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Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. Romero and Brian Yuzna, and featuring a foreword by cult director Joe Dante, Cult Films is your ultimate ticket to the midnight movie show. By highlighting three films per decade including a brief summary of the decade's identity and sensibility, the book investigates the quality, ironies, and spirit of cult film evolution.

The twenty-seven films selected for this study are analyzed for story content and in their respective transgressions regarding social, aesthetic, and political codes. Characteristic of this book is the notion that many exciting genres make up cult films-including horror, sci-fi, fantasy, film noir, and black comedy. Further, the book reaches out to several foreign film directors over the decades in order to view cult films as an intentional art form. Political and ideological controversies are covered; arresting back-story details that lend perspective on a film fill out the analysis and the historic framework for many film titles.

The book, by emphasizing the condensed survey over decades and by choosing outstanding titles, differs from other general studies on cult films. From highly influential works of pop art like Eraserhead and Faster, Pussycat!

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