Lost Colorado Monster Flick Curse of the Blue Lights Plays at Sie FilmCenter

“Blue Lights was a real teenage parking area, west of Pueblo on the Arkansas, where people were rumored to have seen these blue lights,” explains history buff and filmmaker John Henry Johnson while discussing the background of his 1988 film Curse of the Blue Lights.

“They didn’t know what they were, or why they were, or anything else,” he continues, “but I thought, ‘Well, this is a good start: We’ll have teenagers out in the boonies necking.'”

The local legends became the core of the Pueblo-shot horror romp, which plays Saturday, September 30, at the Sie FilmCenter as part of the Scream Screen series. It’s an inventive homegrown creature feature with a little bit of everything — ghouls, monsters, zombies  — and it’s enjoying renewed interest thanks to a lovingly restored new…