This fun little doc highlights the most financially successful Midnight Movies (El Topo, Night of the Living Dead, Pink Flamingos, The Harder They Come, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Eraserhead) and tries to explain what made them and the “Midnight Movie Scene” tick. There’s some little button on the end where an attempt is made to prove that the common themes of these films (death of the ’60s dream, for the most part) has now been commodified by Hollywood and pop culture. Fine. Interviews with John Waters, Jodorowky, Lynch, George Romero and J. Hoberman are always welcomed in my world.
