The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film
10 best books like The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film (Michael J. Weldon): Porno, Incredibly Strange Films, Midnight Movies, William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin, Cronenberg on Cronenberg, Wrong, J.G. Ballard, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Videohound's Cult Flicks and Trash Pics, Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square
| Author | Irvine Welsh |
| ISBN | 8433972618 |
In the last gasp of youth, Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is back in Edinburgh. He taps into one last great scam: directing and producing a porn film. To make it work, he needs bedfellows: the lovely Nikki Fuller-Smith, a student with ambition, ego, and troubles to rival his own; old pal Mark Renton; and a...
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Dennis Cooper |
| ISBN | 0802133673 |
As is typical for me, I'm more pulled in by longer-form storytelling, so the winding, desperate opener here, "The Herd", was the highlight. Even moreso than Cooper's first novel, Safe, a generous inclusion here that still felt a bit like three separate stories tied together in order to trace a common...
| 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...
| 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 | 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 | 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...
