Edward D. Wood Jr. (a.k.a. Ed Wood) has been labeled ‘The Worst Director of All Time.’ Yet the Grade-Z auteur whose credits include Plan 9 from Outer Space is now …
Cult Movies
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Track of the Cat (Movie 1954): Experimental Cult Classic
7 minutes readTrack of the Cat (movie 1954): William A. Wellman’s family drama is notable for its mostly prestigious cast and for its unconventional use of color. Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright …
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In movies like the Oscar-nominated The Cardinal, actress Carol Lynley portrayed great-looking ‘girls-next-door’ who dared to defy social traditions.
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Hal Prince: Tony-Winning Broadway Musical Producer-Director
13 minutes readHal Prince Broadway musical legend: Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborator + remembering subversive cult classic.
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Coleen Gray: From Stanley Kubrick to ‘The Leech Woman,’ School Prayer Amendment Fight
26 minutes readColeen 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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Jackie Collins Movies: Surprisingly Few Film Adaptations of Her Bestselling Sex Novels. 2 starred sister Joan Collins: The Stud and The Bitch.
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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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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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Eddie Romero: Legendary Filipino Director Remembered
2 minutes readEddie 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, …
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Lina Romay: Actress in Cult Sex + Horror Movies
3 minutes readLina 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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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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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 …
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The Sadist (Movie 1963): Chillingly Great Bad Movie
3 minutes readThe Sadist with Arch Hall Jr. The Sadist (movie 1963) review. The Sadist (movie 1963) review: Curious B flick Say what you will about Arch Hall Jr. (and I know …
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Flesh for Frankenstein (Movie 1973): Sexy Joe Dallesandro
7 minutes readMonique 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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Boom! (Movie 1968): Cinematic Disaster Reappraised
7 minutes readBoom! movie: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton critical and box office disaster is rediscovered and receives some belated cult classic appreciation.
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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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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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The Bubble (Movie 1966): Look for the Theological Meaning
6 minutes readThe Bubble (movie 1966) review: Starring Deborah Walley and Michael Cole, Arch Oboler’s 3D B sci-fi thriller can be an enjoyable experience – as long as you’re not too picky.
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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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Lee Madden: Hell’s Angels Filmmaker
1 minutes readLee 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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B Film Noir Actress More Frightening Than Bette Davis?
13 minutes readB Film Noir Actress More Frightening Than Bette Davis? + The Curious Mystery of the Savage Doppelgänger (and other Hollywood impostors).
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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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Targets (Movie 1968): Unsettling Peter Bogdanovich Thriller
5 minutes readTargets (movie 1968) review: Boris Karloff is fantastic in this disturbing Peter Bogdanovich thriller that shows life and art as irrevocably intertwined. Tim O’Kelly costars.
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Nabonga (Movie 1944): Cheesy ‘Girl and Her Gorilla’ Tale
4 minutes readNabonga (movie 1944) review: Poverty Row jungle flick lacks thrills and logic, but it features curious cast members Buster Crabbe, Julie London and Fifi D’Orsay.
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The Honeymoon Killers (movie 1970) review: Leonard Kastle’s crime tale rivals better-known fare partly thanks to Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco’s charismatic performances.
Yvonne Monlaur: Sensuous cult horror movie actress and James Bond Girl contender whose career was nearly ruined following boat explosion has died.
Noel Black: Cult Crime Classic Pretty Poison Director
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 …
Don Sharp: Psychomania + The Kiss of the Vampire Director
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 …
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 (movie 1955) review: Alien …
Joe Sarno: Cult Sex Movie Director Remembered
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 …
The Killing Kind (Movie 1973): Harrington Cult Classic
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 …
The Wild Women of Wongo (movie 1958) review: You’ll enjoy this title if you focus on what truly matters: Beautiful physiques and lotsa weirdness. Ed Fury and Johnny Walsh star.