Off Beat Cinema
| Off Beat Cinema | |
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| Genre | Horror / Science-fiction / Comedy / Cult / Foreign |
| Created by | James Gillan |
| Written by | James Gillan Jeffrey Roberts |
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| Theme music composer | David Kane's Them Jazzbeards |
| Opening theme | “Tequila Mockingbird” |
| Composer | David Kane |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 32 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | John Di Sciullo |
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| Production locations | Buffalo, New York. USA |
| Cinematography | Richard John Lee Chatham Marcolini |
| Editors | Joel Barone Tim Marcolini Andy Smyczynski |
| Running time | 120 minutes |
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| Release | October 31, 1993 – present |
Off Beat Cinema is a two-hour hosted movie show that airs on television stations throughout the United States in late-night time slots. It originated from WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York from its launch on Sunday October 31, 1993 until July 2012. It shifted to local competitor WBBZ-TV on August 4, 2012.
Off Beat Cinema features a broad range of films described by the show's staff as "the Good, the Bad, the Foreign..." but mostly cult movies such as Night of the Living Dead, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and even more art house fare such as The Third Man in a format not unlike the Creature Double Feature of the 1970s and 1980s. On occasion, a clip show will air featuring themed collections of short films and episodes of film serials and television shows (the annual Christmas special follows this format, with another example being the “Night of Superheroes” that included Flash Gordon and Commando Cody serials and the Fleischer Studios Superman shorts). As with most hosted movie programs of its kind, a large portion of Off Beat Cinema's film catalog consists of films that lapsed into the public domain.