"Zombies in the basement, man." Welcome to The Infestation. The dead have been up and about for four years. After the screaming stopped, people got used to them. Now they're an everyday nuisance. Zombies and taxes. One night, burned-out detective Jim Campbell gets a million-dollar offer to find a cure for The Infestation. Throwing himself into the job, he uncovers more than just the walking dead. Before long, he's dragged a discredited scientist and a pair of bickering exterminators along for the ride. But even if they're all killed, odds are, they'll be back on their feet in no time.

For fervid or feverish film professionals and buffs, there is a term—“Kitchen Sink movies”—referring to films that take severe-angle turns at unexpected moments, where a filmmaker will borrow from across the artistic spectrum to create a wild, disorienting ride. They are what this book is about. Throwing marketing reports and box-office projections to the wind, the writer-director-producers conjure a whirl of ideas, of images, of themes or plots, that inexplicably come together despite conventional reason. Almost always cult films, these movies rarely succeed in their first run. Indeed, some of the very best remain unknown to mainstream audiences. This volume provides in-depth examinations of 66 of these cultural oddities, from such disparate films as La Morte en direct, The Final Programme, and Head to lesser known independents like The Prodigy, Land of College Prophets, and Scrapbook. Putting these unusual films into a cultural context promotes an under appreciated but fascinating facet of movie-making.

The tour journal eliminated the rock critic middle man and created a direct, living and breathing, multiple-perspective story-telling that couldn't have been done by a newspaper, magazine, radio or television. "A scathing take on Lollapalooza." Sam Pratt - New York Post

Introduction by Mike Watt (bassist extraordinaire) Filmmaker. Journalist. Screnwriter. Film geek. Irrepressible curmudgeon. He's been called "insightful," "enlightening" and "highly entertaining." Academy Award Winner(tm) Jon Voight called him "a very dangerous man." He's also been called "judgmental," and an "egomaniacal monster"-and at least one internet-user accused him of being a criminal. Now, for your reading delight and amusement, five years worth of Watt's articles, essays and random thoughts, ripped from his online and print columns "Random Acts of Mike Watt" and "The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth," are collected for the first time in this handsome thing made of actual paper. And you can decide for yourself which of those above descriptions are true and what other adjectives should be applied to him. (We'd like to recommend "pluperfect," "opaque" and "low sodium.")

MOVIE OUTLAW: THE PREQUEL is a revamped, beefed-up, recharged republishing of what was previously-known as "Fervid Filmmaking". Featuring 70 "underseen" films including "Keep Off My Grass", "Dr. Caligari", "Forbidden Zone", "Coonskin", "Head", "The World's Greatest Sinner", "Psychos in Love" and many more. Also features a rare interview with "Dr. Caligari" director Stephen Sayadian. A new addition to the acclaimed MOVIE OUTLAW series. Bigger, better - CHEAPER!

The only thing we have to fear, we're told, is fear itself.In Phobophobia, the first fiction collection fromaward-winning screenwriter and journalist Mike Watt,ordinary people going through everyday events aresubjected to nightmares beyond their imagining.In Phobophobia, nothing is what it seems ...-- Not a classic cherry red Mustang...-- Not a run-of-the-mill art exhibit...-- Not a Valentine's Day gift...-- Not even Christmas Morning..."There is a twisted skein of darkness running throughall of Mike's work..."-- Amber Benson (author of Death's Daughter)from her introduction.

Filmmaker and journalist Mike Watt brings another entry into the beloved, revered, and downright worshipped Movie Outlaw collection. Brand new collection of essays focusing on another 50 "undeservedly underseen" films, including:Alex de la Iglesia's "Accion Mutante"; French gangster romp "Borsalino"; Philippe de Broca's adaptation of "Le Bossu"; Ralph Bakshi's "Heavy Traffic"; Charles Swenson's Down and Dirty Duck, Richard Williams' "The Thief and the Cobbler"; Eric Stanze's "Scrapbook"; the David Bowie WWII drama "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"; the marvelously unpleasant "The Sinful Dwarf"; learn what the story is in "Lovers and Other Strangers"; the mind-bending "Performance"; the joyous "Muppets Most Wanted"; the mysterious Jon Voight-starring "Legend of Simon Conjurer"; the ideal Scream Queen film "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama"; the "Rocky Horror sequel/equal" "Shock Treatment"; Roman Polanski's controversial "lost" film "What?"; the all-star pirate adventure "Yellowbeard"; and many, many more!This volume also boasts interviews with Academy Award Winner Jon Voight and an all-new interview with legendary director and animator Ralph Bakshi!

Two nerdy college coeds get the best of a popular sorority when they are granted a wish by the seductive demons that run a local bowling alley. Then the wish goes horribly, horribly wrong... The companion screenplay to the gory, sexy movie from Happy Cloud Pictures, illustrated with over a hundred exclusive stills and behind-the-scenes photos from the production.

The how-did-you-live-without-it? graphic tie-in to the award- winning independent film from Happy Cloud Pictures, The Resurrection Game! Illustrated by six (count 'em!) different artists, The Dead Life is the comic book jam to end all marketing trends! Brought to you by your dead-sexy host, Necro-Phil, here's a little peek at what life will be like after the zombies arrive. Life goes on and nothing will stand away in the hard-working American dream of making a buck using glorious, glorious violence!

Europa... her name means "Heaven's Smile and Earth's Cry." She was one of His favorite angels, and she's been sent to us. Her mission is to "minister to the sick," to help those of us who truly need it. Those of us who are beyond human help. But her mission will not be easy. The First of the Fallen is at her side, has taken the form of a woman and the taunting name of "Patience." And she wants Europa to see us as she does: a mistake. From award-winning artist Michael Apice and writer Mike Watt comes the first in a series of tales dealing with redemption, damnation and eternal salvation. What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be an angel?