what is your favorite cult movie classic?
 

I have a bunch.
First has to be the boondock saints. great movie by Troy Duffy !!!

Next has to be Howard the Duck. my friends and i get drunk to that movie and play the 80's game. every reference to the eighties you do a shot. the record is about 2\3 through the movie before some one pukes.

then there is Highlander. the first one was great, the rest sucked. each movie after the first had very little to do with the first one except that conor mccloud was in them. wtf

evid dead has to near the top. evil dead or evil dead 2 they are the same movie. then the sequel arm of darkness. oh man i love that movie.


Whats yours?

Well, its obvious that a million people are going to say Rocky Horror Picture Show. So I won't say it here.

although i did. ;)

Anyway, a movie that I absolutely adore is Kentucky Fried Movie. Its mainly a bunch of different segments, but the main focus is on the Wizard of Oz meets Enter the Dragon spoof. :)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I used to be able to recite the entire movie from any point. It was sad... Now that I own the DVD, I barely watch it... I should though

Man, there's a whole gaggle of them for me. I won't bore everyone with all of them, but:

A Christmas Story- ever since "It's A Wonderful Life" stopped playing around the clock around Christmastime a few years ago, this movie has been slowly taking its place. I think it comes on something like a hundred times during the month of December, and I catch at least part of it every chance I get.

UHF: Weird Al does weird things at a TV station, with The Nanny and Kramer.

Strange Brew: I usually just call this one "the hoser movie". It was based on some sketches Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas did on SCTV, and involves mice in beer bottles, hockey-player brainwashing, and lots of Canadian pride. Features Mel Blanc!:D

Army of Darkness. The University of Maryland has midnight showings every year, it's a great chance to yell at the movie.

ZOOM!

Rocky's good too. There's a club on campus that does a show every semester, it's a freak show.

The Wall.

Monty Python and The Holy Grail.

There's got to be others, but I'm tired and can't think right.

I'll be back.

Will no one say Plan 9 From Outer Space? Never seen it myself, but it's reknowned for its sheer crappiness.
I'm thinking about the term "cult classic" in its originally intended sense. It means that a small group of people know about the movie and watch it frequently and obsessively, often in groups, while the rest of the world is ignorant or dismissive of the film. I don't really watch any films that have that sort of following.

EVIL DEAD!

Maybe it isn't considered a classic but I absolutely loved "Waterworld".

Holy Grail

hands down!

I can't say Rocky Horror Picture Show??

Ok, then I vote for Heavy Metal

Man, we loved going to midnite shows to watch that. The other fav was The Wall.

ok i thought of somemore

the road warrior with mel gibson

that seventies movie called Warrior. its about a gang in New York who is running from every other gang. its great. "warriors come out and playie"

Escape from New York. cheeze but great to laugh at.

oh and Dr strange love or how I learned to love the Bomb. great movie.

oh hey whats that movie with Shawn Connery in it who plays a savage who is trying to bring down this advanced society that has become very jaded. its a post ww3 movie. anyone know what i am talking about? it was made in the late 60's

Halloween, the first, only and original.

Death Race 2000

I think that Connery movie is "Zardoz", but I don't know if it's as old as all that, so it might not be the one you're talking about. And "Plan 9" goes without saying. :D

They Live- Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David, with the aid of high-tech sunglasses, discover that aliens have already conquered the earth. Best line (spoken in this movie first) "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum."

Freaked- Not many people know about this one, so it really is a cult movie. It has Alex Winter (he played Bill in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", another favorite) as a TV star turned into a mutant by Randy Quaid, who puts him in his freakshow. It's a hilarious movie, full of stupid gag characters like Cow-boy (part cowboy, part cow), the Bearded Lady (played by Mr. T) and a guy with a sock-puppet for a head voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait.

And speaking of him, see "Shakes the Clown", the best damn alcoholic clown movie ever made.

Re: what is your favorite cult movie classic?
 

I saw the title of this thread and thought about that one... gotta get its props.

eraserhead

uuuhh... how about "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory"... and of course RHPS...

