He "also made a bunch of science fiction and horror movies," says Weaver, including "Get Along Little Zombie," "Mummy's Dummies" and "The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters." Bernds wasn't just a "Three Stooges" director.
He discovered that one of his coworkers had interviewed director Edward Bernds while writing a book about old comedy movies. "I continued my movie education there," he says. While the job didn't pay much - "I think I was taking home $87 a week," Weaver says - it paid off in another way. "They had thousands and thousands of movies - on film." A forerunner of the video store, it rented movies in 16 mm format. "I made up for all of them in spades" with a steady diet of flicks like "Creature From the Black Lagoon," "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" and "Fiend Without a Face.'"Īfter graduation from Sleepy Hollow High School in 1976, Weaver "went straight into the workforce."įollowing his dream of having a "job that somehow involved movies," Weaver soon landed at Audio Brandon Films in Mount Vernon. While his friends moved on to other interests, Weaver remained fascinated by monsters.
"That was on top of regular TV, with 'Twilight Zone,' and 'Outer Limits,' and 'The Munsters,' and 'The Addams Family.' "Back then you couldn't not be a horror movie fan if you were a kid in New York because all the channels - not PBS - ran lots and lots of horror movies every week," he recalls. Local stations screened back catalogue flicks on "Chiller Theatre," "The Late Show" and "The Late, Late Show." In those days before cable TV, Netflix, and video rentals, TV was the only way most kids could see old movies.
"I wanted to watch a mummy movie … So I had a pretty good movie education when I was yea high, and just kept going." "Kid TV didn't appeal to me - like 'Captain Kangaroo' and 'The Little Rascals' and all the stuff the other kids were watching," Weaver explains.
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