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George Kuchar (August 31, 1942 – September 6, 2011) and his twin brother Mike began making films as teenagers in the 1950s, with 8mm film being their weapon of choice. After shocking their local amateur filmmaking club with their over-the-top stories of lust and angst, they became stars of the NYC underground scene in the 1960s, befriending the likes of Jonas Mekas and Jack Smith. Always working with the constraints of minuscule budgets and nonprofessional actors, the Kuchar’s inspiration comes from classic Hollywood melodrama. Their cheaply made pictures, rather than being held back by lack of funds, blossomed in the shackles of poverty; the garish colors of the cheap makeup and sets were perfectly complemented by the bold color range afforded by Kodachrome reversal stock. The wild (and sometimes the inverse of wild) acting, use of stock music, lack of synch sound, hyperbolic narration, and primitive special effects all combined to make tiny gems unlike anything seen before or since. The Kuchars are cited as major influences by such filmmakers as John Waters, Todd Solondz, and David Lynch.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1942-08-31
- event Death Date 2011-09-06
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 0.9
- info Birth Place New York, New York
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by George Kuchar
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Web of Fire
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Arizona Byways
2001-01-01
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The Warming of the Hell House
1990-01-01
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Foto Spread
1991-01-01
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Christmas 85
1985-12-25
0
Kiss of the Veggie Vixen
1990-01-02
0
All Smiles and Sadness
1999-01-01
0
The Shadow Glass
1976-01-01
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River Windows
1966-01-01
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Andy Warhol's Unfinished Symphony
1975-01-01
0
George and Mike Kuchar
1977-01-01
0
A Night with Gilda Peck
1974-01-01
7
The Craven Sluck
1967-12-21
5.6
Sins of the Fleshapoids
1965-01-04
7
Brakhage
1998-09-17
5.7
I, an Actress
1977-12-09
0
(ir)reverence
2013-04-10
5.3
Wild Night in El Reno
1977-09-06
0
Sherman Acres
1992-01-01
1
Nudes: A Sketchbook
1974-01-01
6.1
Taboo: The Single and the LP
1980-01-01
0
Anita Needs Me
1964-03-11
0
George Kuchar: An Interview
2005-01-01
0
Return to the House of Pain
1988-01-01
2
Weather Diary 1
1986-01-01
0
Galaxie
1966-09-03
4.7
Born of the Wind
1964-03-04
0
Vault of Vapors
2009-01-01
0
The Butchered Beefcake
2011-01-01
0
The Nutrient Express
2010-01-01
0
Tummy Ache Times
2010-01-01
0
Calorie Cottage
2010-01-01
0
Delectable Destinations
2010-01-01
0
Vintage Visits
2010-01-01
0
Hitchcocked!
2006-08-11
0
Underground New York
1968-01-01
0
The Unclean
1967-08-12
4.8
Weather Diary 3
1988-01-01
5.6
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
2013-03-09
6.1
The Mongreloid
1978-09-21
0
George
1976-01-01
6
Confessions
1972-03-15
1
Boggy Depot
1973-01-01
6.8
Sparkle's Tavern
1985-06-01
0
East by Southwest
2
True Blue and Dreamy
1974-01-01
1
Peed Into the Wind
1972-01-01
0
Eat My Makeup!
