El Topo: Jodorowsky and the Birth of the Midnight Movie

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000

There is a specific kind of film that only exists because someone decided ordinary screening hours were negotiable. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo (1970) is the origin point of that idea. Before it, “midnight movie” meant a cheap horror double bill for insomniac teenagers. After it, midnight became a venue — a place where a film could gather a congregation instead of an audience, one week at a time, on word of mouth alone. More than fifty years on, the film that started the ritual remains the strangest thing to have ever done it.

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El Topo: Jodorowsky and the Birth of the Midnight Movie