INDEX
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2000 Maniacs 10, 188–9, 193–6
39 Steps, The 59
8MM 4, 68
A For Andromeda 54
A Movie 77
Ackerman, Chantal 116
Addiction, The 2–3, 13–25, 223
Adorno, Theodor 166
aesthetic dilemma (in snuff films) 68
aesthetics of gross 205
Ahlberg, Mac 27
AIP (American International Pictures) 7, 127–36, 228
Albert, Edward 46
Algebra of Need 2, 17
All Quiet on the Western Front 80
Alley Cats, The 3, 27–30, 32, 35, 37–8
Alley Tramp 194
Almereyda, Michael 25
Altamont 139
AlterImage 12
Amazing Transplant, The 119–21
American Beauty 8–9, 150–1, 161–8,
Anders, Luana 49
Andy Warhol’s Dracula 52
Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein 52
Ang, Ien 179, 229
Angel Unchained 139
Angels Die Hard 139
Angels From Hell 139
Angels, Hard as They Come 139
Anger, Kenneth 3–4, 36, 43–5, 48, 110, 128, 162
Arkoff, Samuel 127, 132, 135
Arnheim, Rudolph 200
Arrest at Trial 55
Artemis 81 54
art-house 1–3, 6–7, 27, 29, 32, 34, 38, 124, 154, 186, 203
Arthur, Paul 181, 229
Arts Lab Group 183
Ashcroft, Peggy 59
Ashey, John 128
Assignation, The 45
At Land 43, 49
Audio Brandon 48
Audubon Films 27–8, 38, 224
 
B, Beth 10
Bad Girls Go to Hell 114, 116
Bad Lieutenant 25
Baillie, Bruce 183
Baird, Harry 97
Baker, Diane 59
Baker, Tom 94
Bakhtin, Mikhail 11, 54, 206, 208–9, 212, 216–17, 219–20, 230
Baldwin, Janet 47
Ballard, J.G. 72, 226
Baltimore Evening Sun 215
Baretta 41
Barger, Ralph Sonny 130, 132, 134
Bartel, Paul 10, 183
Battle Beyond the Sun 49
Battleship Potemkin 58
Baudelaire, Charles 20
Baudrillard, Jean 21
Baum, L. Frank 44
Bava, Mario 50
Bazin, André 85
Beach Party 129, 228
Bear for the FBI, A 57
Beast with Five Fingers, The 40
Beckett, Samuel 13, 20
Begotten 42
Belz, Carl 77, 80, 226
Benedek, Laslo 126–7
Berger, Nicole 97
Bernardo, Paul 69–70
Big Enough and Old Enough (see Savages From Hell) 134
Bike Boy 87
biker movie 7–8, 123–38, 194, 228
Birch, Thora 164
Birds, The 60
Bissette, Stephen R. 3–4, 228
Bitter Rice 27
Black Angels, The 137
Black Cat, The 44
Black, Joel 4, 65
Blackmail 54, 59, 61, 164
Blair Witch Project, The 9, 162–8, 189–90, 195
Blaxploitation 6, 96, 102, 107–8
Bleecker Street Theater, The 24, 203
Blonde Cobra 202–3
Blood Feast 10, 25, 136, 188–97
Blood of a Poet, The 45
Blow Job 5–6, 86, 88, 93–5, 167
Body Double 71
Bogdanovich, Peter 181
Bogle, Donald 104, 227
Born Losers 139
Bourdieu, Pierre 30, 32, 37, 224
Bowen, Michael 6, 109, 227
Branded 55
Brando, Marlon 7, 124–5, 127, 129–30
Bride of Frankenstein 83
Brown, Lawrence 229
Brown, Trisha 203
Burroughs, William S. 2, 13–14, 16–18, 20
Butt-Banged Cycle Sluts 136
 
