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

10 best books like Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square (Bill Landis): The Basketball Diaries, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Incredibly Strange Films, Hollywood Babylon, Cronenberg on Cronenberg, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Super-Cannes, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, Videohound's Cult Flicks and Trash Pics, Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents

AuthorJim Carroll
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...
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
AuthorHunter S. Thompson
ISBN0446698229
Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of President Richard M. Nixon and his unsuccessful opponent, Senator George S. McGovern. Hunter focuses largely...
AuthorV. Vale
ISBN1889307017
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...
AuthorKenneth Anger
ISBN0517344084
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!...
AuthorChris Rodley
ISBN0571191371
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...
AuthorRudolph Grey
ISBN0922915245
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...
AuthorJ.G. Ballard
ISBN0312306091
Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself, built for the most elite high-tech industries. Isolated and secure, the residents lack nothing, yet one day, a doctor at the clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his...
AuthorMichael 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...
AuthorCarol A. Schwartz
ISBN1578591139
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...
AuthorStephen Thrower
ISBN1903254523
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...
AuthorIrwin Chusid
ISBN1556523726
Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel...
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