Cult

CULT – Dressed to Kill: A Retrospective

Published on: 6th January, 2010

Dressed to Kill is a film that can be interpreted in a number of ways. Is it an art house horror film, a straightforward commercial slasher movie with pretensions, is it exploitation, is it a soft porn exercise in erotic voyeurism, a product of its time or is this just another of Brian De Palma’s [...]

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CULT – Duel

Published on: 27th December, 2009

Sometimes the problem with becoming the most successful director of all time and having every tool in Hollywood at your disposal is that your work can lose its purity in time. That is not to say that Steven Spielberg has lost his magic, or that his big budget spectacles lack any kind of sincerity [...]

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CULT – Mansion of the Doomed

Published on: 18th December, 2009

The 1970’s saw exploitation cinema really coming into its element. Often borrowing from more renowned classics and adding an air of sleaze, these low budget grindhouse features would be designed for the late night movie theatres and drive-ins that were still commonplace around America. It would be during this time that many future [...]

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CULT – The Company of Wolves

Published on: 7th October, 2009

The 1980s saw a fundamental change for the werewolf movie. Whilst folklore had built around the mythical beast for centuries and cinema had added its own spin on the formula, it still seemed rather ridiculous and irrelevant. But two films would be released around the same time that would rewrite the genre and [...]

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CULT – Last House on Dead End Street

Published on: 6th October, 2009

Perhaps a horror film’s greatest triumph is when the viewer believes what they are seeing is real. Michael and Roberta Findlay succeeded with their appropriately titled exploitationer Snuff in 1976, Conan Le Cilaire (real name John Alan Schwartz) followed suit two years later with his pseudo-documentary Faces of Death and Ruggero Deodato even faced [...]

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CULT – Barton Fink

Published on: 28th September, 2009

Many authors consider writer’s block the enemy of creativity. To feel uninspired is an artist’s greatest fear, often resulting in mediocre and contrived work. Some give up and call it a day, whilst others soldier on and try to complete their piece, regardless of how inferior to finished product us. But the [...]

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CULT – Street Trash

Published on: 27th September, 2009

Street Trash: the ultimate melt movie! So many flicks during the mid-1980’s were simple carbon copies of countless other films that had been released in recent years. There were generic slasher clones, mindless zombie features and a neverending supply of sequels. Street Trash perverted the horror genre in more ways than one; [...]

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CULT – The Hills Have Eyes

Published on: 24th September, 2009

The surprise success of The Last House on the Left had been both a blessing and a curse for its filmmakers. Whilst its distributor, Hallmark, had reaped tremendous gain from its box office performance, both producer Sean S. Cunningham and director Wes Craven had been the target of controversy due to its extreme content. [...]

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CULT – Crimewave

Published on: 14th September, 2009

Blood Simple had been a huge favourite with the critics upon its release and the two young filmmakers responsible, Joel and Ethan Coen, were eager to begin work on their second feature. Before they had made their first film, the two brothers had collaborated with another promising director, Sam Raimi, on a couple of stories [...]

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CULT – Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth

Published on: 12th September, 2009

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth would mark the transition that the series would become a bonafide horror franchise, rivaling A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween and Child’s Play for its pop culture appeal and iconic villain. It would also see the production relocate from the United Kingdom (the first had been [...]

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