C.C. and Company 139
Caan, James 46–7
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The 40, 48
California Killing Field, The 67, 226
Calley, William 15, 18–19
Cambridge, Godfrey 99, 102
Camille 2000 27, 29, 32, 34, 36
Cannes Film Festival 134
Cannibal Holocaust 72–3, 214
Canyon Cinema 183–5
Capri Cinema, The 194
Carlisle, Anne 53
Carnival of Souls 42
Carrie 22
Carroll, Kathleen 207
Cassavetes, John 132
Cat Creature, The 41, 43, 47, 50
Cat People, The 49
Chaffin-Quiray, Garrett 6–7, 96
Champagne 56
Charity, Tom 14, 225
Chelsea Girls, The 86–90, 93, 186, 203
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown 138–9
Chrome and Hot Leather 135
Cinq cent balles 97
Cixous, Hélène 20
Clover, Carol J. 22, 225
Cohen, Larry 51–62, 71
Colour Me Blood Red 189
Colour Me Shameless 113
Come Back, Africa 181
Come with Me My Love 119
Conner, Bruce 1, 5, 76–85
Coppola, Francis Ford 153
Corman, Roger 46, 49, 131, 136
Corrigan, Timothy 124
Cotton Comes to Harlem 99
Couch 88, 92, 155, 166
Cox, Alex 12
Cox, Scott 59
Crane, Jonathan L. 8, 140
Creed, Barbara 208
Crenna, Richard 47
Cripps, Thomas 104
Cronenberg, David 3, 41, 183
Crowley, Aleister 48, 141
Cult Film Archive xiii
Culver, Cal 38
Cutting Room, The
Cycle Savages, The 134
 
Daddys Gone a Hunting 55
Dali, Salvador 42
D’Allesandro, Joe 52
Dangerous Houses 45
Darago, Al 72
Dark Odyssey 27, 36
Daughter of Horror (see Dementia) 42
Davis, Ozzie 99
De Antonio, Emile 9, 181
De Niro, Robert 170
De Palma, Brian 22, 55–6
Dead Don’t Die, The 41, 50
Deadly Weapons 120
Deleuze, Gilles 21
Delon, Alain 58
Deodato, Ruggero 72
Deren, Maya 4, 42–3, 48–9, 76, 116
Dern, Bruce 131
Derrida, Jacques 21
Desperate Living 11, 205, 214
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell 41, 47
Devil’s Angels 132, 134
Diary of a Nudist 113
Dirty Girls, The 27, 32, 35, 37–8
Divine 212–14, 219
Dixon, Wheeler Winston 52
Dogme 95
Donahue, Heather 163
Donat, Robert 61
Double Agent 73
Douglas, Mary 207
Down, Tom 205
Dragstrip Riot 128
Duchamp, Marcel xvi
Dumas, Alexandre 33
Duncan, Robert 77
Dyer, Richard 86–7
Dynasty 41
 
Easy Rider 7, 134–7, 162
Eat 86
Edison, Thomas 64
Edwards, George 50
Empire 86, 89
End of Violence, The 71, 75
Eraserhead 41–2
Eve and the Handymani 128
Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison 64
Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks, The 52
Eyes Without a Face 214
 
F/X 71
Faces of Death 63
Fall of the House of Usher, The 4, 43, 50
Female Trouble 205
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 77
Ferrara, Abel 1–3, 13, 17–22, 24, 151
Fifteen Minutes 4
Findlay, Michael 27
Findlay, Roberta 27
Fireworks 43–4, 128
Fisher, Terence 22
Fiske, John 174, 176
Fitzgerald, Barry 57
Flaming Creatures 203
Flesh 52, 87, 114
Florey, Robert 40
Fonda, Peter 131, 134
14-Year-Old-Girl, The 87, 91
Fragment of Seeking 4, 43–7
Franco, Jesus 12
Frank, Chloe 47
Frankenstein 40, 64
Freda, Riccardo 50
Frederic, Leon 47
Freeland, Cynthia 66–7
French, Kristen 69
Frenzy 61
Friedman, David F. 10, 189
Fuller, Samuel xiii
 
