Take a detour down The Lost Highway! B-movies and Cult flicks ahead!
Whenever I’m in need of a good laugh and a fill of B-Movie and Cult movie awesomeness (when am I not in need of the latter?), I find myself taking a ride down Steve Jenck's aka Barry Goodall’s Lost-Highway. I’ve been in contact with Dr. Jencks and Mr. Goodall for a while now, and let me tell you: this guy rules. He loves horror, exploitation, nachos, rubber beasts, real boobs, etc. Certainly, he’s the kind of guy LM wants you to know about. www.the-losthighway.com is one of those sites that puts itself out there as a B-movie review palace, but once you dig in, I’m sure you find you’ll get much more than you bargained for….
LM: You sell those prints on Lost Highway, no?
BG: Yeah, I sell them on the site dirt cheap and I'm also am available for commission work: t-shirt designs, bar mitzvahs, weddings... whatever I gotta do to keep my kids fed and the wife in new shoes.
LM: Okay, so who would win in a cat fight: Morticia from the original Addams Family, or Lily Munster. No holds barred.
BG: Lily Munster… Definitely. Morticia was too dignified and refined for a knock down cat fight. Lily's husband was Frankenstein, so she knows how to naked wrestle with big dumb guys. That makes her one tough lady. If there's ever tickets to this cat fight I am so there… Oh, wait aren't they both dead? Oh, well, it still could be a good show…
LM: Man, Zombie Carolyn Jones VS. Zombie Yvonne DeCarlo? Sold. So, what's the weirdest thing you've ever seen on the side of the road?
BG: While in Arizona, I found a full size telephone booth with a human skeleton inside... It didn't appear to be Halloween decoration and was on a deserted road about a half mile down from an abandoned Shell station. It had this flickering light on the inside it and pretty much scared the beejeebers outta me. I thought I made a wrong turn onto a nuclear testing site and was about to get kidnapped by mutant cannibals. The concept of Lost Highway really owes a lot to that experience.... And my fear of having my face eaten. I think there's a medical name for that kind of phobia…
Click here for the oh-so amazing trailer for The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra!
LM: You also create groovy posters for film presentations. Tell us a bit more about when you started doing art, what other projects you're involved with, and maybe a little more about the film showings you guys got going on.... BG: The poster designs are designed in my spare time which is usually between 1am and 2am weekdays. I started doing these posters a few years back when we hosted a movie night showing Return of the Living Dead. I've always been drawing something somewhere... bathroom stalls, napkins… never tried tattoos yet, though. I don't think I could handle the pain. The posters seem to be pretty popular. We're also doing horror conventions now and that's done really well for sales. It’s also been a great opportunity to meet fans of the site that aren't currently in jail. I tell ya, B-movie fans are some of the nicest people you'd ever meet outside an Amish community. Shout out to all my Amish homies!
LM: You sell those prints on Lost Highway, no?
BG: Yeah, I sell them on the site dirt cheap and I'm also am available for commission work: t-shirt designs, bar mitzvahs, weddings... whatever I gotta do to keep my kids fed and the wife in new shoes.
LM: Okay, so who would win in a cat fight: Morticia from the original Addams Family, or Lily Munster. No holds barred.
BG: Lily Munster… Definitely. Morticia was too dignified and refined for a knock down cat fight. Lily's husband was Frankenstein, so she knows how to naked wrestle with big dumb guys. That makes her one tough lady. If there's ever tickets to this cat fight I am so there… Oh, wait aren't they both dead? Oh, well, it still could be a good show…
LM: Man, Zombie Carolyn Jones VS. Zombie Yvonne DeCarlo? Sold. So, what's the weirdest thing you've ever seen on the side of the road?
BG: While in Arizona, I found a full size telephone booth with a human skeleton inside... It didn't appear to be Halloween decoration and was on a deserted road about a half mile down from an abandoned Shell station. It had this flickering light on the inside it and pretty much scared the beejeebers outta me. I thought I made a wrong turn onto a nuclear testing site and was about to get kidnapped by mutant cannibals. The concept of Lost Highway really owes a lot to that experience.... And my fear of having my face eaten. I think there's a medical name for that kind of phobia…
Dr. Jencks / Mr. Goodall and "friends"
Check out www.the-losthighway.com for more B-Movie hijinks and a chance to win front row tickets to the Zombie Carolyn Jones VS. Zombie Yvonne DeCarlo match (pending a favor from Herbert West)….