num_pages: 400
description: From 1965 to 1972, Andy Milligan made 20 exploitation movies, including Gutter Trash, Torture Dungeon, Bloodthirsty Butchers , and Fleshpot on 42nd Street . For Milligan—sadist, misogynist, maniac—exploitation was no joke; it was his reality. Based on hundreds of interviews, including many with Milligan himself, this is a tale of violence—physical, sexual, psychological. Even the author got sucked in, appearing in one of Milligan’s last gore-fests and nearly getting killed. But this biography—profusely illustrated with strange stills—isn't just about a lunatic with a movie camera. It’s also an anecdotal history of exploitation films, the birth of off-Broadway theater, the Warhol crowd, and the malevolent place called Times Square. The sick secrets revealed here will shock even hardcore grindhouse fans.
language: English
title: The Ghastly One: The Sex-gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan
titlecomplete: The Ghastly One: The Sex-gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan
genres: Horror, Biography, Media Tie In, Dark, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Film
ratings_count: 216
publisher: Chicago Review Press