Cult Movies, General

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Actors:Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton, Danny Trejo, ...
Bubble Boy
by Walt Disney Video (DVD) (Release Date: 2002-01-15)

Actors:Gerald Mohr, Naura Hayden, Les Tremayne, Jack Kruschen, ...
The Angry Red Planet
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 2001-11-20)

Although widely admired among longtime science fiction fans, The Angry Red Planet is merely a substandard entry from the genre's 1950s heyday. With wooden performances, atrocious dialogue, and some monsters that would scare only very young kids, it's perfect fodder for a rainy- day marathon of cheesy movies, as long as you keep your expectations low. Following the standard plot of its day, the movie tells (in flashback) the story of four astronauts who land Rocket M-1 on Mars, only to find the "angry red planet" lives up to its nickname. The plants are carnivorous, there's a gigantic "bat-rat-spider-crab" that can snap humans in half with its pincers, and a slithering Jello-beast with a rotating eyeball that threatens to dissolve the rocket ship into a pile of digested goo. Naturally, there's an onboard flirtation between shapely space-gal Nora Hayden and astro-hunk Gerald Mohr (who inexplicably spends the last half-hour with his hairy chest exposed), while Les Tremayne and ...

Actors:Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, ...
X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 2001-06-05)

"Only the gods see everything," cautions one scientist as Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) experiments with a formula that will allow the human eye to see beyond the wavelength of visible light. "I am closing in on the gods," he responds with the hubris that is doomed to destroy his overreaching ambition. A mix of Greek tragedy and sci-fi potboiler, Roger Corman's X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (simply identified as X in the eerie, odd opening credits) is a familiar tale of a scientist who risks everything to explore the unknown and is finally driven mad by, literally, seeing too much. Peeping through the clothes of comely women is all good adolescent fun until the gift becomes a nightmare as his sight rages out of control. The possibilities suggested in the hints of addiction and inconsistent bouts of megalomania remain tantalizingly unexplored in the unfocused script, and Corman's cut-rate special effects are often more hokey than haunting (the "city dissolved in an acid of ...

Actors:Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert, ...
The Man From Planet X
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 2001-02-20)

Daring reporter John Lawrence (Robert Clarke) narrates this gripping tale of an alien's attempt to take over a tiny village in Scotland. As the story opens, Lawrence is visiting his old friend, Professor Elliot, who's made the startling discovery of a new planet that is approaching Earth at breakneck speed. Soon Elliot's lovely daughter, Enid, has spotted a mysterious craft in the middle of the moor. Lawrence and Elliot decide to investigate, inexplicably allowing the clearly evil Dr. Mears to assist. Lost the plot? Not to worry! The Man from Planet X cheerfully helps slower viewers by offering expository dialogue as frequently as humanly possible. "Look!" says Elliot, "It seems as if he's trying to turn that knob to the right, but doesn't have the strength or coordination," as the alien tries to turn the knob to the right, but doesn't have the strength or coordination. All seems lost as the alien begins using telepathy to control the local villagers. Luckily for the Earth, ...

Actors:Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke, ...
Frogs
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 2000-09-19)

Actors:Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart, ...
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 2001-06-05)

Actors:Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis, Steve Brodie, ...
Donovan's Brain
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 2001-06-05)

Actors:Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders, ...
The Pit and the Pendulum
by American International Pictures (AIP) (DVD) (Release Date: 2001-06-05)

The Fall of the House of Usher's success in 1960 spurred American International Pictures to quickly launch another production based on an Edgar Allan Poe story. While producer-director Roger Corman had hoped to next adapt "The Masque of the Red Death" (which wasn't produced until 1964), Pit and the Pendulum (the onscreen title) became the second in AIP's long-running Poe series. Set in post-Inquisition Spain, the film stars John Kerr as a young Englishman who travels to the seaside castle of his brother-in-law (Vincent Price) to uncover the circumstances behind the death of his sister (a dubbed Barbara Steele). Price is tormented by memories of his mother's premature burial by his inquisitor father (also Price) and fears that this sadistic legacy has contributed to Steele's demise. Furthermore, he believes that Steele was also buried alive--a belief compounded by the mysterious destruction of her room, and the sound of her harpsichord playing in the night... Structured almost ...

Actors:Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Lloyd Bochner, ...
The Dunwich Horror
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 2001-08-28)

Actors:Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, ...
The Wild Angels
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 2001-02-20)

Embittered by his experience working with 20th Century Fox on The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), and weary of the Poe films for American International Pictures, Roger Corman was in dire need of inspiration for his next production. He found it in Life magazine, which featured a photo of the funeral of Mother Miles, head of the Sacramento, California, Hell's Angels. From this picture came both The Wild Angels and the biker-movie genre itself. Peter Fonda, who replaced George Chakiris, stars as brooding Angels chieftain Heavenly Blues. When his pal Loser (Bruce Dern) is shot by police, Blues attempts to bury him in a small town, but the locals resist, and a brawl ensues. Audiences and critics were alternately appalled and thrilled by the extensive drug use and violence, but beneath Angels' leathery hide beats the heart of a Western, especially in its ruminations on personal freedom. Charles Griffith's script (cowritten by Peter Bogdanovich, who also cameos in the film) helped ...

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