From: vonzelow@adobe.com (Jon von Zelowitz)
Subject: Cult Movie FAQ
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 13:55:09 GMT


A while ago I said I'd try to compile a list of mail-order places for
everyone's convenience. Here is an update including more recent postings.
Special thanks to Ed Price (sybase!eprice) for sending a long list of
sources from Maltin's book. I hope that the posting of this list will
generate some additions & comments. I am also interested in adding
addresses/prices for relevant periodicals, good books, and listing places to
avoid. I propose to post this every month or so. Please post/send your
additions and corrections.

As Erkka Varjo says, "When adding to list, please state which standards
(i.e. NTSC/PAL-M/PAL-N/SECAM) each outlet is able to offer. That way each and
every European doesn't have to write to the mail-order places in US to ask
that and vice versa." Also, info on rentals and Beta/LD would be useful.

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MAIL-ORDER:

Absolute Beta Video
PO Box 130
Remington, VA 22734
(800) 937-2382 [(800) WE-R-BETA]
(703) 439-8682
Visa, MC, Amex, Diners, check or money order.

Beta.  National and international mail-order sales and services.  Beta
Club membership is $9.95, services include customized catalog with
bimonthly updates, Beta newsletter; title search through 15K currently
available pieces, pre-orders for new studio releases and all ancillary
accessories and VCRs.  Specializes in hard-to-find prerecordeds.  Flat
handling and packaging fee is $3.95.

Alternate Video
PO Box 270797
Dallas, TX 75227
(214) 823-6030
11-6 CST Mon-Sat
Visa, MC, Amex, Discover.

Rentals and sales focused on African-American special-interest material,
both on video and in print.  Store: 837 Exposition Ave, Dallas, TX 75226.

Animiego
PO box 989
Wilmington, NC 28402
(919) 799-1501
[ken@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Primer)]

Barr Entertainment
PO Box 7878
Irwindale, CA 91706-7878
(800) 582-2000
(818) 338-7878
(818) 814-2672 FAX
7-4 PST Mon-Fri (answering machine otherwise)
Visa, MC, Amex, Discover.

Mostly classic drama, romance, and comedy.  Good packaging and tape quality,
with features usually priced at $19.95 or below.  Selection recently
expanded to include other labels' offerings (eg, the Museum Without Walls
series) and audio.

Beta Library
836224 Promenade Station
Richardson, TX 75083
(214) 233-4552
(214) 233-6329 FAX

Beta.  Strictly mail-order sales.  Free catalog, but please ask for it by
mail, be sure to include SASE.  Call to hear latest additions to catalog.

The Brauer Catalog
26 Emery Lane
Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07675
(800) 962-7722
(201) 391-1033 FAX

Beta and LD sales.  Movies, decks, blanks, etc.  Film prices start at
$2.95.  Free catalog.

Canterbury Distribution
9925 Horn Rd
Sacramento, CA 95827
(800) 878-5084
(916) 364-5084
(916) 364-0216 FAX
8-5 PST Mon-Fri (machines thereafter)
Visa, MC.

Tapes from abroad, as well as arthouse product, documentaries, cult
classics, gay and lesbian titles, performing arts, Japanese anime, and
more.  3K titles from 100 labels.

Captain Bijou
Po Box 87
Toney, AL 35773
(205) 852-0198

Mainstream and cult sales on tape and laser, including monster movies,
serials, B-pictures, westerns, animation, golden-age TV.  Also
posters, comic books, old radio shows, scripts, calendars, glossies,
film books, collectibles, even autographs. Quarterly catalog $3, includes
coupon towards first purchase.

CCC Enterprises, Chinatown, NYC
MAGIC OF SPELL (subtitled) $6.99 [peterc]

Cinemacabre Video
PO Box 10005
Baltimore, MD 21285-0005

Genre trailers, old tube, short subjects, off-center flicks, music
featurettes, etc.  Tapes often surprisingly well mastered, may be
custom-compiled according to customers specs.  Catalog is $1, refunded
with first order.

