Sentences with phrase «movie by cult»

One Missed Call was a novel written by Yasushi Akimoto that was adapted into a movie by cult director Takashi Miike.

Reviled by critics upon its initial release (Ebert dismissed it as a «freak show» for instance) and doing badly at the box office, this 1982 horror movie by cult director John Carpenter has undergone a bit of a rehabilitation recently — partly because of Gen X fans who recall it vividly and partly because horror flicks strangely enough became more tame and predictable with the years.

Reviled by critics upon its initial release (Ebert dismissed it as a «freak show» for instance) and doing badly at the box office, this 1982 horror movie by cult director John

But the actor, who died yesterday in a freak automobile accident at the age of 27, went in the opposite direction, putting his franchise clout to work on movies by cult directors like Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive), Joe Dante (Burying the Ex), Paul Schrader (Dying of the Light) and Michael Almereyda (Cymbeline).

Not exact matches

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.

The man behind it is a closet atheist and the movie was secretly funded by atheists» cult.

I just watched the movie «September Dawn» where on 9 - 11 many Americans lost their lives to this cult and I spoke with my Son about this movie where they believe by killing gentiles (anyone not a mormon) that they are saving us, and we can go to the planet kolob and be a god.

The result — a tale of a young teenage boy who believes his epic sci - fi novel has been stolen for use by one of his writer heroes, and the battle that ensues between them — is a movie that this time might be too strange for a mainstream audience, but based on the Hesses» track record, could very well gain a cult following for years.

If you are enjoying adult movies, you're not being repressed and controlled by your church and your cult.

But it has since become something of a cult movie, passionately loved by many of those who watch it.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A live beehive, insect displays and movies will be open free to the public at the 18th annual Insect Cinema Cult Classic hosted by the Washington State University entomology graduate student association at 6 p.m. Friday, April 4, in Todd 276.

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.

I understand that Jovovich loves cult material, hence her participation in the horrendous Ultraviolet, and B movie throwbacks but by this point she should at least be able to tell the difference between bad cult movies and good ones.

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.

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.

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 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.

by the end when Tommy embraces his cult status, I felt provoked to make my own movie.

Some will argue that it always was, but despite the audience - participation cult surrounding his melodramatic opus The Room, and Wiseau's somewhat cynical exploitation of it, it's actually a really genuine movie, clearly created by someone who cared.

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.

Cult movies means many things to many people — Ben Wheatley's introduction touches on the manner in which he discovered the underbelly of cinema, but it won't be shared by everyone, of course — and everyone will have their own favorites.

The film, directed by and starring Franco, is about the making of the infamously bad cult movie «The Room.»

Havenhurst's partner is played by Michael Pena, who is not a cult actor but plays one in this movie.

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 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.

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...

The academy is run by a pair of lesbians (ageing movie stars Alida Valli and Joan Bennett), and a bizarre shrink (ubiquitous cult actor Udo Keir) explains that the place was once a notorious witches» coven.

The 2003 movie, which was directed by and starred the eccentric filmmaker, attained cult status in the years after its release and has been dubbed «the greatest bad movie ever made».

The cult 2003 movie inspired last year's «The Disaster Artist», which was directed by and starred James Franco

Andie's Review: Wow, for being truly the definitive cult movie of all time, this is really getting panned by the Mutant Reviewers.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Latest Mike Judge Comedy Misses the Mark While Mike Judge may be best known as the creator of the MTV animated series Beavis and Butthead, he also has a cult following of devoted movie fans who love his live - action masterpieces like Office Space and Idiocracy.

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.

Release date: May 18 Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller Directed by: David Leitch (Atomic Blonde) Why we're excited: Even in our current comic book movie moment, an ultraviolent meta - comedy based around a cult X-Men character with a foul - mouth wasn't anyone's idea of a sure thing.

His appearances in film and television throughout the years were jump - started by his turn as ambitious warehouse manager Daryl Philbin in cult TV classic The Office which in turn resulted in a string of parts in Evan Goldberg comedies including Pineapple Express, This is the End and, most recently, Sausage Party as well as features on other notable comedies as Knocked Up, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and a starring role in the two Hot Tub Time Machine movies (though we wish we could forget that second one.)

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.

I vividly remember when word began to spread, in the loose community of movie and culture bloggers of which I was then a part, about the 2003 cult phenomenon The Room, a self - produced and self - distributed movie that was the vanity project of an enigmatic figure by the name of Tommy Wiseau.

The Disaster Artist is a hilarious adaptation of a book of the same name by Greg Sestero, who stars in The Room, a cult hit that's widely considered the worst movie ever made.

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 clear precedent for Franco's project is Tim «Speaking of Bad Movies» Burton's Ed Wood (1994), about the cheapo 1950s cult filmmaker Ed Wood (played by Johnny Depp), whose ingenious sense of trash was a source of inspiration for Burton himself.

Alien (1979) movie by Ridley Scoot is a classic cult film famous for creating a vicious monster among all aliens possible out there, Xenomorph — an intelligent predator.

Here is a movie that (a) was directed by a talented and idiosyncratic newcomer, namely Richard Kelly who made a splash with the cult Donnie Darko hit; and (b) is based on a bona fide science fiction story by I Am Legend scribe Richard Matheson.

The Official Making of Big Trouble in Little China by Tara Bennett and Paul Terry, available now, is a must - read for cult movie fans.

by Walter Chaw John Hough's cult favourite The Watcher in the Woods is a movie about how a camera presents a point - of - view and of how that point - of - view, if it's not attached to a specific identity, can become menacingly voyeuristic; shame that The Watcher in the Woods isn't also about a story with characters in whom you're interested and performances that don't set teeth on edge.

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.

The film has since gained a cult following, leading to future re-releases and a fan - made sequel comic supervised by one of the movie's original writers.

Aiming squarely at midnight - movie cult status, it seals the deal by bolstering its baked college humor with copious sex scenes between its aesthetically gifted cast members — in a liberal spectrum of gender combinations.

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.

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Directed by: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim — Starring: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, John C. Reilly, Robert Loggia, Jeff Goldblum, Will Forte, William Atherton, Erica Durance 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»)!