2010-04-10
3
Sunset After Dark
1996-01-01
0
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987-01-01
2
Beaver Fever
1974-01-01
0
Wieners and Buns Musical
1972-05-12
6
Electrocute Your Stars
2004-01-01
0
365 Day Project
2007-12-31
0
Lust for Ecstasy
1964-03-04
0
Confessions of Babette
1963-01-01
0
The Slasher
1958-01-01
0
Night of the Bomb
1962-01-01
7
George Kuchar: The Comedy of the Underground
1983-04-01
4.8
Hold Me While I'm Naked
1966-04-23
7.3
Divine Trash
2000-03-31
8
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986-02-22
6.6
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007-04-11
0
Swamp
1990-01-01
7
It Came from Kuchar
2009-09-22
0
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006-01-01
0
Cellar Sinema
1994-01-01
6
A Passage to Wetness
1990-01-01
0
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
1989-01-01
8
Gastronomic Getaway
1991-01-01
0
Rainy Season
1987-11-19
0
Indian Summer
1991-01-01
0
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
1989-01-01
0
Migration of the Blubberoids
1989-01-01
0
Portrait of Ramona
1971-01-01
4.9
Tootsies in Autumn
1963-09-23
5
The Secret of Wendel Samson
1966-07-01
0
Urchins of Ungawa
1994-01-01
0
The Creeping Crimson
1987-10-31
0
Visitation Rites
2003-01-01
0
Chigger Country
1999-01-01
0
3 Stories About Evil
2008-03-26
0
Chili Line Stops Here
1989-01-01
0
Precious Products
1989-01-01
0
Oh Hi Anne
2017-01-01
0
Weather Watch
1991-01-01
0
That Woman
2018-08-06
0
Bill's Hat
1967-01-01
0
Chronicles
1969-01-01
0
Portrait of Genie
2008-01-01
5
Secrets of the Shadow World
1999-08-31
0
Webtide
2010-01-01
0
Water Sports
2007-01-01
0
Encyclopedia of the Blessed
1968-01-01
0
Cult of the Cubicles
1987-01-01
0
500 Millibars to Ecstasy
1989-01-01
0
Burnout
2003-01-01
0
The Kingdom By The Sea
2002-01-01
6
Scarlet Droppings
1991-08-01
0
Point 'n Shoot
1989-01-01
0
Award
1992-01-01
0
Uncle Evil
1996-01-01
0
Snap 'n Snatch
1990-01-01
0
Rocky Interlude
1990-01-01
0
Supercell
2004-01-01
0
Song of the Whoopee Wind
2005-01-01
0
The Inmate
1997-01-01
10
Metropolitan Monologues
2000-01-01
0
The Hairy Horror
2009-01-01
6.6
Screamplay
1985-11-01
6.4
Thundercrack!
1975-12-29
0
Coven of the Heathenites
2008-01-01
0
Law of Desire
1997-01-01
0
Going Nowhere
1992-01-01
0
Season of Sorrow
1996-01-01
0
Xmas 1987 New Years
1988-01-01
0
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
1998-01-01
5
Bongwater
1998-04-18
0
Xmas 1986
1986-12-25
2
Maggots and Men
2009-06-21
0
Tropical Vulture
movie_edit Directing
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A WOMAN DISTRESSED
1962-01-01
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Impaction of the Igneous
1992-01-01
0
Motel Capri
1985-01-01
0
One Night a Week
1978-01-01
0
The Power of the Press
1979-01-01
0
Thundercrack!
1975-12-29
0
Hold Me While I'm Naked
1966-04-23
0
I, an Actress
1977-12-09
0
The Devil's Cleavage
1975-11-28
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The Devil's Cleavage
1975-11-28
0
The Devil's Cleavage
1975-11-28
0
The Devil's Cleavage
1975-11-28
0
The Devil's Cleavage
1975-11-28
0
Wild Night in El Reno
1977-09-06
0
Eclipse of the Sun Virgin
