A landmark of cult film writing, Incredibly Strange Films is RE/Search’s gloriously unruly guide to the films and filmmakers largely ignored by mainstream film criticism. Published in 1986, it explores exploitation, sexploitation, gore, mondo, biker, beach party, women-in-prison, LSD, and juvenile delinquent films with genuine curiosity and affection.
 
Featuring interviews with filmmakers including Russ Meyer (one of my all-time favourite directors), Herschell Gordon Lewis, Larry Cohen, Doris Wishman, David F. Friedman, Ray Dennis Steckler, and Ted V. Mikels, alongside essays on films such as The Wizard of Gore, God Told Me To, Blast of Silence, and Spider Baby.
 
Packed with biographies, filmographies, genre overviews, recommended-film lists, quotations, an A–Z of film personalities, synopses, a bibliography, an index, and 172 photographs, the book is part film guide, part oral history, and part love letter to the strange and overlooked. It also helped bring hundreds of neglected films back into circulation, making it an essential piece of cult cinema history.