Favorite Cult film

In honor of an aborted trip to see Rocky Horror tonight, I ask DU the question:

What is your favorite cult film?

Clay Pigeons was along that line, in case you haven't seen it.

"I have to return some videotapes"

"feed me the cat"....;)

Garafalo is funny and sardonic as hell in it.

HAIR!!!!

Did you see "The Machinist." Wow!

Brazil.

Funny thing is, many on this list are among my favorite films.

I suppose I could have put Star Wars on the list. It is surely culty, but maybe too big to be considered a cult flick.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate ...

"Time to die"

http://www.indranet.com/potpourri/bladerunner/davocon_art/bladerunnertimetodie.tif

:D

:P

Great movie. :D

You know, I actually haven't seen Clockwork Orange, yet. I think it is time.

Love the music in 2001, and the visuals. So many movies after would have been in limbo were it not for 2001, most espicially, Star Wars.

that nearly made me vomit. The scene where they pin his eyeballs back..had me running to the
restroom in a hurry.

That's for sure.

Thanks for the warning.

The Fabulous Stains."

I will take this under advisement.

:D

Still one of the most original, delightfully cheesy films I've ever seen. And young Mel Gibson is irresistible! :loveya:

back in the day.

or even Chris Shaw's Split, an interesting west coast flick.

Such a long time ago.

That movie is fucking brilliant!

Tap fans should check this out too.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000A02WD/qid=1151123270/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-5479125-9360760?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130

With so many of these movies, it has been too long since I have seen them.

That one came out when I was a junior, and I loved it.

I will have to check Netflix.

with Jane Fonda

It was wonderful.

Recently I realized I'd liked every Sayles movie I'd seen, so I finally broke down and signed up for Netflix -- and promptly placed at least three unseen Sayles movies in my queue.

I'd say rocky horror.

Two Seperate films...
Both pure exploitation films of the Bizarre

really liked that movie, even though I had to watch it with the director's commentary to figure out what was going on.
Some good laughs too.

That was a weird flick. I enjoyed it.

although I had to watch it twice to understand it.

"Mad Max" and "The Road Warrior" = Two of the greatest fucking movies ever made.

"Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" = One of the stupidest fucking movies ever made.

On a side note: Does Mad Max look like a lost member of the Village People or is it just me?

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:D

there are a couple of the sat stations up here who occasionally have festival weekends of great movies and their sequels. They often show Mad Max and Road Warrior, but they never show Beyond Thunderdome. It just goes to show how universally reviled it is.

I love all the films listed, especially RHPS and Spinal Tap, but D&C takes me back to the last day of school 1976 when I was Junior about to become a Senior. It's a step into the wayback machine for me.

We even had our own version of Wooderson and yes, he even drove a Chevelle SS!

The character I most closely identify with is Tony. He even looks like I did back then. For characters such as Tony and me, college was a much more enjoyable experience than high school.

The film just got the Criterion treatment early this month so you can now buy a two disk boxed set with lots of extras: screen tests, deleted scenes and an audio commentary by the director.



"I'm in the mood
The rhythm is right
Move to the music
We can roll all night"

It has both the theatrical release and the original Gilliam cut. Criterion does a great job.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Criterion_Collection_releases

Damn, the Spinal Tap version is out of print.

Barely used, great condition. Love ebay.

L-I-V-I-N

Seriously, I was the exact same age as the soon to be seniors in that film and also in a kinda rural school where cars ruled. Our hazing was just the first week of school. I was made to wear a dress, others had to wear their underwear on the outside. But after that first week, you were pretty much in. Of course, by the time I was a senior, it had pretty much been done away with.

I remember the clothes, the cars, the CB radios and the PA systems, and keggers in the woods. Though we didn't have moon towers for illumination.

The only thing we didn't have was the fire escape slide from the junior high school. We would have been left to fry.

Like bacon.

Fry! Fry!

Welcome to high school, honey!

:-)

I had no idea this movie existed until someone brought it to my house for a New Year's Eve party several years ago. I ended up watching it three times in a 24 hour period. I'm not real sure why it affected me so, but it did. I can almost quote the entire movie.

Let me tell you what Melba Toast is packing right here. I've got four-eleven positrack out back. Seven-fifty double pumper. Edelbrock intake, bored over thirty, eleven to one pop up pistons. Turbo jet, three ninety horse power. We're talking some fucking muscle.

Awesome, a great film

The Man Who Fell To Earth is a good one too.

:thumbsup:

Want to know what Clevo looked like in the 70's? Watch Eraserhead...

I have a deep affection for sweet transvestites from Transsexual, Transylvania but "Harold and Maude" tops my list.

Vivian Pickles (Harold's mum) is PRICELESS :D

That was your last date!" :D

"I find the question distasteful" LOL

Can she deliver a line or what? :rofl:

oh yes :D

my vote.

I can't believe it took so long to mention. Great music as well.

oh wait, I think I read that wrong...

