THUNDERCRACK!

USA | 1975 | COLOR | DCP | 159’ | ENGLISH

During a nightmarish thunderstorm night, three men and three women seek shelter at the gothic mansion of a lonely elderly heavily drunk woman. As soon as they are free of their wet clothes, the visitors will be the protagonists of an evening throughout which macabre surprises alternate with countless sexual encounters and positions they share. ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ of porn flicks, a filthy epic of trash cinema, a legend of the underground and a kinky delirious parody aptly called ‘the ultimate bisexual porn horror of all time’, still stands today as one of the most important, and until recently most rarely seen, emblems of ‘70s midnight section. L.K.

DIRECTOR: Curt McDowell
SCREENWRITER: George Kuchar
DoP: Curt McDowell
MUSIC: Mark Ellinger
EDITOR: Curt McDowell
PRINCIPAL CAST: Marion Eaton, Ken Scudder, Melinda McDowell, George Kuchar

CURT MCDOWELL (1945-1987)
American underground filmmaker. He studied Cinema at the SFAI, under George Kuchar. Three of his works are preserved in the Academy Film Archive.

FILMOGRAPHY
1980 Taboo: The Single and the LP
1976 Sparkle’s Tavern
1975 Thundercrack!
1972 Peed Into the Wind
1972 Lunch