*contains spoilers To quote from Revelations in the Bible at around Chapter VIII of John: “…there fell a great star from heaven burning as it were a lamp and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of the waters… and many men died of the waters. Because they were…
Ian Pringle is an Australian writer/director who began his career with a couple of shorts and the short feature Wronsky (1979). His first feature was The Plains of Heaven (1982) which is set in the highlands of Victoria. His follow-up to that was Wrong World (1985) which is a kind of road movie in the…
Read more Writer/Director Ian Pringle on The Prisoner of St. Petersburg and his Cult Career…
*contains spoilers Australian cinema remained in the doldrums for decades after its heady days in the 1930s and it wasn’t until the early 1970s thanks to some funding from the Federal Government that filmmaking got underway again in the country. One of the handful of films which kicked off this renaissance in Aussie filmmaking was…
Read more The First Real Aussie Cult Film was Sandy Harbutt’s Stone
Writer/Director Michael Farkas went to USC to study film. He quickly went on the make his first feature movie Prime Risk (1985) which has become a cult movie. After Prime Risk, he spent several years developing new scripts, then moved from Los Angeles back to Washington D.C. in 1988 where he opened Infocus Communications, a…
Read more Writer/Director Michael Farkas on his Cult Movie Prime Risk
* contains spoilers Name: CameronAge: 59 Occupation: Former Pay Clerk Favourite Movie: Psycho (1960) First Saw It: I was seventeen on tv at home Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam Plot: Director Alfred Hitchcock adapts the novel by Robert Bloch which was based on the life of killer Ed…
Read more My Cult Movie: “… It’s still got the power to shock”
*contains spoilers There is a movie which will become more important as the years pass… should we not correct the environment… as a premonition of things to come. The film is The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), a fictional account of how the world, after the detonation of a couple of large atomic bombs,…
Read more The Climate Change Irony of The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1962)
Screenwriter Anthony O’Connor (21 December 1976-) has been writing forever. He wrote his first screenplays while still a young teenager. He had his first screenplay Angst (2000) produced while still in his early 20s. He would also polish dialogue on the Kylie Minogue movie Sample People (2000). In fact he would earn a living as…
Read more Screenwriter Anthony O’Connor on Angst, Inhuman Resources and the Art of Creation…
*contains spoilers The movie Angst (2000) isn’t a horror movie, it’s a movie about horror fans – and a tribute to those often isolated souls. Those fans who just want to connect in that crazy, horrible, violent, terrible, bloody… life and death genre! It is about the foetus in every hard-core horror fans mind –…
Read more The One About the Aussie Horror Fan who Wrote a Horror Movie!
*contains spoilers While he was filming Longstreet, Jimmy set up the James Franciscus Celebrity Tennis Classic to raise money for the now politically incorrect titled charitable organisation Foundation for Retarded Children of the Desert. Held in the Palm Desert area, the classic appears to have run a few years and should have helped Jimmy get…
Read more The Cult of the James Franciscus Facial Tan Club (Part Two)
*contains spoilers The James Franciscus Facial Tan Club came about in second year high school. My friends Scott and Paul were the members of clubs inscribed in my pencil case… along with The George Negus ‘I’m top shit’ Club and the Denise Marcos Orgy Club who were media figures of the day. We were fans…
Read more The Cult of the James Franciscus Facial Tan Club (Part One)
