Saturday, June 23, 2012

DISFIGURED SCIENTIST BECOMES DR. LIGHTING: Donald F. Glut's Spiderman (1969)


According to his wikipedia entry, Donald F. Glut is a man of varied artistic talents and interests - writer, director, amateur paleontologist, musician, and actor. Somewhat of a peripheral figure in the history of fantastic cinema - writing credits include the novelization of the Empire Strikes Back - Glut is nevertheless a legend in the realm of amateur film-making. In 1969, he directed and starred in what is surely the first ever fan-made Spiderman movie. I can't stop watching it - it has the mixture of earnest, infectious resourcefulness and abysmal awfulness that makes for classic outsider art:



Found at dangerous minds

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