Sentences with phrase «as cult hits»

As cult hits often do, «Wet Hot» found its audience on DVD, helped along in no small part by the rising star status of several of its key players, including Paul Rudd, Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler and Elizabeth Banks.

BE: A number of surprising films from the «80s have emerged as cult hits.

The latest podcast revisits «Artist's» origin story, Tommy Wiseau's «The Room,» which many have named as the worst movie ever made, but which took off as a cult hit in L.A. and spread globally over the early 2000s.

The Danganronpa series started out as a cult hit, its first release a PS Vita exclusive.

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Lifelong best friends Holden (Affleck) and Banky (Lee) are enjoying success as the creators of the cult hit comic book «Bluntman and Chronic.»

With hit shows like The Venture Bros., Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and more, the channel has cemented itself as a cult favorite amongst late night viewers who might be under the influence of certain substances.

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

As the prom draws near and the popular head cheerleader of Echo Lake High dumps her star quarterback boyfriend in favor of attending the dance with the biggest loser in school, the raging footballer plots murderous revenge in cult animation icon Bill Plympton's darkly satirical take on the teen tragedy radio hits and high - school melodramas of the 1950s and»60s.

Benefiting from the late -»90s wave of youth - driven TV shows, Heigl stayed with television and attracted an avid following as alien beauty Isabel on the cult hit Roswell.

Irish actor David Kelly was probably best known to worldwide audiences for his role as Michael O'Sullivan in the 1998 comedy hit Waking Ned (known in the U.S. as Waking Ned Devine) and for several roles in the cult John Cleese TV series Fawlty Towers.

As a kid of the 80's I personally liked the cult hit as it was a throwback to all the cheesy 80's comedies filled with drinking, bullies, and naked chickAs a kid of the 80's I personally liked the cult hit as it was a throwback to all the cheesy 80's comedies filled with drinking, bullies, and naked chickas it was a throwback to all the cheesy 80's comedies filled with drinking, bullies, and naked chicks.

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.

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.

Not wishing to be left behind in the scripted TV game, Bravo is adding a bevy of new, original programming to its development slate, including a kind of reboot / sequel to the 1988 dark comedy cult hit Heathers, which starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater as two teenagers who rebel against the reign of the Heathers (Shannen Doherty, Kim Walker and Lisanne Falk) in their high school.

Two years ago I had the privilege of watching Oliver Stone's violently controversial and polarizing cult hit classic Natural Born Killers where immediately afterwards the man himself took part in an eye - opening Q&A as to what makes him tick as a filmmaker.

He also had a featured role as a rebellious cult member in Martha Marcy May Marlene, a Sundance hit that also helped launch Elizabeth Olsen's career and brought attention to Borderline Films, an independent production company formed by Durkin, Antonio Campos, and Josh Mond, which also produced 2009's Afterschool, starring Ezra Miller.

If you've never seen Kinji Fukasaku's Japanese cult hit «Battle Royale,» then it's something you should remedy as soon as possible, preferably before heading to theaters this weekend to check out «The Hunger Games.»

It was enormous hit and it spawned a huge wave of Viking movies, some perhaps smarter but none as much fun, and has become a cult movie in its own right.

Throughout the early 1980s, he appeared in commercials (including one for Coca - Cola), short films including the NFB drama One Step Away and stage work such as Brad Fraser's cult hit Wolf Boy in Toronto.

; dialogue - heavy scripts that could be as much as sixty - to - seventy pages for a thirty - minute show, and that unique shooting style, Sports Night became a cult hit even while it was airing — and it influenced an entire wave of single - camera shows.

Jack Perez is known best as the director of the cult hit «Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus».

Main Street was not a success, but it opened a lot of doors, and soon enough, Shankar was executive producing hits like The Grey and instant cult classics such as Dredd.

Based on James O'Barr's 1980s cult comic, the hit 1994 film starred Brandon Lee as Eric Draven, a murdered musician who's resurrected by supernatural means to exact revenge on those who killed him and his fiancee.

As you watch The Pact 2, the sequel to the cult hit from director Nicholas McCarthy, you can't help but feel an overwhelming sense of familiarity.

Marling — who also co-wrote and co-produced this with director Batmanglij (and has written two other films including the cult hit Another Earth)-- is clearly a roaring talent, and here she inhabits the role of the cold - hearted, all - business operative well, perhaps too well, as this is rather a cold movie, the only person you ever really feel remotely sympathetic to being the shaky - handed, brain - damaged Doc.

Unfortunately, Carpenter can't seem to hit the same heights these days but he was way ahead of his game around this time and this film stands as one of his most recognised and has a fervent cult following.

