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Incredibly Strange Films (Re/Search) [Paperback]

Vivian Vale (Editor), Andrea Juno (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: V/Search Publications,U.S.; Reissue edition (1 Jan 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1889307017
  • ISBN-13: 978-1889307015
  • Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 1.4 x 28 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Enter the world of the strange 22 Mar 2002
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This is an essential guide for anybody interested in cult films. No I'm not talking about "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" but, "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed up Zombies", "Basket Case", "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" and other bona fide celluloid moments of madness.
The book is informative, witty, hugely enjoyable and will set you off on the trail to search out these classics of cult cinema. What better praise can I offer other than to say the book has been a firm favourite of mine for 15 years now?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, Life-Changing, for All Fans of Art and Film 10 Sep 1999
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This book changed my approach to writing, filmmaking, and life itself. It's an extremely unaffected yet affecting tome, which allowed a half-intellectual such as myself the unashamed ability to love the dumb things I love. It's a striking example of how art and entertainment lie in the world of heart, commitment, and sincerity, as much as in the world of craft or ability. Without it I would not have been able to write the filmmaking book I wrote with Lloyd Kaufman, All I Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars This book offers an intelligent take on a neglected subject. 24 July 1997
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RESearch's Incredibly Strange Films is an exhaustive and intelligent look at a neglected subject: "weird," low-budget, and exploitation movies, and the folks who make them. This is basically the book that canonized cult directors like Frank Hennenlotter, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, and Doris Wishman.



Celebrating--and analyzing--genres like Mondo, sexploitation, LSD films, and today's most recently fetishized genre of "educational films," the essays in this book are jubilant and informed. Also provided are a number of interviews with cheese film luminaries like Ted V. Mickels (The Corpse Grinders), Herschell Gordon Lewis (Wizard of Gore), and Larry Cohen (It's Alive!).



Essayists Joe Morton and now-infamous Boyd Rice provide terrific commentary. Haven't you always wanted to read Boyd Rice interviewing Herschell Gordon Lewis about gore and direct mail marketing?


Although the book is a bit out-of-date now (published in 1986), it is still a valuable source of information on these brilliantly bizarre, and often ignored, movies. Everyone from fans to film scholars should check this one out.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best analyses of a frequently trivialized area of film 26 Aug 2006
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It's been a year since I bought this book and read it; I still frequently go back to it. This is one of the best books on the subject of forgotten and low budget films, primarily exploitation. One of the key elements that makes this book stand out is that it does not view the films as a novelty or apply that so over used term "So bad their good." There's a real sincerity, respect, and intelligence regarding the subject, which is unfortunately rare. This book can see beyond the simple aesthetics, most of which are product of budget or lack there of, and get to the meat of what is significant and interesting about these films. The interviews and essays are interesting and intelligent, and the film list in back has yet to disappoint me. This book was able to articulate and intellectualize something I've felt ever since I saw Plan 9 from Outer Space when I was 11 and thought "I must get a copy of this." The Introduction alone is one of the best critiques of cinema I've come across, and I went to film school for two and a half years. A very valuable book in anyone's collection from a frequently fascinating source, Re/Search.
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