Michael Weldon

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.