{"id":8539,"date":"2010-09-18T10:50:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T23:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=8539"},"modified":"2010-09-18T10:52:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T23:52:49","slug":"weekend-fright-flick-it-came-from-beyond-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/18\/weekend-fright-flick-it-came-from-beyond-the-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Fright Flick: It Came From Beyond the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you reckon &#8220;they don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like that any more&#8221;? Well, maybe they do. Director Douglas Bankston&#8217;s retro-50s giant monster film, <em>It Came From Beyond the Mountain<\/em> is here presented in its full 10:38 minute version.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bankston, the story behind the film goes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Long thought to have been destroyed in the great vault fire of &#8217;59, a  print [of <em>ICFBTM<\/em>] was discovered during the police raid of a reclusive collector&#8217;s  home and can now be seen for the first time in 40 years! Teens are  terrorized by a giant rampaging spider mutated in a 1950s atomic test  gone awry, featuring a mad general, a freight train and a mind-numb&#8230; I  mean bending&#8230; climax that will make your brain turn into some sort of  quivering,  gelatinous substance. This restored director&#8217;s cut features  footage found under a bed in room 927 in the Roosevelt Hotel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we present, for the first time since 1959, <em>It Came From Beyond the Mountain<\/em>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/14676346\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/14676346\">It Came from Beyond the Mountain<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user4010683\">Douglas Bankston<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bankston adds: &#8220;On a completely unrelated note, my short film <em>The Courier<\/em> just (and I mean just) won Best Film at the 48 Hour Film Project in Little Rock. Unfortunately, it didn&#8217;t draw <em>horror or sci-fi<\/em> as the genre but rather <em>thriller\/suspense<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: Douglas Bankston via Avery Guerra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you reckon &#8220;they don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like that any more&#8221;? Well, maybe they do. Director Douglas Bankston&#8217;s retro-50s giant monster film, It Came From Beyond the Mountain is here presented in its full 10:38 minute version. According to Bankston, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/18\/weekend-fright-flick-it-came-from-beyond-the-mountain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,26,91,67,95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8545,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions\/8545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}