Gabor, Eva 112
Gallagher, Peter 164
Games 41, 46–7
Garcia, Jerry 131
Garden of Eden 112
Gardner, R. H. 215
Gautier, Marguerite 32
Gehr, Ernie 143
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow 126
Gibbons, Steve 205
Gillespie, Cynthia 102
Gilliatt, Penelope 104
Ginsberg, Allen 18, 77, 90, 131, 203
Girl in the Leather Suit (see Hell’s Belles) 134
Girl on the Motorcycle, The 136
Glory Stompers, The 134
Godard, Jean-Luc 6, 24, 153
Gods and Monsters 50
Gore-Gore Girls, The 10, 188, 192–7
Gorfinkel, Elena 3, 26
Grandmother, The 47
Greene, Richard 60
Greffe, William 132
Guattari, Felix 21
Guerrero, Ed 104
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner 104
Gummo 8, 152–60
Gwenllian Jones, Sara 9
 
Hairspray 212
Haller, Robert 78
Halligan, Benjamin 8–9, 150
Hamilton, George 47
Hammid, Alexander 43
Hard Ride, The 139
Hardcore 68
Hark, Ina Rae 124
Harlot
Harper, Graeme 2
Harrington, Curtis 3–4, 40–50
Harry, Deborah 212
Harvey, Herk 42
Hawkins, Joan 2, 13
Haynes, Jim 183
Hearst, Patricia 212
Heat 52–3, 87
Hedren, Tippie 60
Hellcats, The 136–7
Hell’s Angels 69 134
Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club 7, 130, 134, 139
Hell’s Belles 134
Hell’s Bloody Devils 139
Hell’s Chosen Few 132
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 4, 66, 68–9, 71
Hentoff, Margot 34
Herz, Michael xiii
Herzfeld, John 68
Herzog, Werner 8, 153
Hideout in the Sun 112–13
High Noon 126
High School Confidential 126
Hiller, Arthur 102
Hinckley, John 170
Hitchcock, Alfred xiii–xiv, 47, 53–62
Hitler, Adolf 18
Hoberman, J. 2, 18
Holden, William 52
Hollywood Babylon 128
Hollywood Biker Chicks 136
Home of the Brave 126
Hooper, Tobe 42
Hopper, Dennis 49, 134, 156–8
Horror of Dracula 22
Horse 87
Hot Rod Gang 126
How Awful About Allan 41, 46
Huillet, Danielle 116
Huss, Roy 79
 
I am Curious [Yellow] 28
I Was a Teenage Werewolf 127
I, A Man 5–6, 86–95
I, A Woman 27–8, 94
Ignatow, Melvin Henry 70
Immoral Mr. Teas, The 128
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome 46, 48
Indecent Desires 114
It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive 55
 
J.D. Flicks 126
Jackson, Kate 46
Jacob’s Ladder 42
Jacobs, Ken 11, 202
Jacopetti, Gualtiero 72
Jameson, Fredric 34
Jancovich, Mark 30
Jarmusch, Jim 152
Jenkins, Bruce 85
Jenkins, Henry 169–76
Jensen, Jane 205
Jeremijenko, Natalie 74
Jeriko, Orin (see Zedd, Nick) 10
JFK 58, 73–4
Jodorowsky, Alejandro 116
Johns, Jasper 203
julien donkey-boy 8, 152–60
Juno 57
 
Kaufman, Lloyd xiii, xv, xvii, 12, 204–20
Keenan, Will 205, 220
Kennedy, John F. 5, 76–85
Keough, Peter 22
Kerekes, David 67, 69
Kern, Richard 10
Kerouac, Jack 77, 203
Kesey, Ken 131
Killer Bees 3, 41, 46–7, 50
Killer Klowns From Outer Space 139
Killing Kind, The 41, 46–7, 50
Kirsanov, Dimitri 42
Kiss 86
Klinger, Barbara 135
Korine, Harmony 8, 150–60
Kramer, Stanley 127
Kuchar, George 6, 11, 113, 202
Kuchar, Mike 11, 202
Kuleshov, Lev 52
 
