Cult Extras

Trailers Online Youtube: Aventures, Peplum, Fantasy, Pirates, Swordbucklers-Part 2

2009-01-30T18:17:00.000-08:00

She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)

Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)

The Secret Seven 1964 - Alberto De Martino

Journey to the Lost City-1959-Fritz Lang

Sandokan the Great 1963 - Umberto Lenzi

Trailers Online Youtube: Aventures, Peplum, Fantasy, Pirates, Swordbucklers

2009-01-30T18:12:00.001-08:00

Morgan the Pirate (1961)
Morgan il pirata with Steve Reeves. Trailer Recorded from an old VHS.

The Brigand of Kandahar (1965)
Recorded from an old VHS

The Slave-The Son of Spartacus 1963
Recorded from an old VHS

Sign of the Gladiator 1959

The Devil-Ship Pirates 1964

Sabu and the Magic Ring 1957

The Sword and the Dragon-Ilya Muromets 1956

The Evil Dead - Dead Good Marketing [Sam Raimi]

2009-01-30T18:10:00.000-08:00

dvd extra about all the "marketing" behind The Evil Dead. With Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell

Alfred Hitchcock Trailers: Notorious 1946-Rebecca 1940-Saboteur 1942-The Wrong Man

2009-01-30T18:04:00.000-08:00

The Wrong Man
Manny Ballestero is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to borrow on her policy. Employees at the office mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the police are called. The film tells the true story of what happened to Manny and his family

Saboteur
When sabotage destroys part of an aircraft plant, plant worker Barry Kane is blamed for the crime falsely. Determined to clear his name, he sets out to track down the man he believes to be the actual saboteur, the mysterious Frank Fry. He chases Fry across the western deserts to New York, where he discovers a plot by a group of anti-American fascists, and the two men confront each other atop the Statue of Liberty.

Rebecca
A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderlay, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year before. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderlay.

Notorious
Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.

Bizarre Trailers: Cyclone (1978) The Amazons (1973) Gold Raiders (1983)

2009-01-30T17:58:00.000-08:00

Cyclone (1978)
by René Cardona Jr! lol
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well. Written by alfiehitchie

The Amazons (1973)
Le Guerriere dal seno nudo.
Another bad movie trailer (which are fun!) with german subtitles.

Story revolves around tribe of amazons and the crowning of a new queen. Also deals with tribe's battle with male enemies. They meet once per year to allow for reproduction. All male children are supposedly killed at birth. Johnson and Sun vie for throne. Paluzzi plays the queen until new queen is crowned. Johnson defeats Sun in wrestling match ( topless ) to become new queen and later on they fight in the nude.

Gold Raiders (1983)
I love watching bad movie trailers lol, so here is one of them! with german subtitles...
A US plane carrying $200 million in gold is shot down in Thailand. Deployed to recover the gold is military-something-or-another-guy, Mark Banner who is teamed up with a beautiful-US-something, Cordelia as well as a couple human decency loving Thais. Together they are the secret army group code-named, The Gold Raiders. The evil Thai communist army, lead by a whip cracking commander complete with a wooden peg leg, gets word about the gold and the two parties race to find the downed plane. Out numbered ten to one to the Thai army, The Gold Raiders must rely on the wits of leader Mark Banner and, well, the militarys new secret weapon: a super-motorcycle that's protected by spaceship metal, flies, shoots rockets and, of course, has training wheels. After feirce battles with the communits and a large loss of life from both sides, Mark and company wonders about the price of war (?) after successfully recovering the gold but losing his "love" Cordelia.

Black Southern Cinema [African American movies history]

2009-01-30T17:54:00.000-08:00

While black filmmakers were being largely ignored by the major Hollywood studios, there was a small but flourishing independent African-American cinema, particularly in the South from 1915 to 1945. Movies of Color features rare clips from some of these forgotten films, interspersed with commentary from film historians, showing the work of such important figures as Oscar Micheaux, Spencer Williams, and others who worked within tight budgets and under the most difficult circumstances to create a cinema of their own.

