Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream is a documentary written and directed by Stuart Samuels, based on his book on the subject.
The film chronicles the peroid between 1970 and 1977 in which six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films: El Topo (1970), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Harder They Come (1973), Pink Flamingos (1972), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Eraserhead (1977).
Also potrayed in the film are the little-known films Freaks (1932) and Reefer Madness (1936), which gained notoriety and a huge cult following thanks to midnight showings.
Providing interviews are filmmakers George A. Romero, Alejandro Jodorowsky, John Waters, Perry Henzell, David Lynch, and Richard O'Brien, as well as film critic Roger Ebert, author Jonathan Rosenbaum, and J. Hoberman and Ben Barenholtz.
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