1967-05-04
0
Anita Needs Me
1964-03-11
0
Urchins of Ungawa
1994-01-01
0
The Cage of Nicholas
1994-01-01
0
Cattle Mutilation
1983-01-01
0
Pagan Rhapsody
1970-02-28
0
Tales of the Twilight Typist
1994-01-01
0
Prescription in Blue
1978-11-01
0
Yolanda
1981-07-01
0
The Mongreloid
1978-09-21
0
Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
1961-01-01
0
Ascension of the Demonoids
1985-01-01
0
George Kuchar: An Interview
2005-01-01
0
Unstrap Me
1968-11-20
0
Vermin of the Vortex
1996-01-01
0
Weather Diary 1
1986-01-01
0
Society Slut
1995-01-01
0
I Was a Teenage Rumpot
1960-01-01
0
We, the Normal
1988-01-01
0
Lingo of the Lost
2010-01-01
0
Orphans of the Cosmos
2008-01-01
0
Empire of Evil
2011-01-01
0
Forever and Always
1978-09-21
0
Symphony for a Sinner
1978-09-21
0
Symphony for a Sinner
1978-09-21
0
A Reason to Live
1976-01-01
0
Weather Diary 3
1988-01-01
0
Holidaze, 1994
1994-12-31
0
Holidaze, 1994
1994-12-31
0
Holidaze, 1994
1994-12-31
0
Color Me Lurid
1966-01-10
0
Cyclone Alley Ceramics
2000-01-01
0
Vault of Vapors
2009-01-01
0
The Nutrient Express
2010-01-01
0
Calorie Cottage
2010-01-01
0
Delectable Destinations
2010-01-01
0
Vintage Visits
2010-01-01
0
The Butchered Beefcake
2011-01-01
0
Room 666
2010-01-01
0
Tummy Ache Times
2010-01-01
0
Pilgrimage
1992-01-01
0
Oasis of the Pharaohs
1997-01-01
0
Nirvana of the Nebbishites
1994-01-01
0
The Fall of the House of Yasmin
1991-01-01
0
Return to the House of Pain
1988-01-01
0
The Tower of the Astro-Cyclops
1994-01-01
0
Celebrity Casino
2009-01-01
0
Mellow Magic
2009-01-01
0
Burrito Bay
2009-01-01
0
Acid Redux
2009-01-01
0
Jamboree Journey
2009-01-01
0
Pictographic Piles
2008-01-01
0
The Unmentionables
2009-01-01
0
The Crypt of Frankenstein
2008-01-01
0
January Jubilee
2008-01-01
0
Atrium of the Omni-Orb
2008-01-01
0
Art Space
2009-01-01
0
X MASS
2008-01-01
0
Eye on the Sky
2008-01-01
0
FlashBulb Alley
2008-01-01
0
Spectral Delivery
2008-01-01
0
Color Me Shameless
1967-12-29
0
I Was a Teenage Serial Killer
1993-10-01
0
Back to Nature
1976-01-01
0
Back to Nature
1976-01-01
0
Weather Diary 5
1989-01-01
0
Weather Diary 5
1989-01-01
0
Route 666
1994-01-01
0
Route 666
1994-01-01
0
The Asphalt Ribbon
1977-01-01
0
Video Album 5: The Thursday People
1987-01-01
0
Weather Diary 6
1990-01-01
0
The Nocturnal Immaculation
1980-01-01
0
Every Dog Has Its Day
1998-06-12
0
The X-People
1984-01-01
0
Knocturne
1968-01-01
0
Arizona Byways
2001-01-01
0
The Warming of the Hell House
1990-01-01
0
Love Me True
1989-01-01
0
Sylvia’s Promise
1962-01-01
0
Corruption of the Damned
1965-05-29
0
The Slasher
1958-01-01
0
The Naked and the Nude
1957-01-01
0
The Thief and the Stripper
1959-01-01
0
Night of the Bomb
1962-01-01
0
Lust for Ecstasy
1964-03-04
0
Lovers of Eternity
1964-01-01
0
Foto Spread
1991-01-01
0
The Web of Doctor Satan
1989-01-01
0
The Desperate and The Deep
1975-01-01
0
Saga of Magda
0
Christmas 85
1985-12-25
0
Dialogue of the Devil Dolls
1991-01-01
0
Vile Cargo
1989-01-01
0
La Verbotene Voyage
1989-01-01
0
Weather Diary 2
1987-01-01
0
Greetings from Boulder
1986-01-01
0
The Apparition
1976-01-01
0
Kuchar-esque
2024-06-16
0
