ordered this movie, so now I'm even more excited to get it in the mail.
-Billy; 6/16/2009 10:39:00 AM
Brian Albright said...: Those two rich kids are now very well known personal injury attornies here in Columbus - Anthony Gurvis and Kevin Kurgis (Kurgis has some awesomely weird/frightening TV commercials). I wrote to both of their offices about this film, but never heard back from either.
My wife tells me I actually MET Anthony Gurvis at a fundraiser at her boss's house a few years back for our recently resigned attorney general, Marc Dann. If only I'd known then, I could have asked him about it in person.; 6/16/2009 10:08:00 PM
Tim Mayer said...: I doubt they would talk very much about it. Something tells me the movie was a major embarrassment to them.
I think their families were big in real estate. Seems I recall seeing one of the names on a lot of rental signs.
If you want to do some detective work try looking up some info on the film production in an old issue of THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH. I recall a big article about the lads while the film was in production. This would have been around 1983.; 6/17/2009 04:34:00 PM
Temple of Schlock said...: Tim, I think the movie was finished by 1983. I have an Independent-International one-sheet of it as THE SCAREMAKER and it's dated 1982.; 6/17/2009 09:12:00 PM
Arbogast said...: Anthony Gurvis and Kevin Kurgis

Gurvis & Kurgis? You just can't make this shit up.; 6/17/2009 09:52:00 PM
Tim Mayer said...: In that case, someone should try digging through old back issues of THE DISPATCH from around 1982. Damn, the older I get the harder it is to remember exact dates.
Seriously, there was a huge article on the them. Big picture of the boys looking at a film script or something.
All I can remember from the brief converstion I had with them ("Fangoria? What's that?) is being told how, in Hollywood, everyone is a producer.; 6/18/2009 03:41:00 PM

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