Off Beat Cinema
| Off Beat Cinema | |
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| Genre | Horror / Science-fiction / Comedy |
| Created by | James Gillan |
| Written by | James Gillan |
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| Theme music composer | David Kane's Them Jazzbeards |
| Composer(s) | David Kane |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 21 |
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| Executive producer(s) | John Di Sciullo |
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| Location(s) | Buffalo, New York. USA |
| Cinematography | Richard John Lee |
| Editor(s) | Joel Barone |
| Running time | 120 minutes |
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| Picture format | NTSC |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | October 31, 1993 – present |
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| Off Beat Cinema | |
Off Beat Cinema is a two-hour hosted movie show that airs on television stations throughout the United States in late-night time slots. It originated from WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York from its launch on Saturday October 31, 1993 until July 2012. It shifted to local competitor WBBZ-TV on August 4, 2012.
Off Beat Cinema features a broad range of films described by the show's staff as "the Good, the Bad, the Foreign..." but mostly cult movies such as Night of the Living Dead, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and even more art house fare such as The Third Man in a format not unlike the Creature Double Feature of the 1970s and 1980s. On occasion, a clip show will air featuring episodes of short features (the annual Christmas special follows this format, with another example being the “Night of Superheroes” that included Flash Gordon and Commando Cody serials and the Fleischer Studios Superman shorts). As with most hosted movie programs of its kind, a large portion of Off Beat Cinema's film catalog consists of films that lapsed into the public domain.
Off Beat Cinema was created and is written by Paragon Advertising executive James Gillan. It originally started airing in 1993 in the Buffalo/Toronto area on WKBW-TV. On the show's official site, he states, "Off Beat Cinema was created to provide a forum for films that are not regularly shown on television – and in many cases – are not readily available, even on DVD. There is an enormous cache of films out there that an entire generation grew up watching that are otherwise unavailable. We wanted to create a program reminiscent of the hosted late night film shows of the 1960s and 1970s – the kind of show that made you beg your parents to let you stay up late to watch. Where else can you watch Teenagers from Outer Space and a week later watch Bergman’s The Seventh Seal in its original language version?"
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