The 2021 (and 6th) Cult Movie Challenge: FRIDAY NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE EDITION
104 movies
My work-in-progress list for the 2021 (and 6th) Cult Movie Challenge. All titles are tentative, depending on availability or if something more appealing catches my eye.
Since January 1st falls on a Friday for 2021, I've decided to take things up a notch from my past participation in the challenge. More than once over the past two years I've found myself having to choose between multiple options for a given week and coming away a bit dissatisfied with just watching one movie for a particular theme or filmmaker.
So I thought why not take advantage of what looks to be another year of stay-at-home weekends and program my own double features for every week of the challenge? In that vein, I have selected 104(!) cult movies -- two per week -- that I will attempt to watch and review over the course of 2021. In the event that I don't have time to watch both in one sitting, I'll split them up over the week, but since most of these are 90 minutes or less I feel like viewing them as double features is pretty attainable.
As always, click on the eyeglasses button ("Read notes") to see the dates, themes, and associated lists for each week!
The master challenge list created by Justin Hullinger can be found here: <a href="https://letterboxd.com/bigdaddywarbuxx/list/the-2021-and-6th-cult-movie-challenge/detail/">2021 Cult Movie Challenge - MASTER LIST</a>
Links to my past Cult Movie Challenge lists: <a href="https://letterboxd.com/atomicpwrdrobot/list/the-2020-cult-movie-challenge/detail/">2020 Cult Movie Challenge - MY LIST</a> <a href="https://letterboxd.com/atomicpwrdrobot/list/2019-cult-movie-challenge/detail/">2019 Cult Movie Challenge - MY LIST</a>
Movie
Frayeurs (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Skybridge Eggplant.place +3
Paura nella città dei morti viventi
director:
卢西奥·弗尔兹
actor:
克里斯托弗·乔治
/
卡特里娜 马科尔
…
other title:
僵尸城市
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Paura nella città dei morti viventi
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A woman seemingly dies of fright after participating in a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell and must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.
Movie
Witchfinder General (1968) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Witchfinder General
director:
迈克尔·里夫斯
actor:
文森特·普莱斯
other title:
驱魔降邪
/
驱魔降妖
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England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.
Movie
Dead & Buried (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Skybridge +2
Dead & Buried
director:
盖瑞·谢尔曼
actor:
詹姆斯·法伦蒂洛
/
梅乐蒂·安德森
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other title:
盖棺了结
/
死亡埋葬
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After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Movie
Pet Sematary (1989) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Eggplant.place Skybridge +3
Pet Sematary
director:
玛丽·兰伯特
actor:
Dale Midkiff
/
Fred Gwynne
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other title:
Cimitero vivente
/
Ondskabens kirkegård
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After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.
Movie
Son of Frankenstein (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Son of Frankenstein
director:
Rowland V. Lee
actor:
Basil Rathbone
/
Boris Karloff
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other title:
科学怪人之子
/
弗兰肯斯坦之子
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One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
Movie
Son of Dracula (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Eggplant.place +2
Son of Dracula
director:
罗伯特·西奥德梅克
actor:
伊芙琳·安克尔斯
/
罗伯特·佩奇
…
other title:
德古拉之子
/
德库拉之子
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Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
Movie
D.O.A. (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Skybridge +2
D.O.A.
director:
鲁道夫·马泰
actor:
艾德蒙·奥布莱恩
/
Pamela Britton
…
other title:
Com as Horas Contadas
/
Opfer der Unterwelt
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Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
Movie
House of Usher (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
House of Usher
other title:
厄舍古厦的倒塌
/
古屋惊魂
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Convinced that his family’s blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hell-bent on destroying his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from extending any further. When her fiancé, Philip Winthrop, arrives at the crumbling family estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless lengths to keep them apart.
Movie
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Skybridge Eggplant.place +3
The Pit and the Pendulum
director:
Roger Corman
actor:
Vincent Price
/
John Kerr
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other title:
陷坑与钟摆
/
저승과 진자
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In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
Movie
Guns (1990) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Guns
director:
安迪·西达里斯
actor:
Erik Estrada ... Juan Degas / Jack of Diamonds
/
多纳·斯皮尔
…
other title:
美女特工队
/
리오 파괴 작전
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A South American gunrunner uses an island in Hawaii as his base of operations. A squad of beauti***overnment agents is sent to put him out of business.
Movie
Do or Die (1991) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Do or Die
director:
Andy Sidaris
actor:
森田则之
/
Erik Estrada
…
other title:
决一死战
/
De vida o muerte
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Asian crime boss Kaneshiro captures two voluptuous undercover federal agents, Donna and Nicole. But instead of liquidating them, he gives the busty duo a head start in a deadly cat-and-mouse game involving six other assassin teams. The heated action takes them from Hawaii to Las Vegas and Louisiana.
Movie
Coffy (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Coffy
director:
Jack Hill
actor:
Pam Grier
/
Booker Bradshaw
…
other title:
科菲
/
女金刚横扫毒枭
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After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
Movie
Jackie Brown (1997) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Min reol KevGa-NeoDB Skybridge Eggplant.place +5
Jackie Brown
director:
Quentin Tarantino
actor:
Pam Grier
/
Samuel L. Jackson
…
other title:
危险关系
/
黑色终结令(台)
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Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.
Movie
Surf Nazis Must Die (1987) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Eggplant.place +2
Surf Nazis Must Die
director:
Peter George (II)
actor:
Gail Neely
/
Robert Harden
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other title:
冲浪纳粹必死
/
冲浪纳粹必须死
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When a Black oil well worker is killed by a band of California neo-Nazis, his gun-wielding grandmother busts out of her retirement home to avenge him.
Movie
Troma's War (1988) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Troma's War
director:
Lloyd Kaufman
actor:
Mitchell Dana
/
Eric Hattler
other title:
特罗马之战
/
트로마스 워
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A small group of typical Tromaville citizens find themselves in the path of a terrorist army controlled by the power elite...