Midnight Movies

When a cinema manager in New York put a note on his box office with the inscription “El Topo' at midnight” in 1970, a cult phenomenon began that has stood the test of time in our cinemas to this day: The Midnight Movies. The idea of showing films at midnight was nothing new. Back in the 1930s, individual cinemas offered B-movie and horror programs late at night. Since the 1970s, however, the popularity of midnight movies has grown ever more rapidly. The task of the cinema owners was to find unusual films. The works had to shock in some way, only then would people talk about them. They had to break through boundaries - those of taste, the sexual norm, the legal rules. Like Tod Browning's “Freaks” or Richard O'Brien's “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”. Too trashy for the normal program, many of the B-movies became cult films over time!