The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan (2025)

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He was a pioneer of avant-garde theater, trailblazer of early Queer cinema and remains one of the most divisive talents in exploitation/horror history. But what is the truth behind Andy Milligan and his "depraved, desperate and damned" (Time Magazine) legacy? In the new documentary THE DEGENERATE: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN, filmmakers Josh Johnson and Grayson Tyler Johnson explore the bile, brutality and intermittent brilliance of "The Fassbinder of 42nd Street" (Artforum). Milligan's low-budget productions -- including such 'classics' as THE GHASTLY ONES, BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHERS, GURU THE MAD MONK, TORTURE DUNGEON and THE RATS ARE COMING! THE WEREWOLVES ARE HERE! on which he served as writer, director, cinematographer, editor, set decorator and costume designer -- were predominately period melodramas fueled by themes of sadism, incest and misogyny bathed in bottom-of-the-barrel gore effects, filmed on Staten Island (and for a brief period, London) and forever consigned to grindhouse purgatory. Yet via revealing interviews with a gallery of Milligan's performers, enablers, co-conspirators and his biographer -- along with copious clips from his deranged oeuvre -- a portrait emerges of a gutter auteur who battled and antagonized his own demons to become one of the most transgressive outsider artists of the 20th century.

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