Tim Dirks

Director Jim Sharman's and Fox's bizarre, satirical comedy-musical Shock Treatment (1981), a follow-up to The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), spoofed reality TV shows, studio execs, and mental health treatments. See Filmsite's (illustrated) review at: https://t.co/6sowYR2gsP https://t.co/JZJupoO2Lx

Director Abel Ferrara's low-budget, grindhouse, exploitational cult classic and urban NYC thriller Ms. 45 (1981) told about female rape-vengeance by a meek and mute young seamstress (named Thana); see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/x6godB38SS https://t.co/0ic676s8DO

Heavy Metal (1981) is an amazing, animated, exploitative pop-cult film; rebellious, influential, and dystopian, its sci-fi fantasy graphics in an adult-oriented story told about an evil green-glowing orb (the Loc-Nar); see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/K2yhjI257t https://t.co/EofnfEtq9b

Director Robert Zemeckis' raucous, bawdy and satirical R-rated black comedy Used Cars (1980) hilariously portrayed the rivalry and nasty competition between two twins - used car lot owners with lots facing each other; see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/mTXTq00o3C https://t.co/7TEbNLIvsh

Director George Miller's low-budget, independent, post-nuclear, action-adventure cult favorite Mad Max (1979, Australia) was about a lone cop patrolling the dystopian, outback countryside ruled by maniacal bike gangs; see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/oIYi0YXlBQ https://t.co/eN7ahUbazy

In the successful low-budget, anarchic buddy comedy Up in Smoke (1978) - the late 1970s 'drug humor flick' was filled with funny stoner incidents and dialogue between potheads Pedro (Cheech Marin) and Stoner (Tommy Chong); Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/2QAaIyIad8 https://t.co/5ha0PhyzsY

Director John De Bello's genre-spoof comedy - the low-budget, cheesy, crude and silly Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978) was "so-bad-it's-good"; about efforts of incompetent authorities to fight off the red invaders - see Filmsite's (illustrated) review https://t.co/uqBpetB77I https://t.co/GRIvtpditZ

Director Roger Vadim's psychedelic cult classic Barbarella (1968) was an infamous sci-fi fantasy-comedy and sexual satire about the space exploits of a female adventuress (Jane Fonda) in the 41st C.; see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/XtqY6qjs9T https://t.co/VEJAsW3i9A

Director Roman Polanski's offbeat horror comedy The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) told about two odd and hapless vampire hunters in mid-1800s Transylvania who attempted to destroy an undead Count and rescue a maiden; see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/BsVa2rlINN https://t.co/WYCuHx0Egw

Director Philippe De Broca's cult classic sleeper King of Hearts (1966) was a satirical, quirky anti-war fable set at the end of WWI about the insanity of war - see Filmsite's (illustrated) review at: https://t.co/DaFh4oqO9v https://t.co/k6pcSvrRtM

Narrator/director Bruce Brown's ultimate, low-budget surfing-sport documentary-travelogue The Endless Summer (1966), with music from the surf-rock group The Sandals, remains a time capsule from over 60 years ago; see Filmsite's review (illustrated) at: https://t.co/bbO2NNcPGH https://t.co/G2LFxWTvuH

Writer-director Michelangelo Antonioni's taut, voyeuristic and provocative murder mystery Blow-Up (1966) became one of the best films about watching and making movies (a succession of still frames or images); see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/oknNh9pHhn https://t.co/zfjv1ca7Z6

Director Herk Harvey's disturbing, low-budget independent horror film was this spooky and haunting cult zombie classic with many effective and foreboding scenes of stylistic terror. See Filmsite's detailed (illustrated) review at: https://t.co/8KXo3uRqgX https://t.co/f8dw4pLNMa

You might enjoy producer/director Roger Corman's low-budget horror film and black comedy The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), not the musical but the original, about a flower shop employee and his always-hungry plant Audrey Jr. See Filmsite's lengthy review: https://t.co/Wd2cUdloI9 https://t.co/u5tBodTKxq

Eccentric, no-talent director Edward Wood Jr.'s notorious sci-fi zombie horror film Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957/1959) was a campy, hilarious cult movie about invading aliens in Southern Cal. who animated the dead; see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/dzEgXAK8Cs https://t.co/u4BAK09onA

Director-producer Roger Corman's comedic-horror cult classic A Bucket of Blood (1959) told about a nerdy busboy in a 50s beatnik cafe who became a serial killer by claiming plaster covered murdered beings were art-works. See Filmsite's detailed review at: https://t.co/DFGB9XevS2 https://t.co/Ma3VI7YXj0

Director Andre de Toth's successful Technicolored mystery-horror film House of Wax (1953) was also a 3-D hit and cult classic that established Vincent Price forever as the quintessential horror villain. See Filmsite's detailed, illustrated review: https://t.co/Y3BBHMczUj https://t.co/4P6dlZnMQy