One of my favorite films, period.

"Eraserhead" creeped me out so much that I don't think I can ever watch it again.

Polls don't go to eleven.

You're right, you only get 10 choices here.

However, over at "Similar Worlds" you can ask a question, on any topic, and if you include a poll, you can have an unlimited number of poll choices, which is great, imo.

(Similar Worlds is a social network website, much smaller than DU, but worth checking out)

Almost did Harold and Maude and i notice someone else mentioned Spinal Tap.

I think i also would have include Repo Man as a choice.

always been at the top of my list along with Spinal Tap and The Warriors and most of those on the list.

My friends and i still use that to describe a coincidence.

I find the ones listed that I have seen to not be entertaining.

but which one do I take down to make room for it?

since it's one of the most popular cult films of all time

BABS JOHNSON:
"Why are we out of afterbirth?"

Or if not qualified as "cult" how about Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy.

Buckaroo Bonzai and Big Trouble in Littler China... Two faves.

Others I really enjoy:

Head
Repo Man
Tokyo Drifter/Branded To Kill
Trollhunter
They Live/Halloween/In the Mouth of Madness/Assault On Precinct 13
Zero Effect
Videodrome/Dead Zone/eXistenZ
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Dellamore Dellamorte

Etc.

I haven't seen most of the other ones you list

in the cinema on a double with the Monkees movie Head. It was a good match.

Arguably the best and weirdest band movie ever.

It even has a cameo by Frank Zappa.

It also has a couple of their best songs.

Like this

it's out there !

It's going on my wish list (Amazon.com has it on dvd for $19.95)

I mean look, it's weird, but it's also amazing!

And Frank Zappa has advise for the ages... And you learn about the secret life of dandruff....

Seriously though, it's amazing.

So is the soundtrack.

It was cool 30 years ago. Now it seems like a fucking documentary!

In the mddle is still one of the all time classics, but what REALLY elevates it is the crazy social realism is what's surprising these days.

A greatly unappreciated film. John Carpenter is the man. Too bad Roddy Piper didn't do more movies.

Wasn't there a scene in Repo Man where some punks who are friends of Emilio Estevez spot him and one of them says "Wasn't that Otto?"

Trollhunter sounds interesting.

Yes... Nice memory ya got there.

Trollhunter is like an ad for Norway, that has trolls. Lol. It's actually beautiful.

My fave

We just watched Harold and Maude with our granddaughter and her boyfriend the other day. It was always my wife's favorite movie and one of the first movies we watched together when we started dating. We skipped class and rented it back in VHS days lol. She was very excited to find it on Blu-ray and had to show it to our granddaughter (who just graduated high school). GD and her BF were surprised how much they liked "an old movie" lol.

I have learned better than to ask my wife if that's why she showed so much interest in me back in the day - we were in college but she is 7 years older than me.

(Maude was MUCH older than Harold)

that may be why she gave me the stink eye when I was dumb enough to mention it...me insinuating she was THAT much older


She also is well aware of my love for Helen Mirren so it could be professional jealousy at this point too.

my Netflix or Amazon queue. It's time to watch it again.

It was the first time in years I had seen it and I was pleasantly surprised to find I loved it even more.

Let's see if it gets anymore mentions - I may still put it up as a poll choice.
It has a great cast.

Pizza's have been made ...

Be afraid ...

....Love that film! Especially the part where the guy pretends to be crippled, then jumps up and exclaims....." I'm cured. I Can Crawl Again!"

Putney Swope

Never heard of it? That's because Big Brother does a grand job of keeping it suppressed.

Here's a bootleg copy that still exists; I double dog dare you to watch the first ten minutes.

My current computer has no browser

Have you seen the 2017 film "Split"?
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, it already has grossed more than $278 million.

The Criterion Collection version is wonderful.

I loved it and could see it again if I had the chance.

He'll be back!

What Melvin Peebles went through to get this film made

Could be the most under appreciated film ever

White Chicks is one I never heard about, but I loved Keenen Ivory Wayans' work on "In Living Color"
Film critic Richard Roeper put the film at # 1 on his list of the worst films of 2004, and it was nominated for five Razzies, including Worst Picture, Worst Actress for the Wayans brothers in drag, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay and Worst Screen Couple. (Didn't win any Razzies)
Those sort of critical reviews make me want to see it.