La Permission 97
Laderman, David 124
Lake, Leonard 67, 69
Lang, Fritz xiii
Laurie, John 59
Laurie, Piper 47
Law and Order 56
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit 56
Lawson, Linda 46, 49
Le Grice, Malcolm 183
Learning Tree, The 99
Leigh, Janet 57
Leighton, Margaret 59
Lennon, John 171
Leonard, Joshua 163
Lesser, Wendy 65
Lester, Mark 47
Let Me Die a Woman 119–20
Lewis, Herschell Gordon 3, 10, 12, 26, 188–97
Libertine, The 27
Lickerish Quartet, The 3, 27, 32–3
Life and Death of 9413—A Hollywood Extra, The 40
Lincoln, Abraham 83
Linda and Abeline 194
Little Stabs at Happiness 202
Living Venus 192
Lochary, David 212
Lodger, The 58
Lonesome Cowboys 86–7
Lorna 128
Love Island 112
Love Story 103
Love Toy 119
Lubitch, Ernest xiii
Lucas, George 177, 190
Lucas, Tim 46
Lukacs, George 166
Lumière brothers 202
Lynch, David 3, 41–2, 47, 151
Lyne, Adrian 42
Lynes, Russell 33
 
Magnificent Seven 135
Mahaffy, Leslie 69
Man Who Knew Too Much, The 59
Manson, Charles 68
Markopoulos, Gregory 4, 43–5, 48–9
Marley, Florence 46
Marnie 59
Marshall, Herbert 60
Martin, D’Urville 102
Mata Hari 50
Matherly, Brian 206
McKee, Alan 176
McNaughton, John 66
McVeigh, Timothy 64–5
Mechte Navstrechu 46
Meditation on Violence 43
Mekas, Jonas 49, 201
Melville, Jean-Pierre 58
Mendes, Sam 161
Mendik, Xavier xvi, 1–2, 10, 13, 188, 204
Menilmontant 42
Merhige, E. Elias 41–2
Merimee, Prosper 33
Metzger, Radley 1, 3, 26–39
Meyer, Russ 3, 26, 31, 128
Midnight Cowboy 52
Miike, Takashi 12
Milligan, Andy 27
Mini Skirt Mob 136
Mondo Cane 63, 72
Monroe, Marilyn 90
Montez, Mario 91
Moody, Titus 132
Moonshine Mountain 195–6
Moreland, Mantan 102
Morgan, Chesty 120, 196
Moritsugo, Jon 10
Morrison, Ken 73
Morrissey, Paul 10, 94–5, 183
Morton, Jim 139
Mosen, David 83
Moses, Gilbert 104
Motorcycle Gang 127
Motorpsycho! 128
Mudhoney 128
Multiple Maniacs 205
Mulvey, Laura 54, 61
Murder 60
Murders in the Rue Morgue 40
Murphy, Mary 127
Murray, K. Gordan 134
Murray, Kenneth D. 70
Museum of Modern Art.
Mute Witness 66, 71
My Brother’s Wife 114
My Hustler 86–7, 93, 114
My Lai 14–15, 18, 22, 25
My Own Private Idaho 136
Myrick, Daniel 162
 
N.Y.P.D. Blue 56
Naked Angels 136
Naked Under Leather (see Girl on the Motorcycle, The) 136
Natural Born Killers 74, 171
Nest, The 43
New York Underground Film Festival 52
Newitz, Annalee 9, 161
Ng, Charles 67, 69
Nichols, Mike 14
Nicholson, Ivy 94
Nico 88, 94
Nietzsche, Friedrich 13–14, 20, 25, 199
Night of the Living Dead 25, 162
Night Tide 4, 46, 48–9
Norden, Martin F. 5, 76
North By North-West 55
Nosferatu 64
Notorious 55–6
Nude on the Moon 113
Nyland, Ann 128
 
