Making Bedfellows of Metal and Bloody Movie Mayhem

Phil Anselmo and Corey Mitchell unleash the Housecore Horror Film Festival in 2013

"...friend of Anselmo's: Jim VanBebber, director of true underground cult favorite The Manson Family. (His cinematic assault on California's..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Turns Out the Title Wasn't Prophetic

The curious staying power of so-called lost film 'Nothing Lasts Forever'

"...And as Schiller pointed out, "It does have a cult following: my brother and a few people on South..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

Alamo South Pulls Out All the Stops For Closing Bash

Cramming everything you love about the Drafthouse into one night

"...events, with a promise of more programming to come. Cult fave Don Coscarelli will be in attendance to screen..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Silent Hill: Revelation

Watch out for the demons that inhabit Silent Hill.

"...first film. After pop is kidnapped by the demon cult and transported back to the netherworld, Sharon – who,..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The State of the Ricky Williams Foundation

Williams remains on the creative edge in retirement

"...Some call Access a movement, some call it a cult. In performing a simple Internet search, it is not..."

July 23, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

'The Source'

'The Source'

"..."Father Yod," leader of the Source Family commune cum cult – didn't have to convince people he was God...."

March 16, 2012 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...Degenerate Art: The Art and Culture of Glass Pipes. Director: M. Slinger A true document..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Arthur Christmas

The folks at Aardman Animation, who gave us Wallace & Gromit, seve up an instant – and funny – holiday classic.

"...Longtime Aardman associate (and producer of BBC cult favorite The League of Gentlemen) Sarah Smith pulls the..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Karen Dalton 1966

A new Karen Dalton reissue commences haunting

"...As a card-carrying member of the Karen Dalton cult, I was pleased to learn that Nashville’s Delmore Recordings..."

Nov. 17, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The Rum Diary

Johnny Depp stars in this adaptation of one of Hunter S. Thompson's earliest novels, which is set in Puerto Rico in 1960 and soaked in booze

"...vivid lot: precursors to the raving serpents and Nixon-era cultural monstrosities, the older, far wiser Thompson. Here, however, Depp..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

This is the rare horror comedy that near-perfectly balances its blend of grue, guffaws, and gag reflexes.

"...assume they’re under siege by some sort of death cult, while the genre-savvy teens believe they've stumbled into a..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ask God Herself

"...Now that a Hasidic rabbi in New York and cult Christian dominionist Pat Robertson have stated, apparently along with..."

Aug. 30, 2011 Postmarks

Still Working It

Actor Brian O'Halloran on the enduring appeal of Clerks

"...were besieged by big-studio screwball takes on the post-grunge cultural limbo: Almost two decades on, it's the canon's lower-budget..."

July 29, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Saturday-Sunday SXSW Live Shots

Saturday night SXSW showcase reviews

"...that was trashed when Pol Pot erased the country's culture with his Year Zero policy. There were remnants of..."

March 25, 2011 Music Feature

Bloody Beautiful Illusions

Alejandro Jodorowsky, surrealism's topo sangre, on Truth, Beauty, and the Internet

"...him the allegiance of a whole new generation of cult film fanatics who recognized it for what it was:..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Car2Go Cheat Sheet

Insider tips from a Car2Go connoisseur

"...We're a cult: the cult of the tiny car. We zip around..."

Dec. 31, 2010 News Feature by Kate X Messer

The Wizardly Way

Human Centipede, Abe Sapien and more speak at Austin Comic Con

"...[First Sequence], returning to the city that gave their cult smash its big Fantastic Fest launch. The three parts..."

Nov. 18, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Monkeys Gone to Heaven

The Pixies aren't a family and that's a good thing, according to Kim Deal

"...hear him say "Dominance and Submission" by Blue Öyster Cult is a better song than, you know, "Godzilla" or..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Way, Way Outer Space

Dusting off Starcrash, an interstellar swashbuckler

"...As part of its ongoing and ambitious Roger Corman's Cult Classics collection, Shout! Factory has released Starcrash in a..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

In Memory of Dennis Hopper

'A walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction'

"...director. Most importantly, however, he saw himself as a cultural provocateur, forever questioning the present while openly scoffing at..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Hausu (House)

This 1977 Japanese film is a surreal, indefinable piece of horror/comedy, a must-see film for lovers of the inscrutable, the grotesque, the funky, and the eccentric.

"...camp and avant-garde kitchen-sinkage. Granted, House, a bona fide cult film of the first rank, is hardly to everyone's..."

May 21, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Off the Record

Checking out of South by Southwest 2010 and paying final respects to Big Star's Alex Chilton

"...popped its collective big tent at the Mexican American Cultural Center – complete with a few rides and funnel..."

March 26, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

She's Out of My League

An average guy finds the woman of his dreams, but his insecurities undermine the relationship.

"...forgettable comedy starring Baruchel (the likable lead from TV cult fave Undeclared). He plays Kirk, an undermuscled air-safety employee..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...the musical offshoot of the Source Family, the psychedelic cult formed by Father Yod in the Hollywood Hills and..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Point Austin: We're All Flakes Here

It's not the sideshow candidates who should worry Texas voters

"...a Texas-sized ego-gratification campaign. Since we have an increasingly cargo-cult culture, with everyone hoping for the big payoff, it..."

Feb. 19, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...vs. George Lucas Director: Alexandre O. Philippe A no-holds-barred cultural examination of the conflicted dynamic between George Lucas and..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

There Will Be Blood

... And bloodsuckers and zombies and ghosts and murderers all over our stages this week

"...Musical, a show that takes Sam Raimi's already over-the-top cult horror films to yet more outrageous heights of comic..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Extract

Mike Judge, the writer/director of Office Space, mines the workplace for more satiric comedy.

"...theatrical run of Office Space (which grew into a cult favorite only after its release on home video) and..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Off the Record

Jesse Dayton walks with a Zombie, while T Bird & the Breaks spice things up for the annual Hot Sauce Festival

"...hangers in it kept rattling." Named for the 1962 cult film, Captain Clegg stirs an original witches' brew that..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Imagine That

Eddie Murphy has made an agreeable, family-friendly, kid-centric film without – lo and behold – a single fart joke.

"...Wiseau, the Bizarro World, actor-writer-director hyphenate behind the disastrous cult movie The Room? Like Spidey's nemesis, the Sandman, Church..."

June 12, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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