Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters
10 best books like Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters (John Waters): Incredibly Strange Films, House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films, Midnight Movies, Lulu in Hollywood, Hollywood Babylon, Encyclopedia of Bad Taste, Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s, Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Kinski Uncut
| Author | V. Vale |
| ISBN | 1889307017 |
This classic guide to little-known films neglected by the film-criticism establishment features interviews with Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted V. Mikels, Larry Cohen, and others who dared to make independent feature films their way, without bowing to a committee...
House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films. Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics:...
| Author | J. Hoberman |
| ISBN | 0306804336 |
These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps...
| Author | Louise Brooks |
| ISBN | 0816637318 |
After reading Laura Moriarty's The Chaperone and being disappointed by its noticeable lack of Louise Brooks, I wanted to find a nonfiction account of the silent film star's life. Luckily, in addition to the numerous biographies available, Brooks also wrote her own account of her career. It's not as...
| Author | Kenneth Anger |
| ISBN | 0517344084 |
Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon is a boiling cesspool of lies! Practically none of this shit happened. The ratio of truth to lies is like 10 to 1. I have it on the highest authority those girls looked thirty under the bad set lighting. My great-great-great aunt was there for that underage (by trickery!...
The subtitle of this heavenly concoction is: A celebration of American pop culture at its most joyfully outrageous.
This is not so much a book as an aspirin to banish gloom. Of course, America marches on and this book needs a major update to include such modern phenomena as Celebrity Rehab and...
Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
| Author | Kim Newman |
| ISBN | 1408805030 |
Now over twenty years old, the original edition of Nightmare Movies has retained its place as a true classic of cult film criticism. In this new edition, Kim Newman brings his seminal work completely up-to-date, both reassessing his earlier evaluations and adding a second part that assess the last...
| Author | Dennis Cooper |
| ISBN | 0061715611 |
“In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper’s books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe.” —New York Times Book Review
“His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles...
| Author | Rudolph Grey |
| ISBN | 0922915245 |
This book was not what I was expecting. Which I probably should have expected given the subject.
Instead of a standard biography that follows chronologically through the live of Edward D. Wood, Jr, we are instead presented with a series of interviews from the people who knew him best. These...
| Author | Klaus Kinski |
| ISBN | 0140255362 |
This book ... is amazing. It's pure uncut megalomania. According to this book, not only is Klaus Kinsky the smartest guy in the room, he also has sex with almost every single woman that gets mentioned. This is not an exaggeration. His thinking about himself is so bombastic, egomaniacal, and inflated...
| Author | Cookie Mueller |
| ISBN | 1852423315 |
Ask Dr. Mueller captures the glamour and grittiness of Cookie Mueller?s life and times. Here are previously unpublished stories - wacky as they are enlightening - along with favorites from Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black and other publications. Also the best of Cookie?s art columns...
| Author | Jimmy McDonough |
| ISBN | 0307338444 |
Russ Meyer, cult hero, creator of the sexploitation film, and the man the Wall Street Journal called the King Leer of Hollywood, made movies that filled the big screen with “big bosoms and square jaws.” In the first candid and fiendishly researched account of the late cinematic instigator’s...
The Complete Viewers' Guide to the Weirdest Movies of All Time!
From the slightly offbeat to the outlandishly bizarre...from the no-budget quickie to the multimillion-dollar box-office smash...
Psychotronic films range from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes to E.T....from Angel's...
| Author | Roger Corman |
| ISBN | 0306808749 |
In these pages Roger Corman, the most successful independent filmmaker in Hollywood relates his experiences as the director and/or producer of such low-budget classics Attack of the Crab Monsters, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Raven, The Man with the X-ray Eyes, The Wild Angels, The Trip, Night...
| Author | William Castle |
| ISBN | 0886876575 |
William Castle is a brilliant raconteur. Reading this book is like standing next to him at a cocktail party, listening to one hilarious and fascinating anecdote after another, unable to get a word in edgewise but not caring one bit.
Step Right Up!: I'm Gonna Scare the Pants off America is divided...
| Author | Carol A. Schwartz |
| ISBN | 1578591139 |
Fans of offbeat classics, fringe cinema, and midnight mondo sleaze will gravitate to this new and improved version of VideoHound's Cult Flicks & Trash Pics. Cult diva and connoisseur of mongrel video Carol Schwartz and her stellar cast of notable critics and scribbling outpatients, deliver...
European cinema has always excelled when it comes to "bad" movies. When continental moviemakers combined horror with sex, they unleashed a tidal wave of celluloid strangeness that lasted nearly thirty years. From sexy thrillers to pulp surrealism, from decadent erotica to blood-soaked vampire...
| Author | Bill Landis |
| ISBN | 0743215834 |
Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom!
In a bygone era, when Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and drug pushers, disenfranchised moviegoers flocked to the grindhouses along 42nd Street. If the gore epics, women-in-prison films, and shockumentaries showcased...
| Author | Stephen Thrower |
| ISBN | 1903254523 |
From Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) to Eli Roth (Hostel), the young guns of modern Hollywood just can't get enough of that exploitation film high. That's because, between 1970 and 1985, American Exploitation movies went berserk. With censorship relaxed, and the gate to excess wide open, horror - the...
A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations
Whether you lust after it, loathe it, or feign apathy toward it, fame is in your face. Cintra Wilson gets to the heart of our humiliating fascinating with celebrity and all its preposterous trappings in these hilarious, whip-smart, and subversive essays. Often radical and always a scream, Wilson takes...
