Favorite Cult Film?

[arturo7]

Problem with this statement is, how many people outside your close 'social circle' have seen or liked the big L? I cant think of any

What?? uh... What??

I'd guess well over half of the people in the US between 60 and 20 have seen this flick. At leeeast half of them think it's a great.

No, BL is not a cult flick. Far from it.

 

[Misfit]

What?? uh... What??

I'd guess well over half of the people in the US between 60 and 20 have seen this flick. At leeeast half of them think it's a great.

No, BL is not a cult flick. Far from it.

Spaceballs as well. Never met anyone who hasn't seen it

 

[SirBC]

Withnail and I

Funniest movie ever!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5EmCKbWS6c]Withnail And I - Lighter Fluid - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Airborneguy]

Big Lebowski was a huge flop, and didn't pick up steam until a few years after its release. Read up on it, they talk about it all over the internet. Yes, it is popular and well known now, but Lebowski is pretty much the definition of "cult".

 

[arturo7]

Big Lebowski was a huge flop, and didn't pick up steam until a few years after its release. Read up on it, they talk about it all over the internet. Yes, it is popular and well known now, but Lebowski is pretty much the definition of "cult".

It may have started as cult, but by no means does it fit that definition today.

 

[passedpawn]

BL was cool, and it's cult. Spaceballs not. There, now can we move on?

And, though I'm the only person in the US who has watched it through, American Movie the documentary is cult.

 

[davefleck]

Lots of good one mentioned i will add:

Donnie Darko
The tripplets of Bellville
Blue Velvet
Eraserhead

 

[arturo7]

pffft

 

[cthulu1975]

Battle Royale, took forever to get it legally in the US, first watched a bootleg copy from canada.

 

[passedpawn]

Withnail and I

Funniest movie ever!

that was pretty funny... I might have to check that out.

 

[TrooperThorn]

Zombieland

28 Days Later

 

[jwags48]

beerfest.....#1
rocky horror.....

 

[TrooperThorn]

Super Troopers

 

[Cubslover]

Boondock Saints.

 

[Bulls Beers]

Blood sucking freaks is a pretty fukced up flick.. If you haven't seen it check it out. It's pretty old, early 70's... How about Pink Flamingo's with Divine.

" The egg man did it"..Crazy movie..

 

[kgalle]

A Scanner Darkly, The Butcher Boy, Dead Alive, Re-Animator, Double Whammy, Headspace, Capote, Kung Fu Hustle... Most of the Herzog offerings.

In response to the Nosferatu fans; find a copy of Shadow of the Vampire.

 

[StittsvilleJames]

I'm going to vote for Pumpkinhead, Basket Case, and Frankenhooker rounding out the top three.

I also don't consider movies like The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction etc, as cult movies. Cult movies are generally sh1tty, and that's why they're classics. Like Troll 2, or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, both as crappy as can be taken at face value, but both among the most known of all cult classics.

 

[Misfit]

Zombieland

28 Days Later

Both not cult films

 

[TrooperThorn]

Both not cult films

Hmmm... too mainstream?

How about 'Undead' or 'Dead Snow'?

 

[weirdboy]

By this definition, Pulp Fiction, Big Lewboski and many of the other titles cited here, are not cult films.

Pi, Tampopo

By THAT definition, Tampopo is not a cult film. It was a major production in Japan. That's like saying a Miyazaki film is a cult film.



That being said I am going to toss out Repo Man, which is a great movie that goes to an even deeper level if you live in LA. It is crazy seeing some of the locations where they shot the film (mostly downtown) back then versus now. If you go to the same places today they look completely different.

 

[KayaBrew]

Gentlemen Broncos is a good one.

I was going to mention that one. I don't think it's cult though. It's "indie", and just about no one has seen it, but I don't think it's cult.

 

[arturo7]

By THAT definition, Tampopo is not a cult film. It was a major production in Japan. That's like saying a Miyazaki film is a cult film.

One could argue that almost any foreign film is cult. Not many people here want to read subtitles for an hour and a half.


Rubber

 

[KayaBrew]

Teenage Catgirls in Heat.

 

[Misfit]

Hmmm... too mainstream?

How about 'Undead' or 'Dead Snow'?

Much too. Dead snow was really quite good I thought

 

[Misfit]

Any fans of the gate here?

 

[TheBreweryUnderground]

They Live

 

[Airborneguy]

They Live

Classic.

 

[weirdboy]

Classic.

John Carpenter really has a lot of awesome cult classic films under his belt.

They Live
Big Trouble in Little China
The Thing
Escape from New York
Halloween

 

[KayaBrew]

Couldn't most if not all Wes Anderson movies be considered cult? The Life Aquatic surely...

 

[Misfit]

John Carpenter really has a lot of awesome cult classic films under his belt.

They Live
Big Trouble in Little China
The Thing
Escape from New York
Halloween

Halloween no. In the past 10 years or so it has become a huge film. Back in the 90's i would agree with you.