Tag: Fantastic Planet

• Cult Classics: Fantastic Planet

  

  Cult films seem to depict two worlds: a heightened, askew version of reality as we know it, and a bizarre reality that is barely recognizable. Of the former, previous entries like True Stories or personal favorite The Burbs seem to fall into that category, while the latter refers to otherworldly madness like David Lynch’s Eraserhead,…

  Mike Gray

  February 21, 2023

  culture, film, science fiction

  1973, animation, cult, cult classic, Fantastic Planet, film, Rene Leloux, Roland Topor, surreal

• Cult Classics: Introduction

  

    Often left of center and coming out of left field, for a movie to be regarded as a cult film, genre is not a prerequisite: comedy, drama, camp, horror, and everything else in-between can fall into this vague but ultra-hip classification. The only real pedigree a film needs to be considered cult is in…

  Mike Gray

  May 8, 2017

  culture, film

  Better off Dead, cult classic, cult film, culture, Eating Raoul, Fantastic Planet, film, Liquid Sky, Meet the Hollowheads, True Stories