Directed by: Mike Kuchar
year: 1965 43 minutes
One of the most influential films of the 1960s American underground.
Along with Kenneth Anger's SCORPIO RISING and Andy Warhol's CHELSEA GIRLS, Mike Kuchar's SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS remains one of the most influential films of the 1960s American underground. Mike and his brother George (who co-wrote FLESHAPOIDS) were the godfathers of bargain basement cinema, pioneering a hilariously campy, lurid style between Ed Wood exploitation and Douglas Sirk melodrama. Set a million years in the future, after “the Great War” has scourged the planet, mankind has forsaken science for self-indulgence in all the carnal pleasures afforded by art, food and lust. Work is left to a race of enslaved androids. One rebellious male robot (Bob Cowan) tires of pampering his lazy masters and joins the humans in sin. The future never seemed so ridiculous!
- Genres:
- Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
- Cult / Psychotronic
- Drama / Melodrama
- Science Fiction / Post-Apocalypse
- Cult / Camp
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I didnt care for this film.It was just to far out there.
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