Post by donmac on Nov 17, 2004 16:48:00 GMT -5
Forrest, Josh, & I received a message from Jeff Lieberman, the director of Squirm, that I want to post here for all to read. He apparently thinks that we *made* the show MST3K, BTW. (And if you were wondering if that movie was directed by a crazy person, I think this will answer your question):
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:04:33 EST
Subject: SQUIRM
Hey guys,
When the Sci Fi channel first contacted me to tell me that Squirm was being shown on your show I went ballistic. NOT for the reason you're probably thinking. It was because Squirm
'plays' on it's own, constantly, on cable, broadcast, virtually everywhere in the world. When Don Zacherly invented the form you guys are shamelessly 'me too' copying, he ran only either public domain films or hopelessly slow Mummy movies which did not sell at all to television anymore, so the distributors figured it was found money. But I freaked out because some bozo salesman at Orion, knowing their library was being sold to MGM, must have booked a last minute sale, with total disregard to the damage he was doing to the title. If the film DIDN'T sell over and over again throughout the world after 28 years, I would have been all for any found money sale out there, even to your unoriginal, tired 'idea' of goofing on old B movie show. Casandra Peterson at least has the class to say ( to me) that she's Zacherly with tits.
Here's a little tip off guys, I made Squirm when i was 25 years old.. AS A GOOF! Everything in that film is intentional, especially the over the top Southern crap which we new Yawkers were all goofing on -- none of us even been in the south before we shot there. (We were supposed to shoot in New England but the weather turned before we got it all together.) To see you geniuses pointing this stuff out is painful to me-- to think the current audience is that unhip that this amateur attempt at comedy sh*t actually floats? I COULD GOOF ON CITIZEN KANE and make it funnier than your stuff, but I'd rather spend my time being creative. Easiest thing to do is goof on stuff... it's a schoolyard staple. But hey, guess you have legions of brain dead 'fans' who just flat out don't know any better. Lemme know when you do something original and I'll be sure to check it out. I'm open to being wrong but my gut tells me it won't happen. More likely you'll do mst3k two and rip yourselves off.
best regards Jeff Lieberman
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:04:33 EST
Subject: SQUIRM
Hey guys,
When the Sci Fi channel first contacted me to tell me that Squirm was being shown on your show I went ballistic. NOT for the reason you're probably thinking. It was because Squirm
'plays' on it's own, constantly, on cable, broadcast, virtually everywhere in the world. When Don Zacherly invented the form you guys are shamelessly 'me too' copying, he ran only either public domain films or hopelessly slow Mummy movies which did not sell at all to television anymore, so the distributors figured it was found money. But I freaked out because some bozo salesman at Orion, knowing their library was being sold to MGM, must have booked a last minute sale, with total disregard to the damage he was doing to the title. If the film DIDN'T sell over and over again throughout the world after 28 years, I would have been all for any found money sale out there, even to your unoriginal, tired 'idea' of goofing on old B movie show. Casandra Peterson at least has the class to say ( to me) that she's Zacherly with tits.
Here's a little tip off guys, I made Squirm when i was 25 years old.. AS A GOOF! Everything in that film is intentional, especially the over the top Southern crap which we new Yawkers were all goofing on -- none of us even been in the south before we shot there. (We were supposed to shoot in New England but the weather turned before we got it all together.) To see you geniuses pointing this stuff out is painful to me-- to think the current audience is that unhip that this amateur attempt at comedy sh*t actually floats? I COULD GOOF ON CITIZEN KANE and make it funnier than your stuff, but I'd rather spend my time being creative. Easiest thing to do is goof on stuff... it's a schoolyard staple. But hey, guess you have legions of brain dead 'fans' who just flat out don't know any better. Lemme know when you do something original and I'll be sure to check it out. I'm open to being wrong but my gut tells me it won't happen. More likely you'll do mst3k two and rip yourselves off.
best regards Jeff Lieberman