John Waters' "Extremely Strange" DVD Favourites

Sins of the Fleshapoids (1965), Mike Kuchar, director: Kuchar and his brother George are “very, very famous underground filmmakers. They started making 8mm crackpot melodramas in their mother’s Bronx apartment with kind of stolen thrift-shop costumes and soundtracks lifted from Hollywood movies and they’re really great…. Sins of the Fleshapoids really shows what an underground movie was…. There is a close-up of an unflushed toilet with ridiculous soundtrack music. They were the first to do vulgarity in an almost opera style.”

Baadasssss! (2003), Mario Van Peebles,...