(Synapse / CAV, Blu - ray, DVD), the 1975 underground
cult film by Curt McDowell and co-writer / star George Kuchar, is a gothic romp that veers into horror, sex, and camp parody, with explicit scenes and graphic horror.
Action Lab: Danger Zone has announced the upcomingc rossover Gingerdead Man Meets Evil Bong, straight from
the cult films by Full Moon Features!
At Tate Britain, Patrick Keiller has been given the whole length of the Duveen galleries to reprise one of
his cult films by other means.
Not exact matches
After first being introduced in 1998 to promote the
film Mulan, the sauce gained a
cult following, stoked
by the television series Rick and Morty, which made an episode featuring the sauce.
One, inspired
by the
cult horror
film «The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,» has distorted, snowy walls.
``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge
by the press, radio, and
film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation
by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite
cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»
Anyone who has attended a Star Trek or Star Wars
film on opening day and then gone a few weeks later knows the difference between a piece of art viewed
by cult followers and one viewed with casual fans.
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
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 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 begins in - flashback to a
cult - compound that looks a disturbingly - similar mix between the Branch Davidian one in Waco, and Spahn Ranch in Death Valley (once - populated
by the Manson Family).
The Shadow was directed
by former music video creator Russell Mulcahy, whose feature
film debut Highlander (1986) was a
cult classic.
Well Russ continued in his exploitive areas becoming a gigantic
cult filmmaker, beloved
by «geeks» everywhere, and Roger went into the
film criticism arena.
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 has since become a
cult film and cinematic cause celebre, revered
by its adherents and condemned
by its detractors.
The
film concerns Ansel Roth (played here
by the underrated Leland Orser), a down - on - his - luck writer who primarily deals with
cults and the idea of deprograming victims.
The
film follows the making of «The Room» - directed
by and starring Wiseau - which has been dubbed the worst movie ever made but went on to gain a
cult following.
Gary Lucas» live original solo guitar soundtrack accompanying the legendary 1967 Brazilian
cult horror
film classic directed
by and starring Jose Mojica Marins a / k / a Coffin Joe.
Carrie is a
film adaptation of Stephen King's work, which got turned into a
cult horror classic in 1976 and was directed
by Brain De Palma.
Based on the book The Disaster Artist
by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, the
film tells the behind - the - scenes story behind one of modern cinema's biggest
cult classics The Room.
Inspired
by the
cult 1989 video game from Cinemaware, the
film stars Mark Arnold, Harry Lister Smith, Vanessa Grasse, Alec Mills, and Callum McGowan; check it out below... Inspired
by Cinemaware's
cult 1980s video -LSB-...]
Officially licensed screen print for the 80s
cult comedy horror
film commissioned
by and available to buy from the super-cool Fright Rags (www.fright-rags.com).
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.»
The
film tells the tale of the making of Hollywood dreamer Tommy Wiseau's dreadful movie The Room, a wannabe serious drama that turned into a certified
cult comedy classic on the midnight show circuit — certainly not
by original intention.
Poltergeist II: The Other Side seeks to give more back story to the events of the first
film, why the youngest child in the Freeling family had been wanted
by the spirits, and the nature of the
cult from which the spirits culminated, headed
by Reverend Henry Kane (Beck).
The
film tells the tale of the making of Hollywood dreamer Tommy Wiseau's dreadful movie The Room, a wannabe serious drama that turned into a certified
cult comedy classic on the midnight show circuit — certainly not
by original... Read
The movie is nominally seen through the eyes of Hitler's naïve secretary Junge (Lara) who has become attracted
by Hitler's magnetic personality
cult, but the
film finds time to draw in several other characters to give different impressions of life in the dying city.
Released
by various entities in all formats all over the world for years, The Monster Club is a very easy
film to find and deserves to command a much bigger
cult following.
Wallace (voiced
by Peter Sallis) and Gromit have a dedicated
cult following, but this
film is my first venture into the duo's hijinks.
In this wickedly smart (and downright wicked)
cult classic turned quintessential high - school
film, smart - girl Veronica (Winona Ryder) throws in with the popular crowd (headed
by a bratty group of girls all sharing the name Heather).
