CULT DE S’ACADEMY AWARDS
Cult de S’Academy Awards Nominees
Posted Mon, 20 Jan 2003
Cult de S’Academy Awards Nominees
Simply copy and paste and send back with your one choice per category…
Each category comes from a discussion in the listed column. I’ll include the latest columns plus a number of older ones to get up to date.
1. Best Bloodsucker
(See Cult de Sac 27)
Christopher Lee
Max Schreck
Klaus Kinski
Willem Defoe
Gary Oldman
2. Most mind bending musical
(* Note: No Sound of Music – I said mind bending, not mind numbing!)
(See Cult de Sac 1)
This is Spinal Tap
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Quadrophenia
Absolute Beginners
Tommy
Pink Floyd: The Wall
3. Worst idea for a remake
(See Cult de Sac 2)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (TV!!!!! 2003)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
The Ring (From the Japanese credible effort ‘Ringu’) (2003)
4. The most career-killing role/film
(See Cult de Sac 3)
Tod Browning (Freaks)
Bela Lugosi (Dracula)
Kevin Costner (Waterworld, make that virtually any film he’s made.)
5. Least satisfactory definition of a cult film
(See Cult de Sac 4)
Anything that’s crap
Anything that grosses less than its catering bill (see Waterworld)
A film that the critics don’t like
6. The Best Film Four Film
(See Cult de Sac 5)
Trainspotting – for using a Lou Reed
song
Local Hero – for Mark Knopfler
My Beautiful Launderette – for being so daring
A Company of Wolves – for being so bizarre
The Full Monty – for the hell of it
Billy Elliot – for incorporating ‘The Jam’ into scenes of the miners’ strike
Shallow Grave – for sheer inventiveness
7. Film genres that spawn the best lines
(See Cult de Sac 6)
Comedies (Young Frankenstein)
Horror (Evil Dead I and II, Hellraiser)
War films (Apocalypse Now)
Inane slasher films (Take your pick)
Scandinavian/Icelandic produced blue movies with Taiwanese dubbing (I was a Teenage Harlot) …just kidding!
8. he most important tip in surviving Evil Dead films
(See Cult de Sac 7)
Never honk your car horn at locals – they don’t like it
Never be the first into the remote
cabin and don’t explore the basement
Never mind the ‘virginity saves all’ theory. It won’t help you in this film.
If after burying your girlfriend, your friend wants to get as far away from you as possible, be understanding…then do not let him back in.
The chainsaw is your friend
Never wear your best clothes – it gets messy
Don’t count on a happy ending, but do count on two more films worth of work if you survive.
9. The worst time had by a female character in a cult film
(See Cult de Sac 8)
Jamie Leigh Curtis (Halloween) – for having to put up with friends who say things like – “He totally never showed”.
Catherine Deneuve (The Hunger) – for having to give up a swanky lifestyle for death.
Deborah Twiss (A Gun for Jennifer) – For having to put up with greasy strip club patrons
Mrs Voorhees (Friday the 13th) – for having given birth to Jason and the
series in the first place
Mrs Bates (Psycho) – for being kept out of her grave for so long, and for being shut up in the fruit cellar.
Camille Keaton (I Spit on your Grave aka Day of the Woman) for having to endure some of the worst scenes in the history of film.
10. The worst thing about ‘Minority Report’ is…
(See Cult de Sac 11)
(a) That it’s often compared to Blade Runner
(b) It is considered film noir, even though Tom Cruise’s apartment in the film is spotless and there are no cigarettes apparent anywhere
(c) See (a)
(d) See (a) and (b)
(e) See (a) again
11. The compulsion to remake a film is driven by…
(see Cult de Sac 12)
Greed
Lust
A sheep named Doris
The desire to pay tribute to the creator of the original
A very rare and contagious
tropical disease
12. Most famous of the ‘where are they now and what the hell are they doing?’ actors…
Anthony Michael Hall (The Breakfast Club)
Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club)
Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club)
Tony Todd (Candyman)
Molly Ringwald (The Breakfast Club)
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