Michael Weldon(II)
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Michael Weldon was born in 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio. Weldon first began
obsessively watching movies at age six. His parents would take him to
see recent major studio releases at local theaters once a week and he
regularly attended double feature weekend matinées with his friends.
Moreover, Michael also frequented midnight underground shows, revival
houses, foreign language theaters, and seedy downtown grindhouses
during his misspent youth. Weldon graduated from Lakewood High School
in 1970. He played drums for the garage punk rock band Mirrors in the
early 70's. In 1975 Michael got a job working for the import and punk
rock music store Drome Records in Cleveland Heights. He wrote film
reviews for the magazine "Cle" while working at Drome Records. Weldon
moved to New York City in 1980. He initially started printing the
hugely popular and well regarded offbeat cinema magazine "Psychotronic
Video" as a weekly Xerox publication in 1980 before calling it quits in
1981. In 1989 Michael revived "Psychotronic Video" as a full-fledged
magazine. "Psychotronic Video" ran for 18 years and lasted for 41
issues altogether. He's the author of the books "The Psychotronic
Encyclopedia of Film" and "The Psychotronic Video Guide." In addition
to "Psychotronic Video," Michael has done freelance writing for other
magazines (including writing film reviews for "Fangoria" in the early
80's), worked as a consultant on the oddball documentary "Heaven," and
has hosted psychotronic movie festivals in such places as Brazil,
America, and Northern Europe. Michael Weldon now runs the Psychotronic
Store in Chincoteague Island, Virginia.