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An Introduction to Giallo Movies [Documentary about Horror Italian Genre called Giallo]

2008-10-19T14:46:00.000-07:00

This is not really a true documentary but appears as an extra material on Death Walks at Midnight DVD. This is a short 17-minute documentary/interview about the giallo genre. Adrian Smith, who is the author of the excellent book Blood and Black Lace The Definitive Guide to Italian Sex and Horror Movies, guides us through many a giallo films (including Death Walks at Midnight). He provides a concise introduction to the genre and its various tropes plus an introduction to the film itself. Admittedly, this does waver towards the fanboy style of criticism but Smith is clearly a knowledgeable and infectiously enthusiastic guide.

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Giallo:
(From Wikipedia)
Giallo (pronounced IPA: ['ʤallo], plural gialli) is an Italian 20th century genre of literature and film, which in Italian indicates crime fiction and mystery. In the English language, however, it is used in a broader meaning that is closer to the French fantastique genre, including elements of horror fiction and eroticism. The word giallo is Italian for "yellow" (see Wiktionary: giallo) and stems from the origin of the genre as a series of cheap paperback novels with trademark yellow covers.

The film genre that emerged from these novels in the 1960s began as literal adaptations of the books, but soon began taking advantage of modern cinematic techniques to create a unique genre which veered into horror and psychological thrilling. These films, particularly such 1970s classics by directors like Dario Argento or Mario Bava, are only defined as "gialli" in the English language usage of the term; they are not called such in Italy, where they are usually described as thrillers instead. This stems from the fact that in Italian the Argento and Bava movies were defined as "giallo-thrillers" or "giallo-horrors"; in the Italian tongue the coupling of the two words, meant as substantives, had to indicate the public the salient characteristics of the new genre where the search for a murder culprit (hence "giallo") was interspersed with shocking and grandguignolesque events (hence "thriller" and "horror"). English-speaking people, instead, following the use of their native grammar, took "giallo" as an adjective to "thriller" and "horror", hence appropriating the term in their own language while being only partially aware of its broader meaning in Italian.

"Giallo" films are characterized by extended murder sequences featuring excessive bloodletting, stylish camerawork and unusual musical arrangements. The literary whodunit element is retained, but combined with modern slasher horror, while being filtered through Italy's longstanding tradition of opera and staged grand guignol drama. They also generally include liberal amounts of nudity and sex.

Gialli typically introduce strong psychological themes of madness, alienation, and paranoia. For example, Sergio Martino's Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (also known as Eye of the Black Cat) was explicitly based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat".

They remain notable in part for their expressive use of music, most notably by Dario Argento's collaborations with Ennio Morricone and his musical director Bruno Nicolai, and later with the band Goblin.

As well as the literary giallo tradition, the films were also initially influenced by the German "Krimi" phenomenon - originally black and white films of the 1960s that were based on Edgar Wallace stories.

The first film that created the giallo as a cinema genre is La ragazza che sapeva troppo (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) (1963), from Mario Bava. Its title referred to Alfred Hitchcock's famous The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), again establishing strong links with Anglo-American culture. In Mario Bava's 1964 film, Blood and Black Lace, the emblematic element of the giallo was introduced: the masked murderer with a shiny weapon in his black leather gloved hand.[2]

Soon the giallo became a genre of its own, with its own rules and with a typical Italian flavour: adding additional layers of intense colour and style. The term giallo finally became synonymous with a heavy, theatrical, and stylised visual element.

The genre had its heyday in the 1970s, with dozens of Italian giallo films released. The most notable directors who worked in the genre were Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Aldo Lado, Sergio Martino, Umberto Lenzi, and Pupi Avati.

Although often based around crime and detective work, Gialli should not be confused with the other popular Italian crime genre of the 1970's, the Poliziotteschi, which refers to 'tough-cop', action-oriented films. Directors and stars often moved between both genres, and some films could be considered under either banner, such as Massimo Dallamano's 1974 film What have they done to your daughters?

In Italy, in Tuscany, there are many new authors as: Graziano Braschi, Giampaolo Simi, Mario Spezi, Leonardo Gori, Divier Nelli, Parigi & Sozzi, Riccardo Cardellicchio, Linda Di Martino and others.

