Brenda Bergman Movies
Pretentious New York underground filmmaker Nick Zedd apparently tried to package this 16mm horror parody as an instant cult classic for the midnight-movie circuit, but like all of Zedd's films only his die-hard followers will be impressed; others need not apply. The central theme (one can't really call it a plot) involves the mad Dr. Frankenberry (Robert Andrews) and his attempts to reanimate the dead. Along for the ride is aptly-named Richard Hell as a punk-rock cowboy and the quaintly-monikered Donna Death as the vampiress "Scumbelina," with narration provided by deadpan TV horror host John Zacherle. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Andrews, Brenda Bergman, (more)
- 1980
This bizarre drama is taken in part from a religious cult figure from the 1930s known as Little Rose. Rose (Mary Kathryn Cervenka) is a little crippled girl who is the product of a marriage between a tattoo artist and a stripper. Religious symbolism is evident throughout as Rose bleeds like the recently tattooed drunken sailors who go under her father's needle. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Arto Lindsay
- 1976
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts movement, the better-known of whom are William Burroughs (who says nothing for the camera), Andy Warhol (seen in the distance) and Fernando Arrabal (who is interviewed in Spanish). The emigrants named in the title are notable Germans who left the country before World War II, such as Greta Keller and Grete Mosheim. Reviewers at the time of the film's release considered it to have been a sort of paid vacation for the filmmaker rather than a serious effort. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- William S. Burroughs