Cinema Classics
PO Box 174
Village Station
NY, NY 10014
(800) 925-6684
(212) 675-6594 FAX
9-8 EST every day
Visa, MC, Amex, Optima, Discover, Diners, Carte Blanche.

VHS and LD.  Suspense, cult, science fiction, horror.  Titles both
obvious and obfuscated.  Free search service.  Shipping by UPS Second
Day, or Federal Express ($5.50 additional).  All tapes guaranteed.
Free catalog to Maltin readers.

Concord Video
7506 N. Broadway Extension, Ste. 505
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
(800) 222 2811; (405) 840 6031; (405) 840 3960

Critics' Choice Video
PO Box 549
Elk Grove Village, IL 60009-0549
(800) 367-7765 for orders
(800) 544-9852 for customer service
(708) 437-7298 FAX
Orders taken 24 hours/7 days.
Visa, MC, Amex, Optima, Discover, or order by mail via personal check
or money order.

VHS, LD, 8mm.  Standard UPS Second Day, or overnight Federal Express
delivery on the catalog's 2500 titles, with savvy Video Search Line
professionals on line 9-5 CST Mon-Fri to help you find what isn't listed
(900-370-6500, $1.95 first minute, .95 additional).  Separate catalog, "The
Movie Book", lists features only, for those uninterested in fitness, kidvid,
and so forth.  Discounts, closeouts, gift services, overseas shipping; Also
offers books, music videos, audio nonfiction.

Diamond Entertainment Corp.
1395 Manassero St
Anaheim, CA 92807
(800) 966-3339
(714) 693-3399
(714) 693-3339 FAX

Public-domain titles for sale at an impossible $4.99 (+ S&H).  Yet, Diamond
emphasizes its serious attempt at the restoration, preservation, and
presentation of the finest possible surviving prints of archival movies,
which are duplicated at high speed for best picture quality.  Guaranteed.

Dickens Videos by Mail
5325 Elkhorn Blvd, #292
Sacramento, CA 95842
(800) 228-4246 for orders
(916) 331-8370 for questions
(916) 331-8370 FAX
Visa, MC, Amex, Discover.

VHS, LD.  PAL transfers.  Especially hot on anime.  Out of a
100K-title database, 11K titles are described in Dickens' catalog
($7.95, which includes a $7.95 coupon good on your first order).

Discount Video Tapes, Inc.
PO Box 7122
Burbank, CA 91510
(818) 843-3366
(800) 253-9612 FAX
9-5 PST Mon-Fri. Visa, MC.

"Specializing in the rare and unusual." VHS-only sale and rental.  Comedies,
foreign, westerns, serials, documentaries, silents, etc.  Annual catalog is
free, with periodic updates.

East Asia Cinema, West Haven, CT
HARDBOILED (subtitled, letterboxed) $6.99 [peterc]

Eccentri-cinema
One-Five Greta Street
West Haven CT 06516
New address?
under new ownership, moved/moving to Southbury, CT [peterc]

Argento! (DEEP RED, INFERNO, BIRD OF THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE, TENEBRAE,
FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET, CAT O'NINE TAILS)

Eddie Brandt's Saturday Matinee
6310 Colfax Ave
N. Hollywood, CA 91606
(818) 506-4242
(818) 506-7722
1-6 PST Tue-Fri, 8:30-5 Sat.
Visa, MC, Amex.

Super-rare videos.  Full-week ($5) and half-week ($2.50) rentals.  Security
deposit required.  Also stocks large collection of stills and posters for
sale.  Newly published catalog is free.

Evergreen Video Society
228 W. Houston St
NY, NY 10014
(212) 691-7362
10-10 EST Mon-Fri, 12-10 Sat, 2-10 Sun.
Visa, MC, Amex.

European film and early American cinema. Sales and rentals in VHS.  No
membership fee.  Over 6K films in rental stock.  Accepts trade-ins; gift
certificates.  "Power Renters" discount program.  Customers receive free
quarterly update.

