Sentences with phrase «as cult film»

It does have something of a reputation as a cult film, but that would appear to be primarily because of its intense violent moments that include Ichi slicing a couple of throats, slicing someone completely in half (with laughably - bad CGI), and several instances of Kakihara torturing others.

«Saints» survives as a cult film, though I do not expect this movie to do the same.

As a cult film, however, The Room still plays once - a-year engagements before dedicated audiences, who recite its lines.

«The Sandlot» performed modestly at the box office in 1993, but it found a second life as a cult film on VHS and on DVD a decade after its release.

And though Showgirls has been universally reviled and is now rather forcibly embraced as a cult film, the misleadingly - marketed movie is really yet another in a long line of Hollywood horror films masquerading as something else entirely.

Not exact matches

The chain is famous for League's strict anti-texting policy, as well as the stars who show up to premiere films at the Austin location and the special posters designed for many of the screenings, which may pair cult classics with themed foods.

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.

Cult: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

She also appeared to cast Ed Miliband in the role of Uncle Monty from Withnail and I, as she quoted a memorable line from the cult film.

Although best known as the director of the cult classic films Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and the television series Twin Peaks, David Lynch is also a painter and designer.

But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror: Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends of «wellness» in his new short film Connected, starring Pam Anderson as Jackie, a lonely spinning instructor who wants to feel more, well, connected — so she joins a wellness cult and gets wifi shot into her brain so that Jane Fonda (no, really, she does a voiceover cameo) can tell her how «limitless» she is all the time.

Yes, he remains «The Incredible Hulk» more than 30 years after the world got to know him as Arnold Schwarzenegger's main adversary in the 1977 cult film «Pumping Iron.»

But with last year's success of Emma Cline's novel The Girls (and it's eventual film adaptation), it seems as though a slew of Fashion Girls were inspired by the look of some cults / religious subcultures (tomato / tomatoe?).

Directed by and starring James Franco, this film is much more of an homage to the cult classic that is The Room, as well as a nod to the passion it takes to make something so terrible.

This film does seem to have a cult following (nowadays, upon release not so much) and its easy to see why as its highly enjoyable with its highly nonsensical premise.

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.

Roth began acting during her years as an expatriate, earning her first major film role in Ivan Zuleta's cult film Arrebato (1979).

A documentary film crew join cult rock band, Dead Cat Bounce, as they cross Europe in search of lead singer Jim's real father - who he is almost certain is the legendary rock singer and Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale.

Reynolds» superb turn as unhinged central character goes a long way towards smoothing over The Voices» various faults, which finally does confirm the film's place as a distinctive black comedy that is, in essence, an instant cult classic.

Starring writer - director - producer and enigmatic «auteur» Tommy Wiseau, who had unlimited funds but questionable talent, the $ 6 - million film has been hailed «The «Citizen Kane» of bad movies,» a fascinatingly inept and endlessly quotable cult sensation that has carved out a place for itself as a midnight - movie communal experience.

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.

The film is very much of its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culture.

The film came to fruition as 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas — an immediate cult hit.

After pop is kidnapped by the demon cult and transported back to the netherworld, Sharon — who, as in the first film, is not who she thinks she is (or is she?

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

It ain't easy taking a popular cult film and adapting it into a successful TV series (emphasis on successful), but the advent of alternative digital platforms such as Netflix and Hulu are opening up more possibilities.

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The 34 - year - old actress stars in the new the dramatisation of the making of Tommy Wiseau's «The Room» alongside her husband Dave Franco, 32, and his older brother James - who directed and stars as Tommy as he portrays Johnny in the 2003 cult film.

Although the film didn't connect as strongly with mass audiences (although it's considered a «sleeper hit,» you have to wonder what it could have done if it had been released after Whedon's little art house film «The Avengers «-RRB- and more than a few critics found it befuddling and arch (it's neither), «The Cabin in the Woods» is the kind of movie that will ultimately live on as a deserved cult classic, perfect for drunken film studies students and bored kids at slumber parties alike.

