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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>

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Back to School (1986) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Back to School
director: Alan Metter actor: 鲁德尼·丹泽菲尔德 / 基斯·戈登 …
other title: 大儿子小爸爸 / 回到学堂 …
Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.
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18 Again! (1988) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
18 Again!
director: 保罗·弗莱厄蒂 actor: 乔治·伯恩斯 / 查理·斯克莱特 …
other title: 我又十八 / 重返十八 …
81-year-old millionaire Jack Watson switches bodies with his 18-year-old grandson David, leading the two to experience life on opposite ends of the age spectrum. But when David, trapped in Jack's aged body, ends up in a coma, his grandfather must use his meager knowledge of the youth to prevent his family from pulling the plug.
AtomicPwrdRobot: Week 21: May 21-May 27
80's Teen Comedy Week

(Tubi, Hoopla)
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First Love (2019) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
初恋
6.6 (74 ratings) director: 三池崇史 actor: 洼田正孝 / 大森南朋 …
other title: 初恋 / 퍼스트 러브 …
One night in Tokyo, Leo, a young boxer, meets his first love, Monica, an imprisoned sex worker. Caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, they find themselves pursued by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin.
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Blade of the Immortal (2017) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
無限の住人
5.2 (43 ratings) director: 三池崇史 actor: 木村拓哉 / 杉咲花 …
other title: 无限之住人 / 無限の住人 …
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine.
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Avengers Grimm (2015) [Movie] Skybridge IMDb TMDB WikiData
Avengers Grimm
director: Jeremy M. Inman actor: 卡斯柏·范·狄恩 / 卢·费里诺 …
other title: 슈퍼히어로 어벤져 / Las vengadoras de Grimm …
When Rumpelstiltskin destroys the Magic Mirror and escapes to the modern world, the four princesses of "Once Upon a Time"-Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Rapunzel-are sucked through the portal too. Well-trained and endowed with magical powers, the four women must fight Rumpelstiltskin and his army of thralls before he enslaves everyone on Earth.
AtomicPwrdRobot: Week 23: June 4-June 10
Asylum Pictures Week

(Tubi, Hoopla)
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She Devils of the SS (1973) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Eine Armee Gretchen
5.8 (5 ratings) director: 欧文 C.迪特里希 actor: Elisabeth Felchner / 卡琳·赫斯基 …
other title: 纳粹女子亲卫队 / Eine Armee Gretchen …
In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers. But when they start having sex with each other, things get complicated. Especially with the increasing danger from the revengeful Soviet army!
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The Night Porter (1974) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Il portiere di notte
7.2 (135 ratings) director: Liliana Cavani actor: 德克·博加德 / 夏洛特·兰普林 …
other title: 비엔나 호텔의 야간 배달부 / 愛の嵐 …
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
AtomicPwrdRobot: Week 24: June 11-June 17
Nazisploitation Week

(Kanopy, Criterion)
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
director: Al Adamson actor: J·卡罗尔·奈什 / 小朗·钱尼 …
other title: 드라큐라 대 후랑켄슈타인 / Draculas Bluthochzeit mit Frankenstein …
Judith Fontaine is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out that Joanie has become fallen victim to Groton, an ax-wielding homicidal maniac under the employ of Dr. Durea, the last living descendant of the Frankenstein family and is now both running a house of horrors on the beach's boardwalk and performing experiments on Gorton's victims in his basement laboratory.
AtomicPwrdRobot: Week 25: June 18-June 24
Al Adamson Week