Dunno if that's a "cult" movie or not. I doubt I'd call "Spinal Tap" a "cult" movie, either.

I voted for "Brazil."

I would also vote for Morons From Outer Space, and Surf Nazis Must Die (for sheer stupidity)

i always thought RHPS boring :boring: go figure :shrug:

haven't found it yet; haven't looked on the web yet though

A good little flick.

:D

"Please don't go! Don't leave me here alone. Please."
"Well, something good had to rub off. "
"I should've know you'd know where to find the boys and the booze. "
"You expect me to ignore my fans, they're life and death to me, baby! They're the ones who really MADE ME!"
"Why can't you give me the respect that I'm entitled to??!!"
"The biggest female star he's got... ever had... and he's burying me alive."
"NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!"
"Don't you EVER use that tone of voice with me, missy. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE TALKING TO?"
"Why must EVERYTHING be a CONTEST?"
"Thank you, gentlemen. Now let's get to work..."
"I know how to win the hard way."
"DON'T fuck with me FELLAS!"
"This is wonderful. THIS IS WONDERFUL. YOU. You deliberately embarrassed me in front of a REPORTER."
"Bring me the axe!!"



Rather like Ann Coulter... :rofl:

It has been ages since I have seen that movie, and that line will stick with me forever.

http://www.lebowskifest.com/

I think it qualifies......

Great movie.

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Most cult films get no attention at all when they're released and then develop a huge following years later.

Need to pull that DVD out.

like I do...

"You're deputy's name is Barney?"

(well after finally getting to see it a couple of months ago & watching it a little too much since, it's topping my current chart although I am rather fickle about favorite films)



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080752/

Some clips:

The Alphabet Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD0dIry6IZE

Bim Bam Boom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_WugqK5fw

Witch's Egg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scedjzWAJiA

& shitty recorded from the TV clip of Danny Elfman as the devil performing Minnie the Moocher:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BafXdEGtjQ4

Honourable mention to Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain & El Topo which are finally getting an official DVD release (along with Fando & Lis which I've never seen)!!!

Nothing against the movie or its fans, but can a movie be considered a cult movie if it runs every Halloween, if it plays every Friday or Saturday at Midnight, (which it did here for a while, but I don't know if it still does), if (seemingly) every high school cheerleader and her mom knows about it?

Anyway, just a thought about how things are defined. No big deal either way.

I voted Spinal Tap, (whose "cult" status I also wonder about), but my two favorite cult movies are Welcome to the Dollhouse and FUBAR (which is a fairly recent Canadian mockumentary about two metal heads who try to have one last good time before one of them has surgery for his recently discovered prostate cancer. It's hilarious.)

It is not your everyday movie, and neither are most of the ones I listed. Because a lot of people know about something, does that deny it cult status? Men dress up in women's clothing to see it, and people throw toast and rice about. Seems pretty culty to me.

:shrug:


http://www.filmsite.org/cultfilms.html

http://www.filmsite.org/cultfilmsew.html

I guess I was thinking more in terms of how aware people are of it now as opposed to the traditions or behaviors that have sprung up around it.

"Because a lot of people know about something, does that deny it cult status?" Well, I lean toward a yes there, but I don't always think it's a bad thing either. It was just an idle thought--I'm not all bent out of shape about it or anything. :)

Edit: And I don't know that awareness denies cult status outright, but it does change the experience of the movie in a way. Again, not exactly bad, just different.

There will be many on my netflix que from this post.

:hi:

"If I have five words left and I'm about to fuckin' expire and all I have left to say is to curse fuckin' Tron, I'm probably not going to say, 'Tron funkin' blow.'"

I love the scene where he's describing his ideal van--I forget the exact quote, but I know that there are
"Stars, punctuated by like, planets, and a woman with like a giant fuckin' laser just like, protecting"

Or something like that. Also, "Woman is a Danger Cat!"

:rofl:

"Lesbian Nazi Hookers Abducted by UFOs and Forced Into Weight Loss Programs - -all next week on Town Talk."

Repo Man, Dark Star, Big Lebowski

Urbania, Harold and Maude, Heathers....

What? You want me to choose? OK. What Did I Do To Deserve This?



Khash.

:shrug:

"Youve got soup!"

Damn the man; save the Empire

They used to show it at the midnight movies when I was in college, at the West Main Theater in K-zoo.

According to one of my friends who was an usher at Miller Auditorium at WMU, they showed it on campus once and everyone there freaked out and started throwing razor blades and such around the auditorium. She said all the ushers ran for their lives. There must have been some bad stuff going around campus that week.

Watched it at least 35 times as a young adolescent.

http://www.impawards.com/1985/legend_of_billie_jean.html

Other cult favorites include Tremors, PCU and Showgirls

Arguments bout categories aside, these two films were compelling and strange.

Loved 'em.

Foreign cult films

Unless The Matrix is a cult movie.I could watch it over and over.And I have.

"There has got to be a way to get those stiffs off my property"

:crazy: