![]() ![]() Michael Weldon coined the term "psychotronic" to describe these movies, and his first book, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film (published in 1983), emerged as a road map for eager fans of weird movies who desperately needed some help deciding which movies were the weirdest. ![]() Ulmer, Russ Meyer, and Jess Franco create the outrageous images. ![]() In this alternative universe of moviemaking, stars such as Allison Hayes, Yvette Vickers, Mamie Van Doren, Vincent Price, Buster Crabbe, and John Carradine take the leading roles and directors such as Roger Corman, Ed Wood Jr., Mario Bava, Edgar G. The Son of Psychotronic Hits Bookstore Shelvesīiker gangs tripping on LSD, masked killers slashing nubile teenagers, bullet-shaped rocketships spewing sparks, cave women strutting to a fertility dance, mad scientists twisting dials and grinning maliciously, bikinied babes gyrating on the beach: this is the stuff of "psychotronic" cinema. ![]()
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