Cult – Page 9 – Anywhere But Hollywood

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…

Eyes of Fire

April 13, 2026

Before The Witch. Before Midsommar. Before folk horror hit the mainstream as a popular subgenre, Avery Crounse made EYES OF FIRE in Missouri in 1983.…

Starship Invasions

April 12, 2026

In the summer of 1977, Star Wars came out and changed science fiction forever. A few months later, Canada released STARSHIP INVASIONS, and it did…

The Endless

April 11, 2026

Most cult horror gives you obvious villains. THE ENDLESS gives you people you’d almost want to hang with – warm, communal, strangely at peace -…

Ciao! Manhattan

April 9, 2026

The film started shooting in 1967. By the time it wrapped in 1972, its star was dead. CIAO! MANHATTAN began as a loose, Warhol-adjacent project…

Times Square

April 8, 2026

In 1979, Allan Moyle took his cameras into Times Square before the city cleaned it up. What he captured – the grindhouses, the neon, the…

Nothing Lasts Forever

April 7, 2026

One of the strangest cult films of the 1980s was barely released at all. NOTHING LASTS FOREVER is a black-and-white fantasy directed by SNL oddball…