#cult-film

#cult-film

Udo Kier, the German actor who worked with everyone from Andy Warhol to Gus Van Sant to Madonna, has died. He was 81. His partner, artist Delbert McBride, confirmed the news to on November 23. Kier worked extensively with Danish director Lars Von Trier. Kier starred in Trier's Breaking the Waves, Dancer int he Dark, Dogville, Melancholia, and Nymphomaniac: Vol. II.

When "Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein" debuted on Netflix in July 2019, plenty of people had no idea what it was. Legend has it that star and executive producer David Harbour wanted it to come out that way. The actor parodies himself twice in this baffling 32-minute mockumentary, born from a Twitter conversation with writer John Levenstein, about a tortured man (Harbour), his late father (Harbour), and a made-for- TV play that holds the key to their relationship. Maybe. Sort of. Probably not.

Given its provenance, it's no surprise that no one here says, as they do in the rival documentary, that the 1975 film adaptation is a shitty fucking movie but nevertheless there's honesty on display, mostly about the slapdash origins of the project and the later mistakes made, including the huge flop when the original stage production tried to transfer from Los Angeles to Broadway.

Directed by the King of Cult Cinema, Roger Corman, 1960's, , approached the burgeoning horror genre farcically, employing humor to tell the story of a florist's assistant who begins feeding his plants human blood. Thanks to word-of-mouth, acclaim, and an appearance of young Jack Nicholson, became a cult hit. This led to various adaptations over the years, including a 1986 movie retelling, which served as the basis for the off-Broadway musical of the same name.

Hicks explained, 'The plan was always to build an actual space, so these pop-ups gave me a means to get more experience, which I definitely needed since I was pretty green in the realms of programming and projection.'