Series hails the best of the worst

It s the movie program that wouldn t die.

Attack of the B Movies, the best of the worst in American sci-fi and horror cinema, returns for a second run at Maumee 18 Cinema de Lux, 1390 Conant St. in Maumee.

The program, which includes such classic B-movie fare as The Brain That Wouldn t Die, The Wasp Woman, Attack of the Giant Leeches, and Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory, runs at 7 p.m. Thursdays for 13 weeks.

Each showing includes a double-feature presentation. Tickets are $5.

The series kicks off tonight with The Giant Gila Monster and The Killer Shrews, and concludes on Halloween with the Screecher Feature Quadruple Bypass Scarathon, which features the ghoulish quartet of Nightmare Castle, Dementia 13, House by the Cemetery, and Night of the Living Dead.

Somewhere, Ed Wood is smiling.

For more information, call 419-891-5039.