Facets Multimedia
1517 W. Fullerton
Chicago, IL 60614
(800) 331-6197
Free "sampler catalog".

Facets Video
1517 W. Fullerton Ave
Chicago, IL 60614
(800) 331-6197
(312) 281-9075
(312) 929-5437 FAX
8:30-9 CST Mon-Fri
Visa, MC, or prepay by mail with check.

Sales and rentals.  Hefty showing of independent American cinema, plus
foreign, fine arts, instructional.  Various membership deals. It's $7.95 for
the 12th annual edition of their tabloid-size video catalog, then you're on
the mailing list for future announcements.

Festival Films
2841 Irving Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN 55408
(612) 870-4744
(612) 874-8520 FAX
9-5 CST Mon-Fri.
Visa, MC.

Sales only of VHS, laser, even 16mm.  Connoisseur collection of
international cinema is wide in range and usually low in price.  $2 catalog
(fee applies to initial buy).

Film Threat Video
PO Box 3170, dept FT
Los Angeles, CA 90078-3170

Foothill Video
PO Box 547
Tujunga, CA 91043-0547
(818) 353-8591
8-5 PST Mon-Fri.
Visa, MC; no COD.

Accentuates serials (silents have piano scores), as well as westerns, films
from overseas, and features.  Quality varies, but Foothill tries to obtain
the best available masters, and stands by its product.  All titles presumed
to be in public domain.  Sales only; five-day return privilege.

Home Film Festival
PO Box 2032
Scranton, PA 18501
(800) 258-3456
(717) 344-3810 FAX
Visa, MC.

Notable foreign, American independent and cult films, with sales and rentals
through the mail or UPS, your choice.  Three-night rental starts when you
receive your order.  Rentals range from $4.50-$6 per tape, plus round-trip
postage, with discounts on more than one tape per shipment.  1800 rental
titles.  Sales discount of 10% with membership ($10/yr, includes book-sized
program guide, and six updates).  Fast delivery.  Seasonal specials.  Gift
certificates available for both memberships and rentals.  No minimum number
of movies, no deposit required. In business for nine years and now serving
over 12K members nationwide.

Home Video Express
PO Box 404
Clarks Summit, PA 18411
(800) 822-8820
(717) 344-3810 FAX
8-9 EST Mon-Fri, 12-6 Sat.
Visa, MC.

Sales only of blockbusters, children's, foreign, special interest, and so
forth.  Cross-referenced catalog (in tiny type) listing 17K entries in stock
is $5.95 ($5 refundable towards first purchase).

Home Vision
10 Craig Rd
Acton, MA 01720
(800) 262-8600

Exclusive Powell and Pressburger titles.  Also sells British travelogs,
documentaries, and TV series; classics gleaned from several labels; concert
and dance performances; family product; and--their strongest suit--opera by
the ton.  Fast shipping, 24-hour credit card orders by phone.  Visa, MC,
Amex, Discover.  A cool collection of international stuff the others don't
have.

International Film & Video
991 First Ave
NY, NY 10022
(212) 826-8848
(212) 308-2008
(212) 750-8846 FAX
8-10 EST Mon-Thu, 8-11 Fri, 10-11 Sat, 12-10 Sun.
Visa, MC, Amex.

Sales and rentals. All formats, all systems, including PAL, SECAM, and NTSC.
International was first in America to publish a film catalog indexed by
country, director, and actor, a feat now duplicated in their computers, to
assist call-in completists.  Their finders service unearths unommon titles.
In-store and mail-order inventory numbers 14K.  Full deposit requested on
rentals; free membership.  Rental rates: $2.75/day (+ S&H); $10 for the
week.

Ken Crane's
14260 Beach Blvd
Westminster, CA 92683
(800) 624-3078
(714) 892-2283
(714) 892-8369
7-9 PST Mon-Fri, 10-6 Sat, 12-5 Sun.
Visa, MC, Amex, Optima, Discover, COD.

