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Mihm

The Giant Spider

June 3, 2013 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Calling John Goodman, there is a Giant Spider attacking Phantom Lake County and we need an exterminator pronto!

In the 8th annual installment from Saint Euprohia Pictures and filmmaker Christopher R. Mihm we bring you The Giant Spider! If you are a fan of 1950s era drive-in movies, cheesy dialoque, and overtly over acting by the characters, you will love the Mihm films and The Giant Spider is the best of the bunch.

Blended perfectly with a great story, a creepy-crawly spider, humor, cold war military extravagance, and a Three’s Company-esque innuendo or two thrown in– you have a film that should please every one in the family.

Writer/Director Mihm holds back no punches in Spider. He brings back his familiar cast of actors, many of them friends of his and local talent from around his home state of Minnesota. We welcome back Shannon McDonough, Mike Cook, James Norgard, Sid Korpi, and Mihm does his best Hitchcock trademark by placing himself in the film as a drive in movie theater owner.

The effects are cheesy but great at the same time. The giant spider fits right in even though you can plainly see he shouldn’t. The best scene is the motorcycle scene in which one minute he is driving along on a dirt road and in the next frame it is dry pavement!  This is all part of the charm of the Mihm films and he does it deliberately to pay homage to the great sci-fi/horror movies we all grew up on watching on our black and white TV’s late at night in our parents basement.

Sid Korpi returns and is spectacular! She has been in the last couple of Mihm films (Attack of the Moon Zombies 2011 and House of Ghosts 2012). In this installment we return to Korpi’s victorian era home in Minneapolis that was made famous in Ghosts. This time to her attic that she and her husband Antony Kaczor, whom is also in the film, who have decorated in real life as a 50’s era malt-shop replete with checker boards and pictures of Elvis. When she and Kaczor are not acting in the Mihm films they teach dance lessons in the attic.

Another great feature of the film is the public domain archived footage of the omni-present military. What a great touch, Chris. I loved it! Not to mention how the Major acts like Private Gomer Pile to his superior 3-star General in the military scenes.

All in all, Mihm out did himself with The Giant Spider. It is by far the best film he has made to date. He continues to amaze his fans with what a very small budget, a vision, and a lot of time on your hands, to what a filmmaker can come up with. Who needs multi-million dollar CGI feature films with overpaid actors that care more about the red carpet than they do the films they make, when you can have the genius mind of Mihm on DVD every spring?

Lastly, I just want to know; where can we get one of those delicious Burger Dogs?

 

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House of Ghosts

March 16, 2012 by robertforto 3 Comments

The world premiere of House of Ghosts is drawing near!

If you are a fan of the drive-in and the ultra-cool, albeit sometimes cheesy, sci-fi thrillers of the 1950’s then you will love the films of Christopher R. Mihm.

Mihm is the undisputed master of the new-age black and white genre that has been known to draw fans from far off lands.

Making his films on a shoe-string budget and cranking them out once a year (or so), it does not dimish their impact. These films will have you hooked from the very beginning and I can promise you, you will be heading over to his website to complete your collection.

Visit Saint Euphoria films now!

Do you want to see this film in person and meet the cast and characters, live in the flesh and even score a piece of cake? You can still buy tickets to the world premiere if you hurry up. Then you can tell you friends you attended an honest-to-goodness red carpet event and rubbed elbows with the (soon-to-be) rich and famous!

Buy your tickets to the premiere before they sell out!

 

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