Cult – Page 3 – Anywhere But Hollywood

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…

Tammy and the T-Rex

August 14, 2026

He had access to a life-sized animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex for two weeks before it had to be shipped off to a theme park in Texas.…

Carnival of Souls

August 12, 2026

He made workplace-safety reels, driver’s-ed shorts, educational filmstrips. He drove past a rotting lakeside pavilion and could not stop picturing dead figures dancing inside it.…

Showgirls 2: Penny’s from Heaven

August 11, 2026

In the notorious 1995 flop Showgirls, there was a background stripper named Penny Slot. Most people forgot about her the moment the credits rolled. Rena…

Sisters

August 10, 2026

He was haunted by a story in Life magazine about a pair of conjoined twins. In the photo the two girls sat side by side,…

Heathers

August 8, 2026

It was his first screenplay and he had exactly one director in mind. Only Stanley Kubrick could pull off a three-hour black comedy about a…

American Pop

August 6, 2026

For 17 years, it was one of the most requested films in America. You could not legally buy it or rent it. It played on…

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

August 5, 2026

Alone in her attic bedroom at night, a teenage girl pricks her finger, smears the blood across her laptop screen, and says the words three…

Equinox

August 4, 2026

Four young people find an ancient cursed book in the woods and are attacked by a horde of demons – more than a decade before…