Obsession 55–6
O’Doherty, Brian 77
On the Edge 43, 45–7
Osgerby, Bill 7
Oswald, Lee Harvey 65, 80–2, 84
Outlaw Motorcycles 132
 
Paris, Henry (see Metzger, Radley) 28
Parker, John 42
Parks, Gordon 99, 104
Parsons, Estelle 46, 99
Pasolini, Pier Paolo 73, 156
Paul, William 11, 204
Pefond, Guy
Penley, Constance 169, 173, 175
Perfect Strangers 53
Perkins, Anthony 46
Persson, Essy 28
Peterson, Sidney 42
Petley, Julian 68, 72
Pfahler, Kembra 10
Picnic 45
Pike, Robert 48
Pink Angels, The 138
Pink Flamingos 11, 205, 212–17
Planet of Storms (see Planeta Bura) 46
Planeta Bura 46
Poe, Amos 13
Poe, Edgar Allen 4, 43, 48
Polanski, Roman 42
POPism 89, 91
Potter, Sally 54
Powell, Michael 56
Presley, Elvis 90
Pressburger, Emeric 56
Prisoner of Mars 43
Psycho xiii–xiv, 49–50, 56
Psychomania 138
Psych-Out 132
Pudenz, Steven 61
 
Quatermass (television series) 54
Queen of Blood 41–2, 46, 50
Quigley, Martin 29
 
Rabelais, François 21
Reade, Walter 29
Rebel Rousersi 132
Reed, Lou 90
Reform School Girl 127
Reid, Alastair 53
Reid, Mark 104
Reinhardt, Max
Renan, Sheldon 43, 86–7
Renascence 43
Renay, Liz 215
Renoir, Jean xiii
Report 7, 76–85
Repulsion 42
Reynolds, Debbie 46–7
Rice, Ron 52
Rijn, Brad 55
Robson, Mark 55
Rock Around the Clock 126
Rodowick, D. N. 54
Roeg, Nic 12
Rolling Stones 139
Romero, George A. 25
Ronell, Avital 19
Rosenbaum, Jonathan 2
Ross, Katherine 47
Rossi, Jeri Cain 10
Rubio, Kevin 9
Ruby 41, 47, 50
Ruby, Jack 65, 81
Rudkin, David 53
Rumble Fish 139
Russell, Ken 56
 
Sánchez, Eduardo 162
Sargeant, Jack 86
Sartre, Jean-Paul 20
Satan Was a Lady 119
Satan’s Sadists 139
Savage Seven, The 134
Savages From Hell 134
Scales, Hubert 103
Schaefer, Brenda 69
Schaeffer, Rebecca 171
Schlesinger, John 52
Schneider, Steven Jay xvi, 1, 11, 66, 68, 204
Schwartz, David 11
Sciorra, Annabella 15
Score 27, 38
Scorpio Rising 7, 128
Scorsese, Martin 153
Screen Kill 71–2, 74
Screen Test # 2 91
Screen Tests 90, 95
Sebastian, John (see Harrington, Curtis) 46
Shackelton, Allan 63, 68
Shadows 181
Shake Rattle and Rock! 125
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
She-Devils on Wheels 136
Shivat, Christian 97
Shore, Mary Ann 69
Siegle, Robert 17
Signoret, Simone 47
Silverstein, Norman 79
Simon, Simone 49
Sirk, Douglas 53
Sisters in Leather 136
Sitney, P. Adams 8, 140, 225, 229
Sjoman, Vilgot 28
Slater, David 67, 69
Slaughter 67
Sleep 86
Smith, C. Davis 117
Smith, Gavin 14
Smith, Harry 7–8, 140–9
Smith, Jack 11, 37, 52, 202
Snuff 63, 68, 71–4, 214
Solanis, Valerie 89, 94
Special Effects 51–62, 66, 71
Staiger, Janet 210
Stallybrass, Peter 209
Star Trek 169, 175
Star Wars 9, 169, 177
Stevenson, Jack 9–10, 180, 211
Stewart, James 59
Still 202
Stone, David 48
Stone, Oliver 58, 73–4
Story of a Three-Day Pass, The 6, 96–108
Straub, Jean-Marie 116
Stroud, Don 46
Study in Choreography for Camera, A
Suicide 87
Sunlight 97
Sunset Boulevard 52–3
Superfly 104
Superstar, Ingrid 94
Suspiria 214
Svoray, Yoram 63
Swanson, Gloria 52
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song 7, 96–108
Symbol of Decadence (see Fragment of Seeking) 43
 
