Incredibly Strange Films

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Incredibly Strange Films
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Author V. Vale and Andrea Juno (editors)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Subject Underground film
Publisher RE/Search
Publication date
1986
Media typePrint
Pages224
ISBN 0-940642-09-3
OCLC 15028348
791.43/75/0973 20
LC Class PN1997.8 .I54 1986

RE/Search No. 10: Incredibly Strange Films is a book about American underground and other films. It was guest edited by Jim Morton, with associate editor Boyd Rice, in the RE/Search series edited by V. Vale and Andrea Juno, originally published in 1985 and expanded in 1986.

Among the subjects covered are the work of filmmakers Russ Meyer, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Frank Henenlotter, Larry Cohen, Doris Wishman, David F. Friedman, Ed Wood, Radley Metzger, Joseph W. Sarno, Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted V. Mikels, Dick Bakalyan, and genres such as women in prison film, mondo films, exploitation films, beach party films, Santo films, educational films, LSD films, juvenile delinquent films, biker films, and sexploitation films. It includes essays on Young Playthings , Wizard of Gore , God Told Me To , Blast of Silence , Daughter of Horror , Spider Baby , and George Romero.

The book was published in the US by RE/Search Publications and in Britain by Plexus.

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