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alice wrote: "Attack on precinct 13"

Surely you mean "Assault".

this one





coat.

pardon my french......

I HAVE to watch A Space Odyssey 2001 I just can't find it

Tidal wrote:I don't know whether you'd call it cult...
But I have a deep appreciation and respect for "Cube"(1997).
It's worth watching, even if you don't like seeing people getting cut into tiny bits by a wire frame...

Classic movie
Would include Chasing Amy, Hardware, Audition and Silent Runnings even they all belong to different genre of movies

alice wrote:"The Thing"

I'm assuming you're referring to John Carpenter's 1982 version, which is absolutely fantastic...

More or less every film you guys have mentioned would be on my list of favorites, cult following or not. :



I just thought I would add I Bloody love Zombie Horror Movies!!

DerekR wrote:

Gollum's Cock wrote:Just a moment to explain cult film:

Star Wars is a cult film, The Phantom Menace is n't.

I hope that clears it up for everybody.

I'm afraid it doesn't, not for me at least. You're gonna have to explain....

I would have thought that it's obvious.

Wake (1985)

cardoman wrote:Wake (1985)

oh yesssssss !!!!!

The Wicker Man (original version!)
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho (Christian Bale - rawr)

DerekR wrote:

Gollum's Cock wrote:Just a moment to explain cult film:

Star Wars is a cult film, The Phantom Menace is n't.

I hope that clears it up for everybody.

I'm afraid it doesn't, not for me at least. You're gonna have to explain....

seconded. but it's a pointless to talk about this

Jaws, the best film ever made

Cheech & Chong...........all of them

Trainspotting (is this a "cult" film?)

Hammer House of Horror, all the Old Ones with Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee

Halloween.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show......................shut it Blast

An American Werewolf in London (Jenny Agutter....phwaaarrr!!)

Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

Dog Soldiers

If the wikipedia entry is to be believed.....

The term cult film is used to describe a film that has had little to no success commercially and critically upon its initial release but has later spawned a small, but devoted and usually obsessive fanbase, however there are various exceptions. A prime exception is Napoleon Dynamite (2004), which was a success at the box office. This has led to a misconception in Cultclassic films that the definition is a film that 'you either love or hate'.

That is such a broad genre of films we might as well just list our favourite films (as somebody said earlier).

My feeling is it should be the first description - which would mean if you haven't got the memory you would have to research the box office takings of all the films you've discovered and work it out......

An American Werewolf in London (Jenny Agutter....phwaaarrr!!)

ooooh i forgot about this one. definitely have to see that one again !

<---- duhh
a tidbit too successful to be cult along the strict line -- they've made 4 of 'em after all -- but this was the first of its genre, combining space and future with reality and non-plastic decoration.

And indeed, as pointed out previously by whomever, 'Airplane' definitely was the cultclassic idiot-with-a-brain movie.

I believe 'drugstore cowboy' was already mentioned. Another one in the same line [and I forgot which came first] and equally unsucessful iirc is 'rumble fish'.

I wish to nominate these gems......









All of which I believe fit into my own decided vision of the Cult Movie.

Spaghetti Westerns, especially those with Franco Nero, and most especially the Django series.

This baby is a personal fave:

SINsister wrote:Wikipedia's take on "cult" films...

Hmm, useful I agree, but I was hoping for a more personal 'list' ...

Pista wrote:But reading the post, I am guessing it's referring to non-mainsteam Hollywood dross (but then not necessarily "straight to video") movies.
Or?...

... Whatever you like! I'm reading all of your replies with interest and hoping to learn something ... The eclectic tastes of Heartlanders never ceases to amaze and fascinate me! More please? I'm glad at last I've hit on a theme which appeals to a few of us, without offending anyone, eh?! ... Surely this is why we keep returning to our favourite website?

Favorite? Mad Max.

Others cult films getting runner-up consideratiion: Pink Flamingos; Dark Star; Dark City; Rocky Horror; Eraserhead; Navigator

Need to see again (or for the first time) to consider: Nihil oder Alle Zeit der Welt; Drei genen Drei (yes, the Trio film)

Some not considering because they are too mainstream to be considered cult fims by me: 2001; several David Lynch films; Army of Darkness; John Carpenter films (except Dark Star); Blues Brothers (although this may be considered cult in some circles); dozens more but these are the ones which come to mind

Time to revive this thread on overrated or misunderstood cult movies?

reactiv8 wrote:

SINsister wrote:Wikipedia's take on "cult" films...

Hmm, useful I agree, but I was hoping for a more personal 'list' ...

Erm...I posted my cult favorites "off the top of my head" on the first page of this thread.

SINsister wrote:

reactiv8 wrote:

SINsister wrote:Wikipedia's take on "cult" films...

Hmm, useful I agree, but I was hoping for a more personal 'list' ...

Erm...I posted my cult favorites "off the top of my head" on the first page of this thread.

... Just teasing/Goading Sinnie - I had read it, honest!

- Currently a bit p*ssed off, because I had spent ages typing a load of spiel (garbage?) replying to badlander, which seems to have got lost - B*llocks ... and yeah, we all know the answer to that particular c*ck-up, but how many (more) times will it happen before I (we?) learn, eh?!? Sh**, ****, **** etc etc ...

Badlander wrote:As I said : looks to me like a list of favourite movies, no more, no less.
Why call it "cult" then ?

Ho Hum, this wasn't intended to be an exercise in lexicography ... I know we ('one'?) can't resist the temptation to prove our ('one's'?) wit/knowledge/intellect/brand of cool/whatever, but being a smart*rse has its own pitfalls in the 'valley of cool', eh? No, that wasn't a slight either, honest - Sometimes I just wanna take off my shades and watch a good movie I haven't seen before ...

Oh, and that's not an apology or explanation either ... So who's scoring in this 'bun-fight' then? ... and it was all going so well too ...

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