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POUTfest Docs will explore remarkable real lives reflecting personal and social histories, whilst POUTfest Gold will revisit some of the best ground - breaking and cult films from Peccadillo's film archive.

There are small nods to almost all the cult films from that decade, which is fine for a novel but a little more expensive to produce on screen, where copyright issues are something of a minefield.

Our topic was our five favorite cult films from the 1980s, and we spent most of our 15 minutes swapping descriptions of our faves.

Not exact matches

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.

But we'd do well to define what «cult» actually means, both inside the Christian church - i.e., Christians use the term largely to differentiate other religions which deviate from orthodox, historical and Biblical Christianity - and outside, where it's thrown around to describe everything from followers of Kevin Smith films to any organization that's secretive and raises boat loads of money.

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.

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.

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.

Aside from films like Bon Cop Bad Cop or The Sweet Hereafter that have gained a cult following, there isn't much of a draw to Canadian films.

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.

BE: You mentioned that you've been in more cult films than just about anybody, but you've also got such a diverse group of films to call your own, everything from «Super Troopers» to «X2.»

Spawning a juggernaut of a franchise featuring a number of sequels, comic books, toys, novels, and Internet videos, «Predator» has become completely immersed in pop culture and gone from a cult classic to an iconic film.

The No. 1 request from FilmStruck users was to have access to classic Hollywood films, in addition to the lineup of art house, indie, foreign and cult films on the service, according to execs.

Action Lab: Danger Zone has announced the upcomingc rossover Gingerdead Man Meets Evil Bong, straight from the cult films by Full Moon Features!

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-...]

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 second feature film from Charlie McDowell, director of the cult favorite low - key sci - fi film The One I Love from Sundance 2014.

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).

Director / writer Joseph Kosinski «s story (the script is credited to Karl Gadjusek and Michael DeBruyn, with William Monahan and Michael Arndt among those who worked on the film too) cribs liberally from other more familiar sci - fi tales, including one recent cult hit which mentioning the name of would likely tip you off to the film's big secrets.

Syfy has officially ordered Kevin Bacon's Tremors reboot to pilot with the star set to reprise his role from the 1990 cult classic film.

The original movie grossed a little over $ 60 million worldwide back in 2001 from a budget of just under half of that, though the film has a huge following and gained a progressive cult status in the years that have passed since then.

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).

On Michael Reeves and British gothic film [New York Times] Credited with directing three déclassé horror movies, dead from an overdose of barbiturates at 25, the British filmmaker Michael Reeves (1943 - 1969) is a quintessential cult figure.

This darkly funny and eerily relevant 1982 cult classic about how to stop worrying and love the bomb is pieced together from government - produced educational and training films, newsreels and... More

While many mainstream films fade from the public eye after the completion of their initial theatrical runs, the popularity of cult films continue to grow.

From cult movie directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes a unique film experience: a double - bill of thrillers that recall both filmmakers» favorite exploitation films.

While cult films range from campy science fiction to highly graphic horror movies and just about everything in between, there are a few characteristics that most cult films share:

«The Revenge of Jennifer Hills: Remaking a Cult Icon» (16:22) gathers comments from cast and crew regarding the original film and what their involvement in this remake meant to them.

This is from the same filmmaker who made the cult horror hit The Loved Ones, and the film first premiered at festivals a few years ago.

Breck Eisner («The Crazies») is attached to direct the remake of the 1981 cult classic film «Escape From New York» for New Line / Warner Bros..

An all new feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim («Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job»)!

From 3D cane toads on opening night (Cane Toads: The Conquest) to John Woo kung fu to close the program (Reign Of Assassins), possibly the world's first «womantic» feature (the Brisbane - based comedy Jucy) to the utterly indescribable (Tommy Wiseau cult phenomenon The Room), the new look festival — in a new timeslot and new venues (Palace Centro and Barracks cinemas, and Tribal Theatre)-- has assembled an amazing line - up, with films for young (well, 18 and over for the most part, given the severing of links between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and old.

This is a franchise where most of its success is from a cult following and without this following I don't think there would have even been a second film, let alone a trilogy.

A legendary B movie actor, Campbell is most famous for his starring roles in cult films like The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Crimewave, Army of Darkness, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho - tep, Escape From L.A. and Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.

The thoroughly awful movie that resulted from their collaboration would go on to become a midnight cult classic, one of the most highly regarded so - bad - it's - good films ever made.

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.

This video essay looks at how the Casablanca TV series from 1983, starring David Soul, exemplifies the process of how the 1942 film became a cult film through what Umberto Eco identified as its intertextual...

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.»

Based on a cult favorite 2010 Mexican film of the same name, We Are What We Are is a brooding genre film from co - writer / director Jim Mickle about family traditions.

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.

The selection of films incorporates some of the most significant (and most discussed) examples of international «art cinema» and off - Hollywood cult cinema from recent years, the bulk of them released between 2000 and 2006; examples include In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar - wai, 2000), Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000), Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001), Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004), and Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005).

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.

Running February 19 thru March 10, along with a separate shorts program of short films and trailers, the Music Box will be showing 14 features — some of them in prints from their original theatrical runs — that run the gamut from Oscar - winning classics to cult oddities to contemporary uses of the format.

Filmed on a shoestring budget against the backdrop of 1980s New York (where the movie would become a staple of the infamous 42nd Street grindhouse circuit), «Basket Case» has clawed its way from its humble origins to become one of the most celebrated cult movies of all time.

Transferring all of the familiar action cliches and plot devices to rural England was a masterstroke, and Pegg's obvious love of cult film and TV offers up a wealth of targets for homages, from Bad Boys II to The Stepford Wives to The Wicker Man.

The use in the films of songs from Hungarian pop band Kispal es a Borz helped the films gain cult status.»

THE DISASTER ARTIST Director: James Franco Starring: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Jacki Weaver, Alison Brie, Ari Graynor, Josh Hutcherson, Jerrod Carmichael, Jason Mantzoukas, Zac Efron, Bob Odenkirk The other night I watched the cult classic film The Room from Tommy Wiseau.

Although Preminger was already a name on the lists (compiled from the standard coffee - table guide books of the era) of filmmakers and films I had convinced myself I needed to catch up with, I had no real notion, back then, of the kinds of intense cults of cinephilic adoration, situated all over the world at diverse moments of film criticism's history, that had been (and were still to be) inspired by his work from the 1940s through the 1960s.

The fallout, obviously, of the cult of Twilight, Red Riding Hood is so poorly filmed that everything in it — everything — is funny, from a grieving mother pausing (and grimacing, in boss «Invader Zim» style) in the doorway of a pub to an obviously pagan celebratory dance sequence that doesn't quite jibe with the film's late - Christian histrionics.

Available on DVD from New Line, the film should pick up some cult momentum on home video, especially now that you can view it as originally intended; unfortunately, the Storytelling disc is another Todd Solondz special, meaning no extras save for a trailer.