This film is actually terrible — I mean, yeah — it is scary in the sense that its creepy, but I think, really, the film is just the byproduct of global DVD residuals from the directors father — allowing Panatos to string together a series of overproduced, overgrained interior sequences, cheap synth score and a slasher movie ending, and trying to pass it off as a «cult movie», when really we, the audience, need to know who, what or where the protagonist is coming from, what her dramatic need is, who she interacts with, and so on.

One of our favourite movies of the latter part of this year in the upcoming The Disaster Artist, James Franco's feature that looks into the making of the cult film The Room, one that is heralded as being the Citizen Kane of bad movies.

In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Wiseau says he welcomes descriptions of the film as a «cult classic.»

For a few years now a cult as formed around Michael Mann's film adaptation of his own 80's TV series.

The film, which is considered the «' Citizen Kane of bad movies»,» became a cult hit, spawning midnight screenings across the nation and now worldwide where fans quote iconic lines like «Oh hi, Mark» and «You're tearing me apart, Lisa» as they watch the film onscreen — in between throwing plastic spoons.

In this rapidly changing industry, genre film remains a strongly communal experience, as horror, sci fi, fantasy and cult films continue to flourish under the banner of event cinema.

While The Discovery plays in many ways like a more effective version of the concept - choked Brit Marling / Zal Batmanglij movies, the cult scenes feel underdeveloped next to their film The Sound of My Voice, an intriguing but ragged thread left dangling as The Discovery turns towards more concrete, backstory - driven explanations for its characters» obsessions.

The film gained a minor cult following and seemed to cement Remar's reputation as a bad guy.

The movie could be summarized as «Rosemary's Baby if Rosemary were the head of the cult,» but while Roman Polanski's 1968 masterpiece is a rich, nuanced film that works (and disturbs) on multiple levels, Hungry Hearts never goes any further than preying on some pretty basic fears.

They soon realize they are trapped inside the cult classic movie and must team up with the fictional and ill - fated camp counselors, including Max's mom as the scream queen, to battle the films machete - wielding killer.

Criterion not only further verifies its dedication to streams of both classic and cult films, but effectively (and correctly) resuscitates a cult object as a certifiable classic.

Just a discussion of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre requires an examination of the Apollonian / Dionysian divide, of the ways in which the cult of man breeds animalism even as it restrains it and the ways in which politics can sometimes bolster a film rather than unhorse it.

The film has been heralded as somewhat of a crazy new Australian cult classic in the works.

The book and the film on which it's based share a tone of hipster sexual frustration metaphor in the Jay McInerney mold, here caged, as it usually is, in pumped - up bodies trying not to seem gay so as to ease admittance into these exclusive cults of machismo and sadomasochism.

After brief appearances in his father's films as a child, he made his first foray into helming with 1998's Zero Effect, before spending time in television on teen cult efforts Freaks And Geeks, Grosse Pointe and Undeclared.

Hirsch is best known as being the creator of Disney's the cult favourite «Gravity Falls,» so with him and Perlman both being in the mix, should they do end up writing it, Detective Pikachu might just wind up being a film worth watching for those who aren't Pokémon fans, as well as the ones that are.

As Criterion releases it on Blu - ray, Justine Smith writes this appreciation of the infamous cult film «Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.»

Refn clearly has a love for the likes of Walter Hill and John Carpenter, as well as cult classics like Silent Running and Logan's Run, a film he was looking to remake for some time; von Trier has grander aspirations as a filmmaker, a compulsive need to make the audience feel something, anything, at the end of his works.

A throwback to the star - driven cinema of the Fifties and a reflection of our own fanatical interest in cults of personality, the film features transparent performances (with the exception of Don Cheadle, each performer in Ocean's Eleven is playing his - or herself), and the same kind of sadistic voyeurism that impels us to simultaneously deify and find fault with our favourite actors keeps our peepers glued to the screen as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliot Gould, and Carl Reiner revolve around one another in a loose heist intrigue intended to relieve Andy Garcia of both his millions and his girlfriend.