If you love low-budget, controversial movies that aren't afraid to tackle taboos and be super weird, then you might be a fan of midnight movies and not even know it.In this article, we’re covering the best midnight movies that are sure to become your guilty pleasure. But first...What Are Midnight Movies?The midnight movie culture peaked in the early 1970s, when mainstream content was censored and followed specific narrative structures. To go around the limitations, urban art house theatres, especially the ones in New York, began screening low-budget movies—not as jazzy as the mainstream films but odd and unorthodox, exploring themes too bold for established studios and channels. Midnight movies began back in the 1950s, when local U.S. TV stations aired low-budget genre films late at night, backed with ironic commentary, to fill up the witching hour slots. Within two decades, these films opened a parallel stream of cinema for cinephiles who wanted more than just predictable, glamorous commercial content. Soon enough, the midnight movie screenings became a venue to explore topics and issues that the mainstream movies didn’t want to talk about, and that’s how the night became a silent partner in cinematic revolution.Best Midnight Movies of All Time1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Directed by Jim Sharman, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was one of the most popular midnight movies back in the ‘70s. The narrative follows a couple who take refuge from the rain in the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a cross-dressing mad scientist, on a very...
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