Cult Pics and Trash Flicks: Spring Breakers (2012)
Spring break represents idyllic grounds of exploration and freedom for the pretty, vapid, privileged youth as it brings on daydreams of parties in small sanctioned areas of beach, gentrified for the...
View ArticleCult Pics and Trash Flicks: Driller Killer (1979)
Do you ever find yourself thinking “if I hear that goddamned song one more time I’m going to kill someone”? Abel Ferrara’s Driller Killer takes that fangless internal quip to its literal end and...
View ArticleCult Pics and Trash Flicks: Three the Hard Way (1974)
So you're a white minion part of an evil genocidal plan that uses genetic trickery to target every black person on the face of the earth, and you came here for a few tips on how to survive a...
View ArticleCult Pics and Trash Flicks: The Doom Generation (1995)
Not long before the omnipresence of the internet and the new millenial morality there was a time of contrived nihilism and apocalyptic nightmares, and these wet-nightmares fueled by video games and bad...
View ArticleCult Pics and Trash Flicks: The Upper Footage (2013)
The element of surprise becomes a tricky proposition in an era with universal access to all of the “facts” that the world has to reveal to us. With a quick search one can quickly demystify nearly any...
View ArticleCult Pics and Trash Flicks: Domino (2005)
Tonight we pay tribute to a fallen auteur and explore the strange and magnificent substance of Tony Scott’s style. A Hollywood director that was somehow able to continually define and execute his own...
View ArticleCult Pics and Trash Flicks: Killer Condom (1996)
Killer Condom is one of those rare gems of trash cinema that manages to deliver its exploitative schlock with adept filmmaking and a cohesive and pointed aesthetic. It traverses the dark alleyways...
View ArticleCult Pics and Trash Flicks: Vulgaria (2012)
Vulgaria is one of those films that would be difficult to pin down in any conventional sense as it plays with genre conventions and audience expectations with ease, comfortable in its own genre-busting...
View ArticleCult Pics and Trash Flicks: Cloud Atlas (2012)
Despite being sourced from a novel of the same name, Cloud Atlas is deeply rooted in the tradition of cinema. Though it uses a literary approach to its narrative as it weaves together individual...
View ArticleCult Pics and Trash Flicks: Opium and the Kung Fu Master (1984)
With a title like Opium and the Kung Fu Master, one has to wonder if they are dealing with a classic case of “all cover and no book”, but this Shaw Brothers classic delivers on its titular promises...
View ArticleCult Pics and Trash Flicks: Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight (1975)
With a structure just as baffling as its title, Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight is a dizzying whistle-stop tour of the sensitive-souled hoboes and ramshackle residencies of a counterculture...
View ArticleCult Pics and Trash Flicks: 10,000 BC (2008)
OK, I know what you’re probably thinking, but you’ve got to hear me out on this one. I wouldn’t typically cover one of Roland Emmerich’s computer generated cinematic Red Bulls in any column, but this...
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