Movies: Rockets Redglare

A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune....

A troubled young woman hooks up with a money-crazed televangelist and becomes a rich, heavy-metal Christian rock star....

A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes bodyguard/drug dealer of Sid Vicious and Jean Michel Basquiat, as well as a talented stand-up comic and character ...

This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions....

P.K., a former movie star now reduced to working as a stripper in a Las Vegas nightclub, is desperate for a comeback, and thinks she could make one if she could only get a big-name star to appear in a movie with her. She relates all these problems, a...

A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war....

On October 12th, 1978, New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a young woman, slumped under the bathroom sink in a hotel room. She was Nancy Spungen, an ex-prostitute, sometimes stripper, heroin addict, and girlfriend of Sex Pistols' bassist ...

Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform in drag....

A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents....

A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead....

A Super-8 movie based on the case of grandmother murderess Velma Barfield who was executed for murdering her husband. It was described by Tessa Hughes-Freeland in "The Underground Film Bulletin #4" as "A murderess's last testament, explicating her vi...

In Nick Zedd's mock docu-drama Police State, he puts his own body on the line to illustrate his belief that “freedom is an illusion.” A black comedy-satire / protest film featuring Rockets Redglare....

Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines b...

A Vermont farmer searches New York City for his dream girl, with his gay neighbor as his guide....