No-Budget Sci-Fi Cinema: Ten Good Examples
Low budget and science fiction might seem mutually exclusive terms, but I believe the following ten films prove otherwise
A Trump Era Reading List
As I’m sure most of you are aware, dystopian fiction is quite hot right now
TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN
Here we have a true American oddity with a history as nutty as what ended up on screen.
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
This story might have worked, but only with a more invigorating treatment.
Mister E
Mega List of Everything View by Topic60s Cinema 70s Cinema 80s Cinema 90's Cinema Adults only Aliens Anthology Apocalyptic Arthouse Bizarre British Horror Canadian Horror Cannibalism Cult TV Dark Comedy Dark Eroticism Directors Dream Logic Evil Animals French...THE LUCID DREAMING
In this lively 86-page novella the world is destroyed by a plague that causes people to dream while awake; seeing as how this is a horror story, a lot of killing and insanity are sure to ensue.
ICE
This bizarre novel is widely acclaimed as the masterpiece of England’s Anna Kavan (1905-1968).
HATER
Moody’s novel is absorbing, fast moving and authentically disturbing entertainment that pulls off the unprecedented task of making this hackneyed idea seem fresh.
THE GAS
The idea of a man-made drug causing people to lose their sexual inhibitions had been done before THE GAS saw print and after, but no other novel took the concept as far as Platt did.
FREAKS’ AMOUR
A classic of freak lit that predated the better-known GEEK LOVE by nearly a full decade. FREAKS’ AMOUR would appear to have been an influence on the latter novel in its notably perceptive depiction of the day-to-day lives of some severely deformed individuals.