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Cult Movies

Mark Kermode invites you on an entertaining journey into the weird and wonderful world of cult movies, filled with some of the strangest, most truly original and unexpected moments in cinema.

Mark Kermode invites you on an entertaining journey into the weird and wonderful world of cult movies, filled with some of the strangest, most truly original and unexpected moments in cinema.

Film-makers don’t decide what becomes a cult movie, argues Mark. We - the audience - do. Mark looks at the qualities a film needs to acquire cult status, and the main types of cult movie, from films that are so bad they’re good, to groundbreaking masterpieces of foreign language cinema.

Some cult films set out to shock and break taboos; others are camp classics embraced by audiences who find new or hidden meanings in them. Mark also explores the strange phenomenon of cult films about actual cults, and looks at the future of cult cinema in an age when even the most obscure and offbeat movie is just a download away.

59 minutes

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Mon 5 Aug 2024 01:30

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Music Played

  • Riff Raff, Columbia, Magenta, Narrator and The Transylvanians

    The Time Warp (Remix 1989 Extended Version)

  • Richard O'Brien, Little Nell

    The Time Warp

  • Carmen Miranda

    The Lady In The Tutti-Frutti Hat

  • Bert Lahr Ray Bolger Jack Haley and Julie Garland

    If Only I Had The Nerve / We're Off To See The Wizard

  • Patti Page

    (How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window?

  • Wendy Carlos

    The Funeral Of Queen Mary

  • Melvin Van Peebles

    Come On Feet

  • Vangelis

    Blade Runner (Main Titles)

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Mark Kermode
Writer Kim Newman
Writer Mark Kermode
Writer Nick Freand Jones
Series Producer Nick Freand Jones
Executive Producer John Das

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