CELLULOID CEMETERY
Join your host, filmmaker Mark Bessenger (BITE MARKS, NINJA ZOMBIE), and his guests as they delve into the exploitative, overlooked and under-appreciated side of cinema! Each week, Mark picks a film his guests haven't seen, then they watch and discuss it! Will they like it, love it or hate it? Listen and find out! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS! ©2024 Thrillsville Productions
Episodes
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Celluloid Cemetery! Today, my special guest Sam Park joins me to talk about the first Superman feature film, SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE-MEN, starring George Reeves as the Man of Steel. We chat about the Lois Lanes, ray guns and 40's mob mentality!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton.
WARNING: Super Spoilers!!
©2026 Thr...
BAM! POW! BIFF! Celluloid Cemetery turns it atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed as film fan/film & astronomy teacher Rob Carl and I travel 13 miles to Gotham City to talk about the coolest, campiest version of the Dark Knight ever! 1966's BATMAN! Holy podcast, Batman!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton.
WARNING: Holy Spoilers, Batman!!
©2026 Thrillsville Productions
Think the holidays are over? Think again! Because they're about to be over...for good! Celluloid Cemetery watches as a yule log video races from genre to genre, becoming a whirlwind of marriage proposals, slashers, curses, devil worship, double bookings, home invasions, aliens, demons, time travel and second chances! Filmmaker/photographer Bart Mastronardi joins me to talk about 2022's ADULT SWIM YULE LOG....
This Christmas, Santa enters the ring as wrestling superstar Bill Goldberg plays a Satanic Santa seeking revenge against an angel who tricked him into being good for the last 1000 years. Joining me on this episode of Celluloid Cemetery is actor/professional wrestler-in-training Hunter Evans, who talks about Goldberg's signature moves, how to not get your clock cleaned in the ring and whether he's on the nau...
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen...Miracle on 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life and Scrooge and White Christmas...but do you recall, the most forgotten Christmas film of all? Join the one and only Santa Claus as he joins me in chatting about the 1951 holiday Bob Hope musical-comedy, THE LEMON DROP KID!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton.
WARNING: Lemon Drop SPOIL...
By George! Mr. Magoo tackles A Christmas Carol...on Broadway, yet! The curmudgeonly near-sighted cartoon character plays Scrooge in a musical adaptation of the Dickens classic, and actors Hunter Evans and Daniel Moser join me to discuss Christmas spirits, greedy children and razzleberry dressing!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton.
WARNING: Razzleberry SPOILERS!!
©2025 Thrillsville Produc...
The people of Newville liked Christmas a lot, but the Mean One, living high in a cave on a hill...did not. Actor/voice actor Aaron Veach joins me today to spread a little Christmas fear, as we examine a bloody dark take on The Grinch. Is the Grinch scary? And why are we so fascinated by gory interpretations of things we loved as children? Listen as we discuss the 2022 film THE MEAN ONE!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Grab your scarf and your mittens and get ready for a spot of snowy death as Celluloid Cemetery starts a month of Christmas/wintery films that'll make you return your favorite present! Today, marketing entertainment producer and big horror fan Patrick Falvey joins me to talk about the snowman-slasher movie, 1997's JACK FROST!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton.
WARNING: Snowy SP...
Pillow fight! Nothing says slumber party like an all-girls cushion conflict! And a spot of murder! Today, Celluloid Cemetery celebrates the 43rd anniversary of 1982's THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE! Joining me on this episode is the film's actor who played Jeff, producer/writer David Millbern! We talk about the making of the film, how he got involved, what Roger Corman was like and sh*t his fans tell him!
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Return with Celluloid Cemetery to 1985 when one of the world's biggest movie stars came out of retirement to appear in a brand new movie! No, not Raymond Burr! Join Big G enthusiast Andrew Ward and me as we talk about GODZILLA 1985!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton.
WARNING: Godzilla SPOILERS!!
©2025 Thrillsville Productions
Does a bear snort in the woods? Find out on this episode of Celluloid Cemetery as voice actor/actor Aaron Veach joins me to talk about whether 'tis nobler in the mind to laugh or scream at such a concept as the one you find in 2023's COCAINE BEAR!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton.
WARNING: Cocaine SPOILERS!!
©2025 Thrillsville Productions
Did you hear the one about the traveling salesman and the farmer's daughter? You did? Well then, I bet you haven't heard this one...Join me and Phyllis Diller historian and impersonator Laurie Ayers as we chat about her life and the only film she starred in, 1968's DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE TRAVELING SALESLADY? Laurie tells us about Phyllis' life and career and how she became interested in t...
And the final Jeopardy answers are: a. "Oh, my god! Put some clothes on!", b. "The carpet matches the drapes!" and c. "Hey, baby, wanna come back to my place and watch some horror movies?" The question is the title of the film director/writer/actor Lee Anthony Smith and I are discussing today, 1969's WHAT DO YOU SAY TO A NAKED LADY? "Candid Camera" creator Allen Funt atte...
Okay, "Hello, Dolly!", it ain't. "Singin' in the Rain", it ain't. It ain't even "Xanadu!" But today, actor Benjamin Lutz and I strip down on Celluloid Cemetery to talk about musical perversions, dancing dildos and a tap-dancing Cindy Williams in 1976's THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL! Warning: this episode is especially spicy!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Art...
The bonds between brother and sister are stretched to the breaking point...and beyond when Becca checks in on her suicidal older brother, only to find him dead in the bathtub...and the closet...and on the sofa...and then alive eating cereal. It's a loopy quagmire that is surprisingly poignant. So get out the hankies and join musician/actor Drew Beasley as we discuss the 2019 film DEAD DICKS!
Theme by Rossano Gal...
When Yetis are 30 feet tall and look like Barry Gibb, you know this is a job for Celluloid Cemetery! Join Bigfoot enthusiast and film school teacher Rob Carl and me as we talk about how big a monster must be to be considered kaiju, how goofy a film is to be considered a kiddie movie, and would a giant fish skeleton really work as a comb? Grab the soap and get ready for the biggest tick bath in history, as we chat abo...
There's a foul stench in the wind...and it's not us! Today, on Celluloid Cemetery, producer/writer/entertainment marketing producer Patrick Falvey and I talk possession, gooey fx, bad acting and Evil Dead rip-offs! It's 1990's DEMON WIND! Join us as we ask the questions "Why doesn't anyone care that one of them is turned into a bloody doll?", "Did that actor get cast because h...
What makes a comedy funny? For the first time, filmmaker Vito Trabucco and I butt heads on one of his favorite funny films, 1982's NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CLASS REUNION. Join our spirited debate on why the film works (or doesn't), why the cast is perfect (or isn't) and how long would the film be if it wasn't padded like it had a pea under it!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton....
Film gimmicks have been around since the introduction of the talkies, but today on Celluloid Cemetery, former film teacher Kent Pettit joins me to discuss the use of film gimmicks to draw in audiences and just how successful "Duo-Vision" was for the 1973 film WICKED WICKED!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton.
WARNING: SPOILERS SPOILERS!!
©2025 Thrillsville Productions
Today, on Celluloid Cemetery, we gather together undeveloped characters, folksy robots, big-ass special effects, a villain with a beard set to impress and a trip where no man has gone before! Oops! Wrong franchise! Join former astronomics and film teacher Rob Carl as we explore Disney's first cinematic adventure into the PG rating! Damn! Hell! Damn!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton.
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