JOIN US FOR A MIHMIVERSE MOVIE MARATHON!
On Saturday, September 30th, start the "Halloween season" off right with a
FREE Mihmiverse Movie Marathon at the
Time Community Theater in Oshkosh, which culminates in the Wisconsin premiere of "
Annihilate All Humans!"
Writer/director Christopher R. Mihm personally chose six of his favorite films from his catalog and will be on hand—along with a
BUNCH of familiar Mihmiverse faces—to present them. DVDs and other exclusive Mihmiverse merchandise will be on sale, and available for autographs.
The
Time Community Theater is located at 445 North Main Street in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
BEWARE THE WAD!
The big world premiere of "
Annihilate All Humans!" at the beginning of last month went off without a hitch! Since it was only the second in-theater Mihmiverse premiere since the pandemic hit, writer/director Christopher R. Mihm was excited that attendance was markedly higher than last year—a trend he hopes continues going forward! Despite an entirely unexpected torrential downpour before the festivities began, the audience seemed to greatly enjoy the new movie and reviews have been almost universally positive!
Mr. Mihm has since focused his energies on his
NEXT project, "
The Wad: The True Story Behind the Phantom Lake County Chewing Gum Disaster!" Principal photography of the faux-documentary has officially begun and, as you can see from the behind-the-scenes photo below, a
VERY SPECIAL guest star was on hand to film her part in the film!
In the new movie, Shannon McDonough reprises her signature role of Julie Ann Saint Marie-Jackson, a character last heard (but not seen) in 2010's "
Destination: Outer Space!" Ms. McDonough has starred in several Mihmiverse favorites, from her first appearance in 2007's "
It Came From Another World!" through the most popular of Mr. Mihm's catalog, "
The Giant Spider!"
It's great to see Ms. McDonough back in action and we can't wait to see what's in store for her iconic character. Granted, since it was canonically established in "
Destination: Outer Space" that Julie Ann Saint Marie-Jackson spent her adult life cleaning the Atomic Waste out of Phantom Lake, the photo above gives us a pretty good idea of where she is and why!
Lastly, let us not forget to mention that we can clearly see that James Norgard is back yet again as Dr. Gabriel to "do some science" in the new film. In addition to Mr. Norgard's well-loved character, the cast is rounded out by some very familiar faces reprising their popular roles, including Mike Cook as Dr. Edwards, Mark Haider as General Castle, Michael Kaiser as Sheriff Hayes, Thom Gladhill as Deputy O'Donnell, Elliott Mihm as Daniel (Danny) Johnson, and even writer/director Christopher R. Mihm returns as Mayor Boland!
Principal photography is scheduled to continue for the next several months and, as always, when we learn more about this new movie, we will happily let you know! Stay tuned!
In writer/director Christopher R. Mihm's first faux-documentary, KPHL Channel 6 Nightly News anchor Daniel Johnson (Elliott Mihm) hosts a "look back" at one of the most shocking events ever to transpire in Mihmiverse history. Through interviews with survivors and major players involved in the crisis, re-enactments, and never-before-seen archival footage, Mr. Johnson presents the complete and unabridged story of the wad of chewing gum that mutated, became sentient, grew to gargantuan proportions, and threatened the lives of every man, woman, and child in Phantom Lake County!
Don't forget! The Mihmiverse is only made possible by
contributor credits, and we need all the help we can get! For each $20.00 donation, all
contributors will be entitled to having a single name
* of their choosing listed in the
contributors section of the closing credits of the film and a customized, frame-able document certifying their
contribution!
IMPORTANT! Physical media copies of the finished film are
NOT automatically included with a basic
contribution. If you would like to be guaranteed a DVD or Blu-Ray of the film when it is released, you
MUST order it separately (with the purchase of at least one credit)!
Credits can even be given as gifts! Imagine the looks on the faces of your loved ones when they find out their names will be immortalized on the silver screen!
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EXCLUSIVE CREDITS!