Largest laserdisc mail-order/retail supply house in the US, boasting "We
stock every title available", as well as "fastest availability on new
titles" with most orders shipped the same day--with free UPS Ground shipping
to the lower 48.  Plus 10% discount on all titles.  Free catalog comes out
twice a year, followed by bimonthly updates.

Loonic Video
2022 Taraval St, #6427
San Francisco, CA 94116
(415) 526-5681

Wild and eclectic collection of inexpensive obscurities, concentrating on
camp, old comedy shorts, cartoons, horror and sci-fi, even antique British
serials.  $1 for the catalog.

Marshall Discount Service
PO Box 328
Trenton, MI 48183
(313) 671-5483
9:30-5 EST Mon-Fri. Visa, MC.

$10 ($15 international) for index of 30K movies.  LD list is $7 ($11
international).  New mailers arrive every six to eight weeks after you
order.  Staggering inventory, all new, factory-sealed, guaranteed.
Imported tapes and discs, otherwise unfindable.

Mondo Video
154 Big Spring Circle
Cookeville, TN 38501

Send $21.95 (postage included) for the Crimes of the Future/Stereo
videotape.  The quality is decent.  [curt@virginia.edu (Curt Tsui)]

Movies Unlimited
6736 Castor Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19149
(800) 523-0823
(215) 722-8398
(215) 725-3683 FAX
24-hour order line. Visa, MC, Amex, Discover.

The country's largest video dispenser by volume and the definitive
source for practically every currently available video in (and
sometimes out of) print.  650-page catalog displays 25K titles, $7.95
(+ $3 S&H), of which $5 applies to first order of $25 or more.
Separate LD list, $1.

NYUE Enterprises, Inc.
61-A Walker St
New York, NY 10013
(212) 619-0800; (212) 226-3544 FAX

Hong Kong films, distributor for NE USA.

Ocean Shores Video
Hang Lung Center
#2103-6, Paterson St.
Hong Kong
5-77-9325

Laserdiscs!

Pan-Asia Video, Inc.
2630 Bayshore Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94134
(415) 333-8888; (415) 586-1793 FAX

Hong Kong films.

Parker Riggs
9000 Town Park #1114
Houston, TX 77036

Try these guys. They list Vampire circus, and pretty much all of the
others [Hammer productions] as being available for $22.50 + $2.50 p&h. 
Eurosleeze too. New address, anyone?
Each tape comes in a deluxe slipcover, with original theatrical Art, and
20 minutes of Trailers.
[donnell@shark.micro.umn.edu (Judex)]

PBS Viewfinders
(900) 860-9301
6-6 Mon-Fri.  $2/first, $1/additional minute. (3m average).

Los Angeles PBS station KCET operates this search service, providing
answers on availability, price, and distributor from their incredibly
comprehensive list of more than 80K video titles.  Sometimes they can
even order for you.  Search fees are billed to your phone.

Phoenix Distributors
6253 Hollywood Blvd, #818
Hollywood, CA 90028
(800) 356-4386
(213) 469-0553
(213) 469-7041 FAX
9-5 PST Mon-Fri. Visa, MC.

Company acquires product largely from defunct labels, particularly promoting
horrors and classics, usually in VHS but with Beta offered when available.
Has a new line of non-hardcore gay-themed features.  Produces films under
the Donna Michelle banner.  Free mailing list, whose contents vary during
the year.  Customers are invited to leave their rosters of special requests
to be researched.

POLART: Sarasota, FL
(813) 378-9393

The guy I talked to there was very nice but couldn't get
any of the obscure 60s and 70s sci-fi flicks I was looking for...  :-(
I don't know if they're worth noting in the video list?  (He said they
carry about 300 Polish films if I remember correctly.)
[sybase!sql!eprice@Sun.COM (Ed Price)]

Rhino Video
Info/address, anyone?

Science Fiction Continuum
PO Box 154
Colonia, NJ 07067
(800) 232-6002
9-7 EST Mon-Fri. Visa, MC, Amex.

SF, fantasy, and horror.  VHS and LD.  Catalog $1.

