The Cult Film Archive has been established to provide a research resource for both institutions and individuals interested in cinematic research outside of the conventions of mainstream Hollywood cinema. It covers a diverse cross section of film genres from horror, science fiction and blaxploitation, to madcap musicals, kung fu films and 'weird' world cinema.

Horror In Hotpants: Cabin Fever & The Reinvention Of Seventies American Horror
The original inspiration for Cabin Fever came from me reading a Fangoria article on The Evil Dead when I was around fourteen or fifteen. I was struck by the fact that Sam Raimi made this movie when he was just twenty-one for around three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So that idea of what you could do with the horror genre on a limited budget really influenced me.

Takeshi The Killer: Japan's Leading Cult Director Takeshi Miike
Welcome to the violent, sexually explicit and unpredictable world of cult director Takashi Miike. With titles such as Dead or Alive (1999), City of Lost Souls (2001), Visitor Q (2001) and Audition (2000), this controversial Japanese director has produced a series of blood and guts classics that have provoked outrage for their OTT scenes of SFX splatter and scenarios of prolonged sexual violence.

The (Un)Hollow Man: Paul Verhoeven Discusses the Politics of Pulp
Paul Verhoeven has proven that he is the latest example of a European director who relocates to Hollywood in order to subvert the content and clichés of American genre cinema. For Verhoeven, it is the excesses of �male� genres such as science fiction and the erotic thriller that the director has parodied in order to send up male sexual identity and the American power-elite.

Dawn Of The Dead (1978): Review
Serving as one of the often discussed, though now nearly unseen, keynotes of the moment, Dawn of the Dead is a classic. It�s also a tribute to original ideas executed through the horror film genre with its built-in tendency towards the exploration of cultural taboo and social deviance.

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