Psychotronic
see all genres ›Cult and exploitation flicks, genre trash, the eccentric, silly and surreal: film historian Michael Weldon invented the term "psychotronic" to encompass all of cinema's guilty pleasures.
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Genres / Cult / Psychotronic
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Acid Redux
When commissioned to make a Futurist-inspired film for the New York Biennial, George Kuchar responded in his characteristic way with this madcap vignette. Knocked out in a weekend (filmed Friday and edited Saturday), ACID REDUX was shot with his Electrographic Sinema class at the San Francisco Art Institute and features his...Start your free trial to watch -
Africa in Flames
In the darkest region of Africa, the struggle for survival between man and beast has raged since the dawn of time. Jungle infant Boru is orphaned after his mother, cast into the wilderness, is devoured by a ravenous lion. Adopted by nomadic chieftain Shaikh Asgar, Bory and Asgar's son Nikitu grow up to be...Start your free trial to watch -
Apple
"In the stillness and the dark before time ever began," opens this faux-trailer for the 1992 film APPLE, "there was a different incantation." Maverick filmmaker Damon Packard, self-described herein as "the hideous director of DAWN OF AN EVIL MILLENNIUM," tells the story of Apple, an elfin girl who matures into a sorceress of...Start your free trial to watch
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la ardilla
LA ARDILLA finds filmmaker Jim Finn in a brief routine with a furry friend, paired with a duet by Juan Gabriel and Rocío Durcal. Writes Senses of Cinema, "Finn beckons tenderly, patiently, and finally has you, and the squirrel, nibbling from his seductively pursed lips."Start your free trial to watch -
Attention! Wolves!
With shades of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER, this unusual Soviet animation blends symbolic allegory and documentary photographs to warn against the persistent threat of fascism. A feral boy is found in the woods the same day that the Nuremberg Trials’ death sentences are carried out....Start your free trial to watch -
Attraction
One of the great taboo-smashers of the late '60s, directed by Tinto Brass, featuring interracial affairs, anti-Vietnam statements, violence versus sex. ATTRACTION (NEROSUBIANCO) will stun anyone expecting a standard softcore European sex flick as released originally in the US as THE ARTFUL PENETRATION OF BARBARA. Brace...Start your free trial to watch
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Azole Dkmuntch
At an open microphone performance, a man in a blue tuxedo claiming to be named Azole Dkmuntch heaps transgression on transgression in his bargain-basement retelling of his clearly ludicrous but deceptively poignant personal history. He rips and roars though a bevy of outre afflictions from AIDS to spousal abuse to heart...Start your free trial to watch -
Bad
A possible prelude to NATURAL BORN KILLERS, executive producer Andy Warhol's BAD is as low as it goes. Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house but makes extra money by providing ruthless women to do hit jobs. K.T. is a parasite and contacts Hazel looking for work when he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a...Start your free trial to watch
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Bad Biology
Acclaimed director Frank Henenlotter is back with a twisted tale of love and weirdness. Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in an explosive and...Start your free trial to watch -
Battle Girl
A meteor lands in Japan and the fallout creates a “shield” around Tokyo, encasing the city in a foggy darkness. A state of martial law is declared. People are in a panic as violent crime and corruption spreads throughout the region and punk gangs are ruling the streets. As if things weren’t bad enough, a chemical reaction...Start your free trial to watch -
Being
A man sits in front of his TV. The program that he occasionally glances at is a montage of popular culture images: old movies, commercials and news clips. Accompanying the fleeting images is a loosely synchronous narrative on the evolution of man's belief systems. The man's behavior watching television becomes a commentary on...Start your free trial to watch
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
An American writer (Tony Musante) traveling in Rome is the only witness to an attempted murder by a sinister man in a raincoat and black leather gloves, though he is powerless to do anything to stop him. With a feeling that something is not quite right about the scene he has witnessed and the police's...Start your free trial to watch -
Bizarre
Journey into the mind of the undead, as a talking mummy guides us on grand tour of the timeless “battle of the sexes” between man and woman. A cult classic from Executive Producer Richard Gordon (FIEND WITHOUT A FACE), BIZARRE is an offbeat anthology film that certainly defies description. An interesting mix of sex, horror...Start your free trial to watch -
The Blonde Captive
What would you find in the heart of a white woman who was the captive bride of a cave-dwelling savage? Grotesque and weird though it may seem, a blonde English-speaking woman was found naked living in a cave! This shocking discovery turned Dr. Paul Withington's expedition into a drama of truth stranger...Start your free trial to watch
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Blood and Black Lace
An unscrupulous business operating under the guise of a top fashion house with exotic models running sexual favors, cocaine dealings and blackmail, becomes a murder scene after someone is pushed to the edge. The saga begins when a beautiful model is brutally murdered and her boyfriend, a known addict...Start your free trial to watch -
Blue Movie
Anais Nin's voice accompanies Mark Street's BLUE MOVIE, a mesmerizing formal treatment of what appear to be 1930s or 1950s 16mm porn movies whose original content has been optically zoomed into and then carefully augmented with color overlays and a post-production technique called step-printing. These detail the subtle facial...Start your free trial to watch -
Brain Damage
A worm-like parasite named Aylmer latches into Brian’s (Rock Herbst) neck and offers to inject his brain with a hallucinogenic fluid, giving him pleasurable psychedelic experiences. But the catch is, to keep the “high,” Brian has to feed Aylmer his favorite food: human brains! Directed by Frank Henenlotter, this amazing cult...Start your free trial to watch




