01/01/2025
New year, new theme month on Cultpix!
Theme Month: Madness Takes its Toll
Mental Illness in the Movies
Mental illness has always been a popular subject in film, either to tell a moving story, make a statement, express an opinion, investigate human conditions, or – more often than not – as a titillating subject matter for audiences to shrug at strange behaviors and taboo obsessions, or just thinking “Thank God, it wasn’t me!”
Cultpix welcomes you to a month of psychiatrists, asylums, psychopaths, neurotics, nymphomaniacs, phobics, and all sorts of other psychological ailments, all through the eyes of unscrupulous exploitation producers and directors, with one movie every day in January!
Everybody Loves It (1964)
A janitor of a Hollywood studio finds a four-leaf clover and fantasizes about becoming a somebody, like a master criminal, a war hero or a great surgeon, working side by side with Dr Sven Crazy and tiny Dr Zero in performing an operation on a patient in a lunatic hospital. MAD Magazine’s mascot Al...