Tales of the Unexpected 41
Tamerlis, Zoë 53, 55–6
Tavel, Ronald 87, 91, 95
Taylor, Elizabeth 29, 90
Taylor, Lili 15
Terminator, The 130
Terrell, Steve 127
Terror Firmer xiv, xvi, 205–12
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The 42, 188, 195
The Jesus Trip, The (see Under Hot Leather) 139
Thelma and Louise 136
Therese and Isabelle 3, 29, 32, 37–8
Third Watch 56
Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys, The 90
Thirteen Most Beautiful Women, The 90
Thompson, Hunter S. 123
Three Pickup Men for Herrick 97
Thriller 54
Titanic 150, 152
Torgl, Mark 217
Tourneur, Jacques 49
Toxic Avenger, The xiv, 11, 205–22
Trash 52, 87
Trip, The 132
Troma Studios xiii–xv, 205–22
Tromeo and Juliet xvi, 205–13, 219
Troops 9, 177
True American, The 97
Turan, Kenneth 37
Twilight Zone, The 41
Twin Peaks 47
Tyler, Parker 1, 49
 
Ulmer, Edgar 43, 50
Ulrich, Doug 71
Un Chien Andalou 42, 45
Under Capricorn 59
Under Hot Leather 139
Urban Legends: Final Cut 66
 
Van Peebles, Melvin 6–7, 96–108
Velvet Underground 93
Verhoeven, Paul 12
Vertigo 55–7
Very Eye of Night, The 43
Vinton, Bobby 128
Violet, Ultra 94
Vogel, Amos 198
Vorkapich, Slavko 40
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet 46
 
Wald, Jerry 48
Walken, Christopher 15
Wallflower Press 12
Warhol, Andy xv, 3, 5–6, 37, 52–3, 76, 86–95, 110, 202
Watermelon Man 7, 96–108
Waters, John 1, 3, 10, 116, 182, 204–22
Weaver, Dennis 46
Weil, Simone 23–4
Wein, Chuck 87, 95
Weine, Robert 41
Wenders, Wim 75
Werewolves on Wheels 138
What’s the Matter with Helen? 3, 41, 46, 50
White, Allon 209
Whitney Brothers 42
Who Slew Auntie Roo? 3, 41, 47
Wicked Stepmother 55
Wild Angels, The 131
Wild in the Streets 132
Wild One, The 7, 124–9
Wild Wheels 136
Wilder, Billy 52
Wilding, Michael 59
Williams, Michael 163
Williams, Stephen 70
Williams, Tony 4, 51
Willie Dynamite 104
Winchester 73 135
Winters, Shelley 47
Wishman, Doris 1, 3, 6, 26, 109–22, 194
Wolf 14
Woronov, Mary 91
 
Xena: Warrior Princess 169, 177
 
Yuzna, Brian 12
 
Zapruder, Abraham 5, 57–8, 73–4, 81
Zedd, Nick 10, 13, 198
Zemer, Michael 97
Zito, Stephen 37