Sight & Sound
27 Jones Rd
Waltham, MA 02154
(617) 894-8633; (617) 894-9329 FAX

Laserdiscs.  Will special-order Japanese imports.

Sinister Cinema
PO Box 4369
Medford, OR 97501-0168
(503) 773-6860
$2 for catalog
9-4 PST Mon-Fri (or answering machine) Visa, MC ($1 service charge).  

Cult stuff. Flat $16.95 (+ S&H). Makes a sincere effort to acquire the best
prints of known and obscure sci-fi, horror, sword and sandal, serials,
westerns, jungle adventures, silents, and shlock.  Most popular item is
drive-in double features, shown as originally distributed, including
intermission graphics.  VHS or Beta.  Catalog is free to Maltin readers.

Something Weird Video
PO Box 33664
Seattle, WA 98133
(206) 361-3759

Dave Friedman sexploitation and others. State with signature that you are 18
or older.

Streamline Pictures
PO box 691418
W Hollywood, CA 90069
[ken@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Primer)]

Tamarelle's International Films
11101-A E. 53rd St
Denver, CO 80239
(800) 356-3577
(800) 621-1333
(303) 373-4583 FAX
(515) 254-7021 FAX
8:30-5:30 Mon-Fri.
Visa, MC.

Specializing in US sales of new and old films from around the globe.  Six
informed, informative mailers per year.

Value Video International
PO Box 22565
Denver, CO 80222
(303) 757-4820

New and used VHS tapes for sale starting at $4.95, with an appeal towards
collectors and clubs.  Also in the market to buy used videos.  Catalog is
$1.

US Manga Corp
301 West 53rd st. Suite 13e
New York, NY 10019
(212)977-7456
[ken@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Primer)]

US Renditions
1123 Dominguez Street unit k
Carson, California 90746
(213) 604-9701
[ken@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Primer)]

Video Koop Center
Beijersweg 18
1093 KR Amsterdam-Oost, Holland

BTW, many of those 'video nasties' of UK are available in Holland (or is
it Netherlands in English). PAL.
[rtpo@jyu.fi (Risto 'Rise' Pohjonen)]

Video Search of Miami
Box 16-1917
Miami, FL 33116
(305) 387-6807

The Video Catalog
PO Box 64428
St. Paul, MN 55164-0428
(800) 733-2232
(800) 733-6656
(612) 659-4320 FAX
Customer service 9-6 CST Mon-Fri.  Order any time. Visa, MC, Amex, Optima, Discover.

VHS only.  Low-priced performing arts, TV, kideo, family, travel, nature,
health, instructional, documentary, international, and classic tapes,
particularly strong in British comedy and drama.

Video City Productions
4266 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94611
(510) 428-0202
(510) 654-7802 FAX
Call 9-5 PST Mon-Fri. Visa, MC.

VHS sales only.  Beta by special order. Aviation videos.  $3 catalog,
updated irregularly.

Video Dimensions
530 W. 23rd St
NY, NY 10011
(212) 929-6135
10-5:30 EST Mon-Fri. Checks and money orders only.

Strictly mail-order, and now in its 15th year of spotlighting curiosities
and collectibles.  Classics, foreign films, B-westerns, TV shows, bloopers,
and animation come from Video Dimensions' own source material.  Coming soon:
their new "Mondo Movies" catalog, listing experimental, avant-garde,
schlock, and exploitation tapes.  Company invites its clientele to
"experience the weirdness and the wonder yourself".  Special attention given
to those films that require letterboxing.  Free catalog.

Video Finders
1770 N. Highland Ave, #721
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Search service and order service. VF locates hard-to-find movies
(pre-1970 only) and can even get them for you.  5 searchs for $5, plus
SASE.  Requests by mail only.

Video Library
7157 Germantown Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19119
(800) 669-7157
(215) 248-1514
9-9 EST, 7 days. Visa, MC, Amex, Optima, Discover.

