Cult

  • Daniel Haller – The Dunwich Horror (1970)

    1961-1970CultDaniel HallerHorrorUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    Dr. Henry Armitage (Ed Begley), an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner (Sandra Dee), a student who went missing the previous night. He and Elizabeth, a friend and classmate of Nancy’s, are turned away by Wilbur (Dean Stockwell), the family’s insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won’t be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys’ darkest secret — as well as a great evil.Read More »

  • John Carpenter – Elvis (1979)

    1971-1980CultJohn CarpenterTVUSA

    Quote:
    Elvis is a 1979 television film by John Carpenter and is based upon the life of Elvis Presley, starring Kurt Russell in the title role. However, it ends in 1969 and does not depict the last few years of Presley’s life and career.

    Elvis is notable in Carpenter’s career for two reasons. It was made after Halloween had wrapped, so it offered him an avenue to try his hand at a film away from the horror genre. It was also the first time Carpenter had worked with Russell, who became a frequent collaborator of Carpenter’s. Russell subsequently starred in Escape from New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Big Trouble in Little China (1985), and Escape from L.A. (1996).Read More »

  • Alejandro Galindo – Una familia de tantas AKA A family like many others (1949) (HD)

    1941-1950Alejandro GalindoCultDramaMexico

    Quote:
    Rodrigo Catano seeks to impose in his family a Porfirian order. One day a door to door salesman, Roberto del Hierro, comes into the house to sell an American vacuum cleaner from the “Bright O’Home” company. Maru, Mr. Catano’s daughter, watches Roberto while he demostrates the new machine. Roberto leaves and says he will come back to explain Mr. Catano about the vacuum cleaner. Mr. Catano is very upset because a man has been in his house without him been present. Nevertheless, with fast and inteligent talk, Roberto sells him the vacuum cleaner and, later on, a refrigerator. Maru is captivated by Roberto and they fall in love. Mr. Catano is furious when Roberto announces to him he will marry Maru.Read More »

  • Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam – Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)

    1981-1990ComedyCultTerry GilliamTerry JonesUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    Why are we here, what’s it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do so by exploring the various stages of life, starting with birth.Read More »

  • Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll – 25 Watts [+extras] (2001)

    2001-2010ComedyCultJuan Pablo RebellaPablo StollUruguay

    This film has been called the “Uruguayan ‘Slacker’”, a reference to Linklater’s movie. It has also been called a landmark film in a (low-key, small-scale) renaissance in Uruguayan cinema – a national cinema with a terrible memory problem (“El Dirigible”, from 1994, was routinely cited as “the first Uruguayan film”, which is very false, but understandable when one sees how little movies that country has managed to preserve).

    Whatever its place in film history, it’s worth a watch, and rings very much true.Read More »

  • John Carpenter – They Live (1988)

    1981-1990CultJohn CarpenterSci-FiUSA

    Quote:
    John Nada (Roddy Piper) is a quiet loner, a drifter who gets work where ever he can find it. While working on a construction site in L.A. and sleeping in a vagrant community at night, John stumbles upon a secret society of alien beings who pose as wealthy and powerful people in human society. John joins a rebel group commited to exposing this conspiracy, and becomes their reluctant leader and the only hope of the human race. Former wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper is outstanding as the unassuming hero, playing the role with understated shock at what he uncovers and stubborn courage when he confronts it.Read More »

  • Rob Reiner – This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

    1981-1990ComedyCultRob ReinerUSA

    Quote:
    A spoof about a filmmaker making a documentary about a once-famous, now almost forgotten British heavy metal band returning to the United States after 17 years for a concert tour.Read More »

  • Raimundas Banionis – Vaikai is Amerikos viesbucio AKA Children From The Hotel America (1990) HD

    Drama1981-1990CultLithuaniaRaimundas Banionis

    The film revolves around the lives of teenagers in Soviet Lithuania. The protagonists of the film are fans of rock’n’roll music which is banned in the USSR and are interested in the hippie movement, secretly listening to the Luxembourg radio. They all live in a house which was formerly a hotel, called “America”. Events of Kaunas’ spring affect them as they are involved. After their attempt to send a letter to the Luxembourg radio, teenagers would become suspects to the KGB.Read More »

  • Rogério Sganzerla – Sem Essa, Aranha (1970)

    1961-1970ArthouseBrazilCultRogério Sganzerla

    Banker, acting as an international front, lives dangerously among a blonde, a brunette and a dark woman, his lover. Music, screams and moviment

    Rogerio Sganzerla`s Sem Essa Aranha has just been released in a DVD Box of brazilian underground cinema. The quality of the sound and image are not as good as one could expect, due to the deterioration of the original masters.Read More »

Back to top button