100 Cult Films: The Sequel

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In this follow up to their 100 Cult Films, Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik provide a guide to one hundred more incredible films from the history and present of cult cinema around the world, from the 1911 Italian silent Dante's Inferno to Jordan Peele's 2017 horror classic Get Out. Their richly-illustrated guide addresses the work of filmmakers including Stanley Kubrick, Paul Verhoeven, Julien Temple, Ana Lily Amirpour, Lizzie Borden, Rob Reiner and John Carpenter, and movies from countries ranging from Iran to Peru, South Korea to Sweden, Japan to the USA. The films represent genres including sci-fi, romance, horror, vampire, comedy and action, and in their subject matter and through the debates (and sometimes controversies) that surrounds them raise issues about identity, home, belonging, exoticism, censorship and what it means to be 'weird'. By presenting 100 films that confirm and interrogate the notion of what makes a film a cult film, 100 Cult Films Redux reinvigorates the debate about cult cinema while affirming its foundations in todays volatile and vibrant cultural climate.

Author Bio

Ernest Mathijs is Professor of Film Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has written and edited books on The Cinema of David Cronenberg (2008), The Cinema of the Low Countries (2004), The Lord of the Rings (2006, 2007) and John Fawcetts Ginger Snaps (2013).With Jamie Sexton he co-wrote and co-edited Cult Cinema (2011) and The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema (2019).

Xavier Mendik is Professor of Cult Cinema Studies at Birmingham City University, UK. He is the author, editor and co-editor of nine volumes in cult film including Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress: The Golden Age of Italian Cult Cinema 1970-1985 (2015), Peep Shows, Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic (2011), Underground USA: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon (2002) and Tenebrae (2000). He has also produced and directed eight documentary commissions on global cult film cultures that have been premiered at leading international film festivals before being used in national release and knowledge transfer contexts. These releases include Thats La Monte; Italian Cult Cinema and the Years of Lead (2018), which was selected for festivals around the world, as well as winning two international awards.