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(Youtube)
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Death Dimension (1979) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Death Dimension
director: Al Adamson actor: 吉姆·凯利 Jim Kelly / 哈罗德·萨卡塔 …
other title: 死亡维度 / Black Eliminator …
The Pig has a plan to eradicate some people with a freeze bomb that instantly freezes people to death. It is up to Detective Ash to stop him and protect the woman with the secret to the ice bomb embedded in a microdot under the skin of her forehead.
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A Deadly Invention (1958) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Vynález zkázy
7.4 (16 ratings) director: 卡尔·齐曼 actor: 卢博尔·托科什 / Arnost Navrátil …
other title: 毁灭的发明 / Vynález zkázy …
As its title suggests THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE is an awe -inspiring, meticulous cinematic rendering of the aesthetic and conceptual inventions of proto-science fiction genius Jules Verne, based on one of the famed author's lesser known short stories. However, the real star of the film is the intricate art direction, successfully rendering the visual style of nineteenth century woodcuts and engravings into motion pictures, creating a stylized and surreal graphic world within which Verne’s fanciful tale unfolds. A brilliant scientist, Dr. Roche, perches high above a stormy sea, inventing a powerful explosive, when he and his assistant are kidnapped by an evil businessman, Artigas. Taken by submarine to Artigas' volcano headquarters, Roche is tricked into developing his experiment for evil intentions. The scientist’s assistant, Simon, struggles all the while to free himself and warn Roche. A magical world of baroque submarines and sailing ships, killer octopus, undersea bicycles dazzles audiences as human actors, puppetry, animation and fanciful scenic design interact to create a cinematic experience that is unique by any standards. Mixing slapstick comedy, action adventure pacing and Mélies style film magic, this little known Czechoslovakian gem transcends the juvenile literature at its source to create cinematic art of the highest order....
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Abar, the First Black Superman (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Abar, the First Black Superman
director: Frank Packard actor: J. Walter Smith / Tobar Mayo …
other title: Abar. Superman negro / Abar, The First Black Superman
Upon moving into a bigoted neighborhood, the scientist father of a persecuted black family gives a superpower elixir to a tough bodyguard, who thus becomes a superpowered crimefighter.
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Cannibal Holocaust (1980) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Cannibal Holocaust
6.2 (36 ratings) director: 鲁杰罗·德奥达托 actor: Robert Kerman / Francesca Ciardi …
other title: 人食人实录 / 极度恐慌 …
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
AtomicPwrdRobot: Week 28: July 9-July 15
Ruggero Deodato Week

Tag: cmc2021week28

(Shudder)
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Cut and Run (1985) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Inferno in diretta
director: 鲁杰罗·德奥达托 actor: 丽萨·布伦特 / 伦纳德·曼 …
other title: 落荒而逃 / Inferno in diretta …
A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
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Mr. Majestyk (1974) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Mr. Majestyk
director: 理查德·弗莱彻 actor: 查尔斯·布朗森 / 艾尔·勒提埃里 …
other title: 猛龙铁金刚 / 猛虎扑扫辣手党 …
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
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The Mechanic (1972) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Mechanic
5.8 (5 ratings) director: 迈克尔·温纳 actor: 弗兰克·奥尔萨蒂 / 查尔斯·布朗森 …
other title: 龙虎铁金刚 / 냉혈인 …
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him through a rigorous training period and brings him on several hits. As Steven improves, Arthur worries that he'll discover who killed his father.
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
ゴジラ・エビラ・モスラ 南海の大決闘
5.8 (5 ratings) director: 福田纯 actor: 宝田明 / 水野久美 …
other title: 哥斯拉·伊比拉·摩斯拉：南海大决斗 / ゴジラ・エビラ・モスラ 南海の大決闘 …
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.
AtomicPwrdRobot: Week 30: July 23-July 29
Kaiju Week

Big monsters destroying Japan. Why don't they move? I don't know.

Tag: cmc2021week30

List: Kaiju Club by Adam Cook

(Plex)
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Son of Godzilla (1967) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
怪獣島の決戦 ゴジラの息子
5.6 (8 ratings) director: 福田纯 actor: 高岛忠夫 / 前田美波里 …
other title: 怪兽岛决战：哥斯拉之子 / 怪獣島の決戦 ゴジラの息子 …
Reporter Goro Maki stumbles upon scientists conducting weather experiments on Sollgel Island in the South Seas. He discovers the island is inhabited by giant mantis and a woman named Saeko who's been cast away since the death of her father. The pair soon find a helpless infant monster that Godzilla must adopt and learn to raise as one of his own.
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