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Six-String Samurai
Why this pick
A handmade, black-and-white-adjacent rockabilly post-apocalypse with a mythic deadpan hero, musical momentum, and deliberately ramshackle B-movie invention.
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MOVIE2001 1h 31m USA
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Why this pick
McAbee returns to the same lo-fi cosmic frontier spirit: terse oddball dialogue, stylized monochrome imagery, chapter-play structure, and songs that make its absurd world feel sincere.
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Dark Star
Why this pick
Its beat-up spaceship, working-stiff astronauts, dry comic timing, and philosophical nonsense share the dirty-future texture and straight-faced surrealism of McAbee’s universe.
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Repo Man
Why this pick
A punky, off-kilter American wasteland where bizarre sci-fi ideas arrive through deadpan character encounters, cryptic objects, and a scruffy independent-film charge.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Why this pick
A playful cult sci-fi world built from faux mythology, strange professional adventurers, and a confident refusal to explain every wonderfully silly detail.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, thieves, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis (Cory McAbee), an astronaut from Earth who deals in rare goods, living or otherwise.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Joshua Taylor
Blueberry Pirate
Cory McAbee
The Silverminer
James Ransone
Bodysuit
Rocco Sisto
Professor Hess
Annie Golden
Cloris