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William Grefé’s Florida-lensed William Shatner-starring thriller Impulse screens in Tampa; director to attend. Florida film fans looking to explore one of the more eccentric appendages of their local pop culture history are advised to get their sun-kissed rumps to the Tampa Theatre on Saturday, November 7th at 2pm to take in one of the sleaziest…

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Karloff's classic horror television series "Thriller" is finally making its way to DVD courtesy of Image Entertainment and we couldn't be happier. All 67 episodes will be transferred to a 14 DVD box set due out August 3rd...

Below is the press release and DVD box artwork for the series.

For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”

Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute to a television legend with the August 31st release of “Thriller: The Complete Series” 14-dvd Deluxe Box Set. All 67 unforgettable episodes have been remastered,...

Now this is the way we love to end a Friday. Fans of Boris Karloff and classic horror television shows have long sought after the series "Thriller". It was available on VHS way back when and of course almost every bootlegger has peddled a copy online at one point or another, but now thanks to Image Entertainment the wait and the search are officially over!

From the Press Release

For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”

Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute...

Film Ranch International sent along the news that it’s teaming with Tampa, Florida’s Gasparilla Film Festival to present a rare big-screen showing of the 1967 B-flick Death Curse Of Tartu. The movie’s director, exploitation veteran William Grefé, will be on hand for a Q&A.

Death Curse, in which a group of archaeology students are menaced by the murderous spirit of an ancient Native American medicine man, will be screened this Saturday, February 28 at 8:10 p.m. at Tampa’s Channelside Theaters (615 Channelside Drive). Following the movie, Grefé will be interviewed by St. Petersburg Times film critic Steve Persall about his lengthy career, which also encompasses the killer-snake movie Stanley, the killer-shark flick Mako: The Jaws Of Death and the William Shatner-starrer Impulse. (La-area fright fans can meet Grefé when he appears as part of a Stanley reunion at our La Weekend of Horrors.) Death Curse will...

A reunion devoted to the 1972 killer snake movie Stanley will take place at the next West Coast edition of Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors convention, to be held April 17-19 at the Los Angeles Convention Center (1201 South Figueroa). Attending the panel will be exploitation great William Grefé, who also helmed Mako: The Jaws Of Death and Impulse, and screenwriter/actor Gary (Giant From The Unknown) Crutcher.

A cult favorite inspired by Willard, Stanley concerns a frustrated Vietnam vet (Chris Robinson) who gets even by siccing reptilian friends on his enemies. The convention will also premiere the 65-minute cut of filmmaker Daniel Griffith’s Dark Side Of Eden: The Making Of Stanley (expanded from the version seen on the recent Stanley DVD), a documentary featuring new interviews with Grefé, Crutcher, Robinson and co-star Steve Alaimo. Using over 100 rare behind-the-scenes photographs and exclusive 16mm film footage from the director’s personal archives,...

The man who gave the world the rattlesnake terror of Stanley and William Shatner suffering a murderous Impulse is now finding his own legacy slithering into documentary form. William Grefé (pictured), the director whose drive-in classics also include Death Curse Of Tartu and Mako: The Jaws Of Death, will be the subject of a full-length documentary exploring his entire cinematic history.

The feature is being put together by Daniel Griffith, who worked on this month’s Bci Eclipse DVD of Stanley, and the Florida-based Grefé tells Fango, “It will be released soon. It covers my whole film career, and they interviewed about 12 people I have worked with, including the actor Johnny Chandler. We even got William Shatner involved; he provides commentary over some hilarious behind-the-scenes footage of Impulse. I was in his office during a recent trip out to Los Angeles for a double bill of Stanley and Impulse at the New Beverly Cinema.