In the early 1970s,
cult filmmaker Jess Franco inspired
by the Hammer horror
films being made in the UK revisited the iconic monsters of yesteryear, placing them in the castles and crypts of the Spanish countryside, and bracketing the thrills with scenes of frank eroticism.
It's an adaptation of a 1971 novel
by cult Seventies neo-polar writer Jean - Patrick Manchette, whose Nada became an underrated 1974
film by Claude Chabrol, and whose 1981 novel The Prone Gunman has just been adapted
by Taken director Pierre Morel with Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, and Mark Rylance under the rather uninspiring truncated title The Gunman.
Sadako vs Kayako is written and directed
by veteran Japanese horror filmmaker Kôji Shiraishi, of the
films Ju - Rei: The Uncanny, Dead Girl Walking, Noroi: The Curse, Ghost Zombie, Grotesque, Occult, Teketeke 1 & 2, Shirome, Chô Akunin,
Cult, Foe 1 & 2, and A Record of Sweet Murderer previously.
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story has become a sports
cult film of sorts — one of the best of the Frat Pack movies — telling the story of the scrappy dodgeball team at Average Joe's gym, led
by Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn), going against Ben Stiller's White Goodman and the formidable Purple Cobras from his Globo Gym.
Presented
by the Chicago
Film Society, which calls it the «New Wave
cult film your horrible teenage self should have shoplifted from the video store.»
Hosted
by C Robert Cargill (Hi4H June 2012, Hi4H June 2017) and Brian Salisbury, Junk Food Cinema (2014 — present) is a look at the forgotten
cult films and exploitation gems, the so - called «lost children» of the medium.
Juxtaposing the exploits of Martha (Elizabeth Olsen, younger sister of the Full House tots turned international entrepreneurs) in her initiation and entrenchment in, and then escape from, an
cult - like commune led
by the calculating Patrick (John Hawkes, Winter's Bone), the
film delves into her attempts to reconcile — and discern the difference between — her memories and dreams.
While popular in New Zealand, these were mainly
cult films for international audiences who had to purposefully seek out these quirky and raunchy examples of genre
by the then - little known Kiwi auteur.
Coming from a director credited for
cult classics such as The Craft and Dick, I had a level of expectation for this
film, which
by the end of the 90 minutes was not met.
The
film, directed
by and starring Franco, is about the making of the infamously bad
cult movie «The Room.»
The Disaster Artist, which is directed
by James and out in wide release Friday, is a comedy chronicling the making of 2003's The Room — the
film written
by, starring, and directed
by Tommy Wiseau, which has been christened both the worst movie ever made and, in the years since, a
cult classic.
The
film was written and directed
by Eli Craig, who was behind the
cult horror comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil!
The stop - motion animation drama played to a clunky, awkward Q&A when I saw its North American premiere at Telluride, but now that people will have seen the
film in droves
by Sundance 2016, one can imagine this will be an indeed special event, the first big meeting of the
cult following Johnson and Kaufman's
film so richly deserves.
Cult of Chucky is written and directed
by Don Mancini, who co-wrote the orignal
film and directed both Seed of Chucky and Curse of Chucky sequels.
It's shot in black and white which adds some style, and it has a haunting score
by Abel Korzeniowski (of A Single Man, W.E.), but this is a
film that is destined to be loved
by a small audience, and be much more of a
cult classic than anything.
The
film is easily the funniest, most exhilaratingly ridiculous picture in a year in which Snakes on a Plane aspired to the same camp /
cult heights, and it does it the only way that you can:
by being deadly serious.
The small screen adaptation of Guy Ritchie's 2000
cult film stars Rupert Grint, Luke Pasqualino, Lucien Laviscount, Marc Warren, Stephanie Leonidas, Phoebe Dynevor, Juliet Aubrey, Tamer Hassan, Dougray Scott, and Ed Westwick; take a look below... Inspired
by a real life heist in London, -LSB-...]
by Walter Chaw Joe Cornish's low - budget creature - feature Attack the Block is a charmer, a delight, the kind of rare
film — like Jack Sholder's The Hidden, Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator, or Steve De Jarnatt's Miracle Mile — that devotees will latch onto, and for good reason, with the fervour afforded genuine
cult classics.