The Wicker Man
- Episode aired May 8, 1988
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Himself - Host: My name is Alex Cox and welcome to the 'Moviedrome' - a season of cult films. What is a cult film? A cult film is one that has a passionate following but does not appeal to everybody. James Bond movies are not cult films but chainsaw movies are. Just because a movie is a cult movie does not automatically guarantee quality. Some cult movies are very bad others are very, very good. Some make an awful lot of money at the box-office others make no money at all. Some are considered quality films others are exploitation. One thing they do have in common is that they are all 'genre' films, that's to say a French word meaning the type or category of film in question; for example gangster films or westerns. Cult films also have a tendency to slosh over from one genre into another, so that a science fiction film might become a detective movie or vice-versa. They are also generally cheaply made; most of the films in this season cost under two million dollars, some of them cost a great deal less. They share common themes as well, themes that I would suggest are the common themes of all drama; love, murder and greed. Murder and greed predominate in this season.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Wicker Man (1973)