cult films exam #2

1968

night of the living dead year

george romero

night of the living dead director

man of the meteor, earth bottom

romero’s early films

carnegie mellon

george romero’s school

jack sworgle

worked at the film processing store romero went to, taught him how to make films

johnny’s actor

russel streiner, set up latent image with romero, made corpo industrial films

ec comics and aip pictures

two media sources that served as the basis for a lot of romero’s films

downtown pittsburgh

latent image office

evans city pennsylvania

where living dead was shot

i am legend

night of the living dead was inspired by richard madison’s

aristotle’s three unities

time (one day), place (evans city), action (zombie survival)

114k

night of the living dead budget

night of the living dead screenplay

john russo and romero

ben, nold actor

duane jones

barbara, nold

judith odea, siblings w johnny, johnny eats barbara

35 mm

night of the living dead was shot on xmm film

july 67- jan 68

when nold was shot

12 million

how much did night of the living dead make

references to hitchcock’s movies in nold

finding body upstairs = the birds, stuffed animals in house = psycho

references to mailase in american society in nold

backwards flag, interacial tension between barbara and ben, interracial couple was bbqed, ben lynched

jodorowsky

el topo director, from russia, raised in chile, lead actor, music, producer

1970

el topo year

mime

mime at paris, miming in el topo with dwarf wife at frontier’s town

jodorowsky and dad

cold relationship, mirrored in movie

four intertitles in el topo

genesis, prophet, psalms, apocalypse

references to religion in el topo

intertitles, gunslinger shot at the end like a crucifix, tells son at 7 “you are a man now”, reference to judaism

town as a reference to america

symbol on banners = illuminati and the seeing eye, western america, defending itself from “freaks”, black man is branded

el topo connections with lage dor

takes place in a desert, invasion film

DUB

beginning of rocky horror, el topo

el topo was shot where

in the desert outside of mexico city, to get rid of the unions that dominated the mexican film industry

100k

el topo budget

el topo means the mole

moles are underground, “freaks” (i hate saying that why does he use that term) are buried underground

blood in el topo

made out of red paint

first master

rides a horse, armless dwarf and legless dwarf, two guns, stone tower

second master

lion, sidekick is his mother, wooden house on wheels, one gun

third master

bunnies, gun with one bullet, straw hut

fourth master

butterfly net, home does not exist

sound effects el topo

gonzala gaveria

rocky horror stage play

richard obrien, screenwriter, jesus christ superstar and hair

royal court theatre

where rocky horror was first performed

it came from denton high

og title of rocky horror

lew adler and michael white

rocky horror producers

b-movies referenced in rocky horror

king kong, tarantula, it came from outer space, flash gordon, invisible man, and more

american gothic

grant woods, brother and sister, riff raff dressed up with magenta standing at wedding ceremony. also david and mona lisa in movie

rocky horror director

jim sharmin

dr frankenfurter

tim curry

janet weiss

susan sarandon

brad majors

barry bostwick

riff raff

richard obrien

magenta

patricia quinn

columbia

little nell

dr scott

jonathan adams

rocky

peter hinwood

eddie

meatloaf

criminologist/narrator

charles gray

sue blane

set designer, art director rocky horror

oakley courthouse

where rocky horror was filmed, used in other british horror bmovie recreations, hq of charles de gaulle, was falling apart when making film

1975

rocky horror year, also jaws, “a different set of jaws”

bray studios

rocky horror studio

opening credits

title card is skewed, dripping blood, blowjob - going into mouth, cannibalism and rocket ship r foreshadowed

malaise in rocky horror

reading newspaper from cleveland, nixon resignation speech in car

the plain dealer

cleveland newspaper

lgbt community —> college kids —> catholic school girls

ppl who saw rocky horror and gave it legs

american gothic

grant wood, magenta and riff raff

eraserhead director/producer

david lynch

1977

eraserhead year

bushnell —> tony vallani —> frank daniel

lynch’s three mentors

35mm

eraserhead shot on

kokoshka

austrian painter, lynch wanted to study under but flopped

7k

AFI grant, from tony vallani

boston museum school —> philly museum of art

bushnell saved lynch, schools

peggy reavie

lynch first wife

5 years

how long did eraserhead take

21k

eraserhead cost

1977

eraserhead year

lady in the radiator

id

man in the planet

superego in eraserhead

lady in radiator comes out four times

• squashes sperm

• in heaven everything’s just fine

• hugs henry, turns white, he lets go

• henry accepts, hugs, afterlife

trapped in eraserhead

brick wall behind window, a-bomb paintings

1972-1976

eraserhead years

charlotte stewart

mary actress

laurel near

lady in radiator actress

jack nance

henry actor

1968

planet of the apes year

planet of the apes produced by

20th century fox

arthur p jacobs

apes was his brainchild, worked for warner bro and mgm as pr, dabbled in producing films (dr doolittle), marilyn monroe as client

the monkey planet

book, pierre boole, arthur bought rights in 1963

franklin schaffner

apes director

leon shamroy

apes cinematographer

charleton heston

taylor actor

john chambers

apes makeup, prosthetics, spock’s ears

apes location

lake powell in utah

5.8 million

apes cost

fox ranch, malibu creek state park

ape city set

3 types of apes

gorillas = thugs/police/muscle

chimps = intellectuals/scientists, most sympathetic

orangutans = aristocrats/politicians

33.3 million

apes made x money

may - aug 1967

how long did apes take

feb 8 1968

apes premiered

match shot, zuma beach cali

apes final scene

dracula, road to jerusalem, the wild one

three intertexts in scorpio rising