Harold and Kumar (John Cho and Kal Penn) established their credentials as the 21st Century's answer to Cheech and Chong with this enjoyably ridiculous 2004 cult hit.

A small part as Anne Boleyn in Best Picture winner «A Man For All Seasons» was a mere taster for more full - on roles in cult sixties hit and Palme D'Or winner «Blow - Up», and her first Oscar - nominated performance in «Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment».

The numerous issues with the controls as well as crucial elements of the game's combat systems soon mount up to provide an experience that frustrates far more often than it entertains, resulting in a missed opportunity for what could've been a cult hit.

Paramount hadn't originally intended for this to be a continuation of the cult hit, as earlier titles of the project ranged from «The Cellar» to «Valencia» before the finalized name was announced to the masses only two months ago.

«Con Man» follows Wray Nerely (Tudyk), the former star of a prematurely canceled sci - fi series that became a cult hit, as he makes the rounds at conventions and comic book stores.

Although «Unsane» might require an unusual taste for both high and lowbrow cinema, and its approach may strike celluloid purists as anathema (fear not, Chris Nolan, there's still a place for actual film in the hearts of most movie lovers), Soderbergh's 27th film strikes as an immediate cult hit — the kind whose small budget will ensure success ad infinitum.

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.

Then there was Samuel Jackson as the sermon - spewing hit man Jules Winnfield in Tarantino's cult movie «Pulp Fiction».

But that's what Franco's latest feature, «The Disaster Artist,» is, and unlike the picture it's about, the new film is receiving rave reviews, as is Franco for his portrayal of the totally bizarre character who made and starred in the 2003 calamity - turned - cult - hit, Tommy Wiseau.

On Wednesday, Hollywood legend John Carpenter hit back at neo-Nazis and white supremacists online who had been idolizing his 1988 cult classic, They Live, as an allegory for fighting against Jewish supremacy.

Let Me In Premise: Based on the Swedish cult horror hit Let The Right One In — which itself is adapted from the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist — this English - language version stars Kodi Smit - McPhee as a bullied middle - schooler and Chloe Moretz as the like - aged (in appearance, anyway) vampire who befriends him.

DreamWorks has debuted the first clip from director Craig Gillespie's 3D remake of the cult - hit 1985 horror - comedy, starring Anton Yelchin as Charlie Brewster and Colin Farrell as his vampire neighbor Jerry.

Also in multiplexes: Georgian filmmaker Géla Babluani remakes his strikingly raw, rough - edged 2005 cult hit 13 (Tzameti) in English simply as 13, a much slicker big - budget action feature with Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, 50 Cent, Michael Shannon, and more.

This led to «The Usual Suspects,» a twisty, beautifully acted noir that hit right at the peak of post-Tarantino mania, and became an immediate cult hit as a result.

This week on Alcohollywood, we crash and burn with guest Derek as we talk about 1990's cult hit Robot Jox, directed by Stuart Gordon!

Chalk this up to a case of history repeating itself, as the original Blade Runner wasn't a huge hit upon its initial release either, only to eventually earn a cult classic status.

4:00 p.m., Indigo Ballroom — «Wilfred» FX «s cult hit starring Elijah Wood as a man who imagines his dog is his malevolent best friend, is quietly becoming one of the smartest and darkest comedies on TV, and Wood will be there with his co-stars and creative team to discuss the show, as well as preview an upcoming episode.

He's charismatic in the film the way he was in Adventureland and Van Wilder and all the other cult hits that have maintained his reputation as an actor worth watching even when more high - profile stuff like R.I.P.D. failed him.

The connecting thread between Empire Records, The Craft, and End of Days is of course Robin Tunney, who hit it big in the late «90s and has grown to show as much longevity in her career as the select films from her body of work — cult phenoms, if not cultural touchstones by some measure.

McKay, the director of the cult hit «Anchorman» and his screenwriting partner, Charles Randolph, manage to keep our attention as they reveal how a batch of quirky financial whizzes, including one brainy hedge fund manager from San Jose, foresaw the looming mortgage crisis and hatched plans to save investors» bacon, while carving out some ham for themselves.

It almost seems as if author Elizabeth Hand is not so much penning a novel as sending a series of cries into the night.Hand's main character, Cass Neary, first appeared in the cult hit Generation Loss, and here she has returned in a blistering story that will sear the pages from your fingers.

These overlooked sometime become cult hits, with rabid followers such as Beyond Good and Evil, which is a game that continues to haunt the fanbase over the possibility of a sequel ever arriving.

With the help of groups such as The Future War Cult, Dead Orbit, Vanguard, Crucible, and even the New Monarchy; guardians will arm up and take on the enemy where it hits them the hardest; their leaderships and key bases.