RE/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films

The first and still the best guide to alternative cinema, this book can be read in-depth or flipped through for quick inspiration. Either way, Incredibly Strange Films is a functional guide to overlooked film territory. Featuring meaty interviews focusing on philosophy, illuminating anecdotes, and plenty of images of movie stills, lobby cutouts, promotional posters, pull-quotes, and photos of filmmakers in their environments, this book is one-stop shopping for alternative film buffs. Also included are source interviews with directors, favorite films lists, essays, quotations, bibliographies, filmographies, film synopses, and much more. Interviews include Herschell Gordon Lewis, Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted V. Mikels, Doris Wishman, Russ Meyer, Joe Sarno, Larry Cohen, David Friedman, Frank Henenlotter, Dick Bakalyan, and Carolyn Brandt. Biker films, Mondo films, sexploitation, educational, and industrial jeopardy films are all given enlightening and respectful consideration. This indispensable reference book even has invaluable advice for wannabe filmmakers.