Top 10 Cult Movies

"Cute" film, but not really rare.

 

Dirty Dancing
The City of Angels (maybe not cult, but the one I watch at least once a few months)
Pulp Fiction
The Fountain
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Closer
Lost in Translation
City of God
Pan's Labyrinth
Sin City

 

I love most of the movies people posted! My top ten would be:

1. Evil Dead 2
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3. Rocky Horror Picture Show
4. Pink Floyd's The Wall
5. Death Race 2000
6. Scanners
7. The Warriors
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. Tron
10. This is Spinal Tap.

Here's basically a list of my favs! http://www.shortform.com/J-rod.J./my

 

Huge fan of cult flix here, these are in no order

Natural Born Killers
Eraserhead
Begotten
Mulholland Dr.
Shaun of the Dead
El Topo
Dawn of the Dead 1978
Evil Dead Trilogy (Kind of one film to me)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
A Clockwork Orange

Ahhh but there are sooo many more! These are just off the top of my head. Has anybody ever seen Tetsuo? Shit is wiiiiiild.

 

CULT - Tends to signify not popular to the masses? For Me, (In reverse alphabetical order):-

The Wicker Man
This is Spinal Tap
Straw Dogs
Soldier Blue
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Pulp Fiction
Once upon a time in the West
Hair
Blade Runner
2001 (A Space Odyssey)

Although I think they be more, these 10 will have to do for now

 

The Big Lebowski
The Devil's Rejects
Clerks
A Clockwork Orange
Hitch Hike
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
House on the Edge of the Park
Deadbeat At Dawn
Ebola Syndrome
The Wall

 

I think since the internet became all pervasive, the definition of 'cult' status in any medium is questionable. If even the popular show 'GLEE' devoted an episode to the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, can we even still consider this film/play 'cult'? I feel that many films listed on this thread are hard to continue to classify as 'cult' anymore. One thing i think most of us can agree on, is that most larger budget Hollywood films are not considerable as cult. That would definitively leave out STAR WARS, T2, and many others on this thread.

On the other hand, that leaves out a film like FIGHT CLUB (which someone mentioned), which while boasting at least a decent Hollywood budget and got some hype at it's initial release, it really only became popular due to cable and DVD sales (awesome DVD package; one of my favorites when it was released). Dare I say that given this criteria, Family Guy has to be the biggest cult phenomenon in history. Now that I babbled long enough (guess I should have just started a thread on this topic alone; if it hasn't been done already), my list in no particular order:

City of Lost Children
Delicatessen (hell, everything by Caro & Jeneuet)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (or anything by Peter Greenway)
(hell, in that vein, anything by Kenneth Anger, Stan Brahkage, Maya Deren, The Brothers Quay, Ingmar Bergman and Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Humanoids From The Deep (how can u not love fish mutant on human procreative relations...lol)
The Doom Generation (it cost me $6.66 to buy )
Un Chien Andalou (short film by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali.. awesome. And also honorable mention to Bunuel's The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie and L'Age D'Or.)
Vulgar (still not as popular as Clerks who had the same star and co-starred and directed by another player in the Kevin Smith movies, Bryan Johnson ... probably because of the subject matter of homosexual rape)
Death to Smoochy (amazed how it still remains 'cult' with the cast this one had)
Solaris (1972, not the Clooney flick, and everyone should read all the rest of the books of Stanislaw Lem.. one of the greatest if not the most intellectual sci-fi writers ever)
Fulci's Zombi
Bad Taste (glad to see others mention this one as well as...)
Tromeo and Juliet (and at least Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke'm High.. always found Troma hit and miss, but my favorite 'hit' of theirs has got to be...)
Cannibal! The Musical (Trey and Matt of South Park and even sorta (very loosely) based on a true story)
Repo Man (the original from 1984 with Emilio and Harry Dean)
Street Trash
Brain Damage
Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom


Ok that's more than 10. And to the films that I love and feel they were 'cult' but are kinda popular:

Jacob's Ladder
RHPS (of course)
Donnie Darko
Cool Hand Luke
Fight Club
Easy Rider (can't believe this didn't make the thread yet)
Romero's 1st 3 Dead movies (all three separate works of genius that can all be watched as either escapist fun or truly thought provoking. Way to go to Romero for making us stare into the mirrors of our own souls. Even LAND OF THE DEAD had its truly entertaining moments right along side with truly deeper ideas about human nature and the idea of what we are after the life cycle runs its course.)
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (and any other Gilliam movie)

And more honorable 'cultish' director shout-outs to the films of Kevin Smith, Stanley Kubrick, Darren Aronofsky, Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, Pi, Requiem for A Dream, and Clerks were all true cult films at one time.. had to go to an Art House to see them back then)

That's all off the top of my head. Thanks for reading it all. I'll probably think of more later.

 

Forgot everything by David Lynch and the original Wicker Man (remake was unbelievable trash; and I always find something about a lot of remakes that I like. Reboots like A Nightmare on Elm Street, and My Bloody Valentine may have generally sucked, but had a few redeeming qualities. I felt like apologizing for Nic Cage. In general his movies are either real awesome or really awful. LaBute's version of the Wicker Man was the worst reboot ever.) Thanks to the other posters here for reminding me. Also reminded of the works of David Cronenberg (Scanners, The Fly, Videodrome... awesome) and Sergio Leone's Trilogy as well as Once Upon a Time in The West (all still 'cult' status to me).

 

wow thanks Dragonchaser

 

No problem. Movies. Seen a lot of em. More interested in movies that explore deeper cinematic and theoretical ideas. On the other hand, I watched Transformers 3 today. Actually enjoyed it. Green Lantern coming up next. But I've got The Holy Mountain (real trippy Jodorowsky film about the nature of spirituality) and Bad Lieutenant (original w Harvey Keitel, another cult classic no one has mentioned yet) on deck next. So my tastes vary (as everyone's should). Glad to be of service. And real long winded.

 

In no particular order

1. Gone in 60 seconds, The original not the POS remake.
2. Vanishing Point
3. Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
4. Thunder Road
5. Two Lane Blacktop
6. Plan 9 From Outer Space
7. Rocky Horror
8. Holy Grail
9. Invasion of the Saucermen
10. Any 50's and 60's Godzilla movies
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