The Completest Cult Film List Ever

[dustinzgirl]

See, now you are all talking my language.


A Space Odessy (HAL Oh NOES!)
Airplane 1 and 2
Slapshots (I dont care if its cult or not, that movie should be on ever movie list on the planet.)
Planet of the Apes (1-10000)
Alien, Aliens
Conan
Red Sonja
Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness
Gremlins (Maybe--but not Gremlins 2 because they o ver advertised it and made a good idea into crap--just like star wars)
Cocoon, Batteries not Included, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (yes, bigger budgets than most but you can not deny the following and the 'independent feel' of the movies)

Mad Max (et al.)
QUEST FOR FIRE! (LOL)
Star Wars (Pre lets mess it up and make a lot of money era)
TRON
War Games (?)
Pretty much any zombie movie, in fact I think the entire zombie genre is a cult classic.
Clerks, Clerks 2
Mall Rats
The Kiss Movie (Uh, forgot the title)
Resivior dogs (Maybe)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (I love that freaking movie)
Repo Man, Wisdom
Hackers (possibly, thats up for debate, but the movie itself marked a change in the generations to Gen X, therefore I have to include it)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Because that movie pwns. But, if I am going to include that as a cult classic, I also have to include Harley Davidson and the Marlbro Man.

Oh, and Time Bandits, I think. Not sure of the following though, but if we include that we have to include other munchkin movies like Willow.


Cartoons I consider Cult Classics
Secret of Nihm--yes it is a cartoon, but its also got a strong, loyal following. The Last Unicorn (just watched that and I loooooove that movie) Fire and Ice, Heavy metal, Vampire Hunter D (first tru anime I ever saw, and I was hooked like a crack junkie)

Isn't there a LOBO cartoon too, afte the comic book? I think I remember one? Anyone?


PS: Im also goig to include Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000, as I don my hat and sunglasses. Cool cats, man, cool.

What about teen classics like--Dont Tell Mom The Babysitters Dead and Adventures in Babysitting?



PPS: I will not deny that Donnie Darko is a cult classic, but personally I hated that movie. It made no sense. And the big bunnies scared me.

 

[jenna]

hey Warriors! *clink clink* come out and plaaaayay!

Lets get down to it Boppers!!!

i like to put bottles on my fingers and play The Warriors sometimes. everyone thinks i'm crazy, but that's probably because i am...

i love both The Last Unicorn and Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead. i heard that they were doing a live action remake of The Last Unicorn? i don't know whether anything came of that or not. i also heard that they were doing a remake of The Warriors, which would to me signal the end of civilisation.

 

[dustinzgirl]

i like to put bottles on my fingers and play The Warriors sometimes. everyone thinks i'm crazy, but that's probably because i am...

i love both The Last Unicorn and Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead. i heard that they were doing a live action remake of The Last Unicorn? i don't know whether anything came of that or not. i also heard that they were doing a remake of The Warriors, which would to me signal the end of civilisation.

God I HOPE NOT!!!

Oh, and there are lots of car cult classics tooo:

The Wraith, Vanishing Point, orginal gone in sixty secs, dirty mary crazy larry, christine, bullit, and many others.

Remakes make me want to puke.

If they do a live remake of the last unicorn I won't buy it, it will go against everyithing i believe in.

What is wrong? Can't hollywood come up with thier own ideas anymore?

 

[jenna]

well i just looked up info on the Warriors remake, hoping that they'd decided against it. they haven't. here's the stupid thing, it's not even much like the original at all, it's going to be set in LA and be between normal boring gangs like the bloods and crips etc. no baseball furies! they reckon that beyond the title and the basic premise of Cyrus getting shot and the Warriors being accused, there'll barely be any resemblance. so WHY are they bothering basing it on the original at all? why not just make a totally different movie? what is it with Hollywood that they can get things so wonderfully wonderfully right sometimes, but then get things so heinously wrong???

 

[j d worthington]

What is wrong? Can't hollywood come up with thier own ideas anymore?

Quite frankly, they save money this way; instead of an initial story conference, or a first-draft screenplay, they can cut straight through to later drafts, often skipping several writers' fees. As writers are the lowest rung on the ladder in Hollywood to begin with (generally speaking), the savings amount to peanuts; but the execs have never seen writers as anything other than cattle, at best. Read Harlan Ellison's introduction to I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay; it'll give you considerable insight into how the executive mind works; back it up with Moorcock's Letters from Hollywood, and you'll understand completely how we keep ending up with such dreck over and over and over and....

After all, why on earth do you think they went with reality shows in the first place? It avoids accredited writers and the producers and such get to try their hand at creating scenarios wityout having to worry too much about actual dialogue or characterization...

 

[dustinzgirl]

I never watched reality shows because they are unrealistic, uncreative and generally just dumb. Then I watched solitary---Im hooked now, that show makes me laugh my butt off! The robot pwns!

Anyways, no I understand they save money that way, but still---it feels like, for us older folks, our childhood is being torn apart and rebuilt. I dont like it.

Oh, and does Alfred Hitchcock movies count as cult classics?

 

[j d worthington]

Oh, and does Alfred Hitchcock movies count as cult classics?

