From Bettie Page’s burlesque to “Killer Klowns” to the twisted mind of John Waters, weird and wild movies are in abundance at Darkstar. Owner Mike Edwards stocks a bunch of flicks under “Cult” because “they’re things you can’t find another category for.” If it’s sex you desire, rent “Inflated,” a collection of blow-up doll films, or “Venus in Furs,” which the San Francisco Examiner labeled, “Trippy as hell.” To learn about the forbidden—the things your parents warned you about—spring for “She Shoulda Said No,” “Reefer Madness” or “The Cocaine Fiends.”
4355 North Lincoln (773)665-7827 (This business is now closed—2011)
