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ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE ILV WEIRD WEDNESDAY
Each Week, Wednesday at Midnight, ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE & I LUV VIDEO present the most extreme Exploitation Films from the 60s, 70s & 80s, featuring Weird Wednesday guru, Lars Nilsen. Best part? It's always FREE!
Weird Wednesday: THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEARated R; 88min; Director:Matt Cimber (1976)
Location: Alamo Downtown
A perfect illustration of the sort of freedom filmmakers could have in the arena of low-budget films. This ragingly weird movie about a waitress' psychological disintegration into castration mania could certainly have never been made in a Hollywood studio context and it's a gigantic anomaly even among drive-in films. Millie Perkins (THE SHOOTING, DIARY OF ANNE FRANK) plays the tormented woman whose repressed memories of childhood abuse begin to surface in some pretty undesirable ways, compelling her to pick up a razor and go after some of the men she sees on TV everyday. While it was marketed (when it was marketed at all) as a psychotic slasher film, it has as much REPULSION and PERSONA in it as PSYCHO. Written by Robert Thom (writer of WILD IN THE STREETS and Perkins' husband) and directed by the underrated Matt Cimber (THE BLACK SIX, HUNDRA). An unforgettable moviegoing experience. (Lars)
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