Cult – Page 8 – Anywhere But Hollywood

Alice

April 26, 2026

The White Rabbit is a taxidermied specimen in a glass case that breaks its own wires, dresses itself, and escapes. Alice shrinks into a china…

Alice

April 26, 2026

The White Rabbit is a taxidermied specimen in a glass case that breaks its own wires, dresses itself, and escapes. Alice shrinks into a china…

Starcrash

April 25, 2026

Luigi Cozzi had been trying to sell his science fiction project to producers for a year when Star Wars came out in May 1977. The…

Forbidden Zone

April 25, 2026

This is what happens when an avant-garde theatre troupe decides to make a feature film with no money, no script to speak of, and complete…

Paradise

April 24, 2026

“The Blue Lagoon with camels” – that was Vincent Canby’s review in the New York Times, and it is both accurate and insufficient. PARADISE (1982)…

Flesh Gordon

April 23, 2026

It began as a pornographic film. That is not the most interesting thing about it. FLESH GORDON (1974) was shot as early as 1971 by…

Liane, Jungle Goddess

April 23, 2026

In 1956, producer Fritz Gerhardt auditioned 12,000 girls before selecting fifteen-year-old Marion Michael as Germany’s answer to Brigitte Bardot. He then sent her to Africa…

The Girl on a Motorcycle

April 23, 2026

It was the first film to receive an X rating in the United States under the newly introduced system, and was recut by Warner Bros.…

Things to Come

April 22, 2026

Arthur C. Clarke showed it to Stanley Kubrick early in the development of 2001. Kubrick disliked it. After seeing 2001, Frederik Pohl observed that the…

The Apple

April 22, 2026

Audience members were handed free vinyl records of the soundtrack as they entered. By the fillm’s end, they were throwing them at the screen. THE…

Lifeforce

April 21, 2026

In 1985, Cannon Films gave Tobe Hooper $25 million, a novel about space vampires, and what he later described as the freedom to make a…

Chosen Survivors

April 20, 2026

A computer selects eleven people at random. They are sedated, loaded onto helicopters, and deposited into a state-of-the-art nuclear bunker two miles beneath the desert.…

Escape from Tomorrow

April 17, 2026

Somebody made a horror film inside Walt Disney World and Disneyland without asking Disney. They used tiny cameras, dressed the cast as ordinary tourists, hid…

Paperhouse

April 16, 2026

PAPERHOUSE is sometimes categorized as a children’s fantasy film. It’s really not. Bernard Rose (Candyman) adapted it in 1988 from Catherine Storr’s 1958 novel Marianne…

Angel

April 14, 2026

The tagline was “High school honor student by day, Hollywood hooker by night.” Audiences showed up for the premise and stayed for an incongruously warm-hearted…