Midnight movies

Midnight movies were popular in the 1970s and early 1980s, before VCRs became readily available; showings typically began at midnight, hence the name. Musical and cult movies were especially popular fare.

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El Topo, Night of the Living Dead, The Harder They Come, Eraserhead, Pink Flamingos, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail were among the more popular midnight movies. Other movies shown at venues such as the Orson Welles Theatre in Boston, the Elgin in New York, and other theaters around the United States, included Barbarella, the Monkees' movie Head, and the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour (a failed TV movie, which still had cult appeal). In terms of gross and cult following, the most popular midnight movie ever is The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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El Topo - Night of the Living Dead - The Harder They Come - Eraserhead - Pink Flamingos - Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Orson Welles Theatre - Elgin - Barbarella - Monkees - Head - Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour - TV movie - The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Stuart Samuels wrote and directed a critically successful documentary entitled ' based on his book of the same name. Jeffrey Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote a book about the phenomenon, entitled Midnight Movies (1983).

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Stuart Samuels - Jeffrey Hoberman - Jonathan Rosenbaum

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