Kuchar-esque
2024-06-16
0
Weather Diary 4
1988-01-01
0
Planet of the Vamps
2000-01-01
0
A Passage to Wetness
1990-01-01
0
I, of the Cyclops
2006-01-01
0
Gastronomic Getaway
1991-01-01
0
Indian Summer
1991-01-01
0
Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness
1989-01-01
0
Summer of No Return
1988-01-01
0
Rainy Season
1987-11-19
0
Aquatica
2000-01-01
0
Sherman Acres
1992-01-01
0
Pictures at an Exhibitionist’s
1989-01-01
0
Glacier Park Video Views
1993-01-01
0
Cellar Sinema
1994-01-01
0
Migration of the Blubberoids
1989-01-01
0
Hold Me While I'm Naked
1966-04-23
0
Portrait of Ramona
1971-01-01
0
The Sunshine Sisters
1972-01-01
0
Chigger Country
1999-01-01
0
Visitation Rites
2003-01-01
0
Billion Dollar Bimbo: A Musical
1993-06-01
0
Secrets of the Shadow World
1999-08-31
0
Andy's House of Gary
1993-08-31
0
The Creeping Crimson
1987-10-31
0
East by Southwest
0
Club Vatican
1984-01-01
0
Weather Watch
1991-01-01
0
Precious Products
1989-01-01
0
Chili Line Stops Here
1989-01-01
0
HotSpell
2011-01-01
0
Season of Sorrow
1996-01-01
0
Mosholu Holiday
1967-02-10
0
Holidaze, 1994
1994-12-31
0
Dingleberry Jingles
1994-01-01
0
Xmas 1987 New Years
1988-01-01
0
Webtide
2010-01-01
0
Portrait of Genie
2008-01-01
0
Water Sports
2007-01-01
0
The Mammal Palace
1968-01-01
0
House of the White People
1968-01-01
0
Leisure
1966-01-01
0
Encyclopedia of the Blessed
1968-01-01
0
Cult of the Cubicles
1987-01-01
0
The Inmate
1997-01-01
0
Scarlet Droppings
1991-08-01
0
Uncle Evil
1996-01-01
0
Award
1992-01-01
0
Snap 'n Snatch
1990-01-01
0
Point 'n Shoot
1989-01-01
0
Rocky Interlude
1990-01-01
0
Metropolitan Monologues
2000-01-01
0
The Kingdom By The Sea
2002-01-01
0
Burnout
2003-01-01
0
500 Millibars to Ecstasy
1989-01-01
0
Dynasty of Depravity
2005-01-01
0
Evangelust
1988-01-01
0
The Hairy Horror
2009-01-01
0
Butter Balls
2003-01-01
0
Supercell
2004-01-01
0
Song of the Whoopee Wind
2005-01-01
0
Kaponga Island
2004-01-01
0
Temple of Torment
2004-01-01
0
ID CAME FROM INNER SPACE
1993-02-04
0
Garden of Goodies
2006-01-01
0
Zealots of the Zinc Zone
2010-01-01
0
Kiss of Frankenstein
2003-01-01
0
Coven of the Heathenites
2008-01-01
0
Nibbles
2010-01-01
0
A Reel of Home Movies
1961-01-01
0
The Woman And The Dress
1980-12-12
0
Insanitorium
1987-01-01
0
A Town Called Tempest
1963-04-04
0
Tootsies in Autumn
1963-09-23
0
Mom
1983-03-03
0
The Lady From Sands Point
1967-07-07
0
Low Light Life
1988-01-01
0
Going Nowhere
1992-01-01
0
A Fatal Desire
2004-04-13
0
Jewel of Jeopardy
2010-01-01
0
Grotto of the Gorgons
1995-01-01
0
Libido Lagoon
2009-01-01
0
Video Album 3
1986-01-01
0
Video Album 3
1986-01-01
0
The Last Hello
1986-01-01
0
1980 Seven
1987-01-01
0
The Last Hello
1986-01-01
0
1980 Seven
1987-01-01
0
Zombies of Zanzibar
2009-08-07
0
Domain of the Pixel Pixies
1998-01-01
0
The Ghost of Dr Foo
2007-01-01
0
Phantom of the Pine Barrens
1998-01-01
0
Faulty Fathoms
2006-01-01
0
Seaside Show
2008-01-01
0
Xmas 1986
1986-12-25
0
Solstice
2009-01-01
0
Honey Bunnies on Ice
2001-01-01
0
A Tub Named Desire
1956-01-01
0
Kiss of the Veggie Vixen
1990-01-02
0
Tropical Vulture
0
The Fury of Frau Frankenstein
2005-10-01