Cult – Anywhere But Hollywood

Night Tide

September 18, 2026

A lonely sailor on shore leave falls for a beautiful young woman who works the pier as a sideshow mermaid. He learns that the men…

Spring

September 15, 2026

A grieving young man spends his small inheritance on a trip to Italy. He falls in love with a woman, brilliant and beautiful, a little…

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

September 14, 2026

A prisoner sailing home to an island where the sun never sets falls in love with a woman who vanishes before reaching port. His sister…

The Final Programme

September 13, 2026

Mick Jagger was offered the lead and turned it down for being too weird. Michael Moorcock is one of the most prolific fantasy writers who…

On the Silver Globe

September 11, 2026

Andrzej Żuławski was two years and eighty percent into an ambitious, delirious science-fiction epic when the government shut his production down. The Communist authorities in…

The Company of Wolves

September 10, 2026

A British writer rewrote Perrault’s fairy tales as explicitly adult stories of danger and desire. Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, Red Riding Hood, all reclaimed…

Run Lola Run

September 8, 2026

It’s become a Hollywood blockbuster trope. The story that splits into branching timelines. The hero who dies, respawns, and tries the level again. Writer-director Tom…

Jabberwocky

September 6, 2026

A Python was directing. A Python was starring. It was set in the Middle Ages, arriving right on the heels of Holy Grail. Audiences settled…

Until the End of the World

September 2, 2026

He shot the film across four continents. It was almost five hours long. His distributors demanded he cut it in half. So he made a…

Comin’ at Ya!

September 1, 2026

For a brief and silly stretch of the early 1980s, the movies threw themselves at you. You sat in a packed theater in cardboard glasses,…

Dead of Night

August 30, 2026

Three scientists left a cinema in the 1940s, and one asked a question that would split the field of cosmology for a generation: What if…

Phenomena

August 28, 2026

Dario Argento had always been fascinated by bugs. In the early 1980s, he heard a radio story about a murder solved by insects. A body…