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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
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.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical comedy horror film produced by Lou Adler and Michael White, directed by Jim Sharman, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film is based on the 1973
Midnight movie
…film audience, encouraging repeat viewing and social interaction in what was originally a countercultural setting. The national after-hours success of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the late 1970s and the changing economics of the film exhibition industry altered the nature of the midnight movie phenomenon; as its association…
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Little Nell, Patricia Quinn, Tim Curry, and Richard O'Brien in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. All were in the original stage show.
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A fan-made replica of Little Nell's gold sequined swallow-tail coat