Genre films, B films that strictly adhere to genre limitations, can appeal to cult film fans: given their transgressive excesses, horror films are likely to become to cult films; films like Galaxy Quest (1999) highlight the importance of cult followings and fandom to science fiction; and authentic martial arts skills in Hong Kong action films can drive them to become cult favorites.
Even in the midst of decay and excess and horror, Bono can find hope and absolution".
Some of the characteristic traits of Kim's mature style, first seen in these three films, are gothic excess, surrealism, horror, perversions and sexuality.
The scale of gentrification isn't so aggressive, so widescreen, so Ballardian in its excess and horror as it is down south.
To let go of all this excess, these infinite varieties of horror, monstrosity, violence and obscenity, would amount to capitulation.
Helen Wheatley notes that the best adaptations maintain the stories' "sense of decorum and restraint,... withholding the full revelation of the supernatural until the very last moment, and centring on the suggestion of a ghostly presence rather than the horror of visceral excess and abjection".
The excesses of either retain a horror only underlined by this minutely documented retelling.
In 1981, therefore, the party issued a resolution on "certain questions left over from our party's history", which acclaimed Mao as a pioneering genius, condemned the Cultural Revolution as a freak error of excess leftism and blamed its horrors on the "Gang of Four", Mao's wife and her three closest collaborators.
By contrast, in the apartment where I was raised, by a German mother with a horror of American-style excess and waste, only a few things were kept on hand, and meals were frugal.
I don't doubt that some horror stories about union excesses are true.
