Favourite “Cult Classic”

[Jim Rockford]

Friday
Next Friday
I'm Gonna Get You Sucka

 

[RedVDave]

Class of 1984
Mean Girls (don't care who judges me great film)
Elephant Man
Clockwork Orange
This is Spinal Tap
Reservoir Dogs
They Live
Jawbreaker
Shawshank Redemption
American Psycho
Brazil
Office space

 

[Mark B]

Vanishing Point
Two Lane Blacktop

There's two classic car movies that qualify as cult.

Christine
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Duel - this seems like the first run at Jaws
Mad Max
Bullitt
Gone in 60 Seconds

That car chase at the end of the original Gone in 60 seconds was just amazing. No CGI or health and safety type constraints. It goes for about 30 minutes. Real crashes and the crowds standing around watching the scenes in their thousands. The guy that made that film also made another classic called the Junkman. Similar style with real chases etc. managed to find both on DVD some years back for about ten bucks each. Great times.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Yes. Cult Movies used to be the domain of late night TV, back shelves of the video shop, drive in second featured or run as late night cinema/theatre. Or movie marathons or the like.

I remember as a young kid and teen, even in to mid 20s (I’m 45) of movie/video night where mates would gather around to watch a movie.

I’m kind of blessed as I went to boarding school and the common room had a video. There was Friday movie (usually year 6-8) and senior movie (9-10). Year 11-12 had their own common room and more mature themed movies.

Often the video was new release. Half the time, movie nuts like me would rent things different or get value with the 3 for a weekly hires. Occasionally, someone would be tasked who DGAF and get something random and it would bomb or fly.

Plenty of movies I saw in this era were purely down to fluke selection - Bill and Ted, Pump Up The Volume, screwball comedies (Crazy People, The Hard Way come to mind), Van Damne or Segal action romps etc.

There also seemed to be all those existing cult movies like Rocky Horror Picture Show or Toxic Avenger, that were the stuff of legend so they were surreptitiously rented or borrowed and consumed.

I think that’s why cultish films are generally my mainstream viewing and I’m happy to generally watch most stuff.

That said, people are bloody spoilt for choice in the streaming / internet era.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Pump Up The Volume (1990)
Predator 2 (1991)
Edward Scissorhands (1991)
Cube (1999)
Leon / The Professional
Caspar (1996)

Cube... absolutely...

As mentioned by some others, cult can have a loose definition from some folk.

Some of my cult films for the mix.

Cube
2001 A Space Odyssey
Buffalo Soldiers
Being John Malkovich
Lock Stock n Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Amelie
Grease
The Blues Brothers
Apocalypse Now
The Terminator
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Labyrinth
Life of Brian
Month Python and the Holy Grail
Caddyshack
Commando
Predator
The Goonies
Mrs Doubtfire
Dead Poets Society
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (original)
Stand By Me
Highlander
Mad Max
Planet of the Apes
Battleship Potemkin
The Wizard of Oz
Star Wars (the original trilogy)
Almost Famous
A League of their own
Fight Club
Christmas Vacation
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
The Breakfast Club

 

[Mark B]

IMHO, Mad Max 2 is the ultimate post apocalyptic movie. It’s success did spawn some great B movies. For fans of Roddy Piper, checkout Hell Comes To Frogtown. Made in 1988, terrible acting but it’s just a good watch.

 

[Zoidberg]

The fountain
Army of darkness
Waterworld
Enemy of the state

 

[Parra]

Street Trash

 

[Jim Rockford]

IMHO, Mad Max 2 is the ultimate post apocalyptic movie. It’s success did spawn some great B movies. For fans of Roddy Piper, checkout Hell Comes To Frogtown. Made in 1988, terrible acting but it’s just a good watch.

I absolutely love Roddy Piper both as a wrestler and an actor. The best part of Hell Comes To Frogtown is when the Frogman is holding the chastity belt that he has been told is booby-trapped and he's laughing thinking he has been lied to when it blows up in his face.

 

[Desert Qlder]

Election (1999)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Silverado (1985)
Sex, Lies & Videotape (1988)
Secretary (2002)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
White Water Summer (1987)
Toy Soldiers (1992)
Last Action Hero (1993)
License To Drive (1988)
Taking Care Of Business (1990)

 

[Desert Qlder]

Fortress (1992)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
A View To A Kill (1985)
Moon (2009)
Manhunter (1986)
The War Of The Roses (1989)
Get Shorty (1996)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
About Schmidt (2002)
Runaway Train (1985)
Kramer Vs Kramer (1979)

 

[Jim Rockford]

Born In East LA
The Whoopee Boys
D.C.Cab

The link for these three is they all feature the very funny Paul Rodriguez.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

The Whoppee Boys

 

[Jim Rockford]

Warriors (1979)

The Warriors is the undisputed Big Kahuna of gang movies, but a couple of others well worth mentioning are -
The Wanderers (don't f... with the Baldies!)
3:15 The Moment of Truth

and while not a gang movie, the next one is about a nerd who gets challenged to fight by the hulking bully in his high school.
3 O'Çlock High

 

[horrie hastings]

Xanadu, originally flopped at the box office but has gathered a real cult following over the years.. The soundtrack album was released before the movie and went straight to no1, a few of the singles released off it also hit no1 but the movie really stalled at the theatres.

I loved it mainly because Olivia Newton John was in it, Michael Beck also appeared hot on the heels of the Warriors and it also starred the legendary Gene Kelly. Basically the movie is just a montage of great songs by ELO and Olivia Newton John. A real guilty pleasure is now a cult classic.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Clue (1986)

Have watched this tonnes of times. Always fun.

 

[gUt]

Meet the Feebles
Bad Boy Bubby
Cannibal the Musical
Yor, Hunter From the Future
Hurcules Returns

 

[Desert Qlder]

Living In Oblivion (1995)
My Blue Heaven (1990)
Alice In Wonderland (1951)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Cyborg (1989)
Fallen (1998)

Also, not a film but the TV show Duckman (1994)

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Xanadu, originally flopped at the box office but has gathered a real cult following over the years.. The soundtrack album was released before the movie and went straight to no1, a few of the singles released off it also hit no1 but the movie really stalled at the theatres.

I loved it mainly because Olivia Newton John was in it, Michael Beck also appeared hot on the heels of the Warriors and it also starred the legendary Gene Kelly. Basically the movie is just a montage of great songs by ELO and Olivia Newton John. A real guilty pleasure is now a cult classic.

That reminds me of another early 80’s musical...definitely cult stuff..

They play this every year, New Year’s Day arvo... pretty sure it’s channel 7... and I’ve got no idea of the theory of why but anyway...

 

[Mark B]

Born In East LA
The Whoopee Boys
D.C.Cab

The link for these three is they all feature the very funny Paul Rodriguez.

Born in East LA is a great flick. Cheech Marin has stated he was embarrassed by the Cheech and Chong movies, but I loved them all. The guy had that comedic gift to use his background and race to make millions laugh. Whilst Born in East LA is not a Cheech and Chong movie it’s still very funny. It’s the movie that taught me what “pocket pool” meant LOL.