For today’s guest post, the always interesting Rick 29 presents an overview of some of the most fascinating cult films ever to hit the big screen: What’s a cult movie? Let’s skip the formal definitions and focus on five common…
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Eating Raoul and More Cult Faves Coming to DVD and Blu-ray
Criterion Corner: Two long-in-the-works American cult faves hit the shelves from Criterion in both DVD and Blu-ray. Eating Raoul (1982) is the late Paul Bartel’s outrageous black comedy in which a married couple (Bartel and Mary Woronov) discover that killing…
Read more →The Weird Worlds of Alex de la Iglesia
Alex de la Iglesia is out of control. Again, thank goodness. The Spanish director with a small but devoted cult in the States is back to his old tricks in his latest film The Last Circus. Set in Spain throughout…
Read more →The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 10 Facts About The Movie
Here are 10 trivia facts about The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1975, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to…
Read more →Taking Out the Trash Humpers
In his three-and-a-half-star review of Crash—the 1996 David Cronenberg movie about the fetish that combines sexual arousal with car crashes, not the 2005 Best Picture about the fetish that combines racial disharmony with outrageous narrative coincidence—Roger Ebert claimed that Cronenberg’s film was all…
Read more →What Are Tomorrow’s Cult Classic Films?
Last week, Movie FanFare ran a poll asking readers to vote for their favorite “cult classic” film. Not surprisingly, The Rocky Horror Picture Show came out of the gate strong and has a comfortable lead on such worthies as George Romero’s…
Read more →Blade Runner Sequels, Cult Films, Commodity Culture
Guest blogger Chuck Tryon writes: I’ve been fascinated by the response to the news that Alcon Entertainment, best known for bringing us The Blind Side, has secured TV and film rights to Blade Runner, a move that would allow them to do…
Read more →Cult Films: A History of the Obsessive Film Genre
Guest bloggers Angie and Chantale write: Cult films. Sounds kinda scary doesn’t it? If you’re not a movie-buff you might be thinking a cult film is a recruiting video to entice you to join The Alliance of the Stars of…
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