About Madcap Movies
Who is behind “Madcap Movies”?
The website “Madcap Movies” is a small side project by Thomas Frenken. I have mainly been in charge of my international synthpop magazine “Electrozombies” since 2010. But not only electronic music is my passion, but also movies and video games. Basically, I’m a real media junkie!
My taste in movies was influenced early on by sci-fi series like Star Trek (TOS) and 70s classics like “Logan’s Run”, “Westworld” or “The Time Machine” from 1960. However, my taste in movies became more and more specialised at some point. Because at some point I had already seen all kinds of plots and the usual Hollywood summer comedies and action blockbusters started to bore me. Sure, you can always turn off your brain, but when you do, you do it right!
My strongest memories are always the movies that were just completely moronic or had extremely insane ideas. “Logan’s Run”, for example, which I saw as a child when I was 6 or 7, I remembered intensely until my late 20s, before I saw it again. The most of the thousands of other movies I had seen in the meantime were only faint memories for me.
For all those who feel the same way and are looking for an extraordinary movie experience, I have created the website “Madcap Movies”. I hope you will find one, two or more new movie treasures here or share your personal movie recommendations with me.
What is Madcap Madness about?
First of all, this site is not about bashing or dissing the movies listed, as the name of the website might suggest. On the contrary, we love movies that are beyond the norm. These are not just so-called “trash movies”, because there are also productions with bigger budgets that don’t shy away from weird ideas. And also those with a crazy twist in the middle of the movie like ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ or movies like ‘The Matrix’, whose story and images had such a massive impact that they have become part of movie history.
Madcap Movies is about movies that are different from mainstream cinema and go far beyond the usual viewing habits. Of course, the concept of a “niche movie website without mainstream cinema” is not a new invention of mine. However, I think the selection of movies here is more than “special” compared to other specialised movie websites.
In short: Idea first, budget second!
What about political correctness?
We don’t glorify anything, are open-minded and don’t want to step on anyone’s toes. No matter which movies we list here, and there are some really weird and badass grenades in there, they are just movies for entertainment.
If you are really sensitive about topics like cultural appropriation, political correctness or cancel culture, this website is probably not for you. We see ourselves as a bubble-free source for all movies fans, who don’t take movie plots and ideas too seriously.
Why aren’t all the mad movies listed here?
When I was researching suitable movies for this particular collection, I came across hundreds of shark movies (for example). There are so many movies about sharks that you could even fill a whole website with them. Admittedly, that’s pretty niche and crazy, but possible! And by the way, there is already a movie website called “Sharksploitation” in the world wide web. Besides that, you’re doing the sharks an injustice. They are not the merciless killers as presented like in the movies.
Furthermore we are not listing every movie from The Asylum or Troma Entertainment nor every Zomedy ever made. We only pick the weirdest movies or the ones that have turned everything upside down in their time. The range is from the cheapest B‑movie production to the million dollar Hollywood blockbuster.