The first takeaway from Weird Wisconsin: The Bill Rebane Collection, Arrow Video’s jumbo-size tribute to that undersung Latvian-American-Wisconsonite low-fi to no-fi filmmaker, is that making movies ...

Alan Hale Jr. loved his time on Gilligan's Island, but one of his follow-up projects was an infamous sci-fi movie about giant spiders.

Prior to Arrow Films’ announcement of “Weird Wisconsin: The Bill Rebane Collection” I had neither heard of the man nor any of the six features contained therein. That’s not necessarily a red flag but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The movie was shot in north central Wisconsin 50 years ago on a scrawny budget, rushing under a tight timeline and with a script ...

MERRILL - Just in time for Halloween, the Merrill Historical Society will pay homage to a Wisconsin filmmaker who produced strange, kitschy and thoroughly entertaining B-movies. The grand opening of ...

It paralyzed downtown Chicago during rush hour, igniting widespread pandemonium. Then-Mayor Richard Daley sent in the Chicago police and fire departments. A general in Washington sent in the Civil ...

Described as “one of America’s most tenacious outsider auteurs,” for more than twenty years the Latvian-born Bill Rebane ran a full-blown movie studio in middle-of-nowhere, rural Wisconsin. Using his ...

Maybe it shouldn't be a surprise that the guy whose most famous film is about an invasion of alien outsiders taking over rural America is a big Donald Trump supporter. Every horror movie plays on one ...

"The Giant Spider Invasion" to get new scenes and editing. Bill Rebane, the movie's original director, will lead the effort to fix problems he's fixated on for 50 years. While the scenes will be new, ...

People running away from a giant spider in The Giant Spider Invasion - Group 1 International Distribution Organization Ltd. What? You don't know about Bill Rebane, the legendary B-movie director? Well ...