Monster Kid Home Movies Wins Silver to King Kong's Gold

Monster Kid Home Movies Wins Silver to King Kong's Gold

CINCINNATI, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Monster Kid Home Movies has won two prestigious horror-industry film awards: "Best Independent Film" in the 4th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, and the Silver Medal for "Best DVD of 2005" by Mark Clark of Horror-wood.com, an online magazine of news and reviews in the classic horror and sci-fi fields. Monster Kid Home Movies is a 30-film collection of 8mm homemade horror shorts made by kids and young fans in the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s.

"I'm surprised, humbled and downright shocked," said compilation Producer Joe Busam. "In winning the Silver Medal from Horrorwood.com, Monster Kid Home Movies beat out releases from major studios and distributors including Warner Bros., Fox and Universal. It was topped only by Warners' long-awaited DVD release of the 1933 classic KING KONG, which won the Gold."

Adds Busam, "The DVD also won against some stiff competition for the Rondo Award, including Flesh & Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror, Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years, and CALL OF CTHULHU, a new silent film in the 1920's style produced by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society."

Horrorwood.com's Clark cited Busam's Cincinnati-based PPS Group for issuing "this lovingly compiled assortment of nostalgia-drenched home movies made by lifelong horror fans when they were kids." He noted they are great fun, and a few, "like Disney artist Frank Dietz's early stop-motion animation films, are surprisingly effective."

Several of the now-grown filmmakers, including Robert Tinnell and Dietz, provided narrations for the amateur films, which were restored and color- corrected after years of neglect and deterioration. "The audio commentaries, included for every feature, are sometimes as entertaining as the films," adds Clark.

Begun in 2002, the Rondo Awards, named after 1940's character actor Rondo Hatton, are an email survey of the classic horror fan community sponsored by the Classic Horror Film Board. Five weeks of balloting in 23 categories were solicited through websites, online discussion groups and mailings. Rondo voters include diverse respondents, from well-known film critics such as Leonard Maltin to film industry veterans, and monster-genre film fans worldwide.

Horror and monster-movie fans can learn more about the Monster Kid Home Movies DVD at www.monsterkidhomemovies.com. For more on the Rondo Awards, the Horrorwood.com Awards or the Classic Horror Film Board, go online to: http://www.horror-wood.com/, http://www.rondoaward.com/ and http://p075.ezboard.com/bmonsterkidclassichorrorforum.

Source: PPS Group

CONTACT: Joe Busam of the PPS Group, +1-1-800-978-3445, or
jbusam@theppsgroup.com

Web site: http://www.monsterkidhomemovies.com/
http://www.horror-wood.com/
http://www.rondoaward.com/
http://p075.ezboard.com/bmonsterkidclassichorrorforum

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