NOTE: If you purchase one of the following credits, writer/director Christopher R. Mihm will contact you shortly after to discuss your purchase!
*A single credit is defined as the name of one (1) person or corporate entity. Any credit requiring the word "and," an ampersand (&), and/or a comma (except when part of a legal company name) will constitute multiple credits and MUST BE paid for separately.
NOTE: The contributor program is an "equal exchange" program, which means specifically that those participating have NO SAY in the decisions or actions taken by anyone involved in the actual production of the film and are NOT entitled to ANY possible future profits earned by the film, derivative works, and/or merchandise created for or featuring elements from the film. Becoming an contributor does not entitle the participant to ANY ownership WHATSOEVER of the finished film or associated elements.
LAST CHANCE TO HELP TEAM MIHM GET TO THE YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES!
Alice Mihm—whose on-screen work is well known to every true Mihmivite—is currently striving to represent the United States in the sport of curling at the upcoming 2024 Youth Olympic Games!
Curling is a unique ice sport that has become such a part of the "greater Mihmiverse" that the films of Christopher R. Mihm even has its own official curling team, The Rock Monsters, the roster of which has, at one time or another, included recognizable Mihmiverse names & faces, including Christopher R. Mihm, the first lady of the 'verse, Stephanie Mihm, Mark "General Castle" Haider, "monster-of-all-trades" Michael Kaiser, David "Butch" Mihm, Elliott "Danny Johnson" Mihm, and the most talented of the 'verse-related curlers, Alice "Evelyn Johnson" Mihm!
Alice's team, Team BAAD News, will be participating in the Youth Olympic Trials in Denver, CO during the first full week of September and, should they win, will go on to compete as Team USA in the Youth Olympic Games in South Korea in February of 2024! In preparation for the trials, the team has been practicing extensively and competed in several curling tournaments (called "bonspiels"). The Youth Olympic games are restricted to teenagers ranging in age from 13 to 17 and is quite literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so the team has set up a GoFundMe page to raise funds to help cover all the costs associated with such an undertaking.
The team members and their families would be eternally grateful and appreciate any and all support you, the always generous fans of the Mihmiverse, are willing to lend toward helping Team BAAD News reach its goals! Mihmiverse fans are the best in the world, and this is a great opportunity to prove it by helping Alice and her team go for the gold!
With the trials taking place a week from the publication of this newsletter, we encourage everyone to contribute to the team's efforts before it's too late! Visit their GoFundMe page by going HERE!
NEW WRITER/DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER R. MIHM INTERVIEW!
Writer/director Christopher R. Mihm was recently interviewed for the Scratch Claw Push podcast, and the episode has just been released! If you've ever wanted to know more about how and why Mr. Mihm does what he does, we highly recommend checking it out below!
ALSO, if you're wondering why one of the podcast's hosts looks so familiar, it's because it's actor Billie Jo Konze, who played Dr. Hackett in "
The Giant Spider" and Ethyl in "
Queen of Snakes!"
SPECIAL DEAL ON A FULL SET OF MIHMIVERSE MOVIES!
After
MANY years, the entire catalog of Mihmiverse DVDs is
FINALLY available again!
AND, the full set of 19 Mihmiverse DVDs is currently available for a special price of only $109.99—a savings of almost $80 compared to buying them individually!
THE MIHMIVERSE MONTHLY AUDIOCAST
The latest episode of the
Mihmiverse Monthly Audiocast has arrived!
This month, host writer/director Christopher R. Mihm recaps the highly successful "
Annihilate All Humans!" world premiere and talks at length about what he finds
EXTRA exciting about the next Mihmiverse movie, "
The Wad: The True Story Behind the Phantom Lake County Chewing Gum Disaster!"
Also included: The next installment in "
An Oral History of the Mihmiverse," and more "
Atomic Tales," a monthly short story from the author of "
The Canoe Cops vs. The Mummy," Stephen D. Sullivan!
