Cult Movies, Horror

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Actors:Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, ...
Rosemary's Baby
by Paramount (DVD) (Release Date: 2000-10-03)

Actors:Timothy Balme, Jed Brophy, Stuart Devenie, Silvio Fumularo, ...
Dead Alive
by Lions Gate (DVD) (Release Date: 1998-09-09)

Actors:Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, Brian Glover, David Naughton, ...
An American Werewolf in London
by Universal Pictures (DVD) (Release Date: 2001-09-18)

Remember back in the early 1980s when special-effects makeup artists were tripping over themselves to create the next big effect? The Howling boasted a fantastic werewolf transformation scene courtesy of makeup wizard Rob Bottin. Then along came Bottin's mentor, Rick Baker, with his own spectacular effects in this popular horror comedy directed by John Landis. An American Werewolf in London is more of a makeup showcase than a truly satisfying movie, but the film is effectively moody when David Naughton discovers that a wolf attack has turned him into a bloodthirsty lycanthrope. Jenny Agutter plays his love interest (watch out, he bites!), and who can forget Griffin Dunne as Naughton's best friend, an undead corpse who progressively rots away as the plot unfolds? All things considered, it's easy to see why An American Werewolf in London became a modern horror favorite. --Jeff Shannon

Actors:Ian Abercrombie, Deke Anderson, Andy Bale, Billy Bryan, ...
Army of Darkness
by Universal Studios (DVD) (Release Date: 1998-08-19)

A movie that only true horror buffs could love, Army of Darkness is officially part 3 in the wild and wacky Evil Dead trilogy masterminded by the perversely inventive director Sam Raimi, who would later serve as executive producer of the popular syndicated TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Raimi's favorite actor, Bruce Campbell, returns as Ash (hero of the first two Evil Dead flicks), a hardware-store clerk who is magically transported--along with his beat-up Oldsmobile and a chainsaw attachment for his severed left forearm--to the brutal battlefields of the 14th century. He quickly assumes power (who else in the Middle Ages packs a shotgun and a chainsaw?), and unites his band of medieval knights against the dreaded Army of the Dead. Raimi gleefully subverts almost every horror-movie cliché as he serves up a nonstop parade of blood, gore, and vicious sword-bearing skeletons--an affectionate homage to animator Ray Harryhausen's classic Jason and the Argonauts. The ...

Actors:Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon, ...
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 2001-08-28)

Actors:Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, ...
The Hunger
by Warner Home Video (DVD) (Release Date: 2004-10-05)

Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie are rich, beautiful, and oh-so chic as denizens of the night. Dressed in sleek outfits and stylish sunglasses, they haunt rock & roll clubs on the prowl for young blood, whom they bring home to their impossibly luxurious mansion for a late-night snack. Being a vampire never looked more sexy, but there's a price: Bowie starts to age so fast he wrinkles up in the waiting room of a doctor's (Susan Sarandon) office. The agelessly elegant Deneuve, evoking Delphine Seyrig's Countess Bathory from Daughters of Darkness, is perfectly cast as a millenniums-old bloodsucker who seeks a new mate in Sarandon and seduces her in a sunlight-bathed afternoon of smooth, silky sex. Tony Scott's (Ridley's brother) directorial debut, adapted from the Whitley Strieber novel, revises the vampire myth with Egyptian inflections and removes all references to garlic and crosses and wooden stakes--these bloodsuckers can even walk around in the daylight--but the ties between ...

Actors:Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, ...
Audition (Uncut Special Edition)
by Lions Gate (DVD) (Release Date: 2005-08-23)

If you want the full sledgehammer-to-the-stomach effect of Audition, stop reading this review now. Just watch it and take the consequences. At first glance, Takashi Miike's jack in the box of a movie works like a romantic comedy: amiable widower Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) decides it's time to find a new wife, and a friend suggests holding a fake audition to find the right girl. It soon becomes clear that there is something wrong with Aoyama's choice. This is no ordinary Fatal Attraction-style thriller, however; Audition slowly and carefully builds into a wrenching exploration of both deep male fears and the stereotype of the cute, submissive Japanese woman. Audition is by no means an easy movie to watch--even hardcore horror fans may have trouble--but it will stay with you for a long, long time. --Ali Davis

Actors:Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles, McKee Anderson, ...
Night of the Living Dead
by Sony Pictures (DVD) (Release Date: 1999-10-05)

Actors:Sid Abrams, Josh Becker, Sarah Berry, Denise Bixler, ...
Evil Dead II (Special Edition)
by Starz / Anchor Bay (DVD) (Release Date: 2000-08-29)

Actors:Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, ...
Tremors
by Universal Studios (DVD) (Release Date: 1998-04-29)

Who would have guessed that this clever, fast-paced creature feature from 1990 would become a beloved miniclassic worthy of its own Collector's Edition DVD? Tremors didn't actually break any new ground (even though its tunneling worm monsters certainly did), but it revved up the classic monster-movie formulas of the 1950s with such energetic enthusiasm and humor that it made everything old seem new again. It's also got a cast full of enjoyable actors who clearly had a lot of fun making the film, and director Ron Underwood strikes just the right balance of comedy and terror as a band of small-town rednecks battles a lot of really nasty-looking giant worms. The special effects are great, the one-liners fly fast and furious between heroes Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward (and yes, that's country star Reba McEntire packin' awesome firepower), and it's all done with the kind of flair one rarely associates with goofy monster flicks like this. Followed by a direct-to-video sequel (Tremors: ...

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