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Albedo is, body and soul, like one of those sci - fi trash - cult movies from the sixties.
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was a quote from the Generation X cult classic movie Better Off Dead where John Cusack's character was pursed through the entire movie by a paperboy trying to collect $ 2 owed to him.
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.
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.
Pivotal to that of course are the actions of Damien Comolli, a divisive figure perhaps not a million miles away from Philip Seymour Hoffman's cult leader in the movie The Master.
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Not exactly a horror movie, but more of a tribute to the horror classics, the Cabin in the Woods presents an original plot with literally TONS of references to cult horror classics and even some of the video games (Will you spot the Boomer, Hunter, Tank and the Witch from Left 4 Dead?)
Whatever other inspirations the» Hunger Games» series draws upon — from» Survivor,» to the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie version of» The Running Man,» to the Japanese cult classic that author Suzanne Collins claims she never saw,» Battle Royale» — at its best it's a meditation on the way fear and hope can be used by tyrants to subjugate the masses.
Slipping from fantasy to soap opera without any authorial control, pic's best hope is to be recognized as some kind of cult movie of badness.
The story behind cult movie The Room is brought to life with affection and painstaking detail and features a staggering transformation from the lead
If it's been a while since you've felt the cold blast and hard crunch of midnight - movie meanness, Zahler's shaping up to be your guy — the one selling illicit thrills out of the trunk of a well - restored, vinyl - topped LTD — and with «Brawl,» he sets himself further apart from his more schlock - minded contemporaries in cult cinem
A top - notch cult - movie cast — including Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits, Harry Dean Stanton — anchors this wacky, blood - spattered commentary on the psycho - killer thriller from the writer - director of In Bruges.
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.
After all, this is a non-franchise movie without any huge stars in it (sorry Vanessa Hudgens), from a director who has a cult following but not a huge mainstream following.
We're only a day away from Syfy's «Sharknado» and The Asylum has premiered a full length trailer for what's shaping up to be a cult bad movie classic.
All of the above takes place in «The Belko Experiment», from characters played by John Gallagher, Jr. («10 Cloverfield Lane»), John C. McGinley (who was in the 1999 cult comedy classic «Office Space», making this the best inside joke of the movie year so far), «Scandal» «s Tony Goldwyn, and Melonie Diaz.
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.
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.
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:
Jed is known for writing the cult movie «Slashed» which features acting performances from Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland from Coldplay, Moby, Ben Kweller, ASH, James Nesbitt and a host of other celebrity cameos.
Extras: aside from a number of trailers for cult movies coming out from Shock, there are no other extras on this release.
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.
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.
From cult classics to box office blockbusters, child actor to leading man, the movies he has been such a memorable part of are staples for any avid movie buff's collection and his public life has been something to be proud of as well.
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.
2 Limited Edition Boundary - breaking early crime thrillers, mob dramas and action movies from legendary cult director Seijun Suzuki.
But The Disaster Artist will be compared more easily with Tim Burton's wonderful Ed Wood, about a similarly clueless would - be Orson Welles who succeeded in making Plan 9 from Outer Space, another indescribably bad movie - turned - cult sensation.
The cult status it has, born from being embraced by the celebrity / alternative comedy scene in LA as a joke of a terrible movie, never really made sense to me.
They certainly had good reason to be optimistic: The movie is a genuine crowdpleaser about Wiseau's unlikely saga from Hollywood outcast to cult hero.
Cult 1981 movie CLASH OF THE TITANS is to be remade by LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN director STEPHEN NORRINGTON from a script rewritten by movie...
Men in black watch Sharon from the windows above a she travels down what I assume is Nathan Ave.. These guys could be members of the cult who may have kept Sharon and her father on the run (if this follows the cult plot of Silent Hill 3)... or just leftovers from Christabella's congregation in the first movie.
The film has been given the Blu - Ray treatment from 101 Films as part of their «Cult Movie Collection».
This is probably director Brian Trenchard - Smith's finest movie, which also includes the cult films Turkey Shoot and The Man from Hong Kong that end up being shown at the drive - in during the picture.
Taking off from the cult - fave TV soap that ran from 1966 to 1971, the movie isn't bad, exactly, just blah.
Before the internet and YouTube, the ways that you became informed about cult cinema was from reading books, fanzines, and watching some beat up VHS copies of the movies.
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In other words, woman hysterical / man rational, but with Talman Lunar Cult symbols all over the premises waiting to be deciphered, the movie shifts gears from Ira Levin to Dario Argento: Nell assumes the mantle of amateur sleuth, exploring the building's catacombs for hidden floors and missing corpses.
Ace new movie The Disaster Artist — in limited cinemas on December 1 and nationwide from December 6 — is the true story of how one man's dream to make his cinematic masterpiece led to one of the worst films in history, and one of the biggest cult hits.
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.
Directed by and starring James Franco, this is the tragicomical real life story of Tommy Wiseau (Franco), the delusional filmmaker behind «The Citizen Kane of Bad Movies,» the inept cult classic from 2003, The Room.
Long considered by many to be the de facto «worst movie ever,» this notorious effort from cult director Ed Wood finds aliens attempting to take over Earth by animating dead bodies — at least three of them.
This cult favorite TV movie about a mentally challenged man who's wrongfully killed by a lynch mob while dressed as a scarecrow and seemingly returns from the grave for revenge smartly keeps things low key but still manages to deliver (non-explicit) thrills, buoyed by the scene eating of perennial love - to - hate - him bad guy Charles Durning.
The latest film from James Franco, the Disaster Artist, is based on the events that lead to the production of Tommy Wiseau's 2003 B - movie cult film The Room, which has been dubbed the «Citizen Kane of bad movies.»
I really look forward to the next release of art from Gallery 1988, in fact they have a yearly calender that is also released if you need more cult movie art.
The cult is appropriately chilling, lived in if without detail, but amounts to just an early side step from the ultimate path of the movie.
For reasons the movie isn't hugely interested in exploring, Fassbender's cult rock star (the Frank of the title) retreated behind an enormous faux cranium many years ago and there he has remained, hermetically detached from the world outside.
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.