Sentences with phrase «cult movie into»
The sheer audacity of a Hollywood studio turning a very British cult movie into an American caper might have been considered foolhardy.
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The friendship arc continues to have a touch - and - go handling and the movie itself egregiously abridges the film's natural, long ascent into cult status with its ending, the strangest of its kind since Danny Boyle's «Steve Jobs.»
It is hard making a painfully bad movie that slips into a cult favorite spectacle of baddie goodness.
One of our favourite movies of the latter part of this year in the upcoming The Disaster Artist, James Franco's feature that looks into the making of the cult film The Room, one that is heralded as being the Citizen Kane of bad movies.
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.
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
Notable cult flick Ninja III: The Domination (1984) delves deep into occult weirdness and the supernatural than previous movies.
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.
«Bravo is continuing its push into original scripted programming, adding five dramas into its development pipeline including a reboot of 1980s cult movie Heathers,» writes The Hollywood Reporter.
As cult movies go, this one's definitely Z - grade, but just try telling that to the misty - eyed sci - fi fan who's moved at the sight of aliens dropping their warlike ways and getting into the holiday spirit.
Hereditary may well be destined to change into a cult movie within the vein of The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, and maximum just lately It Comes at Night, because of this.
Adapted from J.G. Ballard's 1975 cult favorite novel, this movie starts well, but as the story descends into chaos, the movie follows, losing the thread of what it wants to say and why we should care.
But when the theater suddenly catches fire and Max cuts through the projector screen in order to escape, the group is mysteriously sucked into the cult horror classic where they must team up with the movie's fictional characters in order to battle its machete - wielding killer.
Not unlike CBS» planned «Rush Hour» and «Limitless» movie - to - television series orders, «Galaxy Quest» is yet another nostalgia - soaked cult favorite that has found new life born out of obscurity in the post-Blockbuster rental world (and back into our PC and MAC connected TV sets).
Maybe lovers of bad movies will turn this into a cult film with the challenge: you have to see this and tell me what you think.
It was sold as a second feature and then fell into the public domain, where it became a cult movie a generation later, thanks to cheap videotape copies.
The film is based on the making of the terrible 2003 Tommy Wiseau movie «The Room,» universally panned as the worst movie ever made that has now grown into a runaway cult classic.
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.»
This little gem features American treasure and all - around genre cinema maestro John Carpenter discussing his 1988 sci - fi / action / horror cult classic They Live, going into detail about such things as the conceptual ideas behind the movie's premise, his casting of professional wrestler «Rowdy» Roddy Piper as the protagonist, and the rebellious inspiration for the film's infamous fight scene between Piper and the great Keith David.
Chase, of course, was instrumental in escalating the beloved humor magazine — co-founded in 1970 by Doug Kenney, who'll be played by Will Forte in the movie — from cult success into a mainstream name with his starring role in the brand's various Vacation films.
The king of the 1980s buddy - cop movie, writer - director Shane Black crafted the screenplays for Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout before falling into a slump, rebounding impressively in recent years with the cult hit Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and then directing and co-writing Iron Man 3.
Robin Williams pretty much set the template for comedians breaking into movies: start out as a wildly popular cult comedian, get your own network sitcom tailored specifically to your style of comedy and then begin accepting starring roles in Hollywood films.
«A tense, absorbing pursuit Western that turns into a Grand Guignol gorefest, Bone Tomahawk is what you might get if you crossbred The Searchers with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, or maybe Cannibal Holocaust... There's an elegance to Bone Tomahawk that doesn't let up even when it veers into cult - movie territory.»
In the vein of such divisive cult favorites as «Primer» and «Upstream Color,» Mike Cahill's crazy - ambitious sophomore feature (after «Another Earth») refuses to let a modest budget constrain its larger - than - life - itself concept, cramming everything from the existence of God to a new, all - encompassing theory of reincarnation into the guise of a sexy, globe - trotting detective movie that very nearly collapses under the weight of its own mumbo - jumbo.
An American Werewolf in London is a cult horror film that will most likely please those into horror movies on the irreverently funny side, especially ones that don't skimp out on gore or bits of wry humor.
Based on the best - selling tell - all book about the making of the cult - classic disasterpiece The Room, «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.
People couldn't help but be won over by the utter ineptitude they were witnessing, and soon The Room had become something akin to a modern - day Rocky Horror Picture Show — the stuff of midnight movie legend, with a devoted group of fans initiating their friends into an ever - growing cult movement.
On paper, the marriage of cult film director David Cronenberg and cult novelist Don DeLillo is no doubt an ideal one, but movies require bringing dozens or even hundreds of other random factors into the mix, and it's the director's job to bring all of it together into one cohesive vision.
Faults, although a little too controlled, is a worthy addition into the modern canon of «cult» movies and places Riley Stearn firmly into the «ones to watch» category of modern independent cinema
One Missed Call was a novel written by Yasushi Akimoto that was adapted into a movie by cult director Takashi Miike.
Those hiccups aside, though, The Endless rapidly develops from a mysterious, elliptical story about cult survivors and strained relationships into a much larger and stranger movie, essentially the Aliens to Resolution's original Alien.