1/07/2008 Update

THE YEAR OF THE LOBO
Numerologists have confirmed that 2008 will be the biggest year for Cinsomniacs, yet!
More live shows, more new episodes, more Mr. Lobo approved merchandise, more conventions, and more misunderstood movies!

I WANT MY LOBOTV
You can still view those low rez fan picked snippets on Youtube, but why would you when you can enjoy, at last, full length Cinema Insomnia shows on BitTorrent.com with four exciting episodes including the one above in our hot box!

MORE CINEMA INSOMNIA SHOWS RELEASED BY APPREHENSIVE FILMS
Forget Blue-Ray! These are 17 of your favorite wonderfully retro 2 hour Cinema Insomnia episodes on DVD in new shiny blue cases. All episodes contain one of your favorite midnight movies wrapped in rare clips, vintage commercials, cult and indy trailers, short subjects, interviews, and hosted by Mr. Lobo! Collect ‘em all! Only $15.00 each and your satisfaction is guaranteed! Look for store updates soon!

KONGA LOVES REPTILLICUS ON FEBRUARY 14TH!
On February 14th, in El Cerrito, The Queen Of Trash and Mr. Lobo will be enjoying a romantic evening live on stage at Thrillville’s Giant B-Movie Valentine’s Show with our pals Will “The Thrill” and Monica Tiki Goddess. Check out this awesome poster by the amazing R. Black!

STICK IT TO THE MAN!
The makers of our beautiful T-shirt, November Fire, have made a keen new Cinema Insomnia sticker for your bumper or elsewhere! They also have made new “Sleepless Knights Of Insomnia" decoder rings for the fan club kits—we actually ran out of the old ones and NF saved the day!

MR. LOBO AND QUEEN HOST B-MOVIE CELEBRATION
We’re planning and plotting with Bill Dever and The Indy Film Co-OpThe Indy Film Co-Op in preparations for next September’s B-Movie Celebration. Last year was pure B-Magic and an absolute blast and this year The Queen Of Trash and Mr. Lobo will be your hosts and Will “The Thrill” will be joining us! So mark your calendar for the last weekend in September 2008 and we’ll see you in Frankin, Indiana! Stay tuned for details.

MR. LOBO ACTION FIGURE PROTOTYPE
The vision of Andrew and company at TOY FUSION and the talents of master builder Luke at ALL THINGS CUSTOM have produced the first Mr. Lobo action figure prototype from existing parts with a few modifications. What do you think fans?  Do you want something like this next to “The Hulk” on your shelf?

Like we said, the experts tell us 2008 is going to be Insomnia-tastic! Mr. Lobo and the Queen have already signed on to host the 2008 Sacramento Horror Film Festival and to make a live appearance another Halloween Thrillville event in Napa! Mr. Lobo will be flown to Richmond, Virginia for a cameo role in new horror film. Keep checking back to this page for more news and info!

Update10/11/07 LOOK OUT! IT’S LOBOTOBER!

Below you will find all sorts of goodies for Halloween, er, we mean, Loboween!  There’s happening music, Thrilling live shows, new CINEMA INSOMNIA episodes for your TV, computer, “iGizmos” and DVD player, a new comic book, and what’s up with CINEMA INSOMNIA’s sweetheart the Queen of Trash.

NEW LOBO HALLOWEEN MUSIC
If you just can’t bare to bust out MONSTER MASH one more damn time download this treat!Your horror host Mr. Lobo and Bay Area band APOCALYPSO NOW have recorded what is sure to be the greatest holiday song of all time. HALLOWEEN CANDY. It should be coming soon to iTunes but in the meantime…

Get the mp3 at:
http://www.lulu.com/content/1284908

Get the Ring Tone at: 
http://www.groupietunes.com/artists/MrLobowithApocalypsoNow

