"Cult Movies" Blogs & Blog Posts

According to Variety, Corman's action-comedy film Virtually Heroes premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival … then failed to find any broader distribution, despite featuring Mark Hamill in a lead role. A decade later, the film has finally been...

The 1981 Heavy Metal anthology film, based on the popular science fiction / fantasy magazine of the same name, was the stuff of legends amongst my friend group growing in the late 90s. It had the edginess of underground comix, with all the nerdy good...

Musician Chris Farren has released 9 full-length albums with a variety of bands, including Fake Problems and Antarctigo Vespucci, as well as under his name as a solo artist, along with plenty of singles and EPs. For his latest project, Death Don't...

The film Chappaqua (1966) was written and directed by Conrad Rooks. This cult movie is based on Rooks' personal story of struggling with drug addiction. I was initially intrigued to watch this film when I found out that Chappaqua features appearances...

Night Flight was a multi-hour block of television programming on USA Network that ran on weekends into the early hours of the morning.  I was in college when it was in its heyday, and my friends and I would watch it until we couldn't keep our eyes o...

Recently, I watched the obscure, 1962 independent horror film Carnival of Souls on Archive.org. It's the one and only feature film that Herk Harvey directed and was made on a budget of $33,000. Starring Candice Hillgoss, Carnival of Souls tells t...

I count myself as one of the superfans of horror auteur Jordan Peele, so I'm superexcited to see his remake of Candyman, a 1992 cult-favorite about an urban legend that turns out not to be a legend. Peele produced and co-wrote the screenplay, and it...