Category: Film


  • Models vs. Werewolves: Beauty Meets the Beast (and Gets Eaten)

    Charles Bandโ€™s Full Moon Features is bringing a high-fashion bloodbath to the screen this summer with the release of Models vs. Werewolves. Directed by indie horror veteran Danny Draven (Bad CGI Gator), the creature feature has just debuted its first trailer, pitting five influencers against an ancient pack of shapeshifters. โ€‹ The film follows a…

  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951): Humanity on Trial

    The Day the Earth Stood Still isn’t just a sci-fi movie. It is a cultural monolith. A clean, surgical slab of Cold War anxiety wrapped in chrome and delivered straight into the nervous system of 1951 America. This is Robert Wiseโ€™s The Day the Earth Stood Still. The real version. Not whatever that fucking awful…

  • Shaft (1971): The Man, The Myth, and the Birth of the Cool

    Listen up, you beautiful creeps and vinyl-spinning ghouls. Today we are digging into a 1971 hit that didn’t just change cinema; it kicked the door off the hinges, lit a cigar, and told the old guard to get the hell out of the way. We’re talking about Shaft.โ€‹ Directed by the legendary Gordon Parks, a…

  • Poultrygeist 2: Dawn of the Chicken Dead Teaser: God Bless Troma

    It should come as no surprise, to regular readers of The Cult Archives, that I fucking LOVE Troma Entertainment. Lloyd Kaufman is a movie-making monster genius and I will die on that hill. So imagine the unholy joy when word dropped that one of their most gloriously unhinged creations is clawing its way back from…

  • A Possession in Lincoln County Trailer Letโ€™s the Devil in

    Thereโ€™s DIY horror, and then thereโ€™s ‘e made a whole damn possession movie for the price of a haunted toaster’. Enter A Possession in Lincoln County, the first in-house production from Found TV, and a clear sign theyโ€™re done hosting nightmares and ready to start making their own. Behind the chaos are husband-and-wife duo Louie…

  • sMOTHERed Trailer Proves Home is Where the Hatred is

    Thereโ€™s something deeply unsettling about family in horror, especially when home starts feeling like a trap with better lighting. And if anyone knows how to twist that knife, itโ€™s Joko Anwar, the mind behind Satanโ€™s Slaves and Impetigore. Now heโ€™s circling back with something a little more intimate. And by intimate, I mean ‘your childhood…

  • The Battle Wizard (1977): Behold the Snake Sucking, Toad-Eating Prince of Chaos

    We have reached a point in The Cult Archives where the traditional laws of physics, narrative structure, and human biology no longer apply. If you think youโ€™ve seen weird cinema, if you think youโ€™ve plumbed the depths of the bizarre, I am here to tell you that you are a rank amateur until you have…

  • Vampire Zombies… from Space! (2024): Plan 9 with a Body Count

    If Ed Wood was still alive, he would not only have been a huge fan of Vampire Zombies… from Space!, he wouldโ€™ve probably found a way to at least produce it. Which is the highest praise I can think of. In fact, itโ€™s so influenced by The Master of Schlock Cinema that they have a…

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors โ€” Welcome to Prime Time

    It’s 1987 and the slasher genre was already starting to smell a bit like a basement after a flood. We’ve seen enough silent masked guys in the woods to be on the verge of burnout. The ‘Summer of 1984’ was a distant memory, and New Line Cinema was facing a crisis of identity. A Nightmare…

  • Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Will Leave You Disturbed

    The newest iteration of The Mummy monster from Universal Pictures comes to us by way of Director Lee Cronin, whose previous works are Evil Dead Rise and The Hole in the Ground, both of which received positive reception. In fact, Evil Dead Rise turned out to be the highest-grossing film in its respective series. The…