7.3/1040 votes#1 - John Waters
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/5/1988
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 collective "Dreamland Productions" are interviewed, including one of Divine's final interviews.
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7.7/1027 votes#2 - Herschell Gordon Lewis
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/19/1988
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 the Blood Trilogy (Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs and Color Me Blood Red), and a late-life career reappraisal where a new cult of devoted followers crowned him the “Godfather of Gore.”
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7.8/1017 votes#3 - Ray Dennis Steckler
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/12/1988
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, The Thrill Killers and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Decided to Stop Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.
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7.6/1010 votes#4 - Ted V. Mikels
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/26/1988
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 ventriloquist act while regaling Jonathan Ross with stories of cinematic courage and communal living in a Los Angeles "castle" full of exotic women.
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7.0/1037 votes#5 - Russ Meyer
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/1988
American independent filmmaker and lover of cleavage Russ Meyer recounts his groundbreaking early sexploitation melodramas, his scandalous 20th Century Fox Production Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and his aborted Sex Pistols project.
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8.0/1031 votes#6 - Sam Raimi
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/2/1988
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 Campbell discuss early Super-8 productions, their breakthrough horror film Evil Dead and their compromised sophomore effort Crimewave.
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The Best Episodes of The Incredibly Strange Film Show Season 1
Every episode of The Incredibly Strange Film Show Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Incredibly Strange Film Show Season 1!
A series of documentaries focusing on the world of psychotronic movies; focusing on the lives of filmakers such as Hershell Gordon Lewis, Saim Raimi, Doris...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"John Waters" is the best rated episode of "The Incredibly Strange Film Show" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/5/1988. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Herschell Gordon Lewis".