People all seem to have their own definition of campy. Any suggestions of other campy flicks that belong on a list including VOTD? Thanks.
I like waking up in the morning not knowing who I'll meet or where I'll end up: The Titanic
Try Rebecca with Joan Fontaine and Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman. They are both pretty old but I caught one late one night and the other on during a Sunday matinee. Good stuff.
And although mentioned earlier, I highly recommend Whatever happened to Baby Jane and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.
where Love has Gone
I Saw What You Did
The Love Machine
Once is not Enough
The Betsy
The Fan (starring Bacall)
I notice that many films today we consider camp classics have a curious combination of schlocky, vacuous content mixed with beautiful presentation. No accident perhaps then that so many are widescreen spectaculars that date from the late 50s and early 60s. Anyhow, somewhat redundant, here are a few of my candidates:
Cobra Woman (1944), Song of Scheherazade (1947), The Magic Carpet (1951), The Conqueror (1956), Written on the Wind (1956), Peyton Place (1957), The Tingler (1959), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), The Best of Everything (1959), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Walk on the Wild Side (1962), The VIPs (1962), The Raven (1963), The Carpetbaggers (1964), Where Love Has Gone (1964), Cleopatra (1964), The Group (1966), The Oscar (1966), Mommie Dearest (1981)
(almost) anything with Lana Turner from the 50s and 60s
Joan Crawford’s 1960s films
most composer biographies
You might enjoy Douglas Sirk's WRITTEN ON THE WIND, a movie I love. But between the calendar pages being blown by the wind and Dorothy Malone's well-over-The-top performance, I'd say it qualifies as camp.
shareCamp occurs anytime the movie is trying to be serious, but is so bad that it's accidentally funny.
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