2006 · documentary · horror
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Directed by Stuart Samuels1h 27m2006
From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
Our read: Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2006) reads as a warm, steady, inventive documentary · horror entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle documentary / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
Watching Midnight Movies tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Midnight Movies feels to watch.
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