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Calgary Underground Film Festival

July-August 2008

Mainstream success threatens cult cinema’s sleazy charm

Dorothy Woodend

Tell someone you like science fiction, fantasy or horror films and you might get “the look.” A look that says, “Are you silly, immature or, worse, pervy?” Fans of genre cinema—the term applies to many different categories of film but is most commonly applied to sci-fi, fantasy and horror—have long had a bad rep as […] More »