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Informationen zum Autor Ernest Mathijs is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of The Cinema of David Cronenberg (2008), co-author of Cult Cinema (2011) and co-editor of The Cult Film Reader (2008). Xavier Mendik is Professor of Cult Cinema Studies within Birmingham School of Media at Birmingham City University, UK, from where he runs the Cine-Excess International Film Festival. He is editor of Shocking Cinema of the Seventies (2002) and co-editor of Alternative Europe (2004) and Underground USA (2002). Klappentext Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences. Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spinal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings. Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, Café Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music). 100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch. Drawing on exclusive interviews with some of the world's most iconic cult creators and performers, including Dario Argento, Pupi Avati, Alex Cox, Ruggero Deodato, Jesús Franco, Lloyd Kaufman, Harry Kümel, H. G. Lewis, Christina Lindberg, Takashi Miike, Franco Nero, George A. Romero and Brian Yuzna, and featuring a foreword by cult director Joe Dante, 100 Cult Films is your ultimate ticket to the midnight movie show. Zusammenfassung An accessible and up to date guide to one hundred of World Cinema's most interesting and influential cult movies. Covering a diverse range of genres and films from 1920 to the present day, this lavishly illustrated volume includes entries on films ranging from 'This is Spinal Tap' to 'Donnie Darko'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments.- Foreword, Joe Dante.- Introduction.- 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968.- Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988.- Angel of Vengeance, Abel Ferrara, 1981.- Bad Taste, Peter Jackson, 1987.- Baise-moi, Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000.- Begotten, E. Elias Merhige, 1991.- Behind the Green Door, Artie Mitchell, Jim Mitchell, 1972.- La belle et la bête, Jean Cocteau, 1946.- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer, 1970.- The Big Lebowski, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 1998.- Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982.- Blue Sunshine, Jeff Lieberman, 1978.- Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985.- Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, 1935.- The Brood, David Cronenberg, 1979.- Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920.- Café Flesh, Stephen Sayadian, 1982.- Cannibal Holocaust, Ruggero Deodato, 1979.- Casablanca, Michael Curtiz, 1942.- Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí,1928.- Coffy, Jack Hill, 1973.- Daughters of Darkness, Harry Kümel, 1971.- Dawn of the Dead, George A. Romero, 1978.- Deadly Weapons, Doris Wishman, 1974.- Debbie Does Dallas, Jim Clark, 1...