Frankly, if Taxi Driver and Fight Club fit... so far as I can see, the definition of what's a cult film is completely open.... Though you might have something if you went for some of the early Hitchcock films he did through Gaumont; those aren't well known, but they often have quite a following and are usually quite good....

And I know what you mean about our childhood being rebuilt ... with shoddy materials, at that. What troubles me is how, with nearly all of the originals easily available in most parts of this country at least, people will swallow these egregious blobs of bile without blinking. My God, if I'd known it was this easy to get people to down crap, I'd have invested in my own cod-liver-oil company.... At least that might have some benefits for the recipients!

A particularly painful memory: The remake of The Fog. Now, the original certainly isn't on the leve of Citizen Kane or Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but it's a very nicely-done ghost story; genuinely eerie and understated, with a traditional but rather well-done sort of tale. The remake has got to be one of the worst wastes of time I've seen in my life -- and, as I've remarked elsewhere, I was married to a film major, and saw literally tons of absolute crap (seeing it for free, we would often practically live in the theatres): the plot (if one can call it such) made absolutely no sense; the motivation for the haunting was completely blown within the film; it was extremely overdone with CGI and gore; senseless digressions; boring acting; and in general, a complete waste of celluloid to rank with Death Ship (1980?); The Grim Reaper (1980s -- a film so bad that, after at least seven title changes it still hadn't made its money back); or The Crimson Cult. No, my feeling is very much that, if they keep this up, we burn down the studios (excepting -- I think -- Studio 25? where the original Phantom of the Opera was filmed in 1925-26) and tar-and-feather the executives before running them out of the country on a rail.....

 

[dustinzgirl]

Yeah, the fog remake bit, and I liked the original way better.

Wasn't there another "The Fog" movie from a book, in this version, early 80's, the fog turned ppl into plants and was actually aliens?

Hmm...Ill have to do some googling.

Anyways, I also have to add

Q and Flash Gordon

And Godzilla!!


And how far should the horror go, I mean, can we consider traditional horror flicks like the best--Rosemary's Baby, Hell Hotel or Hotel Hell or whatever, Omen, Excorcist, and oh


Midian....what is the name of that movie, argh! Its on the tip of my tongue........


Oh, and The Lost Boys?

 

[j d worthington]

Midian....what is the name of that movie, argh! Its on the tip of my tongue........

I assume you're referring to Night Breed?

Well, we certainly don't seem keeping to any particular definition of cult film that I'm aware of.... It really would help if some criteria were laid down here on that; otherwise it seems just really wide-open for any film that is very popular, or even very popular with certain groups....

In other words: Clarification, please? HEEELLLLPP!!

 

[dustinzgirl]

Yes Night Breed! I love that movie. I need to find it, I have not seen it in years.

Yes we need to define cult classics.

First, it has to be low budget...that is, it can not rely on mass media and so on. It should shock, or enlighten, or relate to the generation at hand. It should be more popular than anyone thought it should be, and have a loyal following fo people who can watch it over and over without being tired of it.

And it should definetly not be a remake.

 

[ravenus]

Wasn't there another "The Fog" movie from a book, in this version, early 80's, the fog turned ppl into plants and was actually aliens?

The book by the name of The Fog that I know of is written by James Herbert and is about a fog that turns people into murderous crazies.

 

[Marky Lazer]

Well, let us continue the chat about cult. Soemwhere earlier I heard the term cult actor? What is a cult actor really?

Robert DeNiro? Playing in Taxi Driver and Jackie Brown, I'd say yes, but playing in Showtime... Not so cult...

Uma Thurman in QT's movies, yes. Uma Thurman in movies like Prime, My Super Ex-Girlfriend or Be Cool, nah, not even close...

What about good ol' Brat Pitt? Troy and Mr and Mrs Smith... NO! Se7en, Fight Club... yes.

How do you rate an actor or actress on his or her cultness?

 

[Dave]

Soemwhere earlier I heard the term cult actor? What is a cult actor really?

I was thinking of someone like James Dean or John Belushi. Because they died before their time, any film they were in becomes a cult film.

I don't know how you would define a cult actor though. Many other actors are described as cult actors who are still alive.

 

[dustinzgirl]

Oh yeah, how could we forget Highlander?

And as for cult actors: Christopher Walken has starred in so many films of this ilk, I have to vote him in. Plus, he is a hottie as Satan.

 

[TK-421]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes

 

[pixter]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes

LOL My brother recently go these two movies for my dad's birthday, mostly as a joke.

As far as my choice for a cult film, Big Trouble in Little China. Almost anything by John Carperter, really.

 

[philoSCIFI]

Sleepaway Camp?

What definition of "cult" are we going by?

 

[j d worthington]

I almost mentioned that one, as it has quite a cult following nowadays... but, frankly, I'm trying very hard to forget that I ever saw the bloody thing!!!!

 

[steve12553]

If it weren't for the ending, it would still be a bizzare movie.

 

[Dave]

Speaking of the bizzare, Napoleon Dynamite has a big cult following. I didn't find it that funny myself, but it has that independent production, unknown director, unknown cast quality that instantly makes it a 'cult' film.