Motion Picture Styles, Independent & Low Budget Film
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Overview
Now it can be told - here are the true stories of fifteen fearless filmmakers who defied the system...and won! This incredbible book documents the real stories of Hollywood's true giants, the pioneers and crazed visionaries, the cinematic sorcerers without any scruples: magnificent men like Sam Katzman, Jim Wynorski, Fred Olen Ray, Jess Franco, and Edward D. Wood, Jr.This incredible book reveals for the first time the secrets behind their careers and their greatest movies, the magnificent masterpieces that have packed in the audiences from Portland to Portland, the all-time greats like The Space Thing, The Sadist of Notre Dame, Maniac Cop, The Rats Are Coming!, The Werewolves Are Here!, The Abomination, and literally hundreds more!
Written with YOU in mind, The Sleaze Merchants will satisfy your hunger and passion to know the TRUTH about Hollywood's greatest exploitation moviemakers. Read this book and YOU WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
Synopsis
Now it can be told - here are the true stories of fifteen fearless filmmakers who defied the system...and won! This incredbible book documents the real stories of Hollywood's true giants, the pioneers and crazed visionaries, the cinematic sorcerers without any scruples: magnificent men like Sam Katzman, Jim Wynorski, Fred Olen Ray, Jess Franco, and Edward D. Wood, Jr.Editorials
Library Journal
Tim Burton's Ed Wood, a 1994 film profiling an ungifted but persistent director, focused some attention on exploitation movies. McCarty's book assesses Wood along with 14 other purveyors of this alternative cinema. Although Albert Zugsmith (Sex Kittens Go to College), Larry Cohen (It's Alive), and Frank Henenlotter (Basket Case) are absent, many of exploitation's exemplars are discussed, and their achievements are evoked by provocative stills and promotional ads for the movies. There are terrific interviews with Fred Olen Ray (The Tomb), William Lustig (Maniac Cop), and the makers of the 1963-64 cult classics Blood Feast and 2000 Maniacs, Herschell Gordon Lewis and David F. Friedman. While some argue that The Corpse Grinders, The Astro-Zombies, and The Lustful Turk demonstrate that civilization can't be taken for granted, this book's able dissection reveals that these films have a place in film history. Recommended for strong film collections.-Kim Holston, American Inst. for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Malvern, Pa.Book Details
Published
April 1, 1995
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pages
212
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780312118938