El Topo
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El Topo is a 1970 Mexican acid Western film written, scored, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers,
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Midnight movie
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A midnight movie is a low-budget genre picture or distinctly nonmainstream film programmed for late-night screening or broadcast. The term is rooted in the practice that emerged in the 1950s of local
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…owned by Allen Klein, manager of the Beatles. The film was shown late at night like it was at the Elgin. For decades El Topo could only be seen at such midnight screenings in art houses and via partially censored Japanese laserdiscs and bootleg videos. El Topo was officially released on DVD in May 2007; a Blu-ray release…
One of the definitive midnight movies, Tod Browning's Freaks (1932) was the sort of (then) obscure horror film shown on late-night TV beginning in the 1950s; in the 1970s and early 1980s, it was a staple of midnight screenings at theaters around the U.S.
Maila Nurmi as Vampira, the original midnight movie TV host.
"A film too heavy to be shown any other way." Newspaper ad for December 1970 midnight screenings of El Topo at the Elgin Theater.
David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) found an audience through midnight screenings.