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 ...

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 ...

Alien Invasions! Haunted Pianos! Sentient Monster Trucks! Arrow Video is proud to present the first ever collection of works by Bill Rebane, the epitome of an independent regional filmmaker who built ...

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 ...

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 ...

The giant spider is gone, but the mind responsible for it lives on. I spoke with maverick Wisconsin filmmaker Bill Rebane last week and can report that despite some setbacks — none more devastating ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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, ...