Tod Browning-Fearmakers Collection[Online Documentary about the director of Freaks, Dracula, etc]

2008-10-18T23:54:00.000-07:00

Each episode of The Fearmakers also features interviews with a variety of talent connected with these movie masters and the horror film world, including: John Agar, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Jeffrey Combs, Joe Dante, Stuart Gordon, Richard Matheson and David J. Skal.

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Tod Browning
(From Wikipedia)

Tod Browning (July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.

Browning's career spanned the silent and talkie eras. Best-known as the director of Dracula (1931), the cult classic Freaks (1932), and classic silent movie collaborations with Lon Chaney, Sr., Browning directed many movies in a wide range of genres.
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Browning's feature film debut was Jim Bludso (1917), about a riverboat captain who sacrifices himself to save his passengers from a fire. It was well-received.

Browning moved back to New York in 1917. He directed two films for Metro Studios: Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp and The Jury of Fate, both starring Mabel Taliaferro, the latter in a dual role achieved with double exposure techniques that were groundbreaking for the time. He moved back to California in 1918 and produced two more films for Metro: The Eyes of Mystery and Revenge.

In the spring of 1918 he left Metro and joined Bluebird Productions, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, where he met Irving Thalberg. Thalberg paired Browning with Lon Chaney, Sr. for the first time for the film The Wicked Darling (1919), a melodrama in which Chaney played a thief who forces a poor girl from the slums into a life of crime. Browning and Chaney would ultimately make ten films together over the next decade.

The death of his father sent Browning into a depression that led to alcoholism. He was laid off by Universal and his wife left him. However, he recovered, reconciled with his wife, and got a one-picture contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer. The film he produced for MGM, The Day of Faith, was a moderate success, putting his career back on track.

Thalberg reunited Browning with Lon Chaney for The Unholy Three (1925), the story of three circus performers who concoct a scheme to con and steal jewels from rich people using disguises. Browning's circus experience shows in his sympathetic portrayal of the antiheroes. The film was a resounding success, so much so that it was later remade in 1930 as Lon Chaney's first (and only) talkie. Browning and Chaney embarked on a series of popular collaborations, including The Blackbird and The Road to Mandalay. The Unknown (1927), featuring Chaney as an armless knife thrower and Joan Crawford as his scantily-clad carnival girl obsession, was originally titled Alonzo the Armless and could be considered a precursor to Freaks in that it concerns a love triangle involving a circus freak, a beauty, and a strongman. London After Midnight (1927) was Browning's first foray into vampire film and is a highly sought-after lost film which starred Chaney, Conrad Nagel, and Marceline Day. The last known print of London After Midnight was destroyed in an MGM studio fire in 1965. In 2002, a photographic reconstruction of London After Midnight was produced by Rick Schmidlin for Turner Classic Movies. Browning and Chaney's final collaboration was Where East is East (1929), of which only incomplete prints have survived. Browning's first talkie was The Thirteenth Chair (1929), which was also released as a silent and starred Bela Lugosi.

After Chaney's death in 1930, Browning was hired by Universal Pictures to direct Dracula (1931). Although Browning wanted to hire an unknown European actor for the title role and have him be mostly offscreen as a sinister presence, budget constraints and studio interference necessitated the casting of Bela Lugosi and a more straightforward approach. Although the film is now considered a classic, at the time Universal was unhappy with it and preferred the Spanish-language version filmed on the same sets at night.

After directing the boxing melodrama The Iron Man (1931), he began work on Freaks (1932). Based on the short story Spurs by Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins, the screenwriter of The Unholy Three, the film concerns a love triangle between a wealthy dwarf, a gold-digging aerialist, and a strongman; a murder plot; and the vengeance dealt out by the dwarf and his fellow circus freaks. The film was highly controversial, even after heavy editing to remove many disturbing scenes, and was a commercial failure. Browning's career was derailed.

Browning found himself unable to get his requested projects greenlighted. After directing the drama Fast Workers (1933) starring John Gilbert, who was also not in good standing with the studio, he was allowed to direct a remake of London After Midnight, originally titled Vampires of Prague but later retitled Mark of the Vampire (1935). In the remake, the roles played by Lon Chaney in the original were split between Lionel Barrymore and Bela Lugosi (spoofing his Dracula image).

