Cult – Page 2 – Anywhere But Hollywood

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…

Ginger Snaps

August 27, 2026

It finally got made in 1999, in the months right after Columbine, when a violent movie about a murderous teenager was the last thing most…

Ghost in the Noonday Sun

August 26, 2026

The captain hired to deliver a pirate ship to the harbor was so drunk he drove it straight into the quay. Everyone stood on the…

Robot Jox

August 25, 2026

It started as an attempt to film Homer. The hero is named Achilles. The woman he loves is Athena. Stuart Gordon, who had just made…

The Ninth Configuration

August 24, 2026

Five years after The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty had a screenplay nobody wanted. Columbia developed it and let it go. Universal turned it down, according…

King Lear

August 23, 2026

He tried to hire Richard Nixon to act in his modernized KING LEAR (1987). Nixon turned him down. It opens with a voicemail from Menahem…

Tough Guys Don’t Dance

August 22, 2026

Jean-Luc Godard wanted Norman Mailer to write and star in a modern adaptation of King Lear, with Mailer playing a mob boss called Don Learo.…

Phantom of the Paradise

August 21, 2026

It was huge in Winnipeg. The soundtrack sold twenty thousand copies in that one city and went gold across Canada. Everywhere else… not so much.…

How I Won the War

August 20, 2026

The wardrobe department gave him a pair of round wire-rimmed spectacles. He wore them for the rest of his life. The Beatles had just played…

Wet Hot American Summer

August 18, 2026

The actors were dressed in shorts and t-shirts and It rained almost every day of the shoot. When a scene needed sunshine, the crew held…

The Addiction

August 17, 2026

The Guardian’s chief film critic Peter Bradshaw named it one of the greatest films of all time. Tokyo Story. Paths of Glory. Raging Bull. Andrei…