Did you hear the one about the footballer and the hooker? Well, I hadn’t until last night, said QAnon. What a long night it was and it was totally unexpected. I don’t know if it was the army or some sort of underworld star chamber but when the evil one’s friend the brother-in-law turned up…
“They want your vol-au-vant! … How’s that for a title?” said QAnon’s agent: “How does that grab you?… Kind of like Count Alucard does it in the mirror!” The Hollywood producer raised his eyebrows… “And there’s this great scream moment in a supermarket where a women with two kids panics in horror when she sees…
*contains spoilers The movie The Survivor (1981) is a part of my mythos in terms that it reflects a story which happened and had events played out differently I would not be alive or even been born as a result. The Survivor is also a film which was shot in my home city of Adelaide…
Read more The Cult of Director David Hemmings’ The Survivor (1981)
Peter James (1947-) was born in Sydney. Suffering from dyslexia in an era which didn’t understand the disorder, he was interested in photography from a young age. He began an apprenticeship to become a cinematographer at age fifteen before he joined the Commonwealth Film Unit where he met such people as Peter Weir, Donald Crombie…
Read more Cinematographer Peter James on his Cult Movie Career
Di Drew (1948-) was born in Tasmania. She is one of Australia’s most respected, award winning film and television drama directors. She is the recipient of the Australian Director’s Guild Award for “excellence in her field”. Her impressive body of work includes feature films, telemovies, television series and serials, children’s films, short films, documentaries and…
Read more Director Di Drew on the Making of The Right Hand Man (1987)
*contains spoilers Suppose there was a war kept in check by a private security firm in your neighbourhood, or was a part of a vigilante neighbourhood watch group. It was a war in your city and as far as you knew – the world. An invisible war. It is a psychic war, or a telepathic…
Read more The Telepathic Cult of David Cronenberg’s Scanners (1981)
*contains spoilers Actor Martin Kosleck (1904-94 after surgery) was a European actor who fled the Nazis in the early 1930s. He made a mark for himself playing evil Nazis during World War Two in the United States and then seemed to be typecast as the villain. He was well known for playing Nazi propaganda leader…
Read more The Cult of Actor Martin Kosleck in The Flesh Eaters (1964)
*contains spoilers It was this era that she made her film appearances including The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) and The Naked Gun 331/3: The Final Insult (1994). The first one is a blink and miss it appearance which played well on her sexy appearance. She used Xanax and cocaine to get through an appearance on the…
Read more The Cult of Performer Anna Nicole Smith in Skyscraper (1996) Part Two
*contains spoilers The tragic life of actress and model Anna Nicole Smith (1967-2007 multiple drug overdose) is probably not meant to be celebrated but this cult personality made one movie which encapsulates herself and Marilyn Monroe on steroids and I mean low budget steroids. That film is the still disappointing Skyscraper (1996). Smith only made…
Read more The Cult of Performer Anna Nicole Smith in Skyscraper (1996) Part One
*contains spoilers The philosophy of the Allies during World War Two was ‘a good Nazi is a dead Nazi’ but strangely enough amid all the anti-Semitic hate as well as hatred of the Communists by the Nazi Fascists in the years leading up to World War Two, there was an almost sympathetic portrayal of a…
Read more The Cult of ‘a Good Nazi’ in Hitlerjunge Quex (1933)
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