Cult Movie Stars

Cult Movie Stars
Author: Danny Peary
Publisher:
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Movie Crazy

Movie Crazy
Author: S. Barbas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137103191

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While the impact that legendary actors and actresses have had on the development of the Hollywood film industry is well known, few have recognised the power of movie fans on shaping the industry. This books redresses that balance, and is the first study of Hollywood's golden era to examine the period from the viewpoint of the fans. Using fan club journals, fan letters, studio production records, and other previously unpublished archival sources, Samantha Barbas reveals how the passion, enthusiasm, and ongoing activism of film fans in Hollywood's golden era transformed early cinema, the modern mass media and American popular culture.

Assault of the Killer B's

Assault of the Killer B's
Author: Jason Paul Collum
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2004-04-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786418184

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The women who starred in low-budget cult movies created many memorable experiences for those fans of late night flicks such as Saturday Night Frights, Movie Macabre and Up All Night. Brinke Stevens, who played Linda in The Slumber Party Massacre, recalls, "Suddenly I was riding in limos, flying to foreign countries for film festivals, appearing on dozens of popular talk and entertainment TV shows, and truly feeling like a glamorous movie star." This collection of revealing interviews provides insights into the lives of 20 cult film actresses. They discuss the pros and cons of making these movies and the directions their careers have taken since. Among the films they starred in are Night of the Living Dead, The Slumber Party Massacre, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Sleepaway Camp and Elvira's Haunted Hills.

Cult Movies

Cult Movies
Author: Danny Peary
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1981
Genre: Cult films
ISBN: 9780440516262

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One hundred all-time cult favorites are discussed with essays on what is special about each, what its claim to fame is, and who its most avid fans are.

Cult Film Stardom

Cult Film Stardom
Author: K. Egan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2012-11-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113729177X

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The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection explores the processes through which film stars/actors become associated with the cult label, from Bill Murray to Ruth Gordon and Ingrid Pitt.

The Disaster Artist

The Disaster Artist
Author: Greg Sestero
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476730407

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"In 2003, an independent film called The room ... made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as 'like getting stabbed in the head,' the six-million-dollar film earned a grand total of $1800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years later, The room is an international cult phenomenon ... In [this book], actor Greg Sestero, Tommy's costar and longtime best friend, recounts the film's long, strange journey to infamy, unraveling mysteries for fans ... as well as the question that plagues the uninitiated: how the hell did a movie this awful ever get made?"--

Tales from the Cult Film Trenches

Tales from the Cult Film Trenches
Author: Louis Paul
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-11-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786484020

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From movie villains to scream queens, here are interviews with 36 actors and actresses familiar to fans of sixties and seventies cult cinema. Interviewees include the well-known (David Carradine, Christopher Lee), the relatively obscure (Marrie Lee), sex symbols (Valerie Leon), surfers who became movie stars (Don Stroud), and action heroes (Fred Williamson), among many others. Each interview is accompanied by a biography and filmography.

The Rough Guide to Cult Movies

The Rough Guide to Cult Movies
Author: Paul Simpson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2010-08-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1405386169

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The Rough Guide to Cult Movies offers a blend of essential trivia and informed opinion as it takes you on a tour of the most compellingly weird - and weirdly compelling - films in the world. Whether you're a paid-up member of The Big Lebowski fan club or just looking for a night in with an interesting DVD, The Rough Guide to Cult Movies is the ultimate guide to the world's most memorable films. The Rough Guide to Cult Movies selects cinema's most compelling triumphs: films that are brilliant, intriguing or just plain bizarre; from action flicks to zombie films, by way of nuns, yakuza, musicals and mutations. You'll find expert, pithy reviews of over 1500 movies, with forgotten legends like Charlie Chan and the Opera or contemporary classics like There Will Be Blood, plus filmmakers' picks of their favorite cult movies, in their own words. There are good movies and there are bad movies and then there are cult movies.

Cult People

Cult People
Author: Nicanor Loreti
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2012-09-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1900486946

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CULT PEOPLE features a selection of interviews, conducted by Nicanor Loreti, with many of the world’s most fascinating and renowned stars of crossover and cult cinema, including amazing first-hand accounts of the making of ALIENS, SUSPIRIA, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET & countless other classic pictures. Exclusive interviews with the leading lights of cult cinema; 30 stars and directors; the coolest of the cool. Loreti’s knowledge and enthusiasm opens up his subjects on the unbelievable world of the alternative Hollywood as never before. As well as being a great source of cinema history, CULT PEOPLE is also enormously entertaining, with tales of mass zombie auditions, crews and casts stranded in distant lands without funding, and perilous attempts to make a low budget movie in the North Pole. INTERVIEWS WITH THE FOLLOWING CULT DIRECTORS/ACTORS/ SCREENWRITERS DAVID CARRADINE (Kill Bill, Kung Fu), WES CRAVEN (Last House on the Left, Scream), MICHAEL ROOKER (Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer, JFK), LANCE HENRIKSON (Aliens), MICHAEL IRONSIDE (Starship Troopers), ALBERT PYUN (Dollman), ANTHONY TAYLOR (Incubus), BILL MCKINNEY (Deliverance) BILLY DRAGO (The Untouchables), BRUCE DAVISON (X Men), DAN O’BANNON (Alien, Return Of The Living Dead), IRVIN KIRSHNER (The Empire Stikes Back), MICHAEL IRONSIDE (V, Total Recall), WILLIAM SANDERSON (Bladerunner).

Cult of Celebrity

Cult of Celebrity
Author: Cooper Lawrence
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2009-01-20
Genre:
ISBN: 1599217163

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