The first IT CAME FROM TEXAS Film Festival toasts quirky, campy films made in Texas that fit the horror genre as it stood in the 1950s and '60s, along with the cult classic first slasher film that changed everything in the horror genre going forward: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. Festivities kick off on Saturday, October 28, and Sunday, October 29, will be full of b-movies that spent their time at the drive-ins around the country in the 1950s and '60s.

Sprinkled in three of the film slots will be short films made by the Garland High School Reel Owl Cinema film program students. The final night of the festival won't be a quiet one. The Festival will close things out with a live riff on one of Texas' biggest and baddest Monster Movies with Texas' only interactive movie mocking comedy troupe: The Mocky Horror Picture Show!

Schedule Of Events:

Saturday, October 28, 2023

11 am – Double Feature ($10 individual tickets)

ZONTAR: THING FROM VENUS (1967)

Director: Larry Buchanan

Filmed in Dallas

A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to Earth to help solve man's problems. However, Zontar has other ideas.
Stars John Agar.

MANOS: HANDS OF FATE (1966)

Trailer: https://youtu.be/sF03ZFt8t8w
Director: Harold P. Warren

Filmed in El Paso and Ysleta

While on a desert excursion, a family encounters cultists who use human hands as sacrificial offerings to their god.

3 pm – RONDO & BOB (2020) ($10 individual tickets)

Director: Joe O'Connell (in attendance)
Filmed in Austin, Taylor, Los Angeles and Tampa, FL
Robert A. Burns, art director on the original TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, was obsessed with actor Rondo Hatton (AKA The Creeper). Burns was average looking but brimming with odd creativity. Hatton, who suffered from acromegaly, had a strangely unique appearance but was a regular guy. In RONDO & BOB, their two stories intersect.
RONDO & BOB Teaser and Trailer:

Post-screening Q&A with RONDO & BOB writer/director/producer, Joe O'Connell.
This block includes student films from Garland High School's ‘Reel Owl Cinema' film department.

7 pm – THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974) ($15 individual tickets)

Rated: R

Director: Tobe Hooper

Filmed in Bastrop, Round Rock, Watterson and Leander

The 49th anniversary of this iconic horror film follows a group of friends who visit an old farmhouse where they are abducted and tortured by a family of cannibals.

This block includes student films from Garland High School's ‘Reel Owl Cinema' film department.

9:30 pm – Special Father and Son Double Feature ($10 individual tickets)

DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT 2 writer/director, Tony Brownrigg is the son of S.F. Brownrigg, director of original DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT.
These two films will be shown as a double feature for the first time. This film screens courtesy of RDM Pictures.

DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT (1974)

Rated: R

Director: S.F. Brownrigg

Filmed in Tehuacana
This independent horror film follows a nurse hired to work in Stephens' Sanatorium, a psychiatric asylum where the patients torment her.
Trailer (includes promo for double bill release with The Last House on the Left)
DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT 2 (2015)

Rated: R

Director: Tony Brownrigg

Filmed in Tehuacana

Forty years after patients and doctors of the Stephens Sanitarium were murdered, the only survivor returns to discover that the ghosts of the past still haunt the building and its new inhabitants.

Sunday, October 29, 2023

11:30 am – Double Feature ($10 individual tickets)

BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1960)
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Filmed in Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth; Eagle Mountain Marine Corps Air Station; and Fair Park, Dallas
An experimental pilot testing a rocket-powered craft finds himself in the future, among a society devastated by a plague.

THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (1960)

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer

Filmed in Fair Park, Dallas and Berkshire Mountains, Massachusetts
A notorious thief assists and eventually faces off with a former military officer who plans to conquer the world with an army of invisible soldiers.

3 pm – Double Feature ($10 individual tickets)

ATTACK OF THE EYE CREATURES (1967)
Director: Larry Buchanan
Filmed in Dallas
A flying saucer invades Earth and releases multi-eyed alien creatures that terrorize a teenage couple.

THE KILLER SHREWS (1959)

Director: Ray Kellogg

Filmed in Dallas and on Lake Dallas

When a ship lands on an isolated island, the crew discovers a mad scientist has been experimenting on shrews, which terrorizes the researchers. Stars James Best, Ken Curtis, Ingrid Goude, and Gordon McLendon.

7:30 pm – Mocky Horror Picture Show live riffing of THE GIANT GILA MONSTER (1959)

($15 individual tickets)

Director: Ray Kellogg

Filmed in Dallas and on Lake Dallas
A live-riffing movie comedy show! Mocked by Danny Gallagher and his fellow mockers Liz Barksdale and Albie Robles, this campy classic follows a mechanic and street racer as they work to stop a giant lizard from destroying the town.

This block also includes student films from Garland High School's ‘Reel Owl Cinema' film department and a costume contest.

Date: October 28-29, 2023

Time:

Saturday, October 28, 2023: 11am

Sunday, October 29, 2023: 11:30am-9pm

Cost:

$60 for an All Access Pass to see all films

$10-25 per movie slot

Location: Plaza Theater, 521 W State St, Garland, TX 75040

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