The Incredibly Strange Film Show
TV ShowReturning Series

The Incredibly Strange Film Show

10.0 / 10
1988
2 seasons
12 episodes
Documentary

A series of documentaries focusing on the world of psychotronic movies; focusing on the lives of filmakers such as Hershell Gordon Lewis, Saim Raimi, Doris Wishman, Ed Wood Jr, and Tsui Hark. Covers weird movie genres, like Mexican wrestling movies and Hong Kong horror films.

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Cast

Seasons

  • John Waters

    1.John Waters

    05-08-1988

    The Pope of Trash is captured at the height of his popularity with the surprise mainstream hit Hairspray. Most of the contributors to Waters' underground Baltimore-based film colle...

  • Herschell Gordon Lewis

    2.Herschell Gordon Lewis

    19-08-1988

    Drive-In pioneer Lewis is interviewed at a country club in Florida where he details his beginnings in nudie cuties, his successful partnership with Dave Friedman which resulted in...

  • Ray Dennis Steckler

    3.Ray Dennis Steckler

    12-08-1988

    The Las Vegas skyline provides a glittering backdrop for the story of no-budget auteur Steckler, whose improvisational style fueled the creation Rat Fink a Boo Boo, Wild Guitar, Th...

  • Ted V. Mikels

    4.Ted V. Mikels

    26-08-1988

    The eccentric Las Vegas-based filmmaker behind The Corpse Grinders, The Astro-Zombies, and The Doll Squad frolics around the desert playing an accordion and performing a ventriloqu...

  • Russ Meyer

    5.Russ Meyer

    09-09-1988

    American independent filmmaker and lover of cleavage Russ Meyer recounts his groundbreaking early sexploitation melodramas, his scandalous 20th Century Fox Production Beyond the Va...

  • Sam Raimi

    6.Sam Raimi

    02-09-1988

    An early profile of the filmmaker, fresh off Evil Dead II and ready to begin production of Darkman for Universal. Raimi and his collaborators Scott Spiegel, Rob Tapert and Bruce Ca...

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