After that, he directed The Devil-Doll (1936), originally titled The Witch of Timbuctoo, from a script he wrote himself. It starred Lionel Barrymore as an escapee from an island prison who avenges himself on the people who imprisoned him using living "dolls" who are actually people shrunk to doll-size and magically placed under Barrymore's hypnotic control. Browning's final film was the murder mystery Miracles for Sale (1939).

Amando de Ossorio [Documentary in 4 parts about the Spanish horror director with English subtitles]

2008-10-18T20:22:00.000-07:00

Biographical TV documentary about the life and career of Spanish horror film director Amando de Ossorio. It includes interviews with some people who worked in his films (Jack Taylor, Modesto Pérez, Lone Fleming, Esperanza Roy). Also with Paul Naschy (Spanish horror star), Rafael Calvo (young Galician director who wrote a book about Ossorio) and Carlos Aguilar (film critic)

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Amando de Ossorio
(from Wikipedia)

Amando de Ossorio (April 6, 1918 – January 13, 2001) was one of the foremost Spanish film directors during the European Horror film surge in the 1970s, known especially for his Blind Dead quadrilogy, a series of violent horror films which featured a never-before-seen type of monster. De Ossorio not only directed his horror films, he also wrote the screenplays for most of them and even came up with the original story idea/ plot in most cases (although producers sometimes tampered with the end product).

His first horror film "Malenka" (1969) was written to be a psychological thriller about a young woman who inherits a castle in Europe and is summarily driven crazy by her uncle who tries to convince her that he and she are both vampires! At the end of the film, the uncle's scheme is revealed and explained by her boyfriend/hero as a hoax. However, after De Ossorio finished the film, the producers decided to make the uncle a real vampire and added a shoddy, low-budget disintegration scene to the film's finale, thus thoroughly confusing the audience and enraging De Ossorio.

In 1970, Paul Naschy's cult classic "Walpurgis Night" started a major horror craze in Europe, and producers scrambled to get in on the action. While most of the new slew of films featured sexier, more violent versions of the old monsters (vampires, werewolves, etc.), De Ossorio decided to try to create an entirely new breed of monster. In 1971, he came up with the concept of the "Blind Dead", a cult of blind, undead Templar Knights who rode skeletal ghost-horses and were attracted to their victims by the sound of their breathing or heartbeat.

The first film ("Tombs of the Blind Dead") was so successful, he immediately embarked on a career as a Euro-horror film director from that point on. Although that first film was his most successful both in Europe and in the United States, many fans feel his second "Blind Dead" film ("Attack of the Evil Dead") was actually the best of the four.

His 1975 "Demon Witch Child" (obviously influenced by "The Exorcist") is today regarded as an underrated must-see horror classic by most of his fans. Unfortunately, his last film "The Sea Serpent" (De Ossorio's pet project for many years) was a disappointment to him, due to the shoddy, low budget special effects, and may account for his retirement from filmmaking in 1980 at age 62.

In interviews, De Ossorio complained about the mercilessly tiny budgets he was forced to work with, and he lamented that in almost every case, the finished project never even came close to what he had envisioned when he first conceived each film. Perhaps the prize for worst special effects scene in film history may have to be awarded to the obvious toy boat that sinks at the finale of "The Ghost Galleon" (1974); it didn't even look like a toy, but rather more like a folded piece of cardboard! De Ossorio was disgusted when he saw how little money and effort went into realizing that key climactic scene, remarking that it showed how little the producers cared about the quality level of their movies. But in spite of it all, De Ossorio managed to turn out some very original, well-crafted and genuinely creepy horror classics, and he will forever be numbered among the great Euro-Horror directors of history.

In his final years, he augmented his income by selling scary paintings of the Templar Knights to his fans. He died in 2001 from natural causes at the age of 82. He was interviewed for a 2001 documentary about his life entitled "Amando de Ossorio: The Last Templar" just a short time before he died. His 4 "Blind Dead" films are now available in a deluxe DVD box set, and most of his other horror films are also available on excellent quality DVD's (with the exception of "Demon Witch Child" tragically).

