Cult Movie Stars
Author: Danny Peary
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13:
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Cult Movie Stars
Author: Danny Peary
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780671711030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles over 850 cult stars who built their careers on the fringes of movie stardom, playing roles in B-movies ranging from action, horror, kung-fu, mysteries, science-fiction, serials, slashers and westerns.
Assault of the Killer B's
Author: Jason Paul Collum
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2004-04-21
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0786418184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe women who starred in low-budget cult movies created many memorable experiences for those fans of late night flicks such as Saturday Night Frights, Movie Macabre and Up All Night. Brinke Stevens, who played Linda in The Slumber Party Massacre, recalls, "Suddenly I was riding in limos, flying to foreign countries for film festivals, appearing on dozens of popular talk and entertainment TV shows, and truly feeling like a glamorous movie star." This collection of revealing interviews provides insights into the lives of 20 cult film actresses. They discuss the pros and cons of making these movies and the directions their careers have taken since. Among the films they starred in are Night of the Living Dead, The Slumber Party Massacre, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Sleepaway Camp and Elvira's Haunted Hills.
Movie Crazy
Author: S. Barbas
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1137103191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the impact that legendary actors and actresses have had on the development of the Hollywood film industry is well known, few have recognised the power of movie fans on shaping the industry. This books redresses that balance, and is the first study of Hollywood's golden era to examine the period from the viewpoint of the fans. Using fan club journals, fan letters, studio production records, and other previously unpublished archival sources, Samantha Barbas reveals how the passion, enthusiasm, and ongoing activism of film fans in Hollywood's golden era transformed early cinema, the modern mass media and American popular culture.
Cult Movies
Author: Danny Peary
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780440516262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne hundred all-time cult favorites are discussed with essays on what is special about each, what its claim to fame is, and who its most avid fans are.
Cult Film Stardom
Author: K. Egan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-11-06
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 113729177X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection explores the processes through which film stars/actors become associated with the cult label, from Bill Murray to Ruth Gordon and Ingrid Pitt.
The Disaster Artist
Author: Greg Sestero
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-10-07
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1476730407
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In 2003, an independent film called The room ... made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as 'like getting stabbed in the head,' the six-million-dollar film earned a grand total of $1800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years later, The room is an international cult phenomenon ... In [this book], actor Greg Sestero, Tommy's costar and longtime best friend, recounts the film's long, strange journey to infamy, unraveling mysteries for fans ... as well as the question that plagues the uninitiated: how the hell did a movie this awful ever get made?"--
Tales from the Cult Film Trenches
Author: Louis Paul
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-11-29
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0786484020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom movie villains to scream queens, here are interviews with 36 actors and actresses familiar to fans of sixties and seventies cult cinema. Interviewees include the well-known (David Carradine, Christopher Lee), the relatively obscure (Marrie Lee), sex symbols (Valerie Leon), surfers who became movie stars (Don Stroud), and action heroes (Fred Williamson), among many others. Each interview is accompanied by a biography and filmography.
Cult People
Author: Nicanor Loreti
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2012-09-27
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1900486946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCULT PEOPLE features a selection of interviews, conducted by Nicanor Loreti, with many of the world’s most fascinating and renowned stars of crossover and cult cinema, including amazing first-hand accounts of the making of ALIENS, SUSPIRIA, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET & countless other classic pictures. Exclusive interviews with the leading lights of cult cinema; 30 stars and directors; the coolest of the cool. Loreti’s knowledge and enthusiasm opens up his subjects on the unbelievable world of the alternative Hollywood as never before. As well as being a great source of cinema history, CULT PEOPLE is also enormously entertaining, with tales of mass zombie auditions, crews and casts stranded in distant lands without funding, and perilous attempts to make a low budget movie in the North Pole. INTERVIEWS WITH THE FOLLOWING CULT DIRECTORS/ACTORS/ SCREENWRITERS DAVID CARRADINE (Kill Bill, Kung Fu), WES CRAVEN (Last House on the Left, Scream), MICHAEL ROOKER (Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer, JFK), LANCE HENRIKSON (Aliens), MICHAEL IRONSIDE (Starship Troopers), ALBERT PYUN (Dollman), ANTHONY TAYLOR (Incubus), BILL MCKINNEY (Deliverance) BILLY DRAGO (The Untouchables), BRUCE DAVISON (X Men), DAN O’BANNON (Alien, Return Of The Living Dead), IRVIN KIRSHNER (The Empire Stikes Back), MICHAEL IRONSIDE (V, Total Recall), WILLIAM SANDERSON (Bladerunner).
Cult of Celebrity
Author: Cooper Lawrence
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009-01-20
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1599217163
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