Sentences with phrase «cult audiences with»

Acclaimed director Vincenzo Natali may have found cult audiences with thought - provovking thrill - ride CUBE and twisted evolutionary sci - fier SPLICE, but he's really yet to break...

Strange Brew found a cult audience with fans of the Second City comedy troupe, of which Moranis and Thomas were members.

Telluride correspondent Chris Willman said that lead Scarlett Johansson is «perfectly cast,» and that while the «somber pacing and downer themes» may turn some off, «a cult audience with a penchant for SF morality tales may warm to this.»

After rising to fame with violent revenge features El Mariarchi and Desperado, cultivating a cult audience with horror comedy From Dusk till Dawn, and helming a segment of anthology effort Four Rooms alongside Quentin Tarantino, his ability to create entertainment for younger viewers had not crossed many minds.

Not exact matches

Tommy Wiseau's cult hit «The Room» leaves the audience with massive questions.

The mystical subtext and psychedelic stargate sequence ensured that the film initially attracted a cult audience, with John Lennon suggesting it should be screened perpetually in a specially - built temple.

«Louis Theroux has a large following in those countries but he's developed a sizable cult audience in the U.S. as well with his documentaries, and we're optimistic that his fans will share our interest.»

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.

The Room turned the real Wiseau into a cult icon, as he continues to show up at screenings for his movie as it still plays in theaters with a fair amount of audience participation.

The particulars of the case, something to do with a string of mysterious suicides precipitated by an Egyptian cult existing in Holmes - era London, aren't nearly as interesting as the lengths to which Spielberg and company go to make Homes «exciting» for a mid-Eighties youth audience that mostly learned what they knew about popular entertainment from twin godheads Spielberg and George Lucas.

His cinematography and camera orchestrations are as sumptuous as ever, almost worth watching without dialogue, and yet, he doesn't exactly offer anything new here — it occasionally seems like he is trying to remake his cult classic, Chungking Express, for a Western audience, with some of the more interesting bits of his other films tossed in for good measure.

The eventual «Long Kiss Goodnight» movie hedged fairly close to Black's revised draft, but the movie, while attracting an almost instantaneous cult following, never connected with large audience and eventually made less than $ 90 million worldwide, a shameful showing considering how much better American action movies tend to fare overseas.

Criterion presents a contemporary treasure on Blu - ray that's likely to endure with future audiences as a staple of European cult cinema.

The film's intelligent selection of rock songs, hilarious stoner dialogue, crude jokes, and endless partying appealed to a particular audience and the film became an immediate cult hit; it was even blessed with midnight showings in certain cities.

Perhaps most thrillingly of all, the cult 90s silicon - and - sandcastles TV drama Baywatch will get the big screen treatment, updated for a contemporary audience and (with tongue firmly in cheek) by Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon.

Test audiences didn't enjoy the direction the franchise went with the cult mythology so huge chunks of the film were re-shot to make the film feel like your average slasher, which is what the result felt like.

2014 didn't have a cult film in the making like What We Do in the Shadows, or a true sleeper like Straight Outta Compton (or Spy, for that matter), or a blockbuster hitting the sweet spot for audiences and critics alike like Mad Max has done, or a traditional standalone nonfranchise blockbuster like The Martian, or an animated film with the acclaim of Inside Out, or a little horror movie that could like It Follows, or an unexpected independent drama that ran forever like Room....2015 was a year like 1999 or 1994.

Four years later, he returned with «Birth,» starring Nicole Kidman, a strange, unclassifiable, but deeply wonderful film that didn't find the audience or critical reception it deserved at the time, but which has gone on to be something of a cult favorite.

While Tank Girl has amassed a cult following over the last 20 years (it has the highest audience rating of any film on this list), it did not fare well with critics and performed horribly at the box office.

But there is a small circle of bad films that become cult classics because their particular bad - ness sparks with an audience.

Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma are all extremely funny, highly verbose films with high cult audiences.

But of all the Wyatt Earp movies, 1993's Tombstone is the one that has developed a large and loyal cult audience, with even many Western history experts conceding that it comes closer to the facts than most screen treatments.

You'd think the sight of Downton Abbey's sexiest solicitor with a big gun would be enough for American audiences, but it was not to be, leaving the psychological thriller / horror comedy poised to become a cult classic.

The convoluted plot and innovative style earned this TV show cult status in the 60s and now that it is being released on Blu - ray with a transfer from the original film elements and a newly remixed 5.1 surround track, it stands to attract its audience back and maybe pick up some new fans along the way.

Director Jake Kasdan hasn't had much luck commercially with three fine comedies (Zero Effect, The TV Set, Walk Hard) that didn't find cult audiences until they flopped in theaters, so perhaps it isn't surprising that Bad Teacher's tone is broad, crowd - pleasing, and unapologetically commercial.

But in an interview with VH1 celebrating 10 years since the release of the cult movie, the director has revealed the two stars - who captured the audience's hearts with their chemistry - fought during filming, and Ryan even asked for Rachel be taken off the project.

Despite the example being 30 years old, there came a general murmur of acknowledgement accompanied with smiles of recognition and since then I've learned that certain films, despite their age, have achieved cult status among a teenage audience.

And with the cult fame afforded to Dark Souls, the prospects for its sequel is that it could break through to that wider audience Kirton hopes to attract.

It's a setup that should likely be familiar with the rebirth of arena shooters after the popularity enjoyed by Geometry Wars on the XBLA, and thus hopefully can attract a larger audience than the cult classic originals.

«Wild Guns was an instant cult classic when it launched a little over 20 years ago, and fans have continued to love the franchise on Nintendo platforms over the years,» said Hiro Maekawa, President and CEO of Natsume Inc. «We're very excited to be working with Natsume Atari Inc. and the original development team to bring the game to the PlayStation 4 audience.»

Most of The Following is spent building up your trust level with the local cult by doing side missions so that you can gain an audience with The Mother, a mysterious entity who seems to have the answer for the zombie outbreak.

Some fans of the artist Orly Genger may know her from the cult - favorite line of intimate sculptural bracelets she makes with the jeweler Jaclyn Meyer, but true core of her art will be revealed to a mass audience: she's actually a shaper of ambitious, monumental works, on the scale of an El Anatsui or Richard Serra.