In movies like the Oscar-nominated The Cardinal, actress Carol Lynley portrayed great-looking ‘girls-next-door’ who dared to defy social traditions.
Cult Movies
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Hal Prince Broadway musical legend: Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborator + remembering subversive cult classic.
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Yvonne Monlaur: Sensuous cult horror movie actress and James Bond Girl contender whose career was nearly ruined following boat explosion has died.
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Coleen Gray Actress: From Red River to Good Girls in Film Noir Classics such as Nightmare Alley and Kiss of Death plus Frank Capra musical.
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Dismaland: Banksy Disneyland is a Bemusement Theme Park for (almost) the whole family, offering the antithesis of Fantasyland.
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Pretty Poison with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins: Noel Black-directed cult crime classic. Cult movie classic Pretty Poison filmmaker Noel Black has died Noel Black, best remembered for the 1968…
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Marilyn Burns. ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ actress Marilyn Burns dead at 64 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre actress Marilyn Burns, the one cast member who manages to survive Leatherface…
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Lina Romay, a pretty brunette who starred in numerous risqué features for longtime companion Jesus Franco (a.k.a. Jess Franco), has died. According to online reports, Romay died of cancer on…
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According to various online sources, Tasmanian-born director Don Sharp has died at age 89. A former small-time actor (The Planter’s Wife, The Cruel Sea), Sharp (born April 19, 1922, in…
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Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils Ken Russell, the director of Women in Love, The Boy Friend, and Altered States, died Sunday, Nov. 27, at the age of 84. Coincidentally,…
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The Sadist with Arch Hall Jr. The Sadist (1963) movie review: The Sadist movie review: Curious B flick Say what you will about Arch Hall Jr. (and I know many…
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The Beast with a Million Eyes: Hardly truth in advertising as Roger Corman’s micro-budget sci-fi thriller is no “monster movie.” ‘The Beast with a Million Eyes’: Alien invasion movie predates…
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Monique van Vooren, Joe Dallesandro, Flesh for Frankenstein The first time I saw Flesh for Frankenstein was during its theatrical release in 1973, when it was titled, Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein.…
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Dennis Hopper, an iconic movie figure thanks to the biker movie Easy Rider and David Lynch’s psycological drama Blue Velvet, died at age 74 on May 29 at his home…
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Joseph W. Sarno – chiefly known as Joe Sarno – the director of cult erotic movies such as Sin in the Suburbs (1963), Moonlighting Wives (1966), and Confessions of a…
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Anthony Steffen biography cover (top); Anthony Steffen in The Last Tomahawk with Daniel Martin. Anthony Steffen may be a name best remembered by Spaghetti Western aficionados, but in his day, from the…
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Beefcake and Homoeroticism + Cult Camp Classic Can’t Stop the Music with Valerie Perrine and Bruce Jenner + Haunted House sexual repression with lesbianism.
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The Killing Kind with Ann Sothern and John Savage. When I read that The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film described Curtis Harrington’s The Killing Kind as “a seldom-seen sickie” I just…
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Lee Madden, best known for directing Hell’s Angels ’69, died on April 9 in Camarillo, a town north of Los Angeles. He was 82. The American International Pictures release Hell’s…
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Ann Savage: Detour film noir actress who became a cult celebrity thanks to her memorably unglamorous psychopathic villainess dead at age 89.
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The Wild Women of Wongo (1958) movie review: You’ll enjoy it if you focus on what truly matters: Beautiful physiques and the overall weirdness.
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Targets (1968) movie review: Boris Karloff is fantastic in this disturbing Peter Bogdanovich thriller that shows life and art as irrevocably intertwined.
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Leonard Kastle’s The Honeymoon Killers rivals better-known fare partly thanks to Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco’s charismatic performances.
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Gimmick master William Castle’s Psycho-ish 1964 horror cult classic Strait-Jacket works as a larger-than-life Joan Crawford showcase.
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Julie Ege, Miss Norway 1962 and the leading lady in several B movies of the 1970s, has died. Ege was 64. Born in the Norwegian town of Sandnes on November…
Jackie Collins Movies: Surprisingly Few Film Adaptations of Her Bestselling Sex Novels. 2 starred sister Joan Collins: The Stud and The Bitch.
Eddie Romero. Eddie Romero dies: Filipino filmmaker best known for his exploitation horror and action movies Eddie Romero, one of most best-known Filipino filmmakers, died of prostate cancer on Tuesday,…
Model and actress Cynthia Myers, a 1968 Playboy Playmate, died Nov. 4. She was 61. Hugh Hefner announced her death on Twitter: “I’m saddened by the news of the passing…
Boom! movie: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton critical and box office disaster is rediscovered and receives some belated cult classic appreciation.
The Bubble (1966) movie review: Starring Deborah Walley and Michael Cole, 3D B sci-fi thriller can be an enjoyable experience if you’re not picky.
B Film Noir Actress More Frightening Than Bette Davis? + The Curious Mystery of the Savage Doppelgänger (and other Hollywood impostors).
The Poverty Row jungle flick Nabonga lacks thrills and logic, but it features curious cast members Buster Crabbe and Julie London.
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