BALTIMORE, Md. – Actor/director
Conrad Brooks, a regular in notorious B-movie director Edward D. Wood, Jr.’s
stable of players, returns to his hometown for the latest installment in the
Mondo Baltimore film series, featuring a screening of his own B-flick, Gypsy Vampire: The Final Bloodlust, on Thursday,
September 6, at the Wind-Up Space, 12 W. North Avenue, Baltimore 21201. A Q&A session highlighting Brooks’s 50+
years in Hollywood begins at 7:00 p.m. , followed by the 8:00 p.m. screening. Admission is $5.
Brooks, who grew up in the city’s Fell’s Point neighborhood,
left home for Hollywood in 1948. The
starry-eyed son of Polish immigrants soon teamed up with the notorious B-movie
director, appearing in such Wood classics as Plan 9 from Outer Space, Glen
or Glenda? and The Sinister Urge.
Brooks spent the next half-century learning his craft in the workaday world of
Tinsel Town, befriending such screen legends as Lawrence Tierney and Timothy
Carey along the way.
Brooks’s most recent directorial outing, Gypsy Vampire: The Final Bloodlust, is
the fourth and final film in his Gypsy
Vampire series, chronicling the sinister Count Lugo’s efforts to resurrect
a dead woman to be his bride. Brooks’s
prior efforts include Jan-Gel: The Beast
from the East and Mystery in Shadows.
Read William P. Tandy’s firsthand account of guerrilla
film-making on the streets of Baltimore with Brooks in Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! No. 7,
published by Eight-Stone Press.
For more information, visit Mondo Baltimore’s Facebook eventpage,
or e-mail wpt@eightstonepress.com.
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