Historia del cine de culto

What do Monster Parade, The Mole, Pink Flamingos, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Night of the Living Dead, and Eraserhead have in common? What is Nosferatu's connection to theosophy? How did the Draft Night of the Hunter come into the hands of Charles Laughton? What shady businesses was producer Harry Alan Towers allegedly engaged in in New York while financing Jesús Franco's films? Why did the relationship between the Mitchell brothers, directors of Behind the Green Door, end in fratricide? Why did Roger Corman decide to shoot his films about women's prisons in the Philippines? Where did Russ Meyer's obsession with huge breasts come from? Which feature film cost Lucio Fulci a trial for skinning dogs? What was the video nasties scandal that made headlines in England in the newspapers and came to worry the government?... This book answers these and many other questions, but above all it traces a route through 'another' film history , underground, anti-canonical and fascinating: that of cult films. He investigates the origin of the phenomenon of cult films and through these works that break the aesthetic or moral orthodoxy and open new paths, he proposes an alternative journey through the evolution of the seventh art. And so the milestones of the Hollywood horror of the thirties, the science fiction of the fifties, the colorful horror of the Hammer, the Italian gothic, the spaghetti-western, the giallo, the road movies and the biker movies, Mexican horror movies, blaxploitation, sexploitation, gore, gringhouse trash movies, martial arts movies, Spanish fantasy horror, monsters and Japanese-style pornography, the slasher...