Hello, this is Justin DeClew with a special interview episode of the Important Cinema Club.

I've known Adam the Riot Thorn for over a decade since he showed up to be an extra zombie

on a short film that I was making. We became friends. He helped me get a job at I-Sour cinema, and we'd

spend hours talking about the weird, forgotten, and all-out bad movies that he genuinely

loved. Since then, Adam has become a filmmaker himself, directing the features Muppet Pastor

and Assault of the Snake Men, and he is also a programmer hosting a

terrible, tuny film screening every month at Isore Cinema, and his own film festival called

the Terrible Today Film Fest. And considering there's a global pandemic going on, this year's

festival will be happening online for free to anybody that wants

to check it out. So I decided to have a talk with Adam to talk about his likes, dislikes,

dislikes, experiences, programming movies, and what this year's terrible two-day fest

contains. Adam, you do your own film festival now, and it's called the Terrible Two-Day Fest. Where did it come from? Movies that are terrible? I mean, that's pretty much straightforward answer for that. But when you say that, I think of like, oh, it's like Mystery Science Series 3,000. We're laughing at these movies because they're bad. And while you do kind of laugh with the movies, you approach it from like a different angle right well i'm gonna say

we're not not doing that like i just feel if you really like something you should be able to be

comfortable with making fun of it but you're not like looking down on it and being like look at these

dumb dumbs making these movies that's why we're laughing i mean if someone gets their kicks out of it that way

they get their kicks out of it that way but they get their kicks out of it that way.

But I don't enforce that or push that because when we do any of our shows

or any of our screenings, people are encouraged to,

we're a lot more noisy.

We wouldn't be your usual Alamo draft house film fan audience

because we're not quiet. We do get involved. We do

mock the film. But I feel like at least with the people that I've had at my shows, the gist I give to

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