DONNIE DARKO

With its gothic tale of a troubled teen haunted by visions of a figure in a Halloween rabbit suit, Donnie Darko was among the first cult movie phenomena of the twenty-first century, making debut director Richard Kelly hot Hollywood property before he reached his thirtieth birthday. This study narrates the film’s journey from box-office bemusement through word of mouth success to the recent director’s cut of the film, and also discusses fans’ reactions to the film’s enigmatic conclusion, explaining how Donnie Darko gripped the imagination of Generation X teenagers across the world.

January 2007
144 pages

978-1-905674-51-0 (pbk)

£10.00

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Geoff King is Reader in Film and TV Studies at Brunel University. He is the author of Spectacular Narratives: Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster (2000), Film Comedy (2002) and New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction (2005).

'Wallflower’s pocket-proportioned dissections of cult flicks prove that size isn’t important. Favouring keen concision over bloated verbosity, these Cultographies weave vigour into punchy brevity... These are top-drawer textbooks... The trio dish out a toned triple-punch of erudite passion, scrupulous study, theoretical heft and crap-cutting acuity’
Kevin Harley, Total Film