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«World's worst filmmaker» forces Sydney Underground film festival to cancel its screening of documentary about cult film

In other film news, here's everything you need to know about cult film The Room and disaster artist Tommy Wiseau.

I, along with several friends, used to write movie reviews daily about cult films that would tickle our odd fancy.

Not exact matches

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

I think I'm going to be sick, AA wants nothing to do with press radio or film (nor does it wish to engage in any sect, cults or religion), yet you have the nerve to write an opinionated article about not believing in God and being part of AA?

Even after The Disaster Artist gave his own story and his cult - classic indie film The Room — largely regarded as the worst movie ever made — new prominence, little is known about where he comes from or who he truly is.

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.

I enjoy talking about the universe, socio political issues, science fiction, cult films, mathematics, art, and music.

The 3:47 «Meet Katie» focuses on the story of the furry little yak who just steals her scenes in the film, as the creators talk about the development of the character from a background drawing to full - fledged cult hero.

This unintentionally hilarious Depression Era propaganda film has become a cult classic for its outrageous claims about the effects of marijuana, as told by a concerned school principal (Joseph Forte) to a PTA meeting.

It's about the feeling of Rocky Horror and, as the film took on this cult second life, the audience who is feeling it.

BE: You mentioned that you've been in more cult films than just about anybody, but you've also got such a diverse group of films to call your own, everything from «Super Troopers» to «X2.»

In it, four of the film's essential crew members — special makeup artists Stephan Dupuis and Chris Walas, director of photography Mark Irwin, and special effects supervisor Gary Zeller — talk about how they created the cult classic's signature effect.

This is obviously a far more grounded exploration of the topic than this year's other films about religious oppression, Red State and Footloose, and would make an ace double feature with Sean Durkin's upcoming Martha Marcy May Marlene with their duelling tales of disengagement of rigid cult - like communities.

Ryan Moody says he was tapped by director James Franco in 2013 to adapt the book about the making of the cult film «The Room.»

This darkly funny and eerily relevant 1982 cult classic about how to stop worrying and love the bomb is pieced together from government - produced educational and training films, newsreels and... More

While cult films range from campy science fiction to highly graphic horror movies and just about everything in between, there are a few characteristics that most cult films share:

This success has, in some small part, fueled the desire to know more about certain cult films that were...

United States About Blog A blog dedicated to cult films, art and trash.

Mom would often tell me about bizarre cult films that she saw in the 1970s, hoping that we might stumble upon them during our weekly Friday night channel surfing.

«Holy Hell» Lowdown: The director moved to West Hollywood after film school in the 1980s where he ended up joining a cult that no one seemed to know about.

James Franco and «The Disaster Artist,» his acclaimed new film about Tommy Wiseau's cult classic, «The Room,» had a momentous Monday morning.

His two biggest films, Office Space and The Idiocracy, went straight to DVD in Britain but became cult hits thanks to their cutting observations about the general stupidity of humanity.

Based on a cult favorite 2010 Mexican film of the same name, We Are What We Are is a brooding genre film from co - writer / director Jim Mickle about family traditions.

Media Mikes had a chance to chat with Jack about his new film and the cult success of «Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus».

The film, directed by and starring Franco, is about the making of the infamously bad cult movie «The Room.»

Within six months, the film was premiering at Cannes, beginning a year - long whirlwind that culminated in the film's immediate cult status on its release back in the spring, and has put Saulnier (who also served as the movie's stellar DP) on just about everyone's one - to - watch lists.

A cult favorite for fans of author Clive Barker, but just plain silly (and very gory) schlock for just about everyone else, Hellraiser marked the first feature film as a director, adapting his own novel, «The Hellbound Heart».

The first film is New Line's The Kitchen, according to Variety, a drama based on a cult comic - book series about a group of Irish Mafia wives in 1970s New York.

