By Kim Voynar Voynar@moviecitynews.com
Book Review: Crazy 4 Cult: It’s Not Just for L.A. Anymore
If you live in LA, perhaps you’re familiar with the annual Crazy 4 Cult art show at Gallery 1988, wherein numerous very talented artists celebrate the magic and mystery of cult movies by creating some amazingly diverse art. From time to time, I get sent stuff to check out; when I like it and think it’s cool, I’ll write about it, and if I don’t, well, I don’t. In this instance, I was pretty blown away by both the content of this book, Gallery 1988’s Crazy4Cult Cult Movie Art, and by the quality of how the art within its covers is presented. If you’re into cult movies or collecting cult movie art or memorabilia, you are gonna dig the hell out of this book.
Now I will warn you going in, if you think you’re going to sit down and flip through all 173 pages of art in this book in one sitting, you’ve got another think coming. There’s a LOT of art in this book, and much of it is intricately detailed and varied, and it’s almost overwhelming if you try to churn through the whole thing all at once. So be careful, you could hurt yourself.
Take your time, imbibe the adult beverage of your choice, and enjoy perusing its pages at your leisure. Or enjoy it with a few cult-movie-loving friends — preferably the kind of friends who won’t spill their beer all over it, because it’s a nice book and you want to keep it that way. And really, you shouldn’t be hanging out with the kind of people who would spill their beer all over an art book anyhow.
P.S. The book includes an intro by Kevin Smith, whose movies have been featured in abundance in art work at the show. Also, we learn in the intro that Kevin Smith might or might not annually masturbate while thinking about guys. That’s a mental picture I personally did not need, but since it’s now burned into my brain, I figured I’d pass it on and share with the group. You’re welcome.