Henry is loosely based on Henry Lee Lucas and his friend Otis is loosely based on the kidnapper responsible for the first milk carton alert I forgot his real name . It's very real in a dull and violent way
Semi -Reality horror cult
White chicks is sooo bad and inappropriately hilarious it demands multiple viewings in my opinion
Wayans have said a WC II may come out ...it just better have a T Crews lip sync scene ! Some will see no humor in it I'm sure but a second generation is now into this cult great. So many teens love it they really should do a wcII but again it's so wrong maybe not the time

Creepy 2000 maniacs is old drive in gore about the south this too may not play to all
And I forgot Fritz is an X rated animation so this is also not for everyone oops

Is Freaks wrong too ? I decided not to add it but a classic cult to me also along with the short Andalusian Dog

at least we don't have to worry about rewinding VHS tapes before returning anymore.

a much more difficult role and she played it to perfection. I was reading some of the script and now I want to see it again.

is my favorite cult film of all time. I don't know if it is considered a cult film but "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is a favorite too. Guess I am showing my age. LOL

and you can vote for it now because I'm putting it up on the poll

I guess I'm showing my age too, because I remember seeing it in a theater right after it came out in 1969.

Eating Raoul.

Doris the Dominatrix ! That was a great role in ER

so, after a few hours, I took it down to make room for another film (I forget which one)

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai is considered "cultish". It is one of the top 10 best movies ever made as far as I am concerned.
"No matter where you go, there you are" Buckaroo.

Though it's probably only a cult flick for those who have worked in theater. Directed by Christopher Guest.

I LOVE Waiting for Guffman. I have seen it so many times and make so many references to it. It is sadly spot on to my town growing up in Missouri. But now that I live in Connecticut no one understands. Sigh. Nothing ever happens on Mars...

But I also love Lebowski and pulp fiction from your list...a lot of great films there!

It's considered to be a "cult film" because it has a "following" the way "The Big Lebowski" does.

Other cult films not mentioned much are:
"The Room"
"Barbarella"
"Johnny Guitar"
"Showgirls"
"Fight Club"

probably considered the most prestigious, most anticipated cinema event of the year by serious cinema fans/critics - directors at the level of Kubrick, Welles, Fellini, Bergman, Allen, Scorsese, etc don't really have "cult films" - every single thing these men did receives serious scholarly attention.

I'm not sure if it fits the definition.

I NEVER tire of that movie!

One of my all time favorites!

and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert... Also like Eraserhead and Cherry 2000

Makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me sing, makes me want to be a more fully actualized human being.
What more could you want from a film?

My oldest daughter was an instant convert when I told her about it.

Classic line: "No matter where you go, there you are."

Loved John Lithgow as the leader of the Red Lectroids, John Whorfin. "Laugh while you can, monkey-boy!"

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'Civilized people do not kill people' - [Minnie Driver line]

Classic line - Cusack responds, 'Which civilizations are we talking about'

So many great lines in that movie.

Plus the bonus of Alan Arkin as Dr. Oatman.

Vintage Cusack. His siblings, best friends [like the film villain], all got to really 'participate'. I copied the script and was amazed at how many quotables in Grosse Pointe.

I love weird, creepy movies.

A Clockwork Orange
Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
River's Edge
Monty Python's Holy Grail

Many of the other's I didn't watch because I thought they would disturb me too much.

for another one (Repo Man, I think)

the 1973 film with James Caan, Sally Kellerman, and Peter Boyle.

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Penelope Spheeris' movies
Boys Next Door
Suburbia
Decline of Western Civilization

James Jarmusch's movies
Stranger Than Paradise
Mystery Train
Night on Earth

also like...
Into the Night
Slam Dance
Looking For Mr. Goodbar
Butterfield 8
Being There
Blow-up
How I Won the War
Beach Red
Strange Brew

plus nearly all the movies in the poll.
Tikki

Lots of great suggestions above but I will start with a few I didn't see upthread anywhere:
Dogma
Saving Grace
Saved
Almost Famous
The Ref (even knowing Kevin Spacey is a skeevy perv, this movie is brilliant and screamingly funny.)
From those mentioned upthread, my list includes these:
Monty Python &The Holy Grail
Grosse Pointe Blank
Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension
Head

Boondock Saints???

Freaks, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Slapshot, Duck Soup, Monty Python’s Holy Grail and Life of Brian.

No love for "Surf Nazis Must Die"? It has to be seen to be believed.

I know, but "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" is one of my all time favorite cult films. I have probably seen it at least 75 times and I have a group of friends that are just as obsessed with it. We know the entire film verbatim.

Glad to see Repo Man is up there!

"Repo Man is INTENSE!"

but this film haunts me)

Highlander, Clerks, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Only the Strong, Rounders, Clue