LOBO LIVE APPEARENCES
Tonight, Mr. Lobo and The Queen Of Trash are doing three THRILLVILLE(www.thrillville.net) shows with Will “The Thrill” and Monica in the Bay Area. In Oakland, at the Parkway Theatre- 1834 Park Blvd. Oakland, CA 94606(www.parkway-speakeasy.com), THRILLVILLE'S ZOMBIE-RAMA returns with a double chill bill of two vintage pulp-pop creature feature classics: first gangsters, cops and scientists battle an army of reanimated monsters in CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (1955), then undead underwater corpses wreak havoc upon those who plundered their treasure in ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU (1957) starring Allison "50 Foot Woman" Hayes! with the shockingly sensual burlesque delights of THE TWILIGHT VIXEN REVUE undead on stage! (Link: http://www.twilightvixen.com/ )
and....DR. ZOMBIE, undead host of "Zombie Theater"
(link: http://www.zombietheatre.com/). Admission: $10
Then on the 18th at The Cerrito Speakeasy Theater - 10070 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, 94530(www.cerritospeakeasy.com) It’s THRILLVILLE'S MONSTER-RAMA!  Featuring TWO all-star monsterpieces: Boris Karloff, Frankenstein's Monster, Count Dracula, and the Wolf Man meet and mingle in Universal's famous monster free-for-all
HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1944)  plus Hammer's sexy gothic vampire classic
BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960). Special musical guests, theremin lounge band PROJECT PIMENTO! (www.projectpimento.com)Admission: $10.
And on  On the 26th at 8pm at The COPIA Center For Wine, Food & the Arts - 500 First Street Napa, CA 94559(www.copia.org) Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the wine cellar....It's REVENGE OF THRILLVILLE'S HALLOWEEN SPOOKYLAU, featuring that all-time island classic THE KILLER SHREWS (1959), and the spooky swaying sounds of THE MAIKAI GENTS starring the Mysterious Miss Mauna Loa!
(http://www.mkgents.com/)
Admission: $7

LOBO CONVENTION APPEARANCE
On Saturday October the 13th, Toy Fusion(www.toyfusion.com) and From The Land Beyond Beyond are putting on a Horror Convention in Rancho Cordova, CA (Sacramento Area) called HORROR~FEST!  There will be wide selection such as: Horror Toys, Costumes, DVDs, Comic Books, Memorabilia, Books, Posters, Movie replica props, Stickers, Patches, T-shirts, Jewelry/clothing and more!
After the show, Horror Films projected throughout the night. They will have chairs on hand but you are more than welcome to bring your own folding chair. Come in Costume! There will be a contest with the winner announced at 3pm or notified via e-mail or phone if not present.

SACRAMENTO HORROR FILM FESTIVAL
This is the Big one! Mr. Lobo and the Queen of Trash host the inaugural year of of this highly anticipated three day festival of 40 films in Sacramento at the colonial theatre! Tony Todd of Candyman and Night Of The Living Dead will be there with Tony Moran, The Original Michael Meyers in John Carpenter’s Halloween! See the full schedule at sachorrorfilmfest.com.

LOBOTRONIC FILM SHOW
THE SACRAMENTO HORROR FILM FESTIVAL will also be home to the 4th LOBOBTRONIC FILM SHOW! See Lobo and the Queen host a parade of hilarious, twisted, and bizarre pyschotronic short 16mm films courtesy of “SciFi”Bob Eckman! Friday Night at the colonial theatre for details please visit sachorrorfilmfest.com!

NEW LOBO TV
If you missed the John Stanley/CREATURE FEATURES tribute episode featureing the broadcast premiere of NIGHTMARE IN BLOOD we have another, very special Halloween episode this month, featuring Ed Wood’s PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE and HARDWARE WARS! Special guests include Ed Wood player CONRAD BROOKS,  Ernie Fosselius: director of Hardware Wars, Chewchilla: The Wookie Monster, space-drone robot Artie-Deco, and “George Lucas”? Don’t Miss this one, Insomniacs! It’s likely we’ll be sued!  On KTEH and BitTorrent!

LOBO’S FULL-LENGTH SHOWS ONLINE
DVD quality episodes will be available for FREE by the end of October on BitTorrent.com Mr. Lobo and Cinema Insomnia is proud to be part of the unveiling of an all new sponsor suppoted delivery on BitTorrent. Enjoy the all new Halloween Show  Featuring PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE and HARDWARE WARS and many more episodes with new content added monthy.

NEW LOBO DVD’S
Collect ‘em all for your own personal Halloween Shlock-O-Thon! CREATURE, INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN, DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HLL, BOB WILKINS HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, FRANKENSTIEN VS. THE CREATURE FROM BLOOD COVE, LAST MAN ON EARTH and more…Look for online store updates throughout October.

Mr. LOBO INTERVIEWS 
There are podcasts! There is a two part podcast with Mr. Lobo chating with Mitchel Anthony on The Creating Success Podcast http://www.creatingsuccesspodcast.com.
Mr. Lobo will also be appearing on SACRAMENTO AND CO. Friday Morning on KXTV NEWS 10 in Sacramento CA to talk about the Sacramento Horror Film Festival
CULT RADIO A GO-GO with have Mr. lobo as a guest on the 27th of October and thier   new "tune in" address is: 
http://69.234.47.16:8000/listen.pls
or use this link for consistant access:
http://www.cultradioagogo.com/winamp.pls
Tell your friends and make sure to tune each Saturday from 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm pacific for their super creeptacular live call in show! 
THE BEST COMIC BOOK EVER

Mr. Lobo wrote it and and he appears as the spectral narrator to the Queen’s adventures! Buy QUEEN OF TRASH #2 now at Queen-Of-Trash.com.  And see the Queen this weekend in person, doing a Calandar signing at the Rock and Shock Convention in Worchester, MA! …Calandar? you say... check out the new CADAVER GIRLS (www.cadavergirls.com) calendar! 

