Cult Classics

[MontuckyFried]

There may already be a thread on this, but our worthless search feature didn't seem to turn up anything relevant. Anyway, last night on Netflix instant streaming, I watched Death Race 2000 with David Carradine. Crazy 70s movie and lots of fun. Yeah, I know. I'm like 40 years late on that one, but still.

What are some of your "cult classic" faves that some of us may have missed?

[hawkgt]

shaun of the dead is a classic for me... watch at least couple times a year. not sure it really qualifies as a cult classic but I am amazed how many people have not seen it.

[dookeyXXX]

A bunch of these are not on NF streaming, so you'll have to dig around for them:

Big Trouble In Little China
Escape From New York
Gumball Rally
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Killer Clowns from Outer Space (on NF streaming)
Withnail & I (on NF streaming)
Dead Alive (aka Brain Dead - early Peter Jackson splatter horror)
Hell Comes To Frogtown
The Warriors
Billy Jack
They Live
Re-Animator (on NF streaming)
Repo Man
Allegro Non Troppo
Wizards
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Fritz The Cat
Heavy Metal
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Harold & Maude
Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song
The Mack
Superfly
Foxy Brown
Cleopatra Jones
Mad Max
Slacker (on NF streaming)
Down By Law
Barbarella
Death Wish
Mad Max
Heathers
Grand Theft Auto
The Story of Rikki-Oh (on NF streaming)

Pretty much all of David Cronenberg's films PRIOR to History of Violence...

[Chainsaw_Willie]

Omega Man

[TomCrac]

Highlander
Fandango

[Meadow Skipper]

Evil Dead 2

[whyturn]

Fistful of dollars
Clockwork orange
The outlaw Josey wales

[SkiBall]

Strange Brew
1941
OG Clash of the Titans

[systemoverblow'd]

Some of these could be considered just cool foreign films but I think of many of these.

Superfuzz
BMX Bandits
Mad Max
Clerks
Brazil
Toxic Avenger
City of Lost Children
Amelie
Dr. Strangelove
Harold and Maude
Warriors
Quadrophenia

I'll add more when I think of them. We definitely did this thread not too long ago.

[iceman]

Caligula.

[dookeyXXX]

Battle Beyond the Stars
The Last Starfighter
Dark Star
Cherry 2000
Class of 1999

[dookeyXXX]

Starship Troopers

[The Reverend Floater]

Kentucky Fried Movie /thread

[Ripzalot]

Starship Troopers

how is 90210 in space considered a cult classic?


mind the void
brainstorm
altered states
eXistenz

[The Tortoise]

Swingers

[Tippster]

Starship Troopers

how is 90210 in space considered a cult classic?

Methinks you didn't get it. It was supposed to be campy and jingoistic.

My entry: Penelope Spheeris' Suburbia.

[PassTheDutchie]

It's been mentioned already, but I've watched "Repo Man" about a half dozen times over the last two months (it's on rotation on one of the movie channels). Love that flick.

[dookeyXXX]

^^just saw Suburbia this year. co-worker loaned it to me.
definitely a cult classic.

also, not sure if I spewed it out in my previous posts, but Richard Linklater's debut: Slacker (I believe it's still streaming on NF). That movie rocks.

additionally, the definition of "Cult Classic" is a bit broad these days. There's some films listed here (and I've listed some of them, too), that kind of ride the line between being a mainstream/successful film and a cult film. I also think of cult films as being the ones that were shown at the drive-in back in the day or at the midnight movies at the local arthouse cinema. of course with the gradual decline of both drive-ins and art-house cinemas that's all changed.

in my mind Rocky Horror Picture show is the ultimate, lord-god-king of cult movies. that film was and has been the staple of late night/midnight movie screenings across the world for decades. probably the earliest form of "cosplay", too, if you think about it: how folks dressed up to attend the screenings, chanted the dialogue, sang the songs, etc.

Wikipedia has a nice breakdown of "inclusive definition" versus "exclusive definition" of cult films.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_film
they also talk about how certain films have gained cult status in certain communities (i.e. Wizard of Oz and Sound of Music within the gay community), which is an interesting look at how a film can be both classic and cult.

i found a few good lists when I Googled "Cult Classic Films". Again, the lists are pretty varied and include many films I wouldn't consider to be cult, but like i said, the definition has become pretty broad.

http://www.totalfilm.com/features/th...es-of-all-time

http://www.nerve.com/movies/the-fift...es-of-all-time

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




PS
surprised nobody has mentioned Showgirls...

[dookeyXXX]

FYI, this has been covered before a few times here on TGR:


1. http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...-B-quot-Movies

[dookeyXXX]

Also, considering that we're all probably either boarders or skiers, it's kind of a crying shame that it's taken this long to mention:

Better Off Dead
Out Cold
Hot Dog
Aspen Extreme

[Hugh Conway]

wow nerve has morphed from wannabe hip smut peddlers to slightly off mainstream bullshit

[hawkgt]

Kentucky Fried Movie /thread

<<<<<< This

great flick... dam, got to see that again soon, too many years

[spook]

Swingers

so vince vaughan has sucked at least that long.

[Supermoon]

Showdown in Little Tokyo.

Dolf Lundgren, Brandon Lee and pre-Wayne's World Tia Carrera.

[spook]

xanadu!



i would have done anything for onj