*contains spoilers “Our freedom for our knowledge,” says a character in The Cape Canaveral Monsters (1960) in his bid to strike a deal of release from his alien captors as he then speaks Pig Latin to his cuffed girlfriend, something which fools these evil characters who are bent on stopping the Earth from ever exploring…
Read more The Cult of Director Phil Tucker’s The Cape Canaveral Monsters (Part One)
*contains spoilers Let’s take a look at a couple of movies which deal with medications. Firstly, there’s Misconduct (2016) which shows how the law and big pharmaceutical corporations remain credible in the eyes of the public and the world through manipulation of the law. Then second is Side Effects (2013) which shows the trickle-down effect…
Read more The Prescription for Misconduct (2016) may have killer Side Effects (2013)
*contains spoilers The Linda Blair (1959-) movie Dead Sleep (1990) looks into a part of Australian medical history which should not be forgotten like this movie unfortunately is. The fundamental question of whether a family and the patient themselves should listen and take psychiatric treatment and advice as the gospel truth and not just as…
Read more The Aussie Cult of Actress Linda Blair in Dead Sleep (1990)
*contains spoilers and strong course language “My show is about racial healing,” says actor Damon Wayons (1960-) in Spike Lee’s (1957-) movie Bamboozled (2000). This film, which was dismissed back when it was first released, is now regarded as some sort of cult film. It hints at the possibility that you can be white on…
Read more Hallelujah for the Bamboozled Cult of Actor Willie Best (Part One)
*contains spoilers It could be said that writer and director Dennis Potter’s (1935-94 pancreatic cancer) movie Secret Friends (1991) is about the evolution of schizophrenia in the individual from childhood, where the beginnings are laid in the mind and, finally, how it hatches into adolescent or adult madness. It is also about the individual coming…
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*contains spoilers Different actors were used for Ida’s next film, which she directed and co-wrote, entitled Outrage (1950). This film was only the second movie about rape ever released in modern day Hollywood under the rule of The Production Code after Johnny Belinda (1948), which won actress Jane Wyman (1917-2007 in sleep) an Oscar. The…
Read more The Cult of Director Ida Lupino’s The Filmakers Movies (Part Two)
*contains spoilers British-born actress and director Ida Lupino (1918-95 stroke and colon cancer) lived her the life the hard way which ended in alcoholic oblivion… Yet she was the first woman in Hollywood to direct herself in a movie and the first to direct a film noir. Many of the movies she directed had a…
Read more The Cult of Director Ida Lupino’s The Filmakers Movies (Part One)
*contains spoilers Director John Sturges’s (1910-92 emphysema) Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) was a film which helped introduce martial arts into mainstream American movies and it is also a film which looks at racism and xenophobia in a way that remains relevant in the United States to this day. Thankfully, to a lesser degree.…
Read more The Cult of Xenophobia in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
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…
Read more Teen Movie Prodigy and Stunt Man Dean Bennett on his Cult Film Career and Carrie Fisher…
*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…
Read more The Cult Movies of Writer and Director Murray Fahey