09/05/07 Update

A SITE FOR SORE EYES!

What’s this? That’s right Cinema Insomnia online is all new! The Queen of Trash herself was the overseer of the redesign and will act as our current Webmistress.
Poke around kick the tires and report all broken links, errors, suggestions to queen-of-trash@hotmail.com. If you need Mr. Lobo…the cinemainsomnia.com email addresses will not work at this time during the changeover…use Mr. Lobo’s super-inside secret email: misterl0b0@yahoo.com. That’s Mister L-zero B-zero to you!

SPAMS and SCAM-ELLITES

Mr. Lobo has no affiliation with any satellite systems for your home. Apparently, Mr. Lobo is becoming so popular that some are using his name and likeness to hock satellite systems and copies of public domain films without any current agreement and using footage from the past to imply endorsement. Certain parties are also using Mr. Lobo’s name in conjunction with products or services in unsolicited emails. All current partnerships, sponsors and endorsements can be found on this site.

THRILLVILLE AND CINEMA INSOMNIA PRESENT:

THRILL-O-TRONIC FILM SHOW

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Attention, Thrill-Seekers and CInsomniacs of ALL ages, on Aug 4th at 2pm, join Will the Thrill, Monica Tiki Goddess, Mr. Lobo & the Queen of Trash for a film festival of Pychotronic Proportions! From the atomic archives of Sci-Fi Bob Ekman and Paul Etcheverry comes a crazy cavalcade of rare, unique, famous and obscure bits of pop culture history (in the magic of 16mm) to The Cerrito Speakeasy theater, 10070 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, California.

Mr. Lobo is also dragging his close personal friend and special guest filmmaker Ernie Fosselius to the event to present his legendary 16mm short HARDWARE WARS live and in person! Enjoy vintage sci-fi/monster movie trailers, incredibly strange film shorts, classic cult TV shows, drive-in snack ads, cool cartoons and hear live Theremin by Robert Silverman! Win Fabulous prizes for useless trivia! Three hours of non-stop laughs, chills and fun for thrills for only $8.00

B-MOVIE CELEBRATION

Midwest Insomniacs! Haven't you been waiting for a chance to see some fearsome and fantastic B-movies with Mr. Lobo in person? Of course, you have! It is your duty to trek to the college town of Franklin, Indiana, just south of Indianapolis, in August for the first annual B-movie celebration! with misunderstood masterworks like THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN and PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE!

August 17th thru 19th, The Indy Film Co-op will be presenting Fifty B Classics, a tribute to Troma Studios founder, Lloyd Kaufman, a retrospective of the films of prolific B Director, Jim Wynorski, ten soon to be classics from current new wanna-B-filmmakers, and 20 educational seminars, including Director Bobby Logan's 1 Day Film School. 
The Celebration begins with a B Movie Gala to be held at The Johnson County Museum of History.

Also In attendance, B-icons like, Special Effects Wizard Tom Savini, the always lovely, Queen of Trash, Megaphant, and original PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE cast member Conrad Brooks. The Master of Ceremonies for the entire event will be Brownsburg's own Steve "Papaw" Pyatte. See you in Indiana, B-Movie Fans!! 

MIDNIGHT MASS WITH PEACHES, ELVIRA AND MR. LOBO

FRIDAY AUGUST 24TH at midnight, at the wonderful Bridge Theater in San Francisco is the first night of Elvira's weekend of horror! A trio of horror hosts present the legendary CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON in original 3D! Complimentary glasses with each admission! And on the 25th, get bitten by a vicious Sumatran Rat-Monkey for a new 35mm print of the deliriously funny gorefest DEAD ALIVE, featuring zombies, severed limbs, internal organs, buckets of blood and one mean lawnmower! Directed by Peter Jackson (LORD OF THE RINGS). Both nights feature on stage performances with Mistress of The Dark, Elvira, Midnight Mass host, Peaches Christ and Mister of the Dork, Mr. Lobo. Don't you dare miss this one! Get tickets now.

