Lost and Found Friday

Famed grindhouse director Andy Milligan's 1967 apocalyptic potboiler The Degenerates was long thought lost, but a print was recently located in a Belgian film archive. A restoration of that film, along with Milligan's earlier Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, was given its world premiere on June 13 at the Village East by Angelika in NYC. It starred the late Bryerly Lee from Milligan's still-missing The Naked Witch (1967) as Violet, the oldest of five sisters who have managed to withstand a nuclear holocaust. Trouble brews when three male survivors arrive at the sisters' ramshackle farmhouse, looking for food and fornication. Also with Ann Linden (Milligan's lost The Filthy Five), future best-selling author Laura Shaine Cunningham, and television actor/director Robert Burgos.

Bonus: an excerpt from writer Jimmy McDonough's introduction to the Tribeca Film Festival's screening of Severin Films' restoration of Andy Milligan's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me and The Degenerates.
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