Tag Archives: Midnight Movie

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Posted on February 7, 2021 at 11:39 am by Jeff Kuykendall

2021 is the 10th anniversary of Midnight Only. To mark the occasion, this imaginary, rat-infested, leaky-roofed theater is raising the curtain on historically important midnight movies. By now, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), like Monty Python and the Holy Grail released … Continue reading →

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Eraserhead (1977)

Posted on July 21, 2015 at 10:39 am by Jeff Kuykendall

One of the most important images in David Lynch’s debut feature Eraserhead (1977) comes toward the end of a surreal montage, meant to establish a chain of strange motifs and to cold-immerse the viewer into the nightmare world of the … Continue reading →

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El Topo (1970)

Posted on March 16, 2014 at 4:13 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

“You are seven years old. You are a man. Bury your first toy and your mother’s picture.” A gunslinger clad from head to toe in black, carrying a black umbrella, gives his naked young son a teddy bear and a … Continue reading →

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