SKELETON KEY 2

Mr. Lobo has a bit role as himself in director Johnny Johnson's latest Darkstone project. SKELETON KEY 2 premieres at Horrorfind 2007 in Maryland with 15min Q&A and commentary Friday, Aug 10th. Catch the outdoor screening after sunset(approx. 8:30pm) or Saturday August 11 in the garden room at 3:15pm. Grab some hot sauce and dip into indy filmmaking at it's most juvenile!

MARK OF THE DAMNED

Mr. Lobo also has cameo as the "Unknowable Fantazmarak" in Eric Miller's 2007 film MARK OF THE DAMNED. Mr. Lobo deems the film a genuine cinematic experience and one of the most imaginative and entertaining indy films of this year or any other. Last week Miller himself, flew out to California to assist on the new episodes of Cinema Insomnia!

06/05/07 Update

ALTERNATIVE FILM SCENE GETS A BOOST IN SACRAMENTO

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On June 7th Lobotronic promises a monstrously good time to benefit the inaugural year of the Sacramento Horror Film Festival, (October 19th-21st) 

The “Lobotronic Film Show” showcases a parade of bizarre short films, monster movie trailers, vintage commercials and twisted cartoons that might otherwise go unseen by mainstream audiences. Film clips will be provided by prominent Northern California film collectors, who have put on “Psychotronic”-style film shows since the 1970's mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. Last year’s midnight Lobotronic at the Studio Theater in Sacramento quickly sold out! Because the crowd was so enthusiastic, the 2-hour show was spontaneously extended to 4 hours. Even at 4 AM the audience was still crying for more! This year’s event promises to be even better with an earlier start time and 3 rooms of entertainment! In addition, this year’s event will be held at Willemina’s fabulous Restaurant and Bar in Old Sacramento, which offers, in addition to a full bar, an extensive menu of creative deep fried food, like the deep fried pizza, the deep fried pickle, and the amazing “Scotch Egg!” which is a hard boiled egg covered in sausage, breaded and deep fried! 

The “Lobotronic Film Show” will be hosted by Nationally Syndicated Horror Host, Mr. Lobo and the Cult Sensation and Comic Book heroine, The Queen of Trash! This formidable couple has also signed on to host the upcoming Sacramento Horror Film Festival at the Colonial Theater this Fall. The Sacramento Horror Film Festival will also feature a Lobotronic Film Show as part of its programing.

One night only! The “Lobotronic Film Show” starts at 9pm on Thursday, June 7th, at Willemina’s Restaurant and Bar (1023 Front Street, Old Sacramento). 21 and over only. The admission is $8. All proceeds will go to support the inaugural year of The Sacramento's Horror Film Festival in October. Come out and support Sacramento’s esoteric cinema scene! Photos and more details (including advance ticket information) can be found on the Internet at www.Sachorrorfilmfest.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
CONTACT: Tim Meunier, Sacramento Horror Film Festival - (916) 869-8954,  Sara Dunn, Queen of Trash- queen-of-trash@hotmail.com

05/05/07 Update

FUTURE SHOWS AND PAST HEROES

May 5 is Psycho De Mayo! The 15th anniversary of KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival 
promises to show only the most unintentionally hilarious 1950's commercials and "educational" films, the most bizarre obscure classic cartoons, trailers from the worst movies, the most double-entendre packed Pre-Code shorts, the cheapest international monster movies, the campiest musical shorts, the most surreal silent movie clips and TV programs that should never have aired. Radio personality Rob Emmett of  "The Norman Bates Memorial Soundtrack Show" hosts this fundraiser for KFJC from 7:00 to 11:30 PM at Room 5015 on the Foothill College campus, Los Altos Hills, El Monte exit off of Highway 280. Bring $5 Donation and eight quarters for parking. For more info visit Psychotronic Paul’s Blog.

AND IF YOU LIKE THAT KIND OF STUFF...

June 7th, Mr. Lobo and The Queen Of Trash host the third semi-multi-annual “Lobotronic Film Show”, 9pm at Willemina’s Restaurant and Bar (1023 Front Street, Old Sacramento). 21 and over only. Admission is $8 and all proceeds will go to support the inaugural year of The Sacramento's Horror Film Festival at the Colonial Theater October 19th –21st. The Formidable couple will also host the three day festival that will feature another Lobotronic Film Show as part of it’s programing.

Mr. Lobo would like to extend his condolences to horror fans the world over who are morning the passing of Bobby ”Boris” Pickett who gave Halloween holiday it’s own “Jingle Bellsoas”. The bats are flying in half mast in Detroit, Michigan for another reason…Sir Graves Ghastly has gone to horror host heaven. Raise a Virgin Bloody Mary today and tt these great ones.

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