More than 450 rare and wonderful illustrations round out the book, making it a treasure trove of cinematic lore and essential for every fan of filmdom's finest offerings. You will find reviews for, not only horror films and b-movies like Night of the Living Dead. They almost always appear on videocassette.Īmong their kind are biker films, sci-fi series, quickie biopics, gimmick films, teen sex comedies, blaxploitation films, stalkers, slashers, snoozers, shrudderers, and anything starring Lynda Blair, david Carradine, Shannon Tweed or Drew Barrymore.Īnd they're all here in the Psychotronic Video Guide.įrom Abby to Zontar, this book covers more than nine thousand amazing movies from the turn of the century right up to today's golden age of video, all described with Michael Weldon's dry wit. In 1983, Weldon published the Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, which contained. The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, by Michael J. The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film includes features made in the early 30s. They occur throughout the world, but are particuarly common at midnight movie festivals and in video stores' cult sections, they are especially frequent at that beloved and dying institution, the drive-in. Michael Weldon New York City May 1983 FOREWORD ne morning in 1981. These films can commonly be identified by their use of exploitation elements and their interest in humanity's lower common demoninators.
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