Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream is about the 1970s Midnight movies. So it's about a lot of movies I don't entirely like, like El Topo, Pink Flamingos, and Rocky Horror Picture Show. And some better films like Eraserhead, The Harder They Come, and Night of the Living Dead. Only Night of the Living Dead was actually a good movie, one that is a serious film, one that isn't a mess in some way. The Harder They Come has an amazing soundtrack, but a rote story. And Eraserhead feels a lot like a film student's film. Which it really was, but a hell of a lot better than pretty much every other student film. The first three, however, were trash, intentionally maybe, but trash none-the-less. The 90 minutes of the documentary, however, is about the right amount to deal with those films. More and I would have just gotten pissed watching more of Rocky or El Topo. Oh, and the movie had almost all of Bambi Meets Godzilla, which unfortunately cuts some of the effect of it. I'm happy to have seen all these movies, even the ones that are terrible, just because of the importance to film history, or more. If you weren't as interested in film history, you wouldn't enjoy the film as much as I did.