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John Bloom(I)

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John Bloom in Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (2019)
Director Tom Seymour's 10th feature length film and winner of over 20 Independent film awards! The last stand of the American exploitation film. In a post video store era, media consolidation has led to the censorship and near death of the independent and exploitation film industry. Joe Bob Briggs (Last Drive-in), Debbie Rochon (Toxic Avenger IV), Lloyd Kaufman and James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd) take us on an adventure that leads from the last Blockbuster video store in Bend Oregon to Troma Entertainment in New York, all in an effort to examine how history keeps repeating itself from the video store era to the modern streaming. This film is a follow-up to the 5 time award winning VHS Massacre documentary, winner of three Telly Awards, a Gold Remi from World-fest Houston and Best Documentary at Miami Sci-Fi! Directed by Thomas Edward Seymour.
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John Bloom is an investigative reporter, essayist and actor who was born in Dallas, raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended Vanderbilt University on a sports-writing scholarship. Bloom began his writing career in Texas, earning two National Magazine Award nominations for his work with Texas Monthly. He was later fired from the Dallas Times-Herald for writing (as "Joe Bob Briggs") a parody of the then-popular song, "We Are The World". Joe Bob Briggs began his television career on The Movie Channel, hosting Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1987) for nine years. During this time, it became TMC's highest-rated show, earning two ACE award nominations. He currently hosts TNT's Monstervision (1991) on Saturday nights, and is at work on an autobiographical screenplay.
BornJanuary 27, 1953
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John Bloom, Lloyd Kaufman, Tim Kulig, Tom Poirier, Jason Carvey, James Rolfe, Shawn C. Phillips, Kenneth Powell, and James Richardson in VHS Massacre Too (2020)
John Bloom in Joe Bob's Red Christmas: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (2019)
John Bloom and Diana Prince in Joe Bob's Red Christmas: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (2019)
John Bloom in Joe Bob's Red Christmas: Jack Frost (2019)
John Bloom, Yuki Nakamura, and Diana Prince in Joe Bob's Red Christmas: Black Christmas (2019)
John Bloom and Diana Prince in Joe Bob's Red Christmas: Black Christmas (2019)
John Bloom and Lyle Blackburn in The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs (2018)
John Bloom in The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs (2018)
John Bloom in Street Trash (2019)
John Bloom in Street Trash (2019)
John Bloom in Halloween Hootenanny: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Meyers (2019)
John Bloom in Halloween Hootenanny: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Meyers (2019)

Known for

The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs (2018)
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs
9.5
TV Series
  • Joe Bob Briggs
Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci in Casino (1995)
Casino
8.2
  • Don Ward
  • 1995
Monstervision (1991)
Monstervision
9.3
TV Series
  • Writer(as Joe Bob Briggs)
Nicolas Cage and John Travolta in Face/Off (1997)
Face/Off
7.3
  • Prison Medical Technician
  • 1997

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Actor

  • Werewolf Santa
    • Post-production
  • The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs (2018)
    The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs
  • The Barn Part II (2022)
    The Barn Part II
  • Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge (2022)
    Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge
  • Cryptids (2021)
    Cryptids
  • John Bloom, Felissa Rose, and Diana Prince in Joe Bob's Haunted Drive-In (2020)
    Joe Bob's Haunted Drive-In
  • Zoe Graham and Chelsey Grant in Scare Package (2019)
    Scare Package
    • (as Joe Bob Briggs)
  • Poetry Slammed (2018)
    Poetry Slammed
  • The Ghosts of Johnson Woods (2015)
    The Ghosts of Johnson Woods
  • Hogzilla (2014)
    Hogzilla
    • (as Joe Bob Briggs)
  • Jeff Bergman, Hilary Duff, and Edie McClurg in Foodfight! (2012)
    Foodfight!
    • (voice)
  • The Sleeper (2012)
    The Sleeper
  • Wretched
  • Rapturious (2007)
    Rapturious
    • (as Joe Bob Briggs)
  • Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)
    Ghosts of Goldfield
  • Evil Ever After (2006)
    Evil Ever After
    • (as Joe Bob Briggs)

Writer

  • Love and Death
    • Post-production
  • John Bloom, Felissa Rose, and Diana Prince in Joe Bob's Haunted Drive-In (2020)
    Joe Bob's Haunted Drive-In
    • (as Joe Bob Briggs)
  • The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs (2018)
    The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs
  • Danica McKellar in Inspector Mom (2006)
    Inspector Mom
  • Monstervision (1991)
    Monstervision
    • (as Joe Bob Briggs)
  • Brian Dennehy in A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
    A Killing in a Small Town
  • Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1987)
    Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater

Composer

  • Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1987)
    Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater

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"VHS Massacre Too" Movie Trailer
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    • January 27, 1953
    • Dallas, Texas, USA
    • (divorced)
  • Other works
    A former theatre critic for National Review
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    • 3 Interviews
    • 1 Article

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    Inducted into the Horror Host Hall of Fame in 2012, as his character Joe Bob Briggs.
  • Quotes
    Many of the sexiest horror stars, for me, are the European women. They don't have the Barbie doll makeup. It's just raw sexuality.

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