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Disturbingly funny docudrama tells the tale of The Creeping Terror filmmaker Vic Savage

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Synapse Films made many viewers happy last year with their Collector's Edition Steelbook Blu-ray release of Dario Argento's Phenomena, aka Creepers, and if you didn't pick up the Steelbook, you'll soon have a chance to purchase the film in a standard (but still extraordinary) two-disc Blu-ray this September, along with The Creep Behind the Camera.

Featuring three separate cuts of the film, the Phenomena Blu-ray will be released on September 12th, the same day of Synapse Films' Blu-ray and DVD release of The Creep Behind the Camera, which explores the stranger than fiction story of the making of The Creeping Terror (which is included in the special features with a new 2K scan). Below, we have official press releases with full details, as well as a look at the cover art for both films.

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You may or may not know (I didnt) that the cult classic The Creeping Terror was not just an exercise in bad filmmaking and eventual fodder for the guys of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 but also a real life behindthescenes tale of spousal abuse drug use sexual deviant behavior and one helluva Godcomplex in the form of director Vic Savage.

It's that time of the year again, kids! One of the best damned film festivals in the world, Screamfest L.A. Horror, which is taking place in Los Angeles October 14-23, has announced its first wave of titles; and there's plenty of blood to splatter around!

From the Press Release

Screamfest®, from the festival that brought you such films as Trick ‘r Treat, Paranormal Activity, The Human Centipede and American Mary, announces the first wave of the 2014 festival. Screamfest® kicks off its 14th annual event in Los Angeles on October 14-23 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres.

First Wave Screening Highlights at Screamfest 2014

The Creep Behind the Camera (Us) – Directed by Pete Schuermann. The Creep Behind the Camera was an actual filmmaker named Vic Savage; a real scumbag whose only real skill was in his uncanny ability to convince the residents of 1960 Glendale, California that he was making the biggest, the Best monster movie ever made!

Halloween season is right around the corner and that means it’s almost time for another Screamfest. The L.A. film festival that showcased movies like the cult classic Trick ‘r Treat and the franchise-spawning Paranormal Activity is now entering its 14th year. The first wave of the festival’s films have been revealed and will feature zombies, ghosts, and the return of slasher Jacob Goodnight.

The 14th annual Screamfest runs from October 14th – 23rd at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres in L.A.:

Hollywood, CA., August 18, 2014 – “Screamfest®, from the festival that brought you such films as Trick ‘r Treat, Paranormal Activity, The Human Centipede and American Mary, announces the first wave of the 2014 festival. Screamfest® kicks off its 14th annual event in Los Angeles on October 14 through October 23 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres (6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028).

First Wave Screening Highlights at Screamfest 2014

· The Creep Behind The Camera (Us) – Directed by Pete Schuermann.

The Creep Behind The Camera

Written and Directed by Pete Schuermann

USA, 2014

After Tim Burton’s Ed Wood was released, Sarah Jessica Parker remarked in interviews that she had just played the worst actress of all time. Delores Fuller, Wood’s ex-wife and would-be starlet, responded, albeit quietly, merely stating, “That hurt” on a Plan 9 From Outer Space DVD.

The Creep Behind The Camera, Pete Schuermann’s docu-drama surrounding the making of 1962′s The Creeping Terror, retains as much class and care for its subjects are Parker did for Fuller. When it isn’t a straightforward documentary portrait of the swindling, scamming and whoring director A.J. Nelson did to put together a film considered one of the worst of all time, it’s using what could kindly be referred to as high-end Unsolved Mysteries re-creations.

Moving out to Hollywood to make the “best monster movie of all time,” director and star Nelson (a.

Showing as part of the Fantasia Film Fest on July 24, The Creep Behind the Camera is a show-biz, insider biopic and comedy about Vic Savage, the director behind one of the worst monster B-movies ever made, the 1964 film The Creeping Terror. The website describes the film as “A hilarious and wholly disturbing look at human nature and delusional demagoguery.” Directed and written by Pete Schuermann, It’s got a wonderful period piece, ’60s vibe and what looks like an offbeat, screwball mentality. Check out the trailer for the film below, and look for it on the Fantasia schedule.

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(When Charles Manson met the Carpet-Bag-Monster...) Is it a drama? Is it a comedy? Is it a documentary? It's... The Creep Behind the Camera! One of the World Premieres at this year's Imagine Film Festival Amsterdam, The Creep Behind the Camera tells the story of how the film The Creeping Terror got made. Or, rather, it casts its light on the nefarious exploits of the man who directed that movie, the irredeemable con-artist (and all-round asshole) Art Nelson aka. Vic Savage. Years ago, director Pete Schuermann came upon the story of The Creeping Terror by chance, and was amused enough to check and see if he could make a documentary out of it. After some digging and talking, he discovered wilder and wilder details, but...

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The trend of laughably bad but entertaining giant animal attack films has definitely become popular in recent years, but this sort of low-budget sci-fi and horror schlock is nothing new. The sub-genre of so-bad-they’re-good films featuring killer animals and crappy creatures goes back to the grandaddy of the art, Roger Corman. Even further, if you count the more suspenseful stylings of William Castle. Perhaps the most well-known purveyor of the worst films we love is Ed Wood, but a lesser known auteur of the awful was a man named Art Nelson, aka Vic Savage. Nelson was a con man, who among his many other methods of scheming, stealing and cheating, made filmmaking an art of illegitimate business. In 1964, Nelson set out to make a monster movie, the result of which would become the obscure and poorly made film The Creeping Terror, a film that owns a cult following and...

This one's for you cult movie fans! Documentary filmmaker Pete Schuermann (Disneyland: Secrets, Stories, & Magic) is hard at work on film that will take us into the very bizarre world of bad movie making in the 60s. The target of this expose? Vic Savage and his 1964 cult horror movie The Creeping Terror (which currently holds a 1.9 rating on IMDb.

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Usually, the most terrifying aspect of any horror movie is its creature. But as Pete Schuermann (pictured), writer/director of the forthcoming documentary Creep!, reveals, the most frightening facet of the 1964 camp classic The Creeping Terror wasn’t its human-gobbling alien visitors. It was in fact the director, 29-year-old con artist Art (A.J.) Nelson, a.k.a. Vic Savage, a.k.a. Arthur White.