To download an .mp3 of the audiocast, click
HERE, visit
archive.org where the file is stored or download it free from
Apple Podcasts!
Otherwise, if you'd like to listen to the episode right from this browser window, click the play button on the player below!
The
Mihmiverse Monthly Audiocast is hosted by writer/director Christopher R. Mihm and is focused specifically on what's going on
RIGHT NOW in the Mihmiverse. In addition, Mr. Mihm will discuss the monster movie-making process, touch briefly on the future of the 'verse, pontificate on random subjects, and be joined by guests from within and without the Mihmiverse.
PLUS, each episode will include something unique you won't find anywhere else!
Out for Blood II, The Sequel
Last month, we featured a few of the more than 200 songs listed on IMDb with "
Blood" in the title—all from the '60s. This month, we're "blood sampling" the '70s.
List One: Titles & Years. List Two: Plots and Tidbits. As always, your job is to match them up with a minimum of bloodshed. You can do it! Just B-Positive!
1. "The Blood on Satan's Claw" (1971)
2. "Blood Shack" (1971)
3. "Baron Blood" (1972)
4. "Blood Sabbath" (1972)
5. "Blood Freak" (1972)
6. "
Blood" (1973)
A. A Werewolf marries Dracula's daughter and they fight to survive in 19th Century Staten Island.
B. In 17th Century England, the children a forming a coven of blood.
C. A woman inherits a ranch that is supposedly haunted by a beast called "The Chopper."
D. A young man is kidnapped by a coven while walking through the woods. This leads to a power struggle amongst the witches.
E. A man travels to Austria for the auction of his ancestor's castle and accidentally brings him back to life. Joseph Cotten and Elke Sommer star.
F. A Vietnam vet, a bible thumper, drugs, turkeys, and a hideous transformation. That about sums it up.
Scroll to the bottom of the Mihmiverse Monthly for the answers.
— Mike Cook
In this new column, we'll be digging through old issues of the
Mihmiverse Monthly and
Phantom Lake Almanac (which was the original name of this newsletter!) and presenting interesting bits and pieces from the past! After all, this newsletter has been around since the release of "
The Monster of Phantom Lake" back in 2006, so there's a
LOT to choose from!
This month, we return to January 2016 when writer/director Christopher R. Mihm announced that the Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for "
The Monster of Phantom Lake: The Musical!" had reached its initial goal and was seeking to achieve all of its "stretch" goals—which it eventually did! Thanks to the generous donations of over 100 people, the musical theater adaption of the first Mihmiverse film debuted the following July!
"
The Monster of Phantom Lake: The Musical!" is coming!
Writer/director Christopher R. Mihm and composer/lyricist Adam Boll have completed their work on the musical stage adaptation of the first Mihmiverse film—and they are ready to bring it to the masses! To help the play go from just an idea to a full-blown reality, the pair started a
Kickstarter campaign to raise the necessary funds to mount the first-ever live production!
The minimum goal of the crowd funding campaign is $2,500 and, with just days to go in 2015, it was reached, thus guaranteeing the play will be held
SOMEWHERE! However, just because the campaign achieved its primary goal, it doesn't mean there isn't more to be done!
The secondary goal of $6,000 would make it possible to perform the show at the historic
Mabel Tainter Center in Menomonie, WI (located roughly an hour outside of Minneapolis/St. Paul). The ultimate goal, however, is to reach $12,000, which will allow the production to debut at the
Mabel Tainter Center AS WELL AS record and release a DVD of the show and an original cast recording!
If you're a fan of the original "
The Monster of Phantom Lake," and, like most folks, imagine it can only be enhanced by adding singing and dancing, please consider contributing to the
Kickstarter campaign and help make it happen!
If you're still not convinced, check out the video below and then visit
Kickstarter!
