Hi, I'm Justin, and this is my constantly-shedding pug Caesar. Thanks for visiting PCU: The Website -- we've had a very strong readership over the years as PCU has embedded itself firmly as a cult classic, and I'm grateful for all the kind letters sent my way. It's been a fun and strange journey, as we've seen this site grow from a crudely-designed fansite into the semi-polished state it is today.

About Me
I'm a 27-year old youth pastor living in Michigan. At the time I began the site, I was in my third (of five) year of college (I went to Grove City College, graduating with a major in Business/Computer Systems and a major in English). Currently, I divide up my time between my job, writing, reading, playing computer games, and editing and writing for my main website, Mutant Reviewers From Hell.

PCU's remained one of my favorite movies, even as most of my previous favorites have fallen out of my interest. I probably watch it a couple times a year now, and it will always be defining of my college era. I have collected the original PCU poster, the PCU press kit, and the original script to PCU sent in by writer Zak Penn.

About The History Of PCU: The Website
I don't recall how I originally picked up PCU to watch, I only know that it was sometime in the summer of 1996, because by the time I came back to college, I was forcing my friends to watch it. Obviously, it became a fast favorite of mine, and I saw it enough to quote it fluently (I can probably do all of the dialogue if you turned the sound off, not something I'm particularly proud of).

Our college received internet connections in 1996, and we painfully surfed the web via ancient 386's at 14.4k baud. Around Christmas of '96, one of my friends told me that GeoCities would let you have free space to create a website, so I started tinkering with that. My site, Believer Haven University (yeah, dumb title, I know), was one of the first 10,000 to be hosted by GeoCities. It was nothing more than a page of my various interests, but it soon started spin-off sites such as PCU and MRFH.

PCU was the second fully-developed website I did (after a Hudson Hawk page that I've let slowly die), actually formatting it with nice graphics and as much content as I could grab, including crudely-scanned pictures. This site was never constantly updated; instead, I'd do major updates in bursts, sometimes letting years go by between any changes. The life of a movie fan site, I suppose.

The interesting thing wasn't so much how PCU developed -- the original design was more or less the same design until 2003, when I gave it its current makeover. The interesting thing was seeing how much content for an 80 minute movie I kept pouring in into the site, and also seeing the responses of both fans and the cast and crew. It's always elating to hear from one of the actors or crew members that worked on a movie you're a fan of, and over the years I've gotten letters from quite a few of them. That definitely keeps my motivation high to make sure this site stays in top shape.

For many years -- say, from 1998 through 2002 -- I did nothing on the site other than field pretty much the same question over and over and over again. "When is PCU coming to DVD?" "I don't know!" "Is PCU coming to DVD soon?" "I DON'T KNOW!" Yeah, good times.

In 2002, Mutant Reviewers From Hell got its own domain name, and with that change a ton of links on the PCU site were broken. After much prodding from readers, I fixed them earlier this year. Once word that PCU's DVD was about to arrive -- along with a ton of features to make any fan happy -- I felt the urge to redesign the site and make it as good as I could. Thus, in September 2003, on the 9th anniversary of the movie's release (and the 10th anniversary of the shooting of the film), PCU: The Website was reborn bigger, better, and way more awesomer. Hey, I was an English major, I can use the word "awesomer" if I like. I've paid my dues.

So that's pretty much it! As for the future... who knows? I don't plan to keep updating this site constantly, but I will always revisit it if there's cause (new letters or interviews, for instance). Thanks for all your support and enthusiasm for this project!