Incredibly Strange Films

10 best books like Incredibly Strange Films (V. Vale): Concrete Island, Cockfighter, Midnight Movies, Exterminator!, Cronenberg on Cronenberg, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, Videohound's Cult Flicks and Trash Pics, Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste

Concrete Island

Author

J.G. Ballard

On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament in Concrete Island soon turns into horror as...

Cockfighter

Author	Charles Willeford
ISBN	1596542225

The sport is cockfighting and Frank Mansfield is the cockfighter - a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. In this haunting, ribald, and percussively violent work, the author of Hoke Moseley detective novels yields a floodlit vision of the...

Midnight Movies

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...

Exterminator!

Author	William S. Burroughs
ISBN	0140050035

By the time I hit 21 my impressions of William S. Burroughs included:

1. Al Jorgensen was a fan. I remember a picture of the two together.
2. Heroin.
3. Short guy with a hat.
4. Burroughs killing his wife while trying to shoot an apple off her head.

I’m not sure from where...

Cronenberg on Cronenberg

Author	Chris Rodley
ISBN	0571191371

With films such as The Brood and Videodrome, David Cronenberg established himself as Canada's most provocative director. With subsequent movies such as The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch, Cronenberg demonstrated his ability not only to touch painful nerves but also to invest his...

Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood

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...

The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film

Author

Michael J. Weldon

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...

Videohound's Cult Flicks and Trash Pics

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...

Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square

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...

Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste

Author	John Waters
ISBN	1560256982

To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. Thus begins John Waters's autobiography. And what a story it is. Opening with his upbringing in Baltimore ("Charm City" as dubbed by the tourist board; the "hairdo capital...