Ernest Mathijs is Professor of Film Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. His books include The Cinema of David Cronenberg (2008), The Cinema of the Low Countries (2004), The Lord of the Rings (2006, 2007), John Fawcett’s Ginger Snaps (2013), and The Screen Censorship Companion (with Daniel Biltereyst, 2024). With Jamie Sexton he co-wrote and co-edited Cult Cinema (2011) and The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema (2019).Xavier Mendik is Professor of Cult Cinema Studies at Birmingham City University, UK from where he runs the Cine-Excess International Film Festival. He is the author, editor and co-editor of ten volumes including Shocking Cinema of the 70s (co-edited with Julian Petley, 2021), Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress (2015) and The Cult Film Reader (co-edited with Ernest Mathijs, 2008). His documentaries include Scum of the Earth: Creating America’s Rural Communities of Horror (2025).

• AcknowledgmentsForewordIntroduction100 Cult Films:A Clockwork Orange (1971)A Gun for Jennifer (1997)A Serbian Film (2010)The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension (1984)Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)All the Colours of the Dark (1972)American Mary (2012)American Psycho (2000)Angel Heart (1987)At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964)Av: The Hunt (2020)Beat the Devil (1953)The Big Racket (1976)Black (2015)Black Sunday (1960)Blueberry (2004)Das Boot (1981)Boys in the Sand (1971)Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)Breaking Away (1979)Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker (1981)Captain Blood (1935)Cat People (1982)La Commune (2000)The Clones of Bruce Lee (1980)The Crossing (2018)Cry-Baby (1990)Cube (1997)The Curse of Willow Song (2020)Dante’s Inferno (1911)Day of the Animals (1977)Dead Man (1995)The Death of Dick Long (2019)Deep Throat (1972)Delicatessen (1991)Donkey Skin (1970)Drifter (2007)Drive (2011)Enter the Devil (1974)Der Fan (1982)Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)First Spaceship on Venus (1960)Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999)Ganja & Hess (1972)A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (2003)Glen or Glenda (1953)Green Elephant (1999)Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)Hard Boiled (1992)Hard Times (1975)Hard to Be a God (2013)Hated: G.G. Allin (1993)The Howling (1981)Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)Koko-di Koko-da (2019)Lady Snowblood (1973)Labyrinth of Passion (1982)Leave No Trace (2018)Legend of the Overfiend (1989)Lemonade (2016)Let the Right One In (2008)Mad Dog Morgan (1976)Malpertuis (1971)The Man from Hong Kong (1975)Medium Cool (1969)Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)Midnight (1982)My Neighbour Totoro (1988)The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017)The Night of the Hunter (1955)Octavio Is Dead! (2018)Of Freaks and Men (1998)Oldboy (2003)One Cut of the Dead (2017)Perfect Blue (1997)Pig (2021)Poison Ivy (1992)The Princess Bride (1987)Rabid (1977)Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)Roar (1981)Rope (1948)The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)Scum of the Earth (1974)Skinamarink (2022)Space Is the Place (1974)Space Sweepers (2021)The Squeeze (1977)Stalker (1979)Suspiria (2018)Tales from the Crypt (1972)Targets (1968)Tenebrae (1982)They Live (1988)Turkish Delight (1973)The Velvet Vampire (1971)Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010)The Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)Zéro de conduite (1933)X/Pearl/MaXXXine (2022 / 2022 / 2024)

Mathijs and Mendik have achieved the rarest feat: a necessary sequel.