from www.californiachronicle.com – An Arizona filmmaker has jumped into fang-baring mode. Brian Skiba’s “Blood Moon Rising,” set during the summer of 1969, is a grindhouse tale of misguided love and revenge, complete with zombies, werewolves and vampires.

If I heard Skiba correctly, the the hero of the story is the great-great-grandchild of Lucy, the daughter of the devil sent to Earth to open the gates of hell.

“It has an ‘Evil Dead’ feel to it,” said Skiba, 33, of his first feature film, which stars his producing partner Laurie Love and porn star Ron Jeremy.

Skiba, an Arizona State University grad, said he signed up the hirsute porn star because he needed someone with “good name recognition.”

“We called his agent and sent him the script, and next thing I know I got a call from him and he wanted to do it.”

Jeremy plays a flashy movie producer named Phil who arrives on the set of a zombie flick and promptly mistakes real zombies for movie zombies, ultimately resulting in his own zombification.

“He’s part of the movie within the movie,” said Skiba.

Jeremy, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Appearances in Adult Films,” will sign autographs at the Tucson premiere of “Blood Moon Rising” on Saturday night at Tower Theatres, 8031 N. Business Park Drive in Marana. Tickets are $9 and the screening starts at 7:30.

But wait, there’s more Ron Jeremy where that came from.

Turns out he’s also featured in “Trade In,” an independent movie filmed entirely in Tucson that will premiere at the Fox Tucson Theatre on Sept. 19. See next week’s Caliente for more about that one.