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==Movies this Tuesday at the Museum—Monsters and Gurls!==

'''The Center for Cartoon Studies''' and '''Main Street Museum ARTifacts Summer Film Series''' concludes this summer on Tuesday, August 19th as CCS/MSM and cartoonists Denis St. John and SR Bissette present the Camp '''MONSTER & GIRLS''' double feature 
'''ROBOT MONSTER (1953) and THE BRAINIAC (1962)''' 
the show begins at 8 PM in '''the Main Street Museum''' 
in White River Junction at 58 Bridge Street (8(zero)2-356-2776). The films are unrated, but are suitable for all ages; admission is $5 per person, free for Museum members and CCS students.

ROBOT MONSTER and THE BRAINIAC are two of the most bizarre and inadvertently hilarious low-budget monster movies ever made. Phil Tucker’s ROBOT MONSTER features the most iconic ‘bad movie monster’ in history -- the invading alien Ro-Man is a gorilla wearing a diving helmet graced with two antennae – and was originally released in 3D. ROBOT MONSTER also sported the first feature film score by the late great Elmer Bernstein. Chano Urueta’s THE BRAINIAC was produced in Mexico as EL BARON DEL TERROR and featured South-of-the-Border movie star Abel Salazar as the evil Baron Vitelius d’Estera, burned by the Inquisition in 1661 only to return three centuries later by plunging to Earth in a comet to feed on human brains (!) whenever he changes into a snake-tongued, sucker-fingered monster. Together, this double-feature offers a wild evening of delirious, almost surreal entertainment.

Denis St. John is a CCS alumni (Class of 2008) and creator of the new serialized graphic novel MONSTERS & GIRLS, the first issue of which will be available for purchase at the show (with special bonus ‘Hypnotic Eyeballs’ with every copy!). Vermont-born Stephen R. Bissette is famous for his work on DC Comics’ SWAMP THING (where he co-created the character John Constantine, source of the Keanu Reeves feature film CONSTANTINE) and the groundbreaking horror anthology TABOO, among other comics and graphic novels, and currently teaches at CCS.

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