Cult Classics

[dookeyXXX]

I’ve long held a soft spot for pirate movies.
I think it’s due to this having been one of my favorite books as a wee lad:


At any rate, Renny Harlin’s swashbuckling epic is a bonafide cult classic and predated the whole Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Its sheer scale and the practical effects alone are staggering.

[buckethead]

Double-feature with Beerfest and I’m in!

beerfest!
how did i leave that one out!

[dookeyXXX]

[dookeyXXX]

[dookeyXXX]

I vividly remember going to see this on Christmas Day eve in 1981 after celebrating Christmas with the family. I was in 8th grade and my cousins who were in High School took me…

[Mike Pow]

I’ve long held a soft spot for pirate movies.
I think it’s due to this having been one of my favorite books as a wee lad:


At any rate, Renny Harlin’s swashbuckling epic is a bonafide cult classic and predated the whole Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Its sheer scale and the practical effects alone are staggering.

Great movie

Going way back you can't beat Burt and Nick Cravat



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044517..._flmg_t_72_act

And if you like that, the Italian 'Robin Hood' is more of the same but better



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042464..._flmg_t_77_act

[buckethead]

late add : Phenomenon (1996)
thd trailer is corny and doesn't do this film justice

[Core Shot]

Feed mayonnaise to the tuna

[dookeyXXX]

Just watched this “forgotten “classic””:

[dookeyXXX]

WILD THINGS

Currently streaming on Prime.

[Mike Pow]

Great movie

[buckethead]

caught the last part of Road House last nite (seen in full multiple times)

adding that one to my shortlist.
the music is great during the dramatic fight scenes.
the themes are still relevant
and X's john doe is in it too for added cred.

[PB]

... and Jeff Healy.

[SumJongGuy]

Repo Man
Dawn of the Dead
A Clockwork Orange
Used Cars
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Heavy Metal The Motion Picture
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Ski Bums
Clerks
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Breakfast Club
Basket Case
Texas Chainsaw Massacre II.. "Lick my plate"


Oh and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Eating Raul.. God I can't stop now..

Phantasm

[dookeyXXX]

BEAST WITH A GUN (aka MAD DOG KILLER) - Sergio Greico, 1977

This Italian poliziotteschi exploitationer is notable for having been featured in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown in a couple of scenes involving the characters Louis Gara (Robert DeNiro) and Melanie (Bridget Fonda) who sit around their apartment during the day watching it in a marijuana haze.
The film itself is a hearty mixture of car chases, gun violence, and a rough rape scene. The story is pretty routine: psychotic thug escapes from prison and goes on a killing spree, all the while hunted by a tenacious beach bum looking cop.
The score, by Umberto Smaila, is fantastic. It’s actually my favorite part of the film. I heard shades of John Carpenter’s Halloween score wafting throughout, but given that this film came out a full year prior, perhaps Mr. Carpenter was inspired by it?

[dookeyXXX]

THE TOXIC AVENGER
I have now attempted to get through this film 3X to no avail.
It is just bad. And not good bad, either. It’s bad bad, as in terrible. It doesn’t even have any unintentional camp value.
Perhaps if I had seen it back in 1984 at a packed midnight screening with a head full of beer and Mary Jane it might have been hilarious.
But watching, sorry, trying to watch it sober in 2023, well it just doesn’t fly.
Barely made it to the 42-minute mark (and even that took me a couple of weeks to get through) before cutting my losses.

Of note is the fact that there is a reboot on the way starring Peter Dinklage. Yeah. Go figure.

[raisingarizona13]

Blood Freak

[raisingarizona13]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46E7Q8Ns4GY

[raisingarizona13]

The band inspired by the movie.

[Brownski]

Raising Arizona

[raisingarizona13]

Raising Arizona

Ha! I'd argue you could nominate most of the Cohen Brothers films.

The Big Lebowski though is possibly the most classic.

[Brownski]

Ha! I'd argue you could nominate most of the Cohen Brothers films.

The Big Lebowski thought is possibly the most classic.

yeah, probably. Raising Arizona is pretty close to perfect though. The only flaw I can find is that you can see the foam rubber when John Goodman emerges from the mud during the prison escape. What a masterpiece

[BC.]

Phantasm

Was gonna say the same thing.

[dookeyXXX]

Got both of these waiting in the queue:

THE BONE YARD



DEMON WIND

[Grange]

Clue the movie. I still crack at the shooting of the singing telegram scene.