Gotta Watch Them All: A Thousand and One Cult Movies

One of the most problematic issues for anyone looking to get into cult and obscure cinema, is often finding somewhere to start. Even more so when these two words cover such a varied films from a huge variety of genres, it can often seem quite daunting especially when it comes to finding the films worth watching.

Still while the “1001 Films To See Before You Die” list contains quite a few cult movies, it’s publishers would sadly only reach 101 when they compiled their list dedicated solely to cult cinema, a paltry amount and one I was sure could easily be beaten.

So teaming up with some of my favourite movie bloggers and self confessed cult cinema addicts, we set about creating a 1001 movie list of our own, only one dedicated to cult and obscure cinema, with the intention of creating a list which would not only form a great introduction to new fans of the films we loved, but also give the established fans a fun check list of titles to work though.

So after spending the last couple of months debating and arguing over what titles should make the list we finally compiled our list, which this weekend was unveiled over at “Mad,Bad, and Downright Strange: A Thousand and One Cult Movies” which has been setup to host the list.

The intention now the list has been established is to link the various titles to reviews posted by not only ourselves, but our fellow cult cinema bloggers aswell as our hope for this project being that it only further highlights the wealth of writing talent currently working within this field, while sharing the love for these movies.

So why not check out the list and see how many you have seen and maybe find some future viewing! 

100 Followers!! - Thanks for your support

This is almost like an action replay of my reaction to finding out

Wow I can hardly believe that I have now reached 100 followers, a feat I never thought I would achive when I started out writing this blog, hardly expecting one never mind 100 people who liked my blog enough to follow it and it's certainly the perfect way to end another great year here on the blog, especially as I now prepare to enter Year four.

I should really thank at this point everyone who has read the blog since it started and especially all of you who have chosen to follow it. Thanks should also go to my wife Lily for putting up with my obsessive film hording which continually threatens to take over any flat surface in our house, let alone my random film rants and continual efforts to teach our son William the names of all the Toho monsters.

Thanks also to all the bloggers who have supported the blog over the years, with many of you having grown into great friends and fun rivals over the years, with special thanks going to Jenn (Cavalcade of Perversions), Bryce (Things That Don't Suck) and Emily (The Deadly Doll's House of Horror Nonsense) to name but a few of the blogs I regualrly try and read and I hope that those I havn't named but frequently try to support, will know already that they too are a constent source of inspiration, aswell as reminding me frequently that the blogsphere is still home to some of the most exciting voices in film critisim, especially in these times where many mistaken lean towards Video based critism.

So what does Year four hold? Well as the watch pile only continues to grow from numourous mispent hours digging through boxes of VHS at flea markets, car boots and charity shop backrooms, let alone a reading pile which constantly threatens to fall off my bedside table and kill me in my sleep aswell as "Elwood's A-Z of Asian Cinema" still to finish, it's already looking like it's going to be another jam packed year of obscure film watching, especially as already there are just so many titles that I'm looking forward to watching and writing about, I could hardly think about giving up now, especially when it's still just so much fun to hunt down these films and write about them.

Once again, I thank you all for the support and hope that Year four is just as much fun as the last three have been :)