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CULT CLASSICS

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HOPELESSLY DEVOTED TO CULT CINEMA • Deep within a radiator, a woman sings songs about heaven. Over at the Frankenstein place, frisky libertines do the Time Warp. In a wood cabin, teenagers stir demons. Two failing actors endure an accidental holiday. An enduring Dude disses The Eagles. And a death-fixated young man crushes on a morbid OAP… Welcome to the wonderfully weird world of cult cinema

THE GREATEST CULT MOVIES OF ALL TIME • Weird creatures, unlikely heroes, black-and-white curios and, erm, a human centipede. Total Film celebrates cinema's glorious mavericks and mould-breakers.

CULT LEADERS • The niche filmmakers who've become cult icons.

SO CULT IT'S NOT • The cult hits which exploded into the mainstream…

FRIDAY THE 13TH • Forty years ago, a small independently made shocker did for summer camps what Jaws had done for the ocean and Halloween had done for closets. Total Film makes a date with director Sean Cunningham and producer Steve Miner for some FRIDAY THE 13TH flashbacks…

RINGU'S SADAKO CRAWLS OUT OF THE TV

FLASH GORDON • FLASH GORDON APPROACHING! AS THE SCI-FI CLASSIC TURNS 40, TOTAL FILM DISPATCHES WAR ROCKET AJAX TO GET THE BEHINDTHE-SCENES STORY FROM THE DIRECTOR AND STARS.

SUSPIRIA • As Luca Guadagnino's star-studded remake of Suspiria prepares to pirouette into cinemas, TF rounds up original director Dario Argento and his cast to look back on the mad making of a scarily inventive, exquisitely gory game-changer that's both bonkers and brilliant…

BLUE VELVET • The opening of Lynch's American Dream…

auto eroticism • As sex-and-wrecks classic Crash hurtles towards its 25th birthday, director David Cronenberg buckles up to guide Total Film through its hazardous journey.

The Warr iors • Celebrating the revolutionary film The Warriors, Total Film joins director Walter Hill and star Michael Beck to look back at the making of the controversial cult hit forged on the streets of New York.

AKIRA • On your bikes…

BILL & TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY • A matter of life, Death and Twister…

AIRPLANE! • Making a lasting impact on both spoofs and disaster movies, Airplane! still has an unbeatable gag-per-minute rate that continues to inspire more than 40 years on. Total Film meets writer/director Jim Abrahams to discuss the serious business of comedy.

CLOSE-UP • Jim Abraham on what's surely the comedy's most memorable one-liner…

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT… • All that ZAZ… What Abrahams and the Zu did after sticking the landing.

WAYNE'S WORLD • The clue is in the title. If cult films often create worlds bent to slanted rules of their own, Wayne's World proclaims its candidacy upfront. With the cult qualities of vivid outsider characters and quotable dialogue factored in, this party was on. Even if no one saw it coming…

RETROSPECTIVE Austin powers INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY • As Mike Myers returned to the big screen in Bohemian Rhapsody, Total Film caught up with him to reflect on the grief that inspired the swinging super-spy who defined his career

CRYSTAL VISIONS • As Jim Henson's muppet masterpiece The Dark Crystal celebrates its 39th birthday (yes, we feel old), Total Film dives into the...