David Schmoeller

Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 1

Cyrus Helf, Lee Demarbre

David Schmoeller, Joe McClean

Tromadance is the first film festival wholeheartedly devoted to filmmakers and fans. Unlike other film festivals, Tromadance does not charge filmmakers to submit their films. Entrance to all screenings is free and open to the public. Also, there are no VIP reservations or preferential treatment regarding films, panels or parties of any kind given. This DVD contains the best short films from the first few Tromadance festivals, including David Schmoeller's "Please Kill Mr. Kinski," Carey Burtt's "The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase," Lee Demarbre's "Harry Knuckles and the Treasure of the Aztec Mummy," Steve Herold's "H.R. Pukenshette," Barry Norman's "Deadbeats" and others.

The Spider Will Kill You

David Schmoeller

Director David Schmoeller's thesis film about a blind man who lives alone in a theater attic. He falls in love with a strange female mannequin who turns out to be quite animated and deadly.

Please Kill Mr. Kinski

David Schmoeller

Klaus Kinski, David Schmoeller

In 1986, director David Schmoeller worked with notoriously eccentric and tantrum-prone actor Klaus Kinski on horror triller Crawlspace. Now, Schmoeller talks about this shoot and how it almost ended with crew lynching the actor.

Tourist Trap

David Schmoeller

Chuck Connors, Jocelyn Jones

After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the mysterious Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of supernatural mannequins.

Puppet Master

David Schmoeller

Paul Le Mat, William Hickey

A Jewish puppet maker who's discovered the secret to creating living puppets commits suicide to avoid capture by the Nazis and hides his beloved and harmless puppet children in a California hotel. Years later, a cult of magicians arrive at the hotel under the invitation of an ex-member who betrayed them all, only to find that he's dead - and that the living puppets, under the influence of a new Puppet Master, have turned murderous!

Crawlspace

David Schmoeller

Klaus Kinski, Talia Balsam

A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.

The Seduction

David Schmoeller

Morgan Fairchild, Michael Sarrazin

A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.

Little Monsters

David Schmoeller

Clarence Gilyard Jr., Michael Vara

James and Carl were only 10 years old when they kidnapped and murdered 3 year old David McClendon. They were caught, tried, convicted and placed in separate juvenile facilities. At 18-years old, both are given new names and released back into society - much to the horror of the nation. They can have no contact with each other or with their past friends or relatives. The story follows the lives of these two boys as they try to start over, escape the past and survive the growing outcry following their release.

The Secret Kingdom

David Schmoeller

Billy O'Sullivan, Tricia Dickson

Three kids discover a tiny kingdom beneath their kitchen sink and are drawn inside, becoming involved with the miniature world's civil war.

The Arrival

David Schmoeller

John Saxon, Joseph Culp

An old man, who has been near a fallen meteor, starts to get younger and younger, with a terrible thirst for blood.

Illegal in Blue

Stu Segall

Stacey Dash, Dan Gauthier

A cop taking personal leave after he witnesses money stolen from the police property room becomes involved with a beautiful singer who may have killed her husband.

Catacombs

David Schmoeller

Timothy Van Patten, Ian Abercrombie

In the 17th century, an order of monks in Italy capture and entomb a demon that has possessed a member of their group. 400 years later, school teacher Elizabeth Magrino visits the monastery in order to do some research. What she and the current monks do not realize is that the evil hiding within the catacombs has unwittingly been released.

Malevolence

Nick Groff, Michael A. Martinez

Scott J. Brown, Steve Reaser

Antonio owes the Robaldo family a hundred G's, Gray wants revenge on the street gang who mugged him, Jimmy's escaped from prison, and his brother/accomplice David has many serious mental conditions. Detective Brickley is hot on their trail willing to stop them with any means necessary, while a pair of rogue psychiatrists track them to discover the roots of David's condition. It isn't long before the paths of these characters cross with violent and tragic consequences. The result is a shocking and disturbing portrait of human nature at its worst that can only be summed up in one word: Malevolence.

Netherworld

David Schmoeller

Michael Bendetti, Denise Gentile

A young man arrives at his father's mansion in Louisiana to discover that a secretive cult is using winged creatures to raise the dead to do their bidding.

Search for the Jewel of Polaris: Mysterious Museum

David Schmoeller

A.J. Trauth, Brianna Brown

While visiting a museum, two siblings Ben and Kim a fierce electrical storm creates a passage between the real world and worlds within the paintings. They are magically whisked through time to the 1600's and find they must square off against a wicked magician and also locate a valuable jewel in order to return to the present day.

Death Heads: Brain Drain

David Schmoeller, Albert Pyun

Chuck Connors, Linnea Quigley

The third chapter in the splat-tastic horror 'greatest hits' film series spotlighting some of Full Moon's strangest and sickest sequences framed by an all new narrative, This time, we follow the further adventures of a masochistic drifter trapped in the lair of "The Gore Collector," a sadistic curator of carnage who was has chosen the drifter to be the heir to take over his evil operation.