I have a friend who used to stream a lot of grindhouse/sleaze/midnight/exploitation stuff online so I've become somewhat well-versed in the stuff, and have become something of a collector (was just out in the American South recently and turns out, in addition to having fucking incredible record selection, and prices, out there, there's all kinds of obscuro stuff floating around record/collector/used shops - for instance, grabbed VHS copies of Prisoners of the Lost Universe - described on the box as "mystical science fantasy", Virtual Encounters - some '90s cyber-themed softcore movie that I just had to grab for the cover, and Cherry 2000, which takes place in the "loveless, lawless society of the year 2017")
I def lean towards the trippier, absurd, or more sci-fi stuff, where my buddy is more into the usual slasher and sleaze, but if a flick is bad enough it can be pretty entertaining whatever the genre... I'm kinda into bad movies personally, but am mostly interested in things for the style and vibe
I'd recommend looking for the 42nd Street Forever series, compilations of old grindhouse trailers. there's some amazing stuff in there and it might point you in the right direction. and there are a couple torrent clubs/forums where you can start to dig for the more obscure titles. look for any hippie horror stuff like The Shiver of the Vampires. women really had the perfect look around '70/'71 btw, Christina Lindberg (who was in They Call Her One Eye) and Soledad Miranda are all time I think
as far as something to go with James Ferraro-type stuff... def Class of Nuke 'Em High, which immediately came to mind when I first heard Night Dolls With Hairspray. it's pretty much a movie version of that album:
Future-Kill is pretty incredible, aesthetically-speaking, has that futuristic metal/punk barbarians set to a dark synth soundtrack thing going (the beginning of the trailer looks like some lame Revenge of the Nerds ripoff but just wait for it):
and a personal fav, Boardinghouse, a hilarious snapshot of early-'80s Southern California, directed by and starring this overly-tanned, blonde cheeseball - with lots of self-indulgent scenes of him working out in speedos (with pointless zooms on his crotch) and meditating, and a bunch of dippy, coke-snorting New Age fitness bimbos staying at his place who take turns jumping into bed with him. oh and there's some monster/slasher stuff too, but the hero defeats that with psychic powers, or something. good luck finding this one though: