The 2021 (and 6th) Cult Movie Challenge: FRIDAY NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE EDITION
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My work-in-progress list for the 2021 (and 6th) Cult Movie Challenge. All titles are tentative, depending on availability or if something more appealing catches my eye.
Since January 1st falls on a Friday for 2021, I've decided to take things up a notch from my past participation in the challenge. More than once over the past two years I've found myself having to choose between multiple options for a given week and coming away a bit dissatisfied with just watching one movie for a particular theme or filmmaker.
So I thought why not take advantage of what looks to be another year of stay-at-home weekends and program my own double features for every week of the challenge? In that vein, I have selected 104(!) cult movies -- two per week -- that I will attempt to watch and review over the course of 2021. In the event that I don't have time to watch both in one sitting, I'll split them up over the week, but since most of these are 90 minutes or less I feel like viewing them as double features is pretty attainable.
As always, click on the eyeglasses button ("Read notes") to see the dates, themes, and associated lists for each week!
The master challenge list created by Justin Hullinger can be found here: <a href="https://letterboxd.com/bigdaddywarbuxx/list/the-2021-and-6th-cult-movie-challenge/detail/">2021 Cult Movie Challenge - MASTER LIST</a>
Links to my past Cult Movie Challenge lists: <a href="https://letterboxd.com/atomicpwrdrobot/list/the-2020-cult-movie-challenge/detail/">2020 Cult Movie Challenge - MY LIST</a> <a href="https://letterboxd.com/atomicpwrdrobot/list/2019-cult-movie-challenge/detail/">2019 Cult Movie Challenge - MY LIST</a>
Alienator (1990) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
AlienatorAxe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan (2013) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul BunyanRollergator (1996) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
RollergatorThe War of the Worlds (1953) [Movie] Eggplant.place IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
The War of the WorldsInvaders from Mars (1953) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Invaders from MarsCount Dracula (1970) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Nachts, wenn Dracula erwachtVampyros Lesbos (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData Skybridge
Vampyros LesbosThe Dragon Lives Again (1977) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
李三腳威震地獄門The Clones of Bruce Lee (1980) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
神威三猛龍Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Non si sevizia un paperinoThe Beyond (1981) [Movie] Eggplant.place Douban Skybridge TMDB IMDb WikiData
E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilàDiabolik (1968) [Movie] Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Danger: DiabolikPhase IV (1975) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Phase IVDesert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them. But the ants have other ideas.
Phase IV is an incredible full length feature film by Saul Bass who is most acclaimed as a graphic designer who's work can be seen as the opening credits from The Seven Year Itch, Vertigo, West Side Story to Alien, Broadcast News and Casino. Phase IV is a much overlooked film that is very much in the style of The Andromeda Strain. What it perhaps lacks in story, it gains in the photography of the millions of ants.
索尔·巴斯,美国动画片绘制家、美工师、导演,1920年5月8日生于纽约市,少年时曾经在布鲁克林学院学习绘画,毕业后从事过十年自由职业设计师的职业,1946年在洛杉矶创立索尔·巴斯合作公司。他在为一些影片进行美术设计时,猜出心裁地为片头片尾的演职人员表配上生动活泼的动画人物,这些动画人物的形态动作巧妙地提示了影片的主题,反映了影片的基调,从而使单调乏味的演职人员表和谐地成为了影片不可或缺的一部分,这种大胆的创新丰富了电影的表现形式,广受观众们的喜爱,其后为不少国家的影片所沿用。索尔·巴斯设计片头片尾的影片以《卡门·琼斯》(1955)、《红衣主教》(1963)等片最为著名。此外,他还监制和导演了很多电视广告片、动画片片和纪录片,如《敏锐的眼光》(1963)、《第四相》(1974)等。