Sentences with phrase «cult film if»

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For example, if you're a printmaker and you've just finished a range of posters based on 80s cult films for a local exhibition, the most effective way to spend your money could be promoting your work to men interested in cinema aged 35 - 45 within 10 km of the gallery, instead of all genders, all ages, all across the UK.

Obviously, the big question regarding The Disaster Artist is whether you need to see The Room before watching it, or if experiencing the cult hit enhances this film.

If there was ever a film developed solely for a cult audience, it's this one.

I appreciate that the film has quite a cult following and that I surely would have had a different reaction if I'd seen it back in the day, but I'm sorry to say it did nothing for me.

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 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.

If one had to put Gregg Araki's latest film into a finite box then it would be fair to call it a queer apocalyptic stoner religious cult horror comedy.

The movie has even drawn some comparisons to «Trainspotting,» even if the pitch - black comedy feels more like another book - to - film cult classic, «Fight Club.»

I wonder if Corman's latest wave of B - movies will get the same reconsideration that many of his earlier cult films have...

The Room improbably went on to become the equivalent of a cult classic (if for all the wrong reasons), a film made in direct contradiction of every rule of «good» filmmaking, but also one of the most purely enjoyable (if only ironically) cinematic experiences made in the last two decades (best seen and heard in a group of like - minded, possibly inebriated friends, acquaintances, and strangers).

Gerwig envisions a program in which locals apprentice with seasoned crew members (if only such an agenda were in place when Memoirs of a Geisha and The Assassination of Richard Nixon were filming in the area), citing how the cult fantasy show Xena: Warrior Princess laid the groundwork in New Zealand for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, some of the biggest productions in motion picture history.

It really shouldn't be surprising if such heady fare fails to connect with the mainstream, but if that were to happen then hopefully the film will find a cult following via streaming (it will be released internationally via Netflix a few weeks after its stateside debut).

If you grew up as a horror film fanatic in the 1980s, you may have run through most of the American slasher flicks and occult thrillers — and then you rented Lucio Fulci's 1980 cult favourite Zombie, which hopefully led you to all sorts of gore - laden apocalyptic mayhem from Italian splatter - slingers like Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare -LRB-...)

some people are being picky and trying to pass themselves of as a know it all film critic... if you went into this movie with your brain in anything higher than 1st gear you are a fool, i went looking for a bit of action and a salute to a cult classic and i got what i wanted @ 25 «if anybody thinks either Topher Grace or Adrien Brody could stand - up to a Predator seriously needs to consider suicide.»

Here, Jodorowsky's magical realist, fable - like cinematic language finally enters the real world; if cult films like «El Topo,» «The Holy Mountain,» and «Santa Sangre» interwove elaborately absurdist imagery with narratives borrowed from genre and myth, «The Dance of Reality» feels like Jodorowsky returning to the scene of the crime — to the the childhood visions and heartbreaks that started it all.

Hey, Rachael Leigh Cook, this is Kyle wondering if you ever date nasally cult film reviewers with zero future prospects?

Whether audiences will know what to make of it is an open question — if the actual film is a collision of several clashing tones, its trailer introduces a different one entirely — though acolytes of the Cult of Meryl could rally some support at the box office.

No, the strange thing is that The Disaster Artist probably wouldn't be so good if the movie it's about, the 2003 cult film The Room, weren't so bad.

His next two are a sequel and a remake of two cult classic films in the hard sci - fi genre that will only continue to stretch your minds and cinematic intelligence with the upcoming Blade Runner 2049 starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, and a crap ton of other people while his next project is the Watchmen of sci - fi movies where people fear that a faithful adaptation and remake of Dune feels near impossible, but if there was somebody to do it, it's Denis.

I would say that it probably helps if you're at least familiar with the story of The Room's cult status, but even if you aren't this is a great film.

I have a feeling that if John Q. Doe directed this film, it would easily be a quaint dinosaur, instead of the cult film it is today.

Nobody remembers this now, but back then, the trades were counting on the reunion of Silverado collaborators Lawrence Kasdan and Kevin Costner to deliver the sleeper hit of the summer; although back then everybody involved in the production tried to pawn off the film's failure on the growing cult of Tombstone, the fact is that Wyatt Earp is, if not the most boring movie ever made, perhaps the second-most.

Still, an instant cult classic doesn't come out every day, so if you look through your video collection and notice that you own a great many films that others think you an odd person for enjoying, there's no question that Bubba Ho - Tep will most likely be a cherished part of it soon after your first viewing.

It's hard to say if the film would still have the same cult status if Anderson stopped working or if his other movies turned out to be duds.

Even board games can see success as a feature film, if 1985's cult classic Clue is anything to go by.

Many of their films have become cult hits, if not big commercial successes, but the Rough Team isn't aiming for surefire bets.

Ever since news broke that James Franco would be bringing The Disaster Artist — a tell - all book about the making of infamously so - bad - it's - brilliant film The Room — to the big screen, we've been waiting with spoons at the ready (if you're unfamiliar with the traditions and cult following behind Tommy Wiseau's epic, read up on it here).

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.