BARBARELLA

Tommy is the greatest movie to pass out to after a night of hard partying.

yea thats the one RedCometChar. i remember seeing that one a while ago and thought well this has to be a cult classic.

ok how about the night of the living dead.

wolfen 1,2 ..ect.

ok i am not sure this is a cult movie. more like a cult sitcom Dr Who!

sawmpthing and the toxic avenger. lol

Boondock Saints is definately one of my favorites.
The Abdominable Dr. Phibes is another classic worth checking out.

Ok you got me on that one. What is The Abdominable Dr. Phibes?
and why do you like it?

The Matt Helm movies that starred Dean Martin, as a drunk man's James Bond.
The Brother From Another Planet

Tell me more about the Matt Helm movies, Dean Martin is great, I haven't ever heard of the Matt Helm movies though.

The Matt Helm movies were fabulous, The Silencers, Murderer's Row, The Ambushers, and The Wrecking Crew. Where Bond movies focused on the idea of 'For God and Country', Helm's attitude was a lot closer to 'For Dames and Whisky'. All in all a very enjoyable series.

Dollar for Dollar though, I find that the Flint movies are much more Cult-esque. Also submitted for your perusal, Nightbreed, an oft-overlooked Clive Barker vehicle that never got the sequel it needed.

Enjoy.

No way. Mad Max 1 is far superior. And it's Australian.

Blood Simple. Amazing film

hey anyone see Amelie. just finished watching it. wow great movie.

SNL Punk and Ghost World. another great might want to check out

Barbarella, Willy Wonka, and....


DONNIE DARKO

Yes Donnie Darko. Escape from New York. The Omega man i could go on and on.

Class of nuke'em high
Brazil
Conan the Barbarian
Requiem for a dream

as you can guess I've got a pretty messed up DVD collection - all great films though

Repo Man

very few of these are 'cult classics' - merely independant films that nobody has heard of... stay with the topic, people

"The Ruling Class," starring Peter O'Toole. I could watch it (and quote from it) all day.

The Evil Dead Trilogy

Same :D

Ok oh great and powerful God of TFP what is your definition of cult classics?

mine definition is, this maybe faulty:

1) cult movie has to be at least past the inital popularity. that means past when people are going to see it at the movie theater and past seeing it on home movies
2)cult movies due to their following may return to the movie screens Rockey horror, star wars etc....
3) cult movies has to have some kind of following. it may be a small get together that people come every year or even every month. (thus the word cult). it doen't have to be a set time though. for an example once and a great while all my friends get together to watch Howard the duck and do the eighties drinking game.
4) cult movie start by some die hard movie fans showing the movie they like to everone they meet. sort of like how the boon dock saints got so big.

i may have left some things out but this is the gist of it.:rolleyes:

I think cult movies can't be successful in their initil release. If it's a big movie the first time around, it's not a cult movie. Cult movies get loved by some small segment and then, sometimes, get broader popularity from there.

Here's more of an obscure movie than a cult movie, but I know of a number of people who love it for it's strangeness. It's called "The 5000 fingers of Dr. T." Most of it is a dream sequence from the point of view of a little boy. The sets were designed by Dr. Seuss. It's very strange, in a 1950's sort of way.

There are some great flicks mentioned here. It's help me update my DVD wish list.

My favs...
1. Holy Grail
2. Evil Dead
3. Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon is great, especially the Queen soundtrack... but what about "Flesh Gordon"?:D If you haven't seen it, it's just like the original Flash Gordon, only with slightly naughty changes. For example, instead of Emperor Ming of Mongo, it's Emperor Wang of Porno. A funny thing about that one is that some of the SFX suck out loud, like a spaceship where you can see the string, and others are pretty good, like a stop-motion alien that goes on a rampage near the end of the movie.

Another favorite is Santa Claus Conquers the Martians- MSTers have probably seen it, but it's plenty odd enough on its own without the comments. I make a point of watching it at least once every Christmas. :)