Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

Enjoyable, if blandly celebratory.

Samuels' own enjoyment for midnighters comes through in his funky visual design -- visually spunky for a clips-and-talking-heads film -- and in the energetic editing.

It's a celebration of cinema-going as a 'ritual experience or trip', a communal adventure with no real equivalent in the exquisitely atomised YouTubeverse.

A documentary about challenging and outrageous films should offer something more provocative than counter-culture filmmakers congratulating themselves on a job well done.

In this affectionate glimpse into those countercultural times, filmmaker Stuart Samuels has compiled an engaging distillation of those nocturnal filmic emissions.

Film buff essential.
Bring back midnight movies.
We need 'em.

Tells the amazing story of how Midnight Movies, cult films, started.

An extremely interesting film.

For any movie nut who craves their exhibition history, this is a must see documentary.

Samuels' film both contextualises and celebrates these strange slices of subversive counter-culture