National mail-order rentals gleaned from a 12K title offering.  Rent
cassettes, LDs, Nintendo, audiobooks, etc. via UPS with a reusable shipper
allowing convenient mailbox returns.  Reservation system for immediately
unavailable titles.  Greatest strengths in cult movies, in considerable
out-of-printers, and in a knowledgeable search service.  Rental rate: $5 for
3 nights; books on tape 75 cents per night.  Call for latest additions to
catalog ($8.95 including shipping for their 400-page catalog and two 1992
supplements).

Video Oyster
62 Pearl St
NY, NY 10004
(212) 480-2440
Personal check, money order, COD by UPS.

Finds, buys, trades, and sells rare videos, supplying both video stores and
consumers.  Publishers "Pearls" collectors' magazine ($30 for ten issues,
published as soon as Norman fills up an issue), and he performs searches,
too.  The best source for determining current availability on tapes long
vanished from the scene (like Disney "moratorium" titles or long-forgotten
releases on long-dead labels). Circulates a want list of movies he's looking
for.  Mail-order sales only.  Orders taken 24 hours/7 days.

Video Specialist International
182 Jackson St
Dallas, PA 18612
(800) 458-1810
(717) 675-0227
9am-midnight EST, 7 days. Visa, MC, checks, money orders.

Involves itself in digging up lost films, many exclusive to VSI, and
currently released at the rate of one vanished title per month.  Similar to
Sinister Cinema's scope, but with a substantially different library, VSI
should appeal to the same kind of enthusiast.  Most titles are priced at an
average of $14.95.  $3 catalog.

Video Vault
1015 Wisconsin Ave
Washington, DC 20007
(800) 828-5866 (800) VAULT-66
(202) 625-0605
11-9 EST Mon-Thu, 11-10 Fri-Sat, 12-6 Sun.

Sales and rentals, specializing in cult.  Catalogs $3, refundable with
membership ($15 one year or $24.95 lifetime).  Members' newsletter comes out
every other month.  Search service.  Credit card security deposit (Visa, MC,
Amex, Optima).

Video Yesteryear
Box C
Sandy Hook, CT 06482
(800) 243-0987
(203) 426-2574
(203) 797-0819 FAX
9-9 EST Mon-Fri. Visa, MC, Amex, Optima, Discover, Diners, Carte Blanche.

Thick catalog describing many titles of divergent interest.  Classic silent
and sound films on video, plus rare live TV, even vintage stag.

Videos by Mail
PO Box 1515
Whitney, TX 76692
(800) 245-4996
(817) 694-4865 FAX
10-8 CST Mon-Sat.

Rent/buy.  $25 annual fee for rental club (starting with two free movies)
plus credit deposit (Visa, MC, Amex, Discover).  Each rental is then $5 (+
S&H), with three-night rentals counted from the time you receive them, and
with return label and postage included in the shipment.  Sales by credit
card charges over the phone or through the mail (please enclose check or
money order).  Illustrated catalog is $5, with an accent on cult,
independent, and international film.

White Dragon Video
46 Tweedrock Crescent, West Hill
Ontario, M1E 415 Canada

Mentioned as source for Asian videos in Video Watchdog.

Whole Toon Catalog
PO Box 369, Dept LM
Issaquah, WA 98027
(206) 391-8747
(206) 391-9064 FAX
9-6 PST Mon-Fri, 10-5 Sat.  
Visa, MC, Discover.

Hundreds of animated programs for sale, including imports and real
obscurities.  Books, posters, cartoon memorabilia.  Catalog is $2.

World Video & Supply, Inc.
150 Executive Park Blve., Suite 1600
San Francisco, CA 94134
(415) 468-6218; (415) 468-1381 FAX

Hong Kong films.

Worldshop
3665 29th St
Grand Rapids, MI 49512
(800) 530-9055
(616) 957-1046 MODEM
Visa, MC, Amex, Discover, Diners. 8-7 EST Mon-Sat

Use the always-awake computer line to place orders through your PC.
Furthermore, through the modem, movie previews may be called up for
presentation on your computer screen.  Using a 9K-title catalog, Worldshop
invites orders for VHS, Beta, LD, PAL, and SECAM.  Company services
international clients as well.  No membership fee involved.  Customers also
receive a free in-home database to file their own video libraries. Worldshop
promises a floppy freebie to all Maltin readers.

