![]() ![]() But there’s a common quality among them: a sense of passion or earnestness, that the filmmakers believed in what they were doing even if they weren’t doing it especially competently. All these films are weird in their own way and, in the estimation of some, badly made. This list is focused on horror movies that fall under this umbrella. ![]() It’s not surprising that midnight movies became popular in their own right, especially because the term is so widely encompassing, and has since basically become a synonym for a B movie or cult film. But of course, other times, these sorts of flicks were exactly what people were looking for. Sometimes, midnight movies had nowhere else to play because no one wanted to see them, or a variety of factors had prevented them from establishing a wide audience. Typically, films shown during the late-night timeslot were not for mainstream sensibilities and thus veered in whatever direction the filmmakers wanted or accidentally stumbled in, playing with genre, taste, sexual or violent content, technical approach, whatever. The showing of “midnight movies,” a term and practice that originated in the 1950s but came to fruition in the 1970s, is a fond tradition celebrating bizarro genre film. ![]()
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