Paul Fishbein

Listen to "Paul Fishbein From Time Warp Midnight Madness" on Spreaker. Epic, Deep-Dive History of Cult Movies, , Releasing as a Three-Part Documentary Series The first of a three-part documentary feature Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time, will hit the VOD marketplace on multiple platforms beginning April 21. A history of cult movies which traces their roots in repertory cinemas and at midnight screenings in the 1970's through today, the production names the greatest cult films of all time, with inside stories, interviews with the stars, directors and historians who defined the genre and illustrated film clips. Each volume is hosted by an established film buff panel with directors Joe Dante and John Waters and actors Illeana Douglas and Kevin Pollak. Quiver Distribution releases the Plausible Films' production. "This production was a dream come true," said Plausible Films' Paul Fishbein, executive producer of Time Warp. "These are the films we grew up on, that we cut classes to go see and snuck into drive-ins to watch. And after seeing them over and over and over again, they still hold up." The first release, "Midnight Madness," releasing on April 21, considers the phenomenon of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the admiration for Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude, the strange way David Lynch's Eraserhead because a cult hit, how Pink Flamingos established John Waters as a cult director and discusses many more "midnight movies." Jeff Bridges and John Turturro are on hand to deliberate The Big Lebowski, Rob Reiner, Michael McKean and Fran Drescher explain the greatness of This is Spinal Tap, the extraordinary Pam Grier is on hand to discuss her 19070's blaxploitation cult classics Coffy and Foxy Brown and many more stars, directors and their movies are dissected. Part 2, with the title "Horror and Sci-Fi," releases May 21 on VOD platforms and features cult sci-fi classics such as Blade Runner and star Sean Young, Malcolm McDowell dishing on A Clockwork Orange, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai with Jeff Goldblum on hand, John Sayles and Joe Morton discussing The Brother from Another Planet and many others. Cult horror is represented with Night of the Living Dead and the late George Romero, The Evil Dead featuring Bruce Campbell, and director Tobe Hooper's final interview along with co-star Ed Neal in discussing the cult greatness of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The third volume, "Comedy & Camp," premiering June 23 on most VOD platforms, establishes the greatest cult comedies as well as the camp cult classics that filled repertory cinemas, video stores and screens at midnight. The all-star cast includes John Cleese, Fred Willard, David Cross, Gina Gershon, Jim Gaffigan, Jon Heder, John Cameron Mitchell, the cast of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Ron Livingston, Kevin Smith, director Amy Heckerling and many others discussing the likes of Rock 'n' Roll High School, Clerks, Showgirls, The Room, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Napoleon Dynamite, Office Space. Fast Time at Ridgemont High, Plan 9 From Outer Space and many more. All three volumes feature many experts and authors including Bruce Vilanch, Owen Gleiberman (Variety), David Edelstein (New York Magazine, CBS Sunday News), Amy Nicholson (Variety), Kyle Anderson (The Nerdist), Danny Peary (Cult Movies 1-4), Tony Timpone (Fangoria), Carrie Rickey (Philadelphia Inquirer) and Irv Slifkin (Groovy Movies). Slifkin, an accomplished film writer and professor, who served as a producer on the project, added, "I've always had a fondness for movies that are off the beaten track or have never found the audience they deserve, so taking a liking to cult films were a natural for me. Realizing that others shared my enthusiasm for such films was a revelation, and nothing is more fulfilling than sitting in a theater and sharing the love for a movie you thought nobody cared about with others who appreciate the same thing." Danny Wolf, who directed the project said, "What I loved best about directing and conducting the interviews was that so many of the films we covered were personal favorites of mine. So, it's hard to put into words how amazing it was to interview Gina Gershon for Showgirls, Peter Farrelly for ?Kingpin, or the unique opportunity to travel to Kingsland, Texas to interview The Texas Chain Saw Massacre's Ed Neal....in front of the actual house used in the movie." Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time is available starting April 21 on Amazon Apple TV, iTunes, Amazon, Vudu and most places you rent or buy new movies to stream.