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The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Season 1

6 episodes Premiered Aug 5, 1988 Updated Oct 5, 2026

Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

John Waters

Aug 5, 1988

The Pope of Trash is captured at the height of his popularity with the surprise mainstream hit Hairspray. Most of the contributors to Waters' underground Baltimore-based film colle

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Herschell Gordon Lewis

Aug 19, 1988

Drive-In pioneer Lewis is interviewed at a country club in Florida where he details his beginnings in nudie cuties, his successful partnership with Dave Friedman which resulted in

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Ray Dennis Steckler

Aug 12, 1988

The Las Vegas skyline provides a glittering backdrop for the story of no-budget auteur Steckler, whose improvisational style fueled the creation Rat Fink a Boo Boo, Wild Guitar, Th

S1·E4 Core

Ted V. Mikels

Aug 26, 1988

The eccentric Las Vegas-based filmmaker behind The Corpse Grinders, The Astro-Zombies, and The Doll Squad frolics around the desert playing an accordion and performing a ventriloqu

S1·E5 Mytharc

Russ Meyer

Sep 9, 1988

American independent filmmaker and lover of cleavage Russ Meyer recounts his groundbreaking early sexploitation melodramas, his scandalous 20th Century Fox Production Beyond the Va

S1·E6 Mytharc

Sam Raimi

Sep 2, 1988

An early profile of the filmmaker, fresh off Evil Dead II and ready to begin production of Darkman for Universal. Raimi and his collaborators Scott Spiegel, Rob Tapert and Bruce Ca