Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood
10 best books like Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood (Rudolph Grey): The Basketball Diaries, Incredibly Strange Films, Hollywood Babylon, William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin, Cronenberg on Cronenberg, J.G. Ballard, 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, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World
The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball.
Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960's, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving...
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...
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!...
Author | V. Vale |
ISBN | 1889307157 |
In an inspired touch, RE/Search publisher V. Vale brought together the work of groundbreaking novelist William Burroughs and avant-garde painter Brion Gysin (already linked by their collaborations in the “cut-up” method of artistic creation) with the founders of industrial music, Throbbing...
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...
Author | V. Vale |
ISBN | 0965046974 |
This is the most comprehensive introduction to this visionary writer, the William Burroughs of England. J.G. Ballard finally achieved world recognition when Steven Spielberg filmed his autobiography (childhood til age 15) in Empire of the Sun. But Ballard has been a visionary iconoclast since...
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 | 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...
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 | Clinton Heylin |
ISBN | 0140179704 |
Clinton Heylin's From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock was a captivating read that, not unlike Patti Smith's autobiographies or Greil Marcus's study of the world of Bob Dylan's Basement Tape sessions with The Band, transported me as I read it to another historical time and...
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...