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Author:   Ernest Mathijs ,  Xavier Mendik (Birmingham City University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   BFI Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 19.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.780kg
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9781839023033

ISBN 10:   1839023031
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 March 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 100 Cult Films: A Clockwork Orange 1971 A Gun for Jennifer 1997 A Serbian Film 2010 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension 1984 Aguirre, Wrath of God 1972 All the Colours of the Dark 1972 American Mary 2012 American Psycho 2000 Angel Heart 1987 At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul 1964 Av: The Hunt 2020 Beat the Devil 1953 The Big Racket 1976 Black 2015 Black Sunday 1960 Blueberry 2004 Das Boot1 981 Boys in the Sand 1971 Bram Stoker’s Dracula 1992 Breaking Away 1979 Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker 1981 Captain Blood 1935 Cat People 1982 La Commune 2000 The Clones of Bruce Lee 1980 The Crossing 2018 Cry-Baby 1990 Cube 1997 The Curse of Willow Song 2020 Dante’s Inferno 1911 Day of the Animals 1977 Dead Man 1995 The Death of Dick Long 2019 Deep Throat 1972 Delicatessen 1991 Donkey Skin 1970 Drifter 2007 Drive 2011 Enter the Devil 1974 Der Fan 1982 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986 First Spaceship on Venus 1960 Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby 1999 Ganja & Hess 1972 A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night 2014 The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai 2003 Glen or Glenda 1953 Green Elephant 1999 Halloween VI: the Curse of Michael Myers 1995 Hard Boiled 1992 Hard Times 1975 Hard to be a God 2013 Hated: G.G.Allin 1993 The Howling 1981 Jodorowsky’s Dune 2013 Koko Di Koko Da 2019 Lady Snowblood 1973 Labyrinth of Passion 1982 Leave No Trace 2018 Legend of the Overfiend 1989 Lemonade 2016 Let the Right One In 2008 Mad Dog Morgan 1976 Malpertuis 1971 The Man From Hong Kong 1975 Medium Cool 1969 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Midnight 1982 My Neighbour Totoro 1988 The Night is Short, Walk On Girl 2017 Night of the Hunter 1955 Octavio Is Dead! 2018 Of Freaks and Men 1998 Oldboy 2003 One Cut of the Dead 2017 Perfect Blue 1997 Pig 2021 Poison Ivy 1992 The Princess Bride 1987 Rabid 1977 Rhymes for Young Ghouls 2013 Roar 1981 Rope 1948 The Saragossa Manuscript 1965 Scum of the Earth 1974 Skinamarink 2022 Space is the Place 1974 Space Sweepers 2021 The Squeeze 1977 Stalker 1979 Suspiria 2018 Tales From the Crypt 1972 Targets 1968 Tenebrae 1982 They Live 1988 Turkish Delight 1973 The Velvet Vampire 1971 Who Killed Captain Alex? 2010 The Wisconsin Death Trip 1999 Zéro de Conduite 1933 X/Pearl 2022 Conclusion Bibliography

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Ernest Mathijs is Professor of Film Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. His books include The Cinema of David Cronenberg (2008), The Cinema of the Low Countries (2004), The Lord of the Rings (2006, 2007), John Fawcett’s Ginger Snaps (2013), and The Screen Censorship Companion (with Daniel Biltereyst, 2024). 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 from where he runs the Cine-Excess International Film Festival. He is the author, editor and co-editor of ten volumes including Shocking Cinema of the 70s (co-edited with Julian Petley, 2021), Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress (2015) and The Cult Film Reader (co-edited with Ernest Mathijs, 2008). His documentaries include Scum of the Earth: Creating America’s Rural Communities of Horror (2025).

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