00s Cult
A new century saw Cult filmmakers looking forward to the future and wanting to shake up norms with new approaches. There was also a burgeoning distrust in the technology which was becoming a bigger and more important part in all of our lives. Boundaries were being pushed and challenged, and new stars and auteurs were beginning to emerge that would go on to define the Cult film scene for years to come.
There was also an element of looking back too. Acknowledging the past and giving praise to the films that the current generation had grown up on, but also giving them a fresh spin. Not only with sequels and remakes that wanted to make what came before relevant for the audience of now, but also documentaries that delved deep into what had made the films of the previous century classics.
Take a ride through the films of the naughty noughties in 00s Cult.
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Sea Fog
2014 • Korea • Directed by Sung-bo Shim
Written and produced by Bong Joon-ho (PARASITE, SNOWPIERCER, THE HOST), SEA FOG is a maritime thriller that captures the essence of why he is considered one of the most talented filmmakers working today. Upon learning that his decaying fishing trawler, the...
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Dude Bro Party Massacre III
2015 • United States • Directed by Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, Jon Salmon
A satirical twist on the gory and sexually charged 1980’s slasher genre, Dude Bro Party Massacre III is presented as the only surviving VHS copy of the reviled horror franchise’s third, and final, installment.In ...
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Rampo Noir
2005 • Japan • Directed by Akio Jissôji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Satô & Suguru Takeuchi
Four filmmakers from completely different backgrounds bring their radically personal takes to the stories of Japan’s celebrated master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, Blind Beast).
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.com For Murder
2002 • United States • Directed by Nico Mastorakis
In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream! This turn-of-the-millennium cyber psycho-thriller from Nico Mastorakis (Island of Death, Nightmare at Noon) showcases the usual gleeful eye for excess and inspired casting (including rock stars Roger Da...
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A Hole in My Heart
2005 • Sweden • Directed by Lukas Moodysson
Eric is a teenager who lives in a shabby flat with his father, Rickard. Eric spends most of his time holed up in his room, blaring industrial music in order to drown out what's going on around him. This is due to Rickard being an amateur filmmaker spec...
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A Snake of June
2003 • Japan • Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
Rinko and Shigehiko are a strange couple, who connect as human beings but not lovers. They live more like friends and lead nearly independent lives. Both seem comfortable with this coexistence until Rinko receives a package of candid photographs of her...
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Container
2006 • Sweden • Directed by Lukas Moodysson
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in Mary's stomach. The water breaks. It ...
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Embodiment of Evil
2008 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins
In 2008 Zé Do Caixão returned to screens in Embodiment of Evil, the official third film in the ‘Coffin Joe Trilogy’ which began with At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul in 1964 and continued with This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse in 1967.
Released fr...
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Gamera the Brave
A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle that grows into a new version of Gamera. But will it become powerful enough in time to defeat a rampaging monster named Zedus?
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Graveyard of Honor (2002)
Miike's 2002 retelling transplants the story to Tokyo at the turn of the millennium. Less a direct remake of Fukasaku's film than a radical reimagining of the same overarching premise, Miike's film captures both the hedonism and nihilism of the modern Japanese crime scene in deliriously stylish f...
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Ivansxtc
Danny Huston, Peter Weller and Lisa Enos star in this biting satire on the behind-the-scenes of the Hollywood film industry, with all its drink and drug-fuelled excess, from director Bernard Rose (Candyman, Paperhouse).
Opening with the death of its titular protagonist, Ivansxtc goes back in ti...
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Joint Security Area
Before Oldboy, before The Handmaiden, visionary filmmaker Park Chan-wook helmed this gripping tale of deceit, misunderstanding and the senselessness of war.
Gunfire breaks out in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, leaving two North Korean soldiers dead while a wounded South Ko...
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Lilya 4-Ever
2002 • Sweden • Directed by Lukas Moodysson
Lilja lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilja hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working as...
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Mike Hodges: A Film-Maker’s Life
2022 • United Kingdom • Directed by David Cairns
Get up close and very personal with this documentary about the Cult British director behind Get Carter, Flash Gordon and more, Mike Hodges: A Film-makers Life. This feature-length in-depth sit down with a leading figure in UK cinema sees Hodges ta...
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Nightcap
2000 • France • Directed by Claude Chabrol
After the death of his second wife, concert pianist André Polonski remarries his first wife, Swiss chocolate-company heiress Mika Muller. Soon a young piano student, Jeanne Polet, gets the idea that she may be André's daughter. She visits his house in L...
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Offspring
2009 • United States • Directed by Andrew van den Houten
Against the backdrop of grisly murders and child abductions, a clan of cannibalistic savages which plague the North-east Coast since 1858, is after an unsuspecting family and their innocent baby girl. Do they have what it takes to survive?
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One Missed Call
Tapping into the same brand of terror as the Ring and Grudge movies, visionary director Takashi Miike ('Audition', 'Blade of the Immortal') presents a modern, high-tech twist on that mainstay of Japanese folklore, the yurei or vengeful spirit, in the form of its own iconic antihero - the terrifyi...
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One Missed Call 2
2005 • Japan • Directed by Renpei Tsukamoto
A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can the police stop it if it's a ghost?
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One Missed Call Final
2006 • Japan • Directed by Manabu Asô
The timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending them a cursed phone message they can either pass on or die.
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Ringu 0
Discover the horrifying truth behind Ringu's viral video in this spine-tingling origin story. Thirty years prior to the events of Ringu, teenager Sadako (Yukie Nakama, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade), plagued by nightmares and a suspicion that she has inherited her mother's psychic abilities, joins a...
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Running Out of Time II
1999 • Hong Kong • Directed by Johnnie To
Ho Sheung Sang finds himself wrapped up in another cat-and-mouse game, this time against a tricky magician.
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The Great Yokai War
2005 • Japan • Directed by Takashi Miike
Decades later, none other than Takashi Miike (Audition) helmed The Great Yokai War, a loose remake of Spook Warfare that used cutting-edge digital effects to renew the franchise for a new generation. In it, a young boy is given a grave responsibility: to ...
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The Psychedelic Priest
Father John (John Darrell) begins to question his faith after he accidentally ingests some LSD given to him in a cola. Amid images of religious motifs and becomes the Psychedelic Priest. Setting off across America on a journey of self-discovery, he wanders the country and comes across a pretty bl...