CLASSIC MOVIE OF THE MONTH
The Blob (1958)
Directed by
Irvin YeaworthStarring
Steve McQueen and
Aneta Corsaut
In one of the best known sci-fi/horror films of the 1950s, a terrifying hunk of space gelatin crash lands on Earth within a meteorite and instantly begins consuming the denizens of small town U.S.A. "
The Blob" follows a teenage "gang of ne'er-do-wells" led by a young Steve McQueen (billed as Steven McQueen in his first lead role), as they discover the threat posed by the invader and try to warn the townsfolk of the impending danger. Sadly, no one will listen as people continue to disappear and the blob grows ever bigger. In one of the most iconic scenes from the "drive-in cinema" era, the otherworldly ooze terrorizes the local movie house as the unstoppable substance chases moviegoers out into the street before squeezing through the theater's doorways. Eventually, the blob traps people inside the local diner and the local authorities must figure out a way to stop it before it consumes the entire planet (or something equally sinister)! "
The Blob" is, by far, one of the best science fiction films of the 1950s. Everything from the acting, directing and special effects to the truly disturbing and often frightening story are top notch. If you're looking for a way to introduce new people to the wonders of cheesy 1950s cinema, this film is a safe place to start! I heartily recommend it!
— Christopher R. Mihm
If you're like most people these days, you tend to stream your favorite TV shows and movies, particularly because it's way more convenient and you have access to them in more places! Did you know there are now several places to stream the entire Mihmiverse catalog?
From the movie that started it all, "
The Monster of Phantom Lake," to its musical offshoot, "
The Monster of Phantom Lake: The Musical!," and "
Annihilate All Humans!," everything you need to "visit" the denizens of Phantom Lake County is available for your streaming pleasure!
The
ENTIRE filmography of writer/director Christopher R. Mihm (including "
Annihilate All Humans!") is available through the Mihmiverse
Vimeo VOD portal!
Every film is presented using the same ultra high-quality renders used for the official Blu-Ray releases and actually feeds video content to the
Drive-in Monsters Roku channel. Most importantly, the Mihmiverse
Vimeo VOD portal is the
ONLY PLACE to legally own the films digitally!
Retro-style monster movies from the wild & weird imagination of cult filmmaker Christopher R. Mihm! From giant, rampaging spiders to alien invasions and bug-eyed horrors, the
Drive-in Monsters channel includes the entire catalog of Mr. Mihm's films, exclusive extras, and long lost special features originally released on currently out-of-print physical media! Explore the worldwide underground cult phenomenon known as the "Mihmiverse" and enjoy the rebirth of the golden age of "drive-in cinema" with the
Drive-in Monsters channel!
As of right now, the channel is free... but, that most likely will not last forever! So make sure to enjoy the
Drive-in Monsters Roku channel while it's still completely free of charge!
Most of the films of the Mihmiverse are available on Amazon Video. Sadly, as Amazon continues to revise and rewrite its policies, they have downgraded the entire Mihmiverse catalog from "available with Prime" to rental only. Though this wasn't entirely unexpected—given the way the service has been slowly ridding itself of the films of Christopher R. Mihm—we
CANNOT guarantee they will still be there on any given day! So, if Amazon is your preferred place to watch the Mihmiverse, enjoy it while it lasts!
NOTE: Amazon has barred writer/director Christopher R. Mihm (and
MANY other independent filmmakers) from adding any new films to their service. As far as we have been able to figure out, the service is taking a more "curated" approach to its catalog and, unfortunately, does not have any more room for the cheesy goodness of the Mihmiverse! Therefore, if you're interested in watching the newest films of the Mihmiverse, we highly recommend checking out the Mihmiverse Roku channel,
Drive-in Monsters!
Mihmiverse DVDs & Blu-Rays are now available at
SaintEuphoria.com, the online home of the films of Christopher R. Mihm. In addition, exclusive movie posters, collectibles and other merchandise are now in stock. Everything is available in extremely limited quantities, so get yours today before they run out!
The Trivia Corner answers: 1-B, 2-C, 3-E, 4-D, 5-F, 6-A
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