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Teen Movie Prodigy and Stunt Man Dean Bennett on his Cult Film Career and Carrie Fisher…

cultfilmalley January 11, 2021 1

Dean Bennett (1963-) is a bit of a legend in South Australia as he was a young film-maker who inspired many other young film-makers through his impressive award-winning Super 8 short films which played local festivals in the late 1970s. His ingenuity in creating exciting stunts and fiery special effects on the pocket money he…

The Cult Movies of Writer and Director Murray Fahey

cultfilmalley January 9, 2021 2

*contains spoilers The films of Australian filmmaker Murray Fahey (no info) are very low budget but couldn’t be more diverse. Of the four movies which impressed me most to write about – two are comedies and two are horror movies… And they are all original to some degree. For example, his comedy/drama Sex is a…

The Cult of Actress Lanah Pellay in Eat the Rich (1987)

cultfilmalley January 7, 2021 0

*contains spoilers Call it youthful naivety, call it sexual ambivalence or confusion but when I first saw Eat the Rich (1987) several times in my late teens as an usher during a film festival, I really thought actress Lanah Pellay (1959-) was a woman, or I thought she was a man… Ummm… Alan Pellay or…

The Cult of Inner Beauty in The Enchanted Cottage (1945)

cultfilmalley December 8, 2020 1

*contains spoilers Inner beauty is a hard thing to write about and to define which is probably the reason there aren’t too many movies on the subject. Of course, there are poets and filmmakers who can write or direct beautiful things – but what about inside of the creators themselves as we just assume that…

Actor Rupert Everett and The Right Hand Man (1987)

cultfilmalley November 17, 2020 1

*contains spoilers and strong course language The fact actor Rupert Everett was gay was an open secret long before he appeared as Julia Robert’s pal in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997). It just took him a long time to come out on the world stage. Everett probably would have come out on the world stage…

The Confederate Ghosts of The Supernaturals (1986) and Night of Horror (1981)

cultfilmalley November 14, 2020 1

*contains spoilers Among the Confederate soldier ghost and zombie movies of the 1980s, which there aren’t too many, is the underrated low-budget item The Supernaturals (1986) as well as the ultra-low-budget movies of Tony Malanowski (1948-). The Supernaturals has a robust b-cast and production values compared to Malanowski’s shot for a few pennies or so…

Actor Frank Murgalo on the Cult Movie Attack of the Beast Creatures

cultfilmalley November 9, 2020 1

Frank Murgalo (no info) is an actor and writer and comedian. He has worked among other things as a Marine and as a copier salesman and a financial adviser. He appeared in the ultra-low budget cult classic Attack of the Beast Creatures (1985) aka Beast Creatures aka Hell Island as Philip, who is one of…

The Astral Travel Cult of Psychic Killer (1975)

cultfilmalley November 7, 2020 0

*contains spoilers Fans of the original Insidious (2010) movie maybe interested in the aspect of astral travel or projection. In that film, a child travels in the astral realm while he is asleep and cannot return to his body. It is this aspect which makes the entire movie so interesting. The sequels less so. But…

Actor Sean Scully on his Disney movies, Cult film Phobia (1988) and Noel Coward…

cultfilmalley November 6, 2020 16

*contains strong course language Sean Scully (1947-) is an actor who was born in Sydney. The son of award-winning actress Margaret Christensen (1921-2009) and orchestra leader Dan Scully (no info), he moved to London at the age of eleven with his mother where he was enrolled at the Arts Education Schools. He had already learnt…

The Cult of Actor Jeff Chandler in The Tattered Dress (1957)

cultfilmalley November 5, 2020 1

*contains spoilers Jeff Chandler (1918-61 blood poisoning) was one of the few grey-haired actors to make the Top 20 Box Office stars during the 1950s… He was also reportedly a cross-dresser according to former lover Esther Williams (1921-2013 natural causes) who later said she lied about this fact in her autobiography. Chandler was long dead…