Harry, feeling his age, passes along some amazing coolness... This time regarding SAM RAIMI... old school style!

Hey folks, Harry here... - Around the time I was a Junior & Senior in High School - 1988-1989, there existed what I generally consider the single greatest movie geek show every to air in the history of Television. THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE FILM SHOW... Coming to life via a magical mythical CHANNEL X and featuring somebody that nobody had ever heard of (in Seymour, Tx) named Jonathan Ross. I've been in a very reflective mood this past week - mainly due to some excitement in the personal sectors - all good, but I'm beginning to fully understand just how much time has passed since I was a kid and where I am today. There's a lot of things that helped me along the path that I took to being the 'geek' that I am, but the other night, I was talking to Yoko about PJ's early days... the BAD TASTE & DEAD ALIVE (BRAINDEAD) era - and I thought back upon that time and where I found out about those films - and THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE FILM SHOW came to mind. I never saw this broadcast, but a friend of my father's - Mark Shaw (nowadays he does 'Duck' comics for Disney) found the show and gave my Dad vhs tapes of the show every two weeks. And Dad got them to me. For a small audience, THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE FILM SHOW introduced Raimi, Stuart Gordon, Jackie Chan, John Woo, Herschell Gordon Lewis and on and on and on.... Looking back upon that time period I was curious how many fellow geeks in my Twitter feed knew of the show. Only a couple seemed to know. And that... that is simply unacceptable. THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE FILM SHOW existed in a time period when next to noone knew the names of Sam Raimi and Jackie Chan. In the late 80s... the CANNONBALL RUN movies and THE BIG BRAWL were known, but not so much with the Hong Kong work. That began showing up in the early 90s at College Theaters.... like my own HOGG AUDITORIUM here in Austin. I remember, I got this following show - the same week that Mark loaned me his copy of EVIL DEAD & EVIL DEAD 2. This was the "special features" that he had to show me how they did it. And frankly, watching boyish Raimi go into it - impossibly young Bruce and Spiegel and Tapert... well it is splendid beyond belief - and rewatching this 4 part (YOU TUBE style) feature made me gawk in rediscovery at Raimi telling these stories as well as a glimpse at some of his pre-EVIL DEAD 3 Stooges inspired shorts... but most of all... wait till you see Raimi as a kid talking about the apartment Bruce and he crashed in New York. Or how they raised their dough for the first EVIL DEAD. Truly some of the best advice to young filmmakers ever. Once a week, I'll publish up another one of these to sort of give y'all a glimpse at what got me fired up when I was 16-17-18 years old. This shit is AWESOME SAUCE - Spoon it up my friends!

See, ain't that cool?