Mike Kuchar Movies

They walk through "life", sometimes with no "compass" in hand and become "lost".

[A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. - Anthology Film Archives

A 16mm black and white remake of an 8mm color film done years earlier, this time with students enrolled in a 'dramatic narrative' summer workshop....

With lashings of humour and affection, this much-loved filmmaker and his students create a wonderful journey from the chaos of hell to the paradise...

A brief interview with Johnnie Didge followed by a demonstration/performance.

Earth's "garden" is fragrant with temptations but has far too many "thorns". He got "stung" and fell...got up...and fell, again and again!

A 'poet' and a 'painter' discover a malign muse, but their fear and anger keep them young.

Dark, domestic tensions need the cleansing rays of a bright summer afternoon.

Green spills over purple ridges and into deep cut valleys. Blue surges up from rounds and hollows, blending with incandescent pink plains, revealing...

Armed with an overripe script and ample supply of false eyelashes and lip gloss.

The Shadow Glass is roughly based on Ewers' 'Student of Prague'. It concerns a young man who, feeling incapable of surmounting the harsh realities of...

A youth wanders the landscape of grass and sky in search of puzzling impulses.

Two city dwellers in a relationship grown "tired," are near a deep forest where one hears the lure of Pan's Pipe calling.

From the green ooze of a haunted forest arise lonely shamans in red gowns alongside twisted creatures from nightmarish cartoons with the long...

A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the trophy and the poisons that taint an otherwise jubilant jamboree.

Like ships in a harbor, men come and go in relationships. But, as one character says to another character who is heartbroken: "You sucked enough...

A lady alone amid the flowers of a garden becomes the target of mischievous elements therein.

An insane, deformed killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness.

A contemplative, static walk in the woods.

An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar, in which Babette tells all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.