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MAGAZINES:

Craig Ledbetter, PO Box 5367, Kingwood, TX 77325
for a year's subscription, send cash, check, or money order for:
$15 European Trash Cinema; $15 Asian Trash Cinema; $25 <both>

Psychotronic Video, 151 First Ave, Dept. PV, New York NY 10003
6-issue (quarterly) subscription $20 USA, $22 Canada, airmail $45, OZ/Asia $50
money orders payable to Michael Weldon

VIDEO WATCHDOG-expensive digest, but is very thorough-includes
retilings,fram by frame differnces in different cuts of films, retrospectives

SHOCK CINEMA-excellent fanzine-reviews of obscure films,b films etc.
Regarding the "Incredibly Strange Films" issue of RE/Search magazine.

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BOOKS:
(This section is not quite as organized yet. Maybe next month... /jvz)

Re/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films, edited by Andrea Juno and Boyd Rice

Official Splatter
Movie Guide pts 1 and 2 by John Mcarty (a lot of horror but also many off
the wall films as well) plus his book Splatter movies
Guide for the Film Fanatic-by Danny Peary as well (has all types but
reviews include Russ Myer films, John Waters films-its abit old)

SHOCK VALUE-John Waters autobiography-includes interviews with Russ Meyer
and HG Lewis

		Cult Movies
		Cult Movies II
		Cult Movies III, by Danny Peary
Peary also has a great book called CULT MOVIE STARS... One of the best
filmography sources around...
[peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter Merholz)]

		part of REVIEW: Cult Movies, by Danny Peary
Cult Movies is an interesting read; full of information, anecdotes, serious
review. It covers a wide range of films touching upon most major film-genres.
Those purchasing this book and expecting to find synopsis' and reviews of
cheapie SF and slasher films will be disappointed. Peary's emphasis is on
"Art" films and movie classics like "Casablanca" or "The Searchers". In this
age of *Fast-food Video* people tend to forget the more classical definition
of Cult Movies which encompassed films which developed a devoted, basically
word-of-mouth following long after their initial release. These are not
films which get wide exposure in theatres (with some exceptions) but ones
that went on to develop their second-wind in art and revival houses.

[k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Matt Marchese)]

		The 50 Worst Films of All Time
		The Golden Turkey Awards
		Son of the Golden Turkey Awards, by Harry and Michael
			Medved

The Medveds seem to have a "Gosh! Wow!  Movies!" attitude that is
alternately frustrating and endearing.  I guess if I had to pick labels,
the Medveds are REVIEWERS: they tell you whether or not they liked a
particular movie and not much else; Danny Peary (_Cult Movies_) is a
CRITIC: he will not only review the film, but also place it within a
historical and artistic context, and, whether or not he likes it, he will
give credit where (and if) credit is due; Andrea Juno and Boyd Rice
(Re/Search 10: Incredibly Strange Films) are ARTISTS: they go out of
their way in their quest for unusual stimulation and take great delight
in discovering gems overlooked by the common horde.  I'm not saying
any one approach is "right," just trying to sum up attitudes toward the
material.  It's an interesting experience to read all three reviews of
"Plan 9 From Outer Space" for instance . . . 

As long as I'm mentioning books for the Cult Movie Library I'll restate
my recommendation for Hoberman and Rosenbaum's _Midnight Movies_.  It's
not so much reviews as a look at the reasons why people go to cult movies
and how the whole phenomenon of midnight movies got started.

From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)

And for books that give you that "Cult Flavor" without necessarily being
about cult films, I recommend:

		The Hollywood Hall of Shame, also by the Medveds

and

		Hollywood Babylon, by Kenneth Anger
		

Am I the only one with _The Phantom's Guide to Video_ ? This is an
excellent book on B grade, Z grade and cult films from a new york
newspaper critic. I'll try to bring in the details on it.

shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)

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