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...made just $200,000) because of fears of riots. Youth-gone-wild paranoia was in the air that year. Two other Mondo Culto favorites from 1979, Rock 'n' Roll High School and The Warriors, featured the same kind of teenage violence, one...

...trees, the towering rock, and the miles of desert scrub. Oddly enough, this is sort of a ghost sequel to another Mondo Culto favorite, 1984's Repo Man. Director Abbe Wool co-wrote Sid and Nancy, which was directed by Alex Cox, who also...

When three UCLA film school friends embarked on their first feature, they didn't know it would take three years to finish and end up a lo-fi classic. After co-directors Allison Anders (who went on to…

This murderously black sort-of-comedy about a film crew following a killer starts out playing the violence for laughs. But as the crew (played by the real director and cinematographer) move from…

This stylish mashup of vampires, road movie, and Western upends the stereotype of the aristocratic bloodsucker in favor of white trash killers bombing around the south in stolen cars.

When Caleb (Ad…

The Monkees weren't a band, they just played one on TV. Or that's how it started, and even though by the third album they were writing and playing their own music, they never washed off the stain of…

It's not generally good business to antagonize your audience, but the marketing for Lord Love a Duck, George Axelrod's directorial debut, tried its best. "This Motion Picture Is an Act of Pure…

With an Oscar-winning screenwriter, a cast of rocker costars, and legendary music producer Lou Adler directing, fresh off Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains must…

Battle Royale's gleeful violence led to government outcry and huge box office. But underneath the schoolgirl skirts and decapitation, there's a social message of a kind, planted by a master of…

The legendary Jimmy Cliff stars as Ivanhoe Martin, a poor country boy who comes to Kingston to become a reggae star. But as doors get slammed in his face, he finds himself working for pennies in a…