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  • Berry Gordy & Tony Richardson – Mahogany (1975)

    1971-1980Berry GordyCampDramaTony RichardsonUSA

    Tracy (Diana Ross), an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world’s top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.Read More »

  • John Waters – Pink Flamingos (1972)

    1971-1980CampCultJohn WatersQueer Cinema(s)USA

    Quote:
    John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the “Filthiest Person Alive.” When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary) with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word “filth.” Incest, cannibalism, shrimping, and film history’s most legendary gross-out ending—Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.Read More »

  • Jesús Franco – La maldición de Frankenstein AKA The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973)

    1971-1980CampHorrorJesus FrancoSpain

    After the death of Victor Frankenstein (Dennis Price), two figures vie for control of his metallic-skinned monster (Fernando Bilbao) and the radical technology that created him: the scientist’s daughter, Vera (Beatriz Savon), and the immortal wizard Cagliostro (Howard Vernon), who is assisted by a blind bird-woman with an unquenchable thirst for blood (Anne Libert). With THE EROTIC RITES OF FRANKENSTEIN, controversial filmmaker Jess Franco merged his fondness for old-school horror with his unique and perverse tastes in sex and violence, partly inspired by the garish adult European comics of the early 1970s.Read More »

  • Albert Zugsmith – The Chinese Room (1968)

    1961-1970Albert ZugsmithCampCultMexico

    Zugsmith’s legendary psychedelic treat.Read More »

  • Herb Robins – The Worm Eaters (1977)

    USA1971-1980CampCultHerb Robins

    Plot Outline wrote:
    Herman Umgar, a German hermit, has an ability to communicate with worms. One day the mayor of the town runs him off his property, so in revenge he
    plants worms in everybody’s food. However, these worms are a special breed of mutant worms from the Red Tide, and when the people eat them they are transformed into giant worms themselves. These worm-people also become Herman’s slaves.
    What will the remaining do?Read More »

  • Chusy Haney-Jardine – Anywhere, USA (2008)

    USA2001-2010CampChusy Haney-JardineComedy

    Quote:
    “Anywhere USA” reduces every audience that sees it into a delighted, giggling mob – Quentin Tarantino

    Synopsis

    If Tarantino’s cinematic opinions matter to you or, for that matter, you embrace and appreciate a certain quirky, experimental approach to cinema, then Chusy’s Anywhere USA may very well be the perfect film for you.Read More »

  • Albert Zugsmith – Sex Kittens Go to College (1960)

    1951-1960Albert ZugsmithCampComedyUSA

    Collins College needs a new department head for their science department. Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well. Meanwhile two thugs search for Sam Thinko who is muscling in on the race horse action, the captain of the football team is having trouble not passing out in front of the opposite sex, and Admiral McFortune, a benefactor of the college, becomes attracted to Dr. West, who has a past dangerously close to becoming public knowledge.Read More »

  • Georges Cachoux – Le chouchou de l’asile (1979)

    1971-1980CampExploitationFranceGeorges Cachoux

    A mad man prematurely goes out of a psychiatric hospital and pretend to be Hitler’s son to go back in.Read More »

  • Juliet Bashore – Kamikaze Hearts (1986)

    1981-1990CampDocumentaryJuliet BashoreQueer Cinema(s)USA

    Synopsis: Kamikaze Hearts provocatively depicts a relationship between two lesbian drug addicts. By blending cinema verite and docu-drama, Juliet Bashore’s one-of-a-kind entry mines the raw material in this love story about porn star Sharon Mitchell and her sometime producer Tina “Tigr” Mennett. What unfolds is an uncommon peek at the underground “adult film industry.” Moreover, viewers see two unusual women
    who buck the traditional ways of a male-dominated society through wholly unconventional, if self-destructive, means.Read More »

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