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Pure Cinema Podcast

Episode 31 - Early 80s Cult Movies - 1980-84

Pure Cinema Podcast

Brian Saur & Elric Kane

Movies, Elric, Critics, Arts, Rupertpupkinspeaks, Horror, Cinema, Saur, Visual Arts, Film, Brian, Tv & Film

4.8737 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 188 minutes

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Summary

Elric and Brian return to another of their "Cult Movies" episodes - this time tackling the first half of the 1980s with ten picks each!

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0:00.0

I'm not going to listen to this.

0:02.3

Ray, you're chanting.

0:03.0

I'm not going to hear this now. I think a cult movie is a movie that is not a big success.

0:32.6

It doesn't draw an enormous audience, but it has a small and really devoted audience so that there are people who love this movie and really understand it, but the general public may not even be aware of the movie.

0:48.1

Well, a cult movie. I don't think you set out to make a cult movie. I think the public turns it into a cult movie

0:54.5

you know so a cult movie is the same as like why do fans gravitate toward

0:59.8

Boba Fett it just happens people just happen to love a bad movie because it's so

1:06.4

bad it's good or something you know but people create cult movies I think know, what sort of sets a cult film apart from a mainstream movie is not obvious in the beginning.

1:15.6

I think that that's something that comes later on.

1:18.6

When a movie is sort of embraced by, you know, maybe a smaller audience,

1:25.6

and that audience, you know, nurtures it and, you know, more people find it, you know, through sort of, let's just say, underground means, as opposed to just, you know, your Sunday matinees, but, you know, finds it through videotapes and you know downloads whatever and and through

1:45.5

word of mouth I would think or or blogs it becomes more well known or more appreciated than

1:52.0

it would have been.

1:53.0

I don't know.

1:54.0

Cult seems to me always a movie that didn't have big legs in the beginning but then

2:00.1

but then sort of gained steam as you went along.

2:03.6

But maybe something may not be as slick as they had hoped for when they were making it

2:10.6

or as successful, but if it has a lot of heart or it has a lot of empathy or a lot of accessibility, I think that's what drags you in.

2:20.3

I don't believe it's necessarily the success of the filmmaking. I think it's more about

2:27.3

the parts of the film that sort of appeal to you and touch you.

2:30.3

One of the great things about movies is, and performances in general, is that when you see

2:37.0

something, if you don't have a preconception about it, if you haven't read reviews, if somebody

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