From filmmaker and journalist Mike Watt comes a new collection of essays focusing on more than 70 "underseen" films. These include "lost" films like Johnny Depp's directorial debut, "The Brave"; "Don's Plum", the film that Leo DiCaprio sued to hide from the public; Mauritzio Nichetti's sexy live-action/animated comedy "Volere ... Volare"; and "The Ghastly Love of Johnny X", the last 35mm black 'n white science fictional musical ever made! Selecting movies from all over the world, these are titles that every film lover needs to know about! (2nd Edition, revised for 2015.) If you’ve not read this book, then you’re not a film connoisseur. Do yourself a service and pick up Watt's latest effort. Do it now – and you might learn something. – Dr. Rhonda Baughman An essential guide to around 70 movies that are seldom discussed by other publications. Mike Watt exposes the reader to some wonderfully obscure and seldom seen films. Anyone into cinema should check this out. Granted, these films aren't for everyone, but Mike uncovers some gritty gems here, maybe gems that the actors involved didn't want anyone to see. With all the generic pablum being fed to mainstream audiences, this is a movie buffs wet dream. Written by a man who knows film. Check it out. 42nd Street Pete, Grindhouse Purgatory, 8mm Madness, and Gunfighters of the Drunken Master. Great reference guide for a lot of films that don't make it into reference guides. - Doug Waltz, Divine Exploitation Michael started young, coloring outside the Lines and now he's operating outside the Law of Moviedome. Congratulations! Bill Johnson (Texas Chain Saw Massacre II)read more
BIOGRAPHY Mike Watt is a writer, journalist and screenwriter. He has written for such publications as Fangoria, Film Threat, The Dark Side, the late Frederick Clarke's Cinefantastique, Femme Fatales and served as editor for the RAK Media Group's resurrection of Sirens of Cinema.
Through the production company, Happy C... loud Pictures, he has written and produced or directed the award-winning feature film The Resurrection Game, as well as Splatter Movie: The Director's Cut, A Feast of Flesh, Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation and the award-winning Razor Days.
He is the author of the novella collection Hot Splices, short fiction collection Phobophobia, the novels The Resurrection Game and Suicide Machine, and from McFarland Publishing: Fervid Filmmaking: 66 Cult Pictures of Vision, Verve and No Self-Restraint. In 2014, he launched the acclaimed Movie Outlaw book series, focusing on "underseen cinema". He is also the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Exploitation Nation.
Through Happy Cloud Media, LLC, he edits and publishes EXPLOITATION NATION, 42nd Street Pete's Grindhouse Purgatory Magazine. Recently, they published Pete's autobiography, "A Whole Bag of Crazy", and brought stuntman Gary Warner Kent's memoir "Shadows and Light" back into print. In 2019, they'll publish "Night of the Living Dead 1990: The Unseen Version" by Tom Savini.
In 2017, he edited the 40th Anniversary printing of Paul Schrader's TAXI DRIVER screenplay, featuring a new interview with Robert De Niro, published in 2018 by Gauntlet Press.read more
