VideoHound's Complete Guide to Cult Flicks and Trash Pics

by Carol A. Schwartz

Book Overview

Here is a guide for alternative film fans, cult flick devotees, connoisseurs of trash and every movie buff with a twisted sense of humour. This book profiles 1000 really good bad movies, really bad bad movies and really good movies that were largely overlooked.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787606162
• ISBN13: 9780787606169
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Visible Ink Press
• Length: 439 Pages
• Weight: 2.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Stuff!!!

What a great book. The perfect guide for anyone looking for that odd or out-of-the-mainstream rental when everyone else is lining up for that same old Top Twenty. Well-written, funny, informative. It's a terrific companion at the film store. Actually, I keep it in my car's glove box so it's always available.

Great guide that every Cult Movie fan should own

I bought this baby back in 1999 when I lived in Texas. I'm now 19 yrs old and living back in the place I love: The San Fernando Valley, and for the past 2 yrs, I've been checking out this book over and over. It helps by letting me know about movies I could have passed up if i didn't know about them. Every cult movie I can think of is in this book. It's a great guide to have in your book collection (mine include such books as bios on David Lynch, Tim Burton, A Clockwork Orange, etc.). Also, it's great to have this book by your side on those boring Fall nights. Gotta get it!

A Great Book for Midnite Trash

If your taste in movies run in the vein of the type that crop up during midnight showings at the theater, then this is the book for you. Whether you use it simply as a reference, or, as I did, read it from cover-to-cover, it is witty and interesting. Of course, until there is a revised edition, there will be some more recent offerings that don't show up in here, and I have trouble giving it the full five stars for leaving out "Big Trouble in Little China", but there are plent of entries here. If the movies here fit your tastes, I would venture that you'd be hard-pressed to find your favorites missing. You should take the time to read the sidebars that are interspersed throughout the book, as you will find tidbits of interesting information in them. There are no anime' enties here, curse the luck, but maybe Videohound will put out an anime' guide.

really good book

this is the best guide to finding info on a cult movie. it has neat pics and quotes. best of all if has a full discription of the movie and when it was made, how much it would cost if you wanted to buy it, who was in it and what awards it won. it has an index you can look up the actors, and there's a page of the cult movie web pages, where to send fan mail, and if the movie goes by a different title it says that too! this book has to be the best movie guide i've ever purchased

An essential part of any bad movie buff's library...

I can't recommend this book enough. If you're a fan of odd movies or downright terrible ones, this book is for you. While this book is not the most comprehensive one on "cult movies," it is wonderfully written by people with a good sense of what camp value is all about. The sidebars are insightful and the reviews are almost always dead on. It is done alphabetically and has many wonderful indexes so a William Castle fan can look up all of his movies or somebody with a vampire fetish can easily find any films of the genre. The only problems are that some reviews are rather short and uninformative and some very important movies are not included. However, in the foreward of the book they tell you that there might be a sequal and they encourage people to write to them and give their opinions. The book even lists other cult movie publications and websites, along with the distributors so one can track down a specific title. It is an invaluable tool for seeking out obscure films and an all around pleasure to read.