Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
A solid documentary chronicling the midnight movie phenomenon through interviews and archival footage. The subject matter—covering El Topo, Night of the Living Dead, Pink Flamingos, The Harder They Come, Eraserhead, and Rocky Horror—is inherently fascinating, giving the film strong thematic momentum. However, the documentary's structure is fairly conventional, following a talking-heads-plus-clips format without much visual distinction. Acting scores reflect the interview subjects rather than performers, most of whom are engaging but uneven. The cinematography is workmanlike documentary fare with no particular visual ambition. Novelty is modest—the subject is genuinely interesting but the treatment is standard retrospective filmmaking. The ending wraps up cleanly but without a particularly memorable or resonant conclusion.