Le Sabot Post-Moderne

so many oldies but goodies could be added to the list, but I just found a new one to add to my cult movie list: Napolean Dynamite

Oh, oh, oh. Instant cult classic. Lightning in a bottle. I saw it at a friend's house a couple of weeks ago, went out and bought the DVD the next day.

My son is 14, in 8th grade, and about to enter high school. I had him invite a few friends over and we watched it as a kind of workshop on what NOT TO DO next year in high school.

I'll reluctantly second Mulholland Drive.

Such convergence! Did you notice that "Amazon Women" was cowritten by Jim Mulholland?

Funny that Red and Blue play such a large part in that other film, now that they have sunk their tenrils more deeply into other aspects of our culture. I forget which was which: blue indicated Diane's fantasy word while Red revealed the intrusion of reality? However Lynch worked it you could make great political hay from the symbolism.

Favorite cult film I could watch with most of my friends without them looking at me in horror for a few months: True Stories.

John Carpenter's They Live. Any movie that cheap that can give me nightmares after viewing it, well into advanced years, should be considered a cult-classic. And it's the little things that make it a cult classic: (1) The monitors the bad guys were using were obviously the Peka-E Meters from Ghostbusters, and (2) the actual fight scene between Roddy Piper and Keith David which serve no other purpose other than the actors' sadistic amusement.

Hi; I'm B.B. King. Every year (x) number of black people are born with no soul...

Loved that!

BTW; Did you know that Russ Meyer was a combat cameraman with an Armored Division in W.W. II?

Strange Brew, with Bob and Doug MacKenzie (Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis) is one I would like to throw in the cult mix. This is still one of my fave comedies.

Mine are, not in any particular order:

Silent Running
Dark Star
Logans Run
Blade Runner

Also, I recently saw Night Watch (Nochnoj dozor) which I suspect will have a cult following in a decade or so.

Steve

Got to go with Bottlerocket, Wes Anderson's first film. This is the one that got him started, along with Owen and Luke Wilson.

I love any of Terry Gilliam's newer movies. Brazil and 12 Monkeys are definitely favorites.

Brazil
Repo Men
Safe Men (not on DVD yet for you Netflixers)
and last and least, Dead Alive

I'd throw in The Castle too, but I think its not much of a cult thing so much as just a less well known foreign film.

I third Mulholland, and will also toss in:

...And Now for Something Completely Different (a.k.a. "the forgotten Monty Python movie")

Ed Wood

The Iron Giant

Better Off Dead (John Hughes flick which contains the great line, "Now it's a shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.")

I'm an admirer of the great Jean Paul van Damme masterwork "Bloodsport" which featured such great lines as "Aaaahhhh!" "Aaaarrgghh!" and the classic "What's the difference if Bruce Springsteen is his shidoshi?"

I don't know about it being my favorite, but The Princess Bride is one of the more quotable cult movies of all time...but what do I know, I've been mostly dead all day.

Amazon Women on the Moon. That brings back memories. Thanks for the indie reminders.

So many, so many, I'm like a cult film addict . . . Freaks is a must-see, Blue Velvet or Eraserhead (both are better than Mulholland Drive I think, and closer to "cult" as David wasn't as famous at that point), Peter Jackson's horrendous first film Bad Taste, any Ken Russell (but I like Lair of the White Worm or The Devils or Gothic especially), John Waters of course (esp. Desperate Living, Female Trouble or Pink Flamingos), Buckaroo Banzai is fun of course, a whole slew of Troma films (Surf Nazis Must Die is a stand-out, along with the original Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke-Em High), Donnie Darko is a great modern cult film . . . what, no Russ Meyer? I mean you need Russ on a cult film list . . .

PS I love Dark Star and Repo Man!

You guys have brought up some great ones. . . I flashed back to high school earlier today and remembered Heathers. Classic.

Geez,

I forgot totally about Dark Star. Add that to my list.

I can't believe a list has gotten this long without Clerks being added. By far my all time fave (despite the vulgarity).

And what about Rocky Horror? Can you really make a list of cult films without this one?

"Creature from the Black Lagoon" (3D version)

"Heathers" ("I love mah dead gay son!")

"They Live!" ("I've come to chew bubble gum and kick a** and I'm all out of bubble gum")

"A Boy and His Dog" (Don Johnson's first starring role?)

"Reefer Madness" (uh...NOYB)

"Joe vs. the Volcano" ("What kind of clothes do you got?" "Uh, clothes like this." "So, you got no clothes.")

"Army of Darkness" with Bruce Campbell (lives nearby).

But "Strange Brew", that's a classic!

i have so many favourite cult films...

evil dead 3 army of darkness
donnie darko
a clockwork orange
garden state
the rocky horror picture show (kinda mainstream now)

thats all i can think of right now, there are more though.