Check out all of the posts tagged with "cult film".
Joseph H Lewis’s classic 1955 B-movie film noir thriller The Big Combo is ultra-tough for its day. It pushed a few boundaries and got into censorship problems with its slant on a regulation tale about […]
Director Fred McLeod Wilcox’s 1956 sci-fi version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a genre classic, haunting and beautiful looking, gaining an immense amount of other-worldly mood and atmosphere from being all artificially filmed in the […]
Oscar-winning writer William Peter Blatty’s belated 1990 sequel (as both writer and director this time) to his 1973 blockbuster The Exorcist is advertised as ‘from the creator of the original Exorcist’. That’s to distance itself […]
‘She knew strange, fierce pleasures that no other woman could ever feel!’ and ‘ The strangest story you ever tried to get out of your dreams!’ screamed the posters. Director Jacques Tourneur’s 1942 cult horror classic […]
Co-writer/director John McNaughton’s 1990 psychological crime drama is a horrifying true story case study, loosely based on the real life story of yet another American psycho, serial killer Henry Lee Lucas and his random killing spree. […]
Jason Schwartzman stars as Albert Markovski, an isolated conservationist, activist and poet who hires husband-and-wife team of existential detectives Bernard and Vivian (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) to get him back on the rails in […]
Writer-director George Romero’s outstanding 1978 zombie horror movie follows four urban commandos holed up in a shopping mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, which is under attack from large groups of flesh-eating zombies caused by a plague […]