Cult Films

It’s Alien Day, So Share Your Thoughts On the Sci-Fi Franchise with Us

04.26.22 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Alien, Alien Day, Alien Day 4/26, Cult Films, Internet holidays, James Cameron, Open Thread, Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver | no comments

Today marks that chest-burstingist of all Internet holidays, Alien Day! This celebration of 20th Century Fox’s landmark 1979 sci-fi/horror classic Alien and its various sequels/prequels/spin-offs. (The event takes its date from LV426, which also happens to be the classification…

What’s the Best Song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show?

01.28.22 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Barry Bostwick, Cult Films, Meat Loaf, Richard O'Brien, Susan Sarandon, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tim Curry | 1 comment

“It isn’t easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.” – Dr. Frank N. Furter (a scientist). Originally released in 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has had about as strange of a trajectory as any film…

Guest Review: The Flight That Disappeared

11.12.21 | Constance Metzinger | Tags: 1950s Films, Cult Films | no comments

Terror in the Sky….beyond known flight! Just when you thought you explored all the sci-fi films of the 1960s, “new” titles appear in a book or while browsing online. For us, it was The Flight that Disappeared that magically appeared….

Poll: Who’s Your Favorite Character from the 1980 Sci-fi Epic “Flash Gordon”?

05.25.21 | Jon Morgereth | Tags: 1980s Films, Brian Blessed, Cult Films, Flash Gordon, Sam Jones, Timothy Dalton, Topol | no comments

Flash! Ahh! Originally released in 1980, Flash Gordon is an enduring cult favorite. The film follows Flash (Sam J. Jones), quarterback for the New York Jets, and travel agent Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) are hijacked into a desperate space mission…

Awesome! “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” Comes to the Criterion Collection This Week!

05.10.21 | Chris Cummins | Tags: 1980s Films, Amy Heckerling, Anthony Edwards, Cameron Crowe, Cult Films, Eric Stoltz, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Nicolas Cage, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, Sean Penn, The Criterion Collection | no comments

Point to ponder: Is Fast Times at Ridgemont High the best teen movie of all time? Personally I think it is, and it’s also one of the best comedies of the 1980s…if not all time. Adapted from Cameron Crowe’s book…

This Week’s New Releases Include “Another Thin Man” and “Each Dawn I Die”

04.29.21 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Ali MacGraw, Bill Murray, Criterion Collection, Cult Films, Dan Duryea, Douglas Sirk, Eli Wallach, Geena Davis, James Cagney, Jason Robards, Jean-Luc Godard, Kirk Douglas, Maggie Cheung, Myrna Loy, Phil Hartman, Ralph Waite, Randy Quaid, Robert Patrick, Ruby Rose, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Warner Archive, Warner Archive Collection, William Powell | no comments

This week’s new Blu-ray and DVD offerings are the perfect snapshot of the diversity of the moviegoing experience. Making their home video debuts this week are are assortment of favorites — both classic and contemporary — from the Warner Archive…

Create-A-Caption: Donnie Darko

04.28.21 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Cult Films, Donnie Darko, Jake Gyllenhaal | no comments

Arguably the biggest cult classic in recent memory, Donnie Darko stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a gifted but troubled ’80s high school student whose adolescent horrors take on new dimensions, as he starts to see “shifts in time” and is visited…

Movie Trailer of the Day: Streets of Fire

04.21.21 | Chris Cummins | Tags: 1980s Films, Cult Films, Diane Lane, Jim Steinman, Michael Paré, Rick Moranis, Streets of Fire, Walter Hill, Willem Dafoe | no comments

Yesterday, songwriting great Jim Steinman — known for his hugely successful collaborations with everyone from Meatloaf to Celine Dion — died at the age of 73. Steinman’s career often brushed up against motion pictures, providing songs for Footloose (“Holding out…

“Damn Yankees,” “Promising Young Woman,” and More of This Week’s New Releases!

03.17.21 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Academy Award Winners, Alan Freed, Alison Doody, Allison Brie, Barbet Schroeder, Barbra Streisand, Bradley Whitfield, Bruce Dern, Carey Mulligan, Chuck Berry, Clancy Brown, Connie Francis, Craig Robinson, Cult Films, Damn Yankees, Dan Aykroyd, David Tennant, Demi Moore, Dipo Ola, Doctor Who, Driving Miss Daisy, Eric Roberts, Fabian, Fats Domino, Howard Keel, Jennifer Coolidge, Jessica Tandy, Joel Kinnaman, John Wayne, Jon Voight, K.J. Apa, Kenneth Mars, Kirk Douglas, Laverne Cox, Lenny Henry, Madeline Kahn, Mena Suvari, Morgan Freeman, Patrick Bergin, Patrick Troughton, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Stormare, Pierce Brosnan, Psycho Goreman, Rainn Wilson, Ray Walston, Rebecca De Mornay, Roberto Benigni, Ron Funches, Ryan O'Neal, Ryan Phillippe, Stanley Donen, Tab Hunter, Talia Shire, The Criterion Collection, Warner Archive Collection | no comments

This week’s new releases include everything from classics from the Warner Archive Collection making their Blu-ray debut to recent films, be it critically acclaimed releases of flicks that seem destined for cult status. Here’s a look at the titles that…

When “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” Made The News

10.31.20 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Cult Films, Halloween, Michael Stipe, R.E.M., The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 1 comment

What you are about to see is pure video gold. As you are probably already aware, when The Rocky Horror Picture Show was originally released in August of 1975 by 20th Century Fox, it was a box office failure. Then…