Update (Patreon)

Just wanted to offer a quick update.

I’m working on three things at the moment and the one that’s likely to come to fruition first is a Borrowing Blockbusters on Star Wars. This was where the idea for the series came from in the first place; there’s just such a wide and crazy variety of movies that steal from uncle George, and many of them are surprisingly unknown (the sequel to Message from Space is incredible). I’ve been on it since mid December and should have it up here on Patreon in a few weeks.

A couple of other projects are supposed to be hush-hush, but I’ve been sitting on them on for a while so I’ll just say something vague: I’m about to start on an E.T. Borrowing Blockbusters that will be a special feature on the upcoming DVD/Blu-Ray release of a crazy foreign E.T. knock off. It will be here on my Patreon the day after the movie comes out. (After that I really want to get down to one of the most important and probably lengthy Borrowing Blockbusters: Alien and Aliens.)

The other project I’ve been sitting on is trickier to talk about but very exciting! A few months ago I was approached by a successful documentary producer with an excellent track record. He wants to make the first mainstream, 'bells and whistles', documentary on the best worst genre movies of the VHS era. I’d write and direct, and the plan is to build around interviews with key players and, obviously, gold standard clips. There are so many things that could scupper it but, with any luck, it will go ahead later this year.

Hope to be back with more Hassenory on Friday but, in the mean time, if you can't be good, be bad!

Rob.