Drew's Review: In case you were wondering, yes - I decided that immediately after a «2009 in Review» article all about how I never go to the movies anymore and have reconnected with older cult films, my first review of 2010 would be of a movie currently in theaters.

The film built up a cult following over the years and, believe it or not, they're just about to release the fourth sequel titled Phantasm: Ravager (see the trailer for that here).

For those who don't know about The Room, it is a 2003 film that has gained cult classic status (or is it classic status?)

Writer / director Michael Dougherty has given movie buffs everywhere a gift, not just in terms of crafting an excellent film (one that's assuredly destined for cult classic status), but in granting us the opportunity to surprise the hell out of all of our friends on Halloween night with a trippy little horror flick that they know nothing about.

Mary Harron: A Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, known for her socially - conscious independent films such as I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) about Valerie Solanas» life that led up to her failed assassination attempt of Warhol, and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), a film about the 1950s pinup model who became a cult icon of sexuality and helped popularize pornography.

It took four years for Lucas to develop his next film - this astounding cult film about «A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...» from 20th Century Fox.

Oddball cult film about a mutant sheep that attacks a small modern - day town whose residents for some reason dress in Wild West gear.

God's Land, Preston Miller's alternately languorous and engaging film about a Texas - based Taiwanese cult awaiting the end of days, walks a fine line between satire and earnestness, but the project...

And Tim Burton's zany Ed Wood (1994) was about the maverick, low - budget, Hollywood director (Johnny Depp) of cult films who often is regarded as the «worst director» of all time.

The original 1974 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is a kind of blue collar cult film, a smartly done crime thriller about smart crooks, a smart transit cop and a battle of wits over the hijacking of a subway car and the ransoming of the passenger.

Despite horrendous reviews, word about the movie's awfulness spread around Los Angeles and the film quickly became a cult classic, complete with Rocky Horror-esque traditions at midnight screenings.

Ira Levin's novel The Stepford Wives was first filmed in 1975 by Bryan Forbes — a dark thriller about the lengths the men of the town of Stepford will go to in order to keep their wives in line, with a chilling score by Michael Small; it wasn't a huge success at first but went on to become something of a cult favourite and had its own kind of cultural impact.

This little gem features American treasure and all - around genre cinema maestro John Carpenter discussing his 1988 sci - fi / action / horror cult classic They Live, going into detail about such things as the conceptual ideas behind the movie's premise, his casting of professional wrestler «Rowdy» Roddy Piper as the protagonist, and the rebellious inspiration for the film's infamous fight scene between Piper and the great Keith David.

With «The Hunger Games» hitting cinemas lots have people have been talking about the origins of the idea for a teen death match with many citing the influences of a cult Japanese film «Battle Royale».

But when the stars of the hit Sundance film Z for Zachariah — Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pine and Margot Robbie — show up to Off the Cuff's outdoor set to talk to Peter Travers about adapting the 1974 cult sci - fi novel, none of them can handle the cold.

We just heard about Vincent Cassel joining the cast of Bourne 5, and now we've got a new trailer for Partisan, the creepy - looking film that features Cassel as a sort of cult leader who acts as head of a closed community and trains young urchins to do his bidding, which is often violent.

Hocus Pocus, the live - action Disney film that people ignored in theaters but later embraced on home video has become a Halloween staple for many, inspiring a cult fandom that won't stop talking about the film once the end of September rolls around.

ABOUT DAVID I am a cult film fanatic with a particularly unhealthy appetite for the darker end of the cinematic spectrum.

LIGHTNING OVER WATER is a film about the last months in the life of American director Nicholas Ray, who is probably best known for his cult film «Rebel Without a Cause».

Based on a book about the making of The Room — a cult hit widely considered the worst film ever made — The Disaster Artist was directed by Franco, who also stars as its strange subject: Tommy Wiseau, who wrote, directed, produced, and starred in The Room.

The Disaster Artist, a film about the making of Wiseau's doomed The Room, a movie so bad and weird it became a cult hit.