Cult films consist of Taboo subjects, sex, nudity, violence, and monsters. Some films are good some films are bad. Some are low budgeted and some are high budgeted. They tend to touch on cultural topics but the word that would describe cult movies is exploitation!In order for a film to be considered a Cult film it has to fall under the category of  anatomy, consumption, political economy, and cultural status. Each category has subcategories that goes into specifics of different types of cult movies. I didn’t know there were that many types of cult movies and I am excited to watch some of them in class. 

Dwain Esper directed the film Maniac which people considered to be a bad film but opened doors for other films to be created. I just found the film to be different from what I watch in my free time and the quality was older. The storyline focused on what it wanted to get across and left many dead ends for some of the parts but film being in segments and having writing that the audience could read to get a better understanding of what was going on. 

American Grindhouse was educational and entertaining at the same time. The Film helped me get a better understanding of what kinds of films are considered cult films. Coming into this class I thought I’ve seen only three or four cult films but seeing the examples of cult films my list has expanded and help me get a better understanding of why films were the way they were and what was going on during the time the films came out that influenced the film. It was said in the film that “video cameras were the way to start exploitation.” 

Women played a big role in the production of the cult films from taking off their clothes on screen and to be willing to play roles that are explicit and exploiting how women are treated in households. “Women undersold themselves” and didn’t know that they could get played more for the acts that they were willing to perform in front of a camera when it came to the burlesque era and scenes. After some time violence was added to motion pictures. Male fantasies came to life, saving women from distress and women being whipped into submission because sex wasn’t allowed to be shown in films at some point. 

The teenage rampage era in the 1950s must have been an interesting time. Films were being made about teens not being understood by their parents and feeling like an outcast and being arrested, and the crime rates increasing. That was the time drive-in theaters were popular and I wish I was alive for those times, don’t you? Has anyone ever seen the film “The Outsiders”, is that considered a cult movie? 

My friend wanted to go to the movies and she picked the movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”. I didn’t know what to expect but I didn’t expect it to be what it was. That film was different and I am so excited that we will be talking about it in class and that I am actually learning about films like it.