100 Cult Films
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100 Cult Films

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Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences. Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spinal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings. Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, CafĂ© Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music). 100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch. Drawing on exclusive interviews with some of the world's most iconic cult creators and performers, including Dario Argento, Pupi Avati, Alex Cox, Ruggero Deodato, JesĂșs Franco, Lloyd Kaufman, Harry KĂŒmel, H. G. Lewis, Christina Lindberg, Takashi Miike, Franco Nero, George A. Romero and Brian Yuzna, and featuring a foreword by cult director Joe Dante, 100 Cult Films is your ultimate ticket to the midnight movie show.

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Publisher
British Film Institute
Year
2019
ISBN
9781838714000
Edition
1
Topic
Mezzi di comunicazione e arti performative
Subtopic
Storia e critica del cinema

Index

2001 Maniacs here
2001: A Space Odyssey here–here, here–here
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin here
4 mosche di velluto grigio see Four Flies on Grey Velvet
À bout de souffle here
Abbott, Bruce here
L’Âge d’or here
Aguirre: The Wrath of God here
AIP see American International Pictures
Akerman, Chantal here
Akira here, here–here, here
Alice in Wonderland here
Aliens here
Allen, Woody here, here
American International Pictures here
An, Jinsoo here
And Now for Something Completely Different here
Anderson, Pamela here
Anderson, Rafaëla here
Angel of Vengeance here, here–here, here
Anger, Kenneth here, here, here, here–here
Antonioni, Michelangelo here, here, here
Ardolino, Emile here
Argento, Dario here, here, here, here–here, here, here–here, here
Arkush, Alan here,
Army of Darkness here
Arnold, Mal here
Arrabal, Fernando here
Artaud, Antonin here, here
Arzner, Dorothy here
Asano, Tadanobu here
Ashby, Hal here
Asher, Jane here
Audition here, here
Avati, Pupi here–here, here
Axén, Eva here
Azuma, Hiroki here
Bach, Karen see Lancaume, Karen here
Back to the Future here
Baclanova, Olga here
Bad Lieutenant here
Bad Taste here–here
Baise-moi here, here, here–h...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Foreword, Joe Dante
  6. Introduction
  7. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968
  8. Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988
  9. Angel of Vengeance, Abel Ferrara, 1981
  10. Bad Taste, Peter Jackson, 1987
  11. Baise-moi, Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000
  12. Begotten, E. Elias Merhige, 1991
  13. Behind the Green Door, Artie Mitchell, Jim Mitchell, 1972
  14. La belle et la bĂȘte, Jean Cocteau, 1946
  15. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer, 1970
  16. The Big Lebowski, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 1998
  17. Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982
  18. Blue Sunshine, Jeff Lieberman, 1978
  19. Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985
  20. Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, 1935
  21. The Brood, David Cronenberg, 1979
  22. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920
  23. Café Flesh, Stephen Sayadian, 1982
  24. Cannibal Holocaust, Ruggero Deodato, 1979
  25. Casablanca, Michael Curtiz, 1942
  26. Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí,1928
  27. Coffy, Jack Hill, 1973
  28. Daughters of Darkness, Harry KĂŒmel, 1971
  29. Dawn of the Dead, George A. Romero, 1978
  30. Deadly Weapons, Doris Wishman, 1974
  31. Debbie Does Dallas, Jim Clark, 1978
  32. Deep Red, Dario Argento, 1975
  33. Dirty Dancing, Emile Ardolino, 1987
  34. Django, Sergio Corbucci, 1966
  35. Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly, 2001
  36. Don’t Torture a Duckling, Lucio Fulci, 1972
  37. Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton, 1990
  38. Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals, Aristide Massaccesi, 1977
  39. Emmanuelle, Just Jaeckin, 1974
  40. Enter the Dragon, Robert Clouse, 1973
  41. Eraserhead, David Lynch, 1977
  42. The Evil Dead, Sam Raimi, 1981
  43. Fight Club, David Fincher, 1999
  44. Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith, 1963
  45. Freak Orlando, Ulrike Ottinger, 1981
  46. Freaks, Tod Browning, 1932
  47. Ginger Snaps, John Fawcett, 2000
  48. The Gods Must Be Crazy, Jamie Uys, 1981
  49. Godzilla, IshirĂŽ Honda, 1954
  50. The Harder They Come, Perry Henzell, 1972
  51. Harold and Maude, Hal Ashby, 1971
  52. HĂ€xan, Benjamin Christensen, 1922
  53. Hellraiser, Clive Barker, 1987
  54. The Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973
  55. The House with the Laughing Windows, Pupi Avati, 1976
  56. I Walked with a Zombie, Jacques Tourneur, 1943
  57. Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike, 2001
  58. In Bruges, Martin McDonagh, 2008
  59. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, 1956
  60. Invocation of My Demon Brother, Kenneth Anger, 1969
  61. It’s a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra, 1946
  62. The Killer, John Woo, 1989
  63. Lady Terminator, H. Tjut Djalil, 1988
  64. The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson, 2001–3
  65. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, George Miller, 1981
  66. Man Bites Dog, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoßt Poelvoorde, 1992
  67. Manos, the Hands of Fate, Harold P. Warren, 1966
  68. The Masque of the Red Death, Roger Corman, 1964
  69. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, 1975
  70. Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987
  71. Nekromantik, Jörg Buttgereit, 1987
  72. Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero, 1968
  73. Pink Flamingos, John Waters, 1972
  74. Piranha, Joe Dante, 1978
  75. Plan 9 from Outer Space, Ed Wood, Jr, 1959
  76. Re-Animator, Stuart Gordon, 1985
  77. Reefer Madness, Louis Gasnier, 1936
  78. Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984
  79. Ringu, Hideo Nakata, 1998
  80. The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Sharman, 1975
  81. Rome Armed to the Teeth, Umberto Lenzi, 1976
  82. The Room, Tommy Wiseau, 2003
  83. SalĂČ, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
  84. She Killed in Ecstasy, JesĂșs Franco, 1971
  85. Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven, 1995
  86. Soul Vengeance, Jamaa Fanaka, 1975
  87. The Sound of Music, Robert Wise, 1965
  88. Star Wars, George Lucas, 1977–2005
  89. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Todd Haynes, 1988
  90. Suspiria, Dario Argento, 1977
  91. Tank Girl, Rachel Talalay, 1995
  92. Tetsuo, Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989
  93. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper, 1974
  94. This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner, 1984
  95. Thriller: A Cruel Picture, Bo Arne Vibenius, 1974
  96. Thundercrack!, Curt McDowell, 1975
  97. El Topo, Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970
  98. The Toxic Avenger, Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman, 1984
  99. Two-Lane Blacktop, Monte Hellman, 1971
  100. Two Thousand Maniacs!, Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1964
  101. The Vanishing, George Sluizer, 1988
  102. Videodrome, David Cronenberg, 1983
  103. The Warriors, Walter Hill, 1979
  104. Witchfinder General, Michael Reeves, 1968
  105. Withnail & I, Bruce Robinson, 1987
  106. The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, 1939
  107. Key Reading
  108. Index
  109. List of Illustrations
  110. eCopyright