In 2005, the spanish grindcore/death metal band Machetazo released "Sinfonías del Terror Ciego" a conceptual album about the films of Ossorio.

John Carpenter-They Live [Making Off] Mini Documentary-Behind the Scenes

2008-10-13T21:55:00.000-07:00

Making off the great Science Fiction movie "They Live" by John Carpenter.

They Live
(from Wikipedia)

They Live is a 1988 film directed by John Carpenter, who also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym "Frank Armitage." The movie is based on Ray Nelson's 1963 short story "Eight O’Clock in the Morning."

Part science fiction thriller and part black comedy, the film echoed contemporary fears of a declining economy, within a culture of greed and conspicuous consumption common among Americans in the 1980s. In They Live, the ruling class within the monied elite are in fact aliens managing human social affairs through the use of subliminal media advertising and the control of economic opportunity.

Samuel Fuller-The Steel Helmet [Interviews to Tarantino, Scorsese, Jarmusch]

2008-10-12T22:24:00.000-07:00

Quentin Tarantino, Michael Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch talk about "The Steel Helmet" (1951) by Samuel Fuller.
Taken from the documentary "The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera" (1996)

The Steel Helmet
(from Wikipedia)
(The Steel Helmet (1951) is a war film directed by Samuel Fuller and produced by Lippert Studios during the Korean War. It was the first film about that anti-communist war, and the first of several war films by producer-director-writer Fuller.

Plot: The film features Gene Evans as "Zack", a hardened infantry sergeant. When his entire company is killed by the North Korean communist enemy, Sgt. Zack is made prisoner. The film's first close up is of Zack's helmet, lying in a ditch, hiding from a North Korean sniper. Rescued by South Korean orphan "Short Round" (William Chun), the cynical Sgt. Zack is bribed into leading a ragtag group of American soldiers, who likewise were separated from their units. Commandeering an abandoned Buddhist temple, Zack establishes an observation post, awaiting the enemy's next move.

Roger Corman Interview[The Student Nurses, The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage, Eat my Dust]

2008-10-12T09:54:00.000-07:00

Roger Corman Interviewed by Leonard Malton and talks about:
The Student Nurses
The Big Doll House
The Big Bird Cage
Eat my Dust

Roger Corman
(from Wikipedia)

Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926), sometimes nicknamed "King of the Bs" for his output of B-movies (though he himself rejects this as inaccurate), is a prolific American producer and director of low-budget movies, many of which are exploitation, and are among some of the most influential movies made. He has apprenticed many now-famous directors, stressing the importance of budgeting and resourcefulness; Corman once joked he could make a film about the fall of the Roman Empire with two extras and a sagebush.

In Corman's heyday, he would produce up to seven movies a year. His fastest film was perhaps The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), which was reputedly shot in two days and one night. Supposedly, he had made a bet that he could shoot an entire feature film in less than three days. Another version of the story claims that he had a set rented for a month, and finished using it with three days to spare, thus pushing him to use the set to make a new film. These claims are disputed by others who worked on the film, who have called it part of Corman's own myth-building.

Corman is probably best known for his filmings of various Edgar Allan Poe stories at American International Pictures, mostly in collaboration with writer/scenarist Richard Matheson, including House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Premature Burial (1962), Tales of Terror (1962) The Raven (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). All but Premature Burial starred Vincent Price. After the film version of The Raven was completed, he reportedly realized he still had some shooting days left before the sets were torn down and so made another film, The Terror (1963) on the spot with the remaining cast, crew and sets.

He also directed one of William Shatner's early films, The Intruder (1962). Based on a novel by Charles Beaumont, the film, made for approximately USD $80,000, has become famous for its treatment of segregation and civil rights.

In 1970, Corman founded New World Pictures which became a small independently owned production/distribution studio, releasing many cult films such Death Race 2000(1975) and the Joe Dante film Piranha (1978). Corman eventually sold New World to an investment group in 1983, and later formed Concorde Pictures and later New Horizons.

Corman's penultimate film as director was 1971's Von Richthofen & Brown (he had always wanted to make an aviation movie, he being a pilot himself); he then returned to directing once more with 1990's Frankenstein Unbound. In all, Roger Corman has produced over 300 movies and directed over 50.

Alejandro Jodorowsky - El Topo [Christopher Frayling documentary]cult movie-surrealist-mystic western

2008-10-12T09:37:00.000-07:00

Christopher Frayling talks about Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo cult movie released 1970

El Topo
(From Wikipedia)

El Topo (The Mole) is a 1970 allegorical, cult western movie and underground film, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy, the film is about the eponymous character - a violent, black-clad gunfighter - and his quest for enlightenment. For many years the film could only be seen at midnight screenings, in arthouses and via video bootlegs until its official DVD release on May 1st, 2007.

Alex Cox-Spaghetti Western Mini Documentaries[Django-Django Kill-Vengeance-My Name is Nobody]

2008-10-11T10:51:00.000-07:00

Alex Cox - Once upon a Time...

Once Upon a Time... Django
B'cast on ITV4 Sunday 6th November 2005, 23:00
Duration: 5 minutes.
Opening ITV4's spaghetti western season, Alex Cox presents a short analysis of tonight's movie, Django, profiling its director Sergio Corbucci and its star Franco Nero, and assessing the film's style and placement within the genre.

Once upon a Time... Django Kill
Once upon a Time... Django Kill
Channel: ITV4 120
Duration: 5 minutes.
Continuing ITV4's spaghetti western season, Alex Cox presents a short analysis of tonight's movie, Django Kill, profiling its director Giulio Questi and its star Tomas Milian, and assessing the film's style and placement within the genre.

Once Upon a Time... Vengeance
Channel: ITV4 120
Duration: 5 minutes.
Continuing ITV4's spaghetti western season, Alex Cox presents a short analysis of tonight's movie, Vengeance, profiling its director Anthony Dawson (also known as Antonio Margheriti) and its star Richard Harrison, and assessing the film's style and placement within the genre.

Once Upon a Time... My Name Is Nobody
Channel: ITV4 120
Time: 23:00 to 23:05
Duration: 5 minutes.
Continuing ITV4's spaghetti western season, Alex Cox presents a short analysis of tonight's movie, My Name is Nobody, profiling its director Tonino Valerii and its star Henry Fonda, and assessing the film's style and placement within the genre.

Alex Cox
(From Wikipedia)

Alexander Cox (born December 15, 1954) is a British film director and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts. Cox has previously cited Luis Buñuel and Akira Kurosawa as influences. His film Repo Man is often credited as one of the first modern independent movies. It was this film that brought him critical attention.

Alex Cox was born in Bebington, Wirral, Nr. Liverpool, Merseyside. Cox studied at Wirral Grammar School and later at Worcester College, Oxford, then embarked upon a course in film studies at Bristol University and UCLA in California.

As well as directing films, Cox helped pen a rejected screenplay for the film version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (first draft only). He has also written on the subject of film for publications such as Sight and Sound, The Guardian, The Independent, and Film Comment. From 1988 to 1994, he presented the television series Moviedrome on BBC Two, providing introductions to a series of alternative or obscure films that would otherwise be unknown to the general public. As a film aficionado, Cox also lent his opinions to numerous film documentaries, and provided introductions for ITV4's Spaghetti Western series made by Free@Last TV and directed by Katie Kinnaird. He has also provided introductions to DVDs such as the BFI edition of Kurosawa's Red Beard and Eureka Video's release of Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba. In June 2008 he introduced the films in BBC Four's Western Weekend.

During his career, Cox has turned down offers to direct the films Robocop, Three Amigos, and The Running Man. Following his success with Repo Man, Cox had planned to direct a semi-sequel in the mid-90s, entitled Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday, in which he intended to star Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Rebecca De Mornay, and Willem Dafoe. However, funding was never established, but in April 2008 it was released as a graphic novel.The script is available for download at alexcox.com. In 1996, De Mornay co-produced The Winner, with results Cox disowns, referring to the released version as his Alan Smithee film.

In the documentary, Breakfast With Hunter, we learn of Cox's misinterpreretation of Hunter S.Thompon's vision for his book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Cox is married to Tod Davies, who wrote and produced Three Businessmen and produced Revengers Tragedy. Their production company is called Exterminating Angel, named after the Luis Buñuel film.