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Ray Dennis Steckler, the Glossary

Ray Dennis Steckler (January 25, 1938 – January 7, 2009), also known by the pseudonym Cash Flagg, was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor best known as the low-budget auteur of such cult films as The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.^[1]

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Actor

An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a production.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.

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Arch Hall Jr.

Arch Hall Jr. (born December 2, 1943) is an American former actor.

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Arch Hall Sr.

Archibald Williams Hall (December 21, 1908 – April 28, 1978), known as Arch, was an American actor and filmmaker, best known for making a series of B-movies in the early 1960s starring his son, Arch Hall Jr. Hall used various names throughout his career including Nicholas Merriwether, William Waters, and Archie Hall.

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B movie

A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.

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Batman

Batman is a superhero in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American satirical musical melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, Phyllis Davis, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett, and David Gurian.

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Blood Shack

Blood Shack (also known as The Chooper and Curse of the Evil Spirit) is a 1971 American horror film written and directed by Ray Dennis Steckler (under the pseudonym Wolfgang Schmidt), and starring Steckler's then-wife Carolyn Brandt alongside Ron Haydock.

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Body Fever

Body Fever or Super Cool is a 1969 American low-budget crime drama film, directed by Ray Dennis Steckler.

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Camera operator

A camera operator, or depending on the context cameraman or camerawoman, is a professional operator of a film camera or video camera as part of a film crew.

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Camp (style)

Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of perceived bad taste and ironic value.

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Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, also known as sudden cardiac arrest, is when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating.

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Carolyn Brandt

Carolyn Brandt is an American actress, producer and dancer born on 20 November 1940 in the USA.

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Cinematographer

The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece.

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Coleman Francis

Coleman Chambers Francis (January 24, 1919 – January 15, 1973) was an American actor, writer, producer and director.

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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Digital8

Digital8 (or Di8) is a consumer digital recording videocassette for camcorders developed by Sony, and introduced in 1999.

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Direct-to-video

Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film, television series, short or special to the public immediately on home video formats rather than an initial theatrical release or television premiere.

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Drive-in theater

A drive-in theater/theatre or drive-in cinema is a form of cinema structure consisting of a large outdoor movie screen, a projection booth, a concession stand, and a large parking area for automobiles.

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East Side Kids

The East Side Kids were characters in a series of 22 films released by Monogram Pictures from 1940 through 1945.

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Eegah

Eegah (sometimes stylized as Eegah! and also known as Eegah: The Name Written in Blood) is a 1962 American horror film directed by Arch Hall Sr. (as Nicholas Merriwether) and starring Arch Hall Jr., Marilyn Manning and Richard Kiel.

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Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.

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Film director

A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.

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Film producer

A film producer is a person who oversees film production.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.

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Gary Kent

Gary Kent (June 7, 1933 – May 25, 2023) was an American film director, actor, and stuntman notable for his appearances in various independent and exploitation films.

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Hollywood, Los Angeles

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.

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Home movie

A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a special event, and intended for viewing at home by family and friends.

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Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

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Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, that became one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.

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Kaufman Astoria Studios

The Kaufman Astoria Studios is a film studio located in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City.

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Kitsch

Kitsch (loanword from German) is a term applied to art and design that is perceived as naïve imitation, overly eccentric, gratuitous or of banal taste.

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Las Vegas Valley

The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States.

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László Kovács (cinematographer)

László Kovács ASC (14 May 1933 – 22 July 2007) was a Hungarian-American cinematographer who was influential in the development of American New Wave films in the 1970s, collaborating with directors including Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Rush, Dennis Hopper, Norman Jewison, and Martin Scorsese. Ray Dennis Steckler and László Kovács (cinematographer) are American cinematographers.

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Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters

Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters is a trilogy of short films released during 1965.

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Lester Bangs

Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist and critic.

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List of films considered the worst

The films listed below have been cited by a variety of notable critics in varying media sources as being among the worst films ever made.

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Music journalism

Music journalism (or music criticism) is media criticism and reporting about music topics, including popular music, classical music, and traditional music.

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Music video

A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (abbreviated as MST3K) is an American science fiction comedy film review television series created by Joel Hodgson.

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Nazz

The Nazz was an American rock band formed in Philadelphia in 1967.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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Nicolas Winding Refn

Nicolas Winding Refn (born 29 September 1970) is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Photography

Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.

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Pornography

Pornography (colloquially known as porn or porno) has been defined as sexual subject material such as a picture, video, text, or audio that is intended for sexual arousal.

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Prop

A prop, formally known as a (theatrical) property, is an object actors use on stage or screen during a performance or screen production.

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Psycho (1960 film)

Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Rat Pfink a Boo Boo

Rat Pfink a Boo Boo is a 1966 American film directed by Ray Dennis Steckler and starring Ron Haydock and Carolyn Brandt.

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Reading, Pennsylvania

Reading (Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Ron Haydock

Ron Haydock (April 17, 1940 – August 14, 1977) was an American actor, screenwriter, novelist and rock musician.

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Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is an oceanfront amusement park in Santa Cruz, California.

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Screenwriter

A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, and video games, are based.

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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (sometimes "!!?" is appended to the title) is a 1964 American monster movie produced and directed by Ray Dennis Steckler.

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The Incredibly Strange Film Show

The Incredibly Strange Film Show is a series of documentaries presented by Jonathan Ross focusing on the world of "psychotronic" or B movies.

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The Mad Love Life of a Hot Vampire

The Mad Love Life of a Hot Vampire is a 1971 American pornographic horror film directed by Ray Dennis Steckler.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Thrill Killers

The Thrill Killers is a 1964 American horror film directed by Ray Dennis Steckler.

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The World's Greatest Sinner

The World's Greatest Sinner is a 1962 American drama film written, directed, and produced by, and starring Timothy Carey.

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Timothy Carey

Timothy Agoglia Carey (March 11, 1929 – May 11, 1994) was an American film and television character actor who was typically cast as manic or violent characters who are driven to extremes.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Dennis_Steckler

Also known as Cash Flagg.

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