Mine are Eating Raoul and most of John Waters. Female Trouble is probably my fav.
:-D I really can't help but love Indian Summer. And how can anyone ever forget this one:
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Meatballs
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camp not camp.
:roll:
I know. It was a riff off of the Barry Lyndon thread.
I think Wet Hot American Summer walks the line between camp and camp, doesn't it?
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Can't be beat
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camp
adams family values
heavyweights
Evil Dead...it's just bursting with camping goodness
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Edit: I know what "camp" means...i deserve a cookie
Some of you don't seem to know what "camp" means.
When I hear "camp," Batman (1966) comes to mind, as does 8 Women.
What does it means?
Quote from: dictionary.comhaving deliberately artificial, vulgar, banal, or affectedly humorous qualities or style
A World Apart has it right (I see Evil Dead as campy goodness anyway -- most horror tries to toe the line between camp and "scary" and doesn't do too well), as does Cinephile (his, perhaps not so coincidentally, fits both definitions), and hacksparrow obviously knows what the deal is. It's like Pubrick said:
Quote from: Pubrickcamp not camp
Do you see?
"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."
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I am laughing so hard at myself. It's camp, not camp.
I can be so blonde....
Camp classics:
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Camp classic:
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Anyone interested should read "Notes on 'Camp'" from:
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A movie doesn't HAVE to be bad to qualify as 'camp,' but many bad movies work better as camp than they do as "themselves." There is plenty of camp in Tarantino, de Palma, Sam Fuller... anything overstuffed, overheated, exaggerated to the point of absurdity. There is, by the same token, plenty of camp in Titanic.
Female Trouble is great, great, great. John Waters's best movie. 8 Women is sort of camp, so far as intentional camp counts.
Sontag claims camp only works when something is other than it intends to be. I don't know that I entirely agree with that. But when someone says "camp movie," these are the ones that come to mind:
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and...
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According to the dictionary, camp is something so outrageously artificial, affected, inappropriate or out-of-date as to be considered amusing.
By that definition, Mommie Dearest imminently qualifies. It was originally released as a straight, dramatic film, but the reviews were so bad that Paramount re-released it as a camp film, hoping it could be the next Rocky Horror.
Island of Dr. Moureau, with Brando camping it up, is a camp classic (and it also features Val Kilmer aping Brando, adding another layer of weirdness).
For me, Raquel Welch and Mae West epitomize camp. Put them together, and you have Camp with a capital C. In Myra Breckinridge, they did work together, and the end result speaks for itseld. Mae West appeared in Sextette, a truly campy film. I am fond of The Wild Party, with Racquel Welch singing and dancing in a story loosely (very loosely) based on the Fatty Arbuckle scandal. The film also features Perry King and James Coco, and was directed by James Ivory (his only camp film). It just so happens that Myra and Wild Party are both out on DVD now.
the cheerleaders, revenge of the cheerleaders, and the swinging cheerleaders
don't go in the house
horror hotel
anything by ed wood
Quote from: godardianFemale Trouble is great, great, great. John Waters's best movie.
that's a pretty bold statement. while i love female trouble as much as i do, i definitely don't think it's his best. it kind of loses its edge once divine's face gets mangled. i prefer pink flamingos (though i could do without the chicken fucking scene, the singing asshole scene, and the mother-son blowjob scene).
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whatever happened to baby jane
beautiful choices. i will add to the list...
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david lynch has his campy moments (those are my favorite parts of his movies). especially in...
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Two obvious ones:
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And who decided this is a picture thread?
hedwig has its campy MOMENTS, but, like wild at heart, i wouldn't exactly classify it as a camp film.
how about this one? this is one of my favorites...
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Quote from: OnomatopitaSome of you don't seem to know what "camp" means.
When I hear "camp," 8 Women comes to mind.
he said 'camp'. i believe you're thinking of 'crap'.
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david lynch has his campy moments (those are my favorite parts of his movies)
..yeah taz..i agree..wild at heart is pure camp...and twin peaks (tv) series falls into this also....
everything said in this scene in wild at heart is brilliant(pure camp)..
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Quote from: themodernage02Quote from: OnomatopitaSome of you don't seem to know what "camp" means.
When I hear "camp," 8 Women comes to mind.
he said 'camp'. i believe you're thinking of 'crap'.
I would be, except for the fact that 8 Women is a great movie. Now, Swimming Pool, OTOH, yes, I do believe that would be crap. :-D
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That's unnecessary, IMHO.
*Laughs Out Loud*
Am I the only one who reads those two as "Otto" and "I'm Ho"?
On topic:
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Quote from: bonanzatazQuote from: godardianFemale Trouble is great, great, great. John Waters's best movie.
Quote from: that's a pretty bold statement. while i love female trouble as much as i do, i definitely don't think it's his best. it kind of loses its edge once divine's face gets mangled. i prefer pink flamingos (though i could do without the chicken fucking scene, the singing asshole scene, and the mother-son blowjob scene). [/quote
Hey, them's fightin words. FT is the shit. And who in the world would want PF without the singing asshole scene?? You are no Waters fan, my friend. And, YES! I'm the one who trashed Apocalypse Now. :twisted:
Long-Lost Final Film by Ed Wood Rediscovered
Considered the worst film maker of all time, Ed Wood won a cult following after his death and now fans can see his long-lost last film "Necromania," a work some say shows he was so bad that he was brilliant.
But it's not for the faint-hearted. The 1971 movie is a porn film documenting the sexual enlightenment of a young couple at the hands of a coven of witches.
The much maligned creator of enduring cult classics such as "Bride of the Monster," Wood was himself the subject of Tim Burton's 1994 biopic, the lead role played by Johnny Depp .
That film shows the making of Wood's most famous film -- "Plan 9 From Outer Space" from 1956 -- in which actors screw up their lines and "special effects" include pie tins for flying saucers.
"Necromania" -- the last film Wood directed -- was filmed over two or three days with a budget of no more than $7,000 and the only copies went missing soon after it was made. The movie tells the story of Danny and Shirley, a young couple who visit the mysterious Madame Heles for help with their flagging sex life. The lessons they are taught involve skulls, spells and sex in a coffin.
Rudolph Grey, author of a biography of the director, and a fellow Ed Wood enthusiast, movie distributor Alexander Kogan, unearthed "Necromania" in a warehouse in Los Angeles after more than 15 years of detective work.
A year ago they contacted the editors of a pornography Web site called Fleshbot, which this week will start selling the DVD by mail order for $19.99.
"I knew of its existence since about 1982 and it intrigued me because it was supposedly one of the last feature movies that Ed Wood did, so naturally I wanted to see it," said Grey.
At one point Grey and Kogan were frustrated to be told the only person who might know the film's whereabouts was in jail -- as a result of a porn bust in Florida.
They waited until he got out and resumed the search, striking gold in 2001.
PURE GENIUS?
"This is something more than just porn," said Fredrik Carlstrom, executive producer of the DVD featuring two versions of the film, one soft core, the other more explicit.
"This is an old film. It's in the '70s, they're hairy, they don't look the way we are used to now," Carlstrom said.
"It has a story, it has ambition ... It's like all his films, like anything that's so bad it becomes good. Or maybe it's pure genius. That's the appeal of Ed Wood."
Struggling to find backers for more mainstream work, Wood turned to smut in the 1960s, making a string of films and "loops" -- short porn flicks shown in coin-operated booths -- up until his death in 1978.
Grey, author of the biography "Nightmare of Ecstasy," said those who dismiss him as naive and talentless are plain wrong.
"These movies seem to exist in another plain of existence where nobody pays any attention to them whatsoever, and that must have been frustrating to Ed Wood," Grey said.
He says "Necromania" displays Wood's wit and style and he points to a scene where the main character Danny is struggling to untangle a pair of red pajama bottoms to put them on.
"The guy's fumbling for about 15 seconds and he's starting to laugh -- the actor, he can't get the pajama bottoms on and he's laughing," Grey says. "He could have cut that out but Ed Wood left that in intentionally. He was having some fun."