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Tea’s Weird Week: I’M YOUR HOST will screen thrice at the Milwaukee Film Festival!

We’ve had to keep this news under our hats for weeks, so I’m thrilled to say that a documentary I’m producer on, I’m Your Host, hits a major milestone by being screened (3 times!) at the Milwaukee Film Festival. Alicia Krupsky is the film’s director, Christopher Kai House is a producer, and many other people helped make it happen. The film was inspired by an article I wrote for Milwaukee Magazine. We won a Brico Forward Fund to help make it happen. In October we staged a couple of “documentary in-progress” screenings at the Twisted Dreams Film Festival and in Kenosha at UW-Parkside.

This will be our official debut and is additionally exciting because after the festival, we’ll be able to submit the film to other fests around the world as well as being able to make it available via streaming platforms/ on DVD. But anyway, that’s getting ahead of ourselves. It’s a great honor to be part of the Milwaukee Film Fest– we’re part of both the Cream City Cinema and Cinema Hooligante line-ups at the fest (cause we’re local AND weird).

I’m Your Host screens:
Monday, April 15, 9pm: Times Cinema
Sunday, April 21, 8:30pm: Avalon Theater
Wednesday, April 24, 9:15pm: Downer Theatre

More MFF info: https://mkefilm.org/mff24

Please Clap Dept.: We are currently fundraising for QWERTYFEST MKE 2024. We got big things planned– the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, a whiskey tasting/ typewriter event, and so much more. Please help us make it happen, every bit helps us make our goal: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/qwertyfest-mke-2024/x/14628551

See Also: Here’s the Milwaukee Magazine article that started I’m Your Host rolling: https://www.milwaukeemag.com/a-look-inside-the-surprisingly-large-web-of-local-horror-hosts/
I also wrote on horror hosts for Atlas Obscura here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/elvira-svengoolie-local-horror-hosts-history

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Wisconsin Horror Host Documentary “I’m Your Host” Work-in-Progress Premiere in Milwaukee October 20, Kenosha screening November 11

Aug 24

Posted by teakrulos

“Horror hosts” are people who dress up as a creepy kooky character of their own invention and create a show (network, cable access, or Internet) where they introduce and screen old B-horror movies. Some famous examples are Vampira, Elvira, and Svengoolie.

As cable access and the internet made creating horror host shows more accessible, shows shot in homemade sets in basements and spare rooms proliferated across the country.

I’m Your Host was inspired after Milwaukee journalist Tea Krulos began to notice an unusually high concentration of horror host shows in Kenosha, Wisconsin, including Dr. Destruction’s Crimson Theater (on air for over 20 years), his former collaborator Deadgar Winter’s Deadgar’s Dark Coffin Classics, Deadgar’s former co-hosts new show Hexen Arcane, and Nightmare Cinema starring Uncle Wolfman. Krulos wrote about this scene for the October 2021 issue of Milwaukee Magazine.

I’m Your Host follows the laughter and spooky fun as well as the difficult human moments of this unique group of people.

I’m Your Host is directed by Milwaukee artist and filmmaker Alicia Krupsky (BFA). Tea Krulos and Christopher Kai House are producers. The documentary has a work-in-progress premiere at the Twisted Dreams Film Festival on Friday, October 20 at 8:30pm at Times Cinema (5906 W. Vliet St.). Tickets: https://omniwebticketing6.com/theatre2/?schdate=2023-10-20

A free, horror host themed after party will take place at Bay View Bowl (2416 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.) The party starts at 11pm on October 20.

A Kenosha screening at the UW-Parkside Student Center Cinema (930 Wood Rd, Kenosha) takes place Saturday, November 11 at 7:30pm. Tickets are just $5 and available here: https://milwaukeekrampusnacht.ticketbud.com/i-m-your-host-kenosha-screening
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/4386935464864864/

Here’s the trailer: