There is a common consensus that a cult movie does not necessarily have to be a good one. Cheesy scripts, low budgets leading to innovative production design and curious casting are some of the varied factors that lead to their creation. Often movies of this idiom showcase talent that goes on to bigger and better things. Or sometimes films that [...]

Watchers (1988). Here is a great title to start with. This movie is  a very poor adaptation of Dean R. Koontz novel of the same name. The subtleties and pathos of the original story have been replaced with 1980′s ambience such as big hair and  lurid violence. On the plus side Michael Ironside provides a characteristic psychotic performance. The downside of Watchers is [...]

Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is not only a cinematic landmark but a well crafted exploration of man’s need solve the mysteries of the universe. It is founded on a very 70′s notion that there are concepts, ideals and aspirations that are greater than individual need and that are worth personal sacrifice. The film ends with the [...]

In the 1951 movie Distant Drums starring Gary Cooper, a small band of soldiers were crossing a swamp in pursuit of Seminole Indians. While wading through the Everglades, one unnamed soldier was attacked and dragged underwater by an alligator. His last sound is an agonised, startled scream. Two years later in The Charge at Feather River, a soldier named Private [...]