Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005)

Country of Origin: Canada / USA
Year of Production: 2005
Running Times: 88 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Stuart Samuels Productions / IFC Canada / Movie Central Network / Mpix / Starz Entertainment Group / The Movie Network
Copyright: Midnightmovies Production Inc
Executive Producers: Ian Dimerman, David Fox, Stephan Shelanski
Producer: Stuart Samuels
Associate Producer: Victor Kushmaniuk, Andrea Stewart

SCRIPT
Script: Stuart Samuels
Additional Writer: Victor Kushmaniuk

DIRECTION
Director: Stuart Samuels
Assistant Director: Victor Kushmaniuk

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Richard Fox

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editors: Michael Bembenek, Robert J. Coleman, John Dowding, Lorenzo Massa, Kevin Rollins
Post-Production Coordinator: Mary Luz Mejia

MUSIC
Music: Eric Cadesky, Nick Dyer
Music Supervisor: Euan Hunter

SOUND
Sound: Euan Hunter
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Terry Wedel
Audio Post-Production Facility: VO2 Mix

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Joshua Watson
Publicist: Steven Belgard

LOCATIONS
Locations: Jamaica; Los Angeles, California, USA; New York City, New York, USA; Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CAST
George Romero (himself)
Alexandro Jodorowsky (himself)
John Waters (himself)
Perry Henzell (himself)
David Lynch (himself)
Richard O'Brien (himself)
Roger Ebert (himself)
J. Hoberman (himself)
Jonathan Rosenbaum (himself)
Lou Adler (himself)
Ben Barenholtz (himself)
Tim Curry (himself in archive footage)
Alan Douglas (himself)
Larry Jackson (himself)
Sal Piro (himself)
Bill Quigley (himself)
Mick Rock (himself)
Jim Sharman (himself in archive footage)
Bob Shaye (himself)
Peter Suschitzky (himself)
Seth Willenson (himself)
Chuck Zlatkin (himself)

PLOT SUMMARY

A history of the midnight movie phenomenon, including interviews with people who made them.

AVAILABILITY

France
Theatrical Distributors: Pretty Pictures

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

USA
Rating: TV-14

TIMELINE

2005
May
13: France - shown at the Cannes Film Festival

August
5: USA - theatrical release

September
16: Canada - shown at the Toronto Film Festival

October
5: Iceland - shown at the Reykjavik International Film Festival
15: Poland - shown at the Warsaw Film Festival
18: Austria - shown at the Vienna International Film Festival

November
20: Norway - shown at the Oslo International Film Festival

2006
January
26: France - shown at the Gerardmer Film Festival

April
15: Hong Kong - shown at the Hong Kong International Film Festival

May
4: Germany - theatrical release
29: Hungary - shown at the Alba Regia International Film Festival

June
21: France - theatrical release

July
15: Japan - theatrical release

LINKS

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
Asparagus (1979)
Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
The Blob (1958)
Divine Trash (1998)
Eraserhead (1977)
Freaks (1932)
Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
El topo